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mccutchen / go-httpbin

A reasonably complete and well-tested golang port of httpbin, with zero dependencies outside the go stdlib.
https://httpbingo.org
MIT License
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Timeouts etc. on httpbingo.org #176

Closed tommaisey closed 5 months ago

tommaisey commented 5 months ago

In the last 2-3 days we've been seeing quite a few instances of timeouts, 'no reply', incomplete bodies and other stuff when accessing the httpbingo.org API, causing most of our CI runs to fail. Just thought I'd note here in case there's DDOSing or anything like that causing these issues.

mccutchen commented 5 months ago

Thanks for the report. It looks like there has been intermittent excessive traffic from a particular user agent, so I've deployed a quick and dirty fix (see https://github.com/mccutchen/httpbingo.org/issues/4).

That being said, the httpbingo.org service offers absolutely zero guarantees about uptime or reliability. It's hosted on Fly.io's free tier, and I do not plan to spend any of my own money on hosting costs.

If your company wants reliable CI runs, you'd be much better off spinning up a local instance on your CI machine (or somewhere in your own infrastructure) and pointing your tests at that! That can be as simple as

docker run -p 8080:8080 mccutchen/go-httpbin:v2.14.0

If you have any questions about the best way to integrate a local instance of go-httpbin into your CI process, I'd be happy to discuss!