Why is my github website not working?

Question

We couldn't deliver this payload: Service Timeout 

I successfully sent webooks to my server 5 minutes ago, and now I just keep getting timeouts. I tried removing the webook and re-adding it by changing the URL it points to, but nothing.

Am I flooding it with too many clicks, or is the GitHub web hosting service just working?

Answer 1

If there is no error on the GitHub side (which does not seem to be the case at the moment, given their "System Status" history ), you can check the program receiving the payload of this webhook.

See a similar problem in Supybot-plugins 225 :

I contacted GitHub support and one of the employees was looking for this for me. Here is part of what he had to say about the problem:

I just tried to make the request manually from one of our machines, and it went without errors (see curl -v output below).
However, I noticed that it took a very long time to process the request - more than 15 seconds (for 2 bytes of data).

Decoupling the listening and receiving the payload from its prosicion is usually the right approach, since I recommended " Perl Script to slow down Tomcat 6.0 and create a maintenance time ."
The first part should be as fast as possible.

Answer 2

It also appears that GitHub has a 10 second timeout set on their websites. This is what I came across.