invalid response body "Server error"

[chrmod]

Since two days we have started to experience problems with github-release.

This is sufficient to reproduce the problem: github-release info --user ghostery --repo user-agent-desktop

Output:

error: invalid response body: {
  "message": "Server Error"
}

This happens on both v0.10.0 and v0.9.0 regardless of auth user.

[kevinburke1]

Here's the entire request/response loop. My guess is that you need to specify a github token now. I don't know that we can really control the fact that a 502 is being returned by Github.

GET /repos/ghostery/user-agent-desktop/releases?per_page=100 HTTP/1.1
Host: api.github.com
User-Agent: github-release/0.9.0 rest-client/2.2 (https://github.com/kevinburke/rest) go/devel +4fd9455882 Mon Dec 28 17:15:36 2020 +0000 (darwin/amd64)
Accept: application/json
Accept-Charset: utf-8
Accept-Encoding: gzip

HTTP/1.1 502 Bad Gateway
Content-Length: 32
Content-Type: application/json
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:12:33 GMT
Etag: "6007102e-20"
Server: GitHub.com
Vary: Accept-Encoding, Accept, X-Requested-With
X-Github-Request-Id: DEC8:1E11:6288:75F9:6007130C
X-Ratelimit-Limit: 60
X-Ratelimit-Remaining: 54
X-Ratelimit-Reset: 1611079941
X-Ratelimit-Used: 6

{
  "message": "Server Error"
}

[kevinburke1]

Pass --security-token to make the request with a token.

[chrmod]

I'm using GITHUB_TOKEN env variable with the same effect. Also this is a public repository.

Does the command work fine if you pass the --security-token ?

PS. All was working fine since few days ago

[kevinburke1]

The command works for me with GITHUB_TOKEN present in the environment, and the most recent github-release commit, or v0.10.0.

$ DEBUG_HTTP_TRAFFIC=true GITHUB_TOKEN=$(cat ~/cfg/personal-github-token) github-release info --user ghostery --repo user-agent-desktop | head -n 10
GET /repos/ghostery/user-agent-desktop/tags?per_page=100 HTTP/1.1
Host: api.github.com
User-Agent: github-release/0.9.0 rest-client/2.2 (https://github.com/kevinburke/rest) go/devel +4fd9455882 Mon Dec 28 17:15:36 2020 +0000 (darwin/amd64)
Accept: application/json
Accept-Charset: utf-8
Authorization: Basic <redacted>
Accept-Encoding: gzip

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Access-Control-Expose-Headers: ETag, Link, Location, Retry-After, X-GitHub-OTP, X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Used, X-RateLimit-Reset, X-OAuth-Scopes, X-Accepted-OAuth-Scopes, X-Poll-Interval, X-GitHub-Media-Type, Deprecation, Sunset
Cache-Control: private, max-age=60, s-maxage=60
Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'none'
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 18:14:26 GMT
Etag: W/"401f648e01d61998c271337fe69eed9d92cb9f3bdf1556c526531183955138cc"
Last-Modified: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 18:11:03 GMT
Referrer-Policy: origin-when-cross-origin, strict-origin-when-cross-origin
Server: GitHub.com
Status: 200 OK
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains; preload
Vary: Accept, Authorization, Cookie, X-GitHub-OTP
Vary: Accept-Encoding, Accept, X-Requested-With
Vary: Accept-Encoding
X-Accepted-Oauth-Scopes:
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
X-Frame-Options: deny
X-Github-Media-Type: github.v3
X-Github-Request-Id: E256:8A22:22603:2B702:60072182
X-Oauth-Scopes: admin:repo_hook, delete:packages, repo, user, workflow, write:packages
X-Ratelimit-Limit: 5000
X-Ratelimit-Remaining: 4997
X-Ratelimit-Reset: 1611083643
X-Ratelimit-Used: 3
X-Xss-Protection: 1; mode=block

Also works if I set --security-token.

$ DEBUG_HTTP_TRAFFIC=true github-release info --security-token $(cat ~/cfg/personal-github-token) --user ghostery --repo user-agent-desktop | head -n 10
GET /repos/ghostery/user-agent-desktop/tags?per_page=100 HTTP/1.1
Host: api.github.com
User-Agent: github-release/0.10.0 rest-client/2.5 (https://github.com/kevinburke/rest) go/devel +682a1d2176 Fri Jan 15 23:38:58 2021 +0000 (darwin/amd64)
Accept: application/json
Accept-Charset: utf-8
Authorization: Basic <redacted>
Accept-Encoding: gzip

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Access-Control-Expose-Headers: ETag, Link, Location, Retry-After, X-GitHub-OTP, X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Used, X-RateLimit-Reset, X-OAuth-Scopes, X-Accepted-OAuth-Scopes, X-Poll-Interval, X-GitHub-Media-Type, Deprecation, Sunset
Cache-Control: private, max-age=60, s-maxage=60
Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'none'
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 18:15:55 GMT
Etag: W/"401f648e01d61998c271337fe69eed9d92cb9f3bdf1556c526531183955138cc"
Last-Modified: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 18:11:03 GMT
Referrer-Policy: origin-when-cross-origin, strict-origin-when-cross-origin
Server: GitHub.com
Status: 200 OK
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains; preload
Vary: Accept, Authorization, Cookie, X-GitHub-OTP
Vary: Accept-Encoding, Accept, X-Requested-With
Vary: Accept-Encoding
X-Accepted-Oauth-Scopes:
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
X-Frame-Options: deny
X-Github-Media-Type: github.v3
X-Github-Request-Id: E263:1E0F:F3AC:13794:600721DB
X-Oauth-Scopes: admin:repo_hook, delete:packages, repo, user, workflow, write:packages
X-Ratelimit-Limit: 5000
X-Ratelimit-Remaining: 4995
X-Ratelimit-Reset: 1611083643
X-Ratelimit-Used: 5
X-Xss-Protection: 1; mode=block

[chrmod]

It works for me now as well, with token and without. Earlier Today it was working in 1 of 10 times.

Somehow you was also able to experience "Server Error" problem.

Right now I'm no longer sure where the problem lies:

• it may be on github side, but githubstatus.com did no report any related issues
• it may be data it ghostery/user-agent-desktop repository, but why it would start working again?

BTW. The issue was first noticed when calling upload --tag, with the assumption that it was releases endpoint failing, it makes me wonder if it is even necessary to call it when --tag option is specified.

Sorry. Not sure how else I can help on this one. The issue was there, but I cannot reproduce it anymore.