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Make sysreq resolves more robust #673

Open jeroen opened 2 years ago

jeroen commented 2 years ago

Remotes should check the http status code of the sysreq api instead of trying to parse the html error page as json, and give an informative error:

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Maybe it should just give a warning "Warning: sysreq api down" but still try to proceed?