Gist creation failing in Customizer

[aaronjhiggins]

I get this error when I try to download a custom bootstrap from http://getbootstrap.com/customize/ . Tried on two computers, using two different networks. I get this error when I tried to create a custom bootstrap from scratch and from an existing build.

Thanks in advance for your help.

"Ruh roh! Could not save gist file, configuration not saved."

[cvrebert]

That error isn't fatal. You should still be able to download the customized build even if the Gist could not be saved.

[cvrebert]

Although I can reproduce that the Gist creation seems to be failing every time.

[cvrebert]

Looks like the GitHub Gist API is returning HTTP 500 errors.

[cvrebert]

From chrome://net-internals/#events:

14457: URL_REQUEST
https://api.github.com/gists
Start Time: 2014-08-17 11:10:37.204
<snip>
t=2745 [st=183]     +HTTP_TRANSACTION_SEND_REQUEST  [dt=1]
t=2745 [st=183]        HTTP_TRANSACTION_SEND_REQUEST_HEADERS
                       --> POST /gists HTTP/1.1
                           Host: api.github.com
                           Connection: keep-alive
                           Content-Length: 19623
                           Accept: application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01
                           Origin: http://getbootstrap.com
                           User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.125 Safari/537.36
                           Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
                           Referer: http://getbootstrap.com/customize/
                           Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
                           Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
t=2745 [st=183]        HTTP_TRANSACTION_SEND_REQUEST_BODY
                       --> did_merge = false
                       --> is_chunked = false
                       --> length = 19623
t=2746 [st=184]     -HTTP_TRANSACTION_SEND_REQUEST
t=2746 [st=184]     +HTTP_TRANSACTION_READ_HEADERS  [dt=261]
t=2746 [st=184]        HTTP_STREAM_PARSER_READ_HEADERS  [dt=261]
t=3007 [st=445]        HTTP_TRANSACTION_READ_RESPONSE_HEADERS
                       --> HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
                           Server: GitHub.com
                           Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 18:10:37 GMT
                           Transfer-Encoding: chunked
t=3007 [st=445]     -HTTP_TRANSACTION_READ_HEADERS
<snip>

[cvrebert]

I've escalated this to GitHub Support. They say they're working on fixing the problem.

[cvrebert]

The Customizer is POSTing JSON content to the API endpoint, but sending Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded instead of application/json. Apparently this used to work somehow, but GitHub recently changed something on their end, so now it's failing, albeit with a 500 error instead of a 400 error.

[hnrch02]

@cvrebert In case you haven't figured it out already, setting contentType to application/json; charset=UTF-8 on the $.ajax request does the trick.