Error loading image from shields.io response Error

[mistdon]

Cannot download svg image because of 403 [Forbidden]

DEBUG [2021-07-20 17:03:45.44]: Verbose active... VERSION: 0.13.0
DEBUG [2021-07-20 17:03:45.44]: Parameters: {:shield=>"--orange", :dark=>true, :alpha=>nil, :alpha_channel=>nil, :custom=>nil, :no_badge=>nil, :badge_gravity=>nil, :shield_parameters=>nil, :shield_io_timeout=>nil, :shield_geometry=>nil, :shield_gravity=>nil, :shield_scale=>nil, :shield_no_resize=>nil, :glob=>nil, :grayscale=>false}
INFO [2021-07-20 17:03:45.44]: Start adding badges...
DEBUG [2021-07-20 17:03:45.44]: Trying to load image from shields.io. Timeout: 10s
DEBUG [2021-07-20 17:03:45.44]: URL: https://img.shields.io/badge/--orange.svg
ERROR [2021-07-20 17:03:45.67]: Error loading image from shields.io response Error. Use --verbose for more info
DEBUG [2021-07-20 17:03:45.67]: ["403", "Forbidden"]
INFO [2021-07-20 17:03:45.67]: Waiting for 10s and retry to load image from shields.io tries remaining: 10

[amityadav12239]

I am also facing the same issue. Why does it complain and how to fix it is not clear. Please suggest.

[howlingblast]

I can confirm the issue. I tried calling badge directly from the command line and it worked without timeout. Started from fastlane it will yield above error and retry every 10s for 10 times.

[Tayphoon]

[badgeek]

I can confirm the issue. I tried calling badge directly from the command line and it worked without timeout. Started from fastlane it will yield above error and retry every 10s for 10 times.

i can confirm this

[nvx]

Looking at the SVG output from shields.io, surely it wouldn't be hard to replace shields.io with locally generated SVGs which would increase the reliability of this immensely.

Alternatively being able to point to a different server where you could implement your own equivalent functionality. At the moment it looks like the shields.io domain is hardcoded.

@HazAT Would you be interested in either of these options?

[HazAT]

@nvx I mean locally would be better, maybe as a fallback. Not sure tho how much work it is 😅
Pointing to another server sounds cool but in reality, who has something like this?

[nvx]

@nvx I mean locally would be better, maybe as a fallback. Not sure tho how much work it is 😅 Pointing to another server sounds cool but in reality, who has something like this?

I mean the shields.io code is open source, they've even got a guide on hosting your own: https://github.com/badges/shields/blob/master/doc/self-hosting.md

At least personally I'm already running Jenkins with multiple build slaves, running a local shields server in a docker container wouldn't be hard, especially if not running the raster server component.

[master-lincoln]

I was experiencing the same issue on a MacOS Jenkins build machine and found it's because an IPv6 address is resolved for the host which does not answer:

$ wget -6 -v --timeout=10 --tries=1 https://img.shields.io/badge/feature-1.71.18-purple.svg
--2022-09-27 21:35:04--  https://img.shields.io/badge/feature-1.71.18-purple.svg
Loaded CA certificate '/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt'
Resolving img.shields.io (img.shields.io)... 2606:4700:e4::ac40:ae10, 2606:4700:e4::ac40:af10
Connecting to img.shields.io (img.shields.io)|2606:4700:e4::ac40:ae10|:443... failed: Connection timed out.
Connecting to img.shields.io (img.shields.io)|2606:4700:e4::ac40:af10|:443... failed: Connection timed out.
Giving up.

Using the IPv4 address worked:

wget -4 -v https://img.shields.io/badge/feature-1.71.18-purple.svg
--2022-09-27 21:05:10--  https://img.shields.io/badge/feature-1.71.18-purple.svg
Resolving img.shields.io (img.shields.io)... 172.64.174.16, 172.64.175.16
Connecting to img.shields.io (img.shields.io)|172.64.174.16|:443... connected.
...

I was trying this from 2 different networks, so it seems the server of img.shields.io is not answering on port 443 for neither of the resolved IPv6 IPs 2606:4700:e4::ac40:ae10 or 2606:4700:e4::ac40:af10.
@HazAT can you confirm this?

Self hosting would be easier for us if an option was added to configure the urls

[pke]

@master-lincoln you can use self-hosting and give badge the base URI of your server to perform its queries.

However I wonder if that issue can be even solved here, since the wget is performed by imagmagick. So shields.io need to fix their IPv6 config.
I have filed a ticket over there.

[master-lincoln]

Thanks for opening a ticket in the right place ❤️

you can use self-hosting and give badge the base URI of your server to perform its queries.

But how? All I could see was that this is a hardcoded value: https://github.com/HazAT/badge/blob/master/lib/badge/base.rb#L30-L36