Error: response decoding failed: invalid character '<' looking for beginning of value

[zomgugoff]

Affected Version

yay v11.1.0 - libalpm v13.0.1

Describe the bug

After updating packages today, yay started throwing this error:

:: Searching AUR for updates...
-> response decoding failed: invalid character '<' looking for beginning of value

Reproduction Steps

1. Update Arch packages
2. run yay with no arguments

Expected behavior

Not throw an error and show updates if any are available.

Output

> yay
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
 multilib is up to date
 g14 is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
 there is nothing to do
:: Searching databases for updates...
:: Searching AUR for updates...
 -> response decoding failed: invalid character '<' looking for beginning of value

> yay -Pg
{
	"aururl": "https://aur.archlinux.org",
	"buildDir": "/home/ugoff/.cache/yay",
	"editor": "",
	"editorflags": "",
	"makepkgbin": "makepkg",
	"makepkgconf": "",
	"pacmanbin": "pacman",
	"pacmanconf": "/etc/pacman.conf",
	"redownload": "no",
	"rebuild": "no",
	"answerclean": "",
	"answerdiff": "",
	"answeredit": "",
	"answerupgrade": "",
	"gitbin": "git",
	"gpgbin": "gpg",
	"gpgflags": "",
	"mflags": "",
	"sortby": "votes",
	"searchby": "name-desc",
	"gitflags": "",
	"removemake": "ask",
	"sudobin": "sudo",
	"sudoflags": "",
	"requestsplitn": 150,
	"completionrefreshtime": 7,
	"bottomup": true,
	"sudoloop": false,
	"timeupdate": false,
	"devel": false,
	"cleanAfter": false,
	"provides": true,
	"pgpfetch": true,
	"upgrademenu": true,
	"cleanmenu": true,
	"diffmenu": true,
	"editmenu": false,
	"combinedupgrade": false,
	"useask": false,
	"batchinstall": false,
	"singlelineresults": false
}

[zomgugoff]

I wasn't fast enough. #1682 is for the same bug