When we decided to start out with /api/assetProxy, we didn't know how much the load would be in practice, so we just went ahead and tried it! Turns out, it was too high, and Vercel shut down our deployment 😅
Now, we've off-loaded this to a Fastly CDN proxy, which should run even faster and more efficiently, without adding pressure to Vercel servers and pushing our usage numbers! And I suspect we're gonna stay comfortably in Fastly's free tier :) but we'll see!
(Though, as always, if Neopets can finally upgrade their own stuff to HTTPS, we'll get to tear down this whole proxy altogether!)
Going through matchu@openneo.net was hitting a spam filter on that email host's redirect… Gmail seems to be more okay with it, so I'm sending straight there, and crossing my fingers 🤞
We got bit by the "can't run anything after the response finishes" thing
so I'm just forcing the response to wait for Honeycomb submit to finish
I hope this isn't like, just awful for perf lol. but puts to honeycomb seem fast?
I figure we can get even better messages than "Access denied" in case this happens again!
Also, I need a new deployment to trigger the new env vars, so why not make it count? :)
My hypothesis is that this missing `await` is causing prod Vercel to cut off the request before the async upload finishes. Omitting this `await` was a mistake, so I'm just adding it right in!
I also add logging for the success case. That way, if this isn't actually a fix, I can at least watch the logs and confirm whether the app thinks it's getting to here.
