Hitting JSON endpoint with valid "style" param causes timeout and 5xx error

[movermeyer]

I was trying out using the style parameter:

https://img.shields.io/pypi/format/pycparser.svg?style=plastic

Which worked fine, as expected.

I then wanted to try the other output formats. I switched the URL to point at the JSON endpoint:

https://imgshieldsio/pypi/format/pycparser.json?style=plastic (replaced img.shields.io with imgshieldsio)

Which causes various 5xx errors. The first time I tried, I got a 520, and the second time, I got Cloudflare's 524:

This seems to be a result of the extra ?style=plastic parameter, as the error disappears when I remove it.
Interestingly, this timeout doesn't happen for invalid params (?abc=123), nor invalid styles (?style=abc)

You may want to configure the server to ignore the style parameter for the json format.

I'm letting you know since I was worried that someone might be able to DDOS shields.io by sending requests that use more than their fair share of server resources.

[platan]

@movermeyer Thank you for reporting this. You're right and this request causes server process crash. This is a known bug #1348 and was fixed in #1429. We have to wait for deployment.
I've changed domain name from img.shields.io to imgshieldsio in URL you provided, just in case.

[paulmelnikow]

We're tracking deploy status in #1538 😄