Crash with "invalid character" error message.

[chrisjbillington]

Describe the bug
I've just installed the latest pacaudit from the AUR. When I run it, it is crashing with the error message invalid character 'I' looking for beginning of value

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. run pacaudit

Expected behavior
List of vulnerable packages

Actual behaviour

bash

$ pacaudit -v
2020/02/21 16:21:17 invalid character 'I' looking for beginning of value

[chrisjbillington]

Oh, it's because https://security.archlnux.org is down.

The I in the error message is is from Internal Server Error :p

Nonetheless, perhaps if pacaudit gets a non-200 response from security.archlinux.org it could crash with an error message saying that that's the issue

[steffenfritz]

Thanks for the report. Yes, valid point, this should be handled. I will take care of it.

[R-a-l-f]

Since we noticed the server issue during a thread at the Arch general mailing list, I first was against reporting the issue, but after rethinking it, I agree with you Chris. It should not result in an error message, but in a warning, mentioning that there is a server issue.

Thank you for reporting the issue, before I reconsidered my opinion.