Badge is not working properly

[MiChaelinzo]

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shields.io

🐞 Description

Website badge seems to always says it's DOWN even though my website is ONLINE or UP
Twitter badge always have UNPARSEABLE JSON RESPONSE recently

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💡 Possible Solution

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[chris48s]

There are 2 issues here.

One is about the twitter badge. This is a duplicate of #8837 You can read more there

With the website badge, if I request https://beacons.ai/cyberworld in a browser, I get a valid page, but if I call it using curl --include "https://beacons.ai/cyberworld" I get a 403 page presenting a CloudFlare JS challenge. We'll probably be getting the same. I guess you've got one of these features enabled: https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/get-started/concepts/cloudflare-challenges/#available-products . We consider the a 403 as 'down'

shields/services/website/website.service.js

Lines 91 to 92 in 026e675

	// We consider all HTTP status codes below 310 as success.
	isUp = statusCode < 310

To use this badge you would need to have an endpoint that will respond with a 200 to a machine client.

[MiChaelinzo]

I cannot remove the CloudFlare JS challenge since it can prevent any DDOS in my website.

[chris48s]

Then that badge will not work for your use-case.

If you want an uptime badge for your site, you might be able to find another service that negotiates the challenge. I will mention nodeping because they sponsor us and we also have badges for them. I also think upptime is really cool.

That said, you may find you have the exact same issue with other services too. If you configure CloudFlare to block bot traffic then one of the tradeoffs is that services which rely on visiting your website with a bot won't work 🤷