Handle Gateway time-out issue when uploading a plugin with an invalid URL

[iirs-amrut]

Getting server response 504 when uploading new version of plugin from previous 1 week on https://plugins.qgis.org

[Xpirix]

Hi @iirs-amrut , thanks for reporting this. I would say that this issue is related to the plugin size (it should be <25MB as mentioned at https://plugins.qgis.org/docs/publish). The issue related to the plugin size should have been handled with #70 but I am not sure about the origin of this.
Could you please check that and give some feedback?

Thank you.

[iirs-amrut]

Hii @Xpirix , thanks for your response, The size of zip i.e. update package is ~270 kB and contains files as per publishing guidelines, I have already published this plugin https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/sankalan2/ and trying to update it.
If required I can share the update package to further help resolve the issue.

[Xpirix]

@iirs-amrut I've just checked from the Gitlab repository of the plugin. I noticed that the URLs specified in the metadata which are https://git.iirs.gov.in/amrut/amrut_qgis_export_plugin/ and https://amrut.iirs.gov.in/ seem to return a timeout.
Indeed, the plugin upload process checks if these URLs are working and causes the upload to fail (which should be handled from the plugin upload login also) as the requests are taking much longer and return a time-out.

To address this, I suggest using URLs that work correctly in the metadata.txt.

[iirs-amrut]

@Xpirix Thanks for pointing out the issue, I have resolved it at my end. But I would suggest community to improve the upload flow, so that user mistakes (in this case an invalid url) can be pointed out with proper message. Showing 504 response code to user is ambiguous and confusing from users view.
Thanks a lot for your support.