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Cypress download fails with a 530 error

See original GitHub issue

Current behavior

Our CI job is failing with the following error:

[FAILED] The Cypress App could not be downloaded.
[FAILED] 
[FAILED] Does your workplace require a proxy to be used to access the Internet? If so, you must configure the HTTP_PROXY environment variable before downloading Cypress. Read more: https://on.cypress.io/proxy-configuration
[FAILED] 
[FAILED] Otherwise, please check network connectivity and try again:
[FAILED] 
[FAILED] ----------
[FAILED] 
[FAILED] URL: https://download.cypress.io/desktop/10.5.0?platform=linux&arch=x64
[FAILED] Error: Failed downloading the Cypress binary.
[FAILED] Response code: 5[30](https://github.com/PrairieLearnInc/PrairieTest/runs/7984786822?check_suite_focus=true#step:6:31)
[FAILED] Response message:
[FAILED] 
[FAILED] ----------
[FAILED] 
[FAILED] Platform: linux-x64 (Ubuntu - 20.04)
[FAILED] Cypress Version: 10.5.0
The Cypress App could not be downloaded.

Does your workplace require a proxy to be used to access the Internet? If so, you must configure the HTTP_PROXY environment variable before downloading Cypress. Read more: https://on.cypress.io/proxy-configuration

Otherwise, please check network connectivity and try again:

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URL: https://download.cypress.io/desktop/10.5.0?platform=linux&arch=x64
Error: Failed downloading the Cypress binary.
Response code: 530
Response message:

Visiting https://download.cypress.io shows a Cloudflare error message. Myself and my colleagues can reproduce this across all our devices, so it does not appear to be an issue with any particular device or network.

Desired behavior

Cypress should be able to download successfully.

Test code to reproduce

Visit https://download.cypress.io/ and observe the following error message:

Cypress Version

10.5.0

Node version

14.20.0

Operating System

macOS + Linux

Debug Logs

No response

Other

No response

Issue Analytics

State:
Created a year ago
Reactions:16
Comments:17 (1 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

14reactions

nwalters512commented, Aug 24, 2022

In case this is blocking deployments or other tasks that don’t actually need Cypress to run, you should be able to set CYPRESS_INSTALL_BINARY=0 in your environment variables to prevent Cypress from trying to download itself.

6reactions

viqueencommented, Aug 24, 2022

Looks like it got fixed ?

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