SSL Labs Test task failed in Azure pipeline

[jsnelcer]

Hello,

we are using SSL Labs Test task in our Azure pipeline and in 1/3 of cases this task failed with error message: "service is overloaded".
Is there any approach to avoid this?

Thank you in advance.

[kasunkv]

Hi @jsnelcer
The "Service is overloaded" is a 529 status code that Qualys SSL Labs API returns when their API is overloaded with requests. This is not an issue from the Azure Pipelines tasks end. As of now the task is not explicitly handle the 529 status code since the task can not make an assessment about the state of the SSL Cert. So this is expected behavior. If you have any suggested improvement to handle the situation better please let me know.

SSL Labs API Error Response Status Codes

[ulieckstein]

the ssl labs api documentation states, that in case of a 529 response, you should wait for some time and then retry the call. i do understand, that when someone uses this test within a CI pipeline, blocking the pipeline for several minutes be unwanted behaviour. in our case although, we use it inside a nightly run, where waiting for 10 or even 30 minutes does not matter and would be appreciated for having a successful run. maybe this might be implemented as an optional feature.

[kasunkv]

@ulieckstein That is a good suggestion. I will include it in the next release of the extension. Thank you.