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fix(github): send the token to raw.githubusercontent.com so private taps resolve - #13345

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The problem

A private Homebrew tap cannot be used at all. mise resolves a tap formula by fetching api/formula/<name>.json and then Formula/<name>.rb from raw.githubusercontent.com, and that host never receives the GitHub token, so both 404:

failed to resolve Homebrew tap formula 'acme/tap/tool'; published API metadata was unavailable
  (HTTP 404 for https://raw.githubusercontent.com/acme/homebrew-tap/HEAD/api/formula/tool.json)
  and mise could not evaluate its tap definition
failed to fetch tap formula Formula/tool.rb

The token is what is missing, not access. Against a real private tap, the same URL:

unauthenticated            HTTP 404
Authorization: Bearer ...  HTTP 200

This also takes down unrelated work, because an unresolvable package aborts the whole bootstrap packages run rather than being skipped.

Why it was excluded, and why raw is different

The exclusion is deliberate. is_github_api_url explicitly rejects *.githubusercontent.com, and that is right for the neighbouring hosts: objects.githubusercontent.com, objects-origin.githubusercontent.com and release-assets.githubusercontent.com serve pre-signed URLs, and sending an Authorization header alongside the signature makes the storage backend reject the request.

raw.githubusercontent.com is a different service. It serves repository file contents and authenticates with the ordinary github.com token, exactly like api.github.com.

The separation is also already enforced a second time, independently of this change: resolve_token returns None outright for any host matching is_github_release_asset_host, so an asset host cannot obtain a token through any path.

The change

Three small pieces, only the third of which makes the other two reachable:

  1. canonical_token_host maps raw.githubusercontent.com to github.com, so GITHUB_TOKEN, gh and github_tokens.toml all resolve for it.
  2. get_headers attaches the bearer token for that host, and deliberately not the x-github-api-version header, since raw is not an API host.
  3. host_auth_headers routes the host to get_headers at all. Without this the first two are dead code, because host_auth_headers previously returned an empty map for anything that was not an API URL.

Tests

test_only_github_api_urls_use_github_token asserted that raw.githubusercontent.com gets no auth, which is precisely the behaviour being changed, so that one URL moves out of its list. It keeps asserting the same for github.com, for GHES release downloads, and for all three release-asset hosts.

test_raw_githubusercontent_uses_github_token pins both halves of the new behaviour: the Authorization header is present, and x-github-api-version is absent.

103 tests in github:: and 108 in http:: pass.

Verified end to end

Against a real private tap, with a token in the environment. Before, the fetch 404s. After, mise retrieves Formula/private.rb and proceeds to evaluate it:

Formula/private.rb:14:in 'Kernel#require_relative': Operation not permitted - getcwd (Errno::EPERM)

That remaining failure is a separate shim gap, not part of this PR: the formula uses require_relative to load a custom download strategy, which the sandboxed evaluator cannot do. Same family as #13053, #13163 and #13328. This PR is what gets the formula in front of the evaluator in the first place.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Private repository files downloaded from GitHub raw-content URLs are now authenticated correctly over HTTPS.
    • Prevents private raw files from incorrectly returning “not found” when valid GitHub credentials are available.
    • Public GitHub raw-content requests no longer receive enterprise credentials.
    • Cleartext HTTP raw-content requests no longer include authorization headers.
    • HTTPS raw-content requests receive authentication without unnecessary API-version headers.

A private tap is unusable: mise fetches Formula/<name>.rb and the
api/formula/<name>.json probe from raw.githubusercontent.com, and that
host never received the GitHub token, so both 404 and the formula
cannot be resolved at all.

The host genuinely needs it. The same URL is a 404 unauthenticated and
a 200 with a bearer token.

Excluding it was deliberate, and correct for its neighbours: the
release-asset hosts serve pre-signed URLs, and sending an Authorization
header alongside the signature makes the storage backend reject the
request. resolve_token already enforces that independently by refusing
to resolve a token for an asset host at all, so separating raw content
from asset delivery does not weaken it.

Three small pieces:

  - canonical_token_host maps raw.githubusercontent.com to github.com,
    so GITHUB_TOKEN, gh and github_tokens.toml all resolve for it
  - get_headers attaches the bearer token, and deliberately not the
    x-github-api-version header: raw is not an API host
  - host_auth_headers routes the host to get_headers, which is the step
    that actually makes the other two reachable

The existing test asserted raw.githubusercontent.com gets no auth, which
is the behaviour being changed; it keeps asserting that for every asset
host. A new test pins both halves of the new behaviour: the token is
present, the API version header is not.

Verified against a real private tap: the fetch goes from 404 to
evaluating the formula.
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GitHub raw-content authentication now requires HTTPS. Public raw-content hosts resolve the GitHub token instead of the enterprise token. HTTP routing uses the URL-level predicate, and tests cover token selection and HTTP requests without authorization.

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GitHub raw-content authentication

Layer / File(s) Summary
Raw-content token and headers
src/github.rs
Raw-content URLs require the https scheme. raw.githubusercontent.com maps to github.com for token resolution and does not use the enterprise token. HTTP raw-content URLs receive no authorization header. Tests cover token selection and headers.
HTTP host routing
src/http.rs
host_auth_headers uses the URL-level raw-content predicate before generating GitHub headers. GitHub API routing remains unchanged.

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Change: Bug fix

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HTTPS raw-content requests use public GitHub authentication without the API header, while HTTP requests receive no bearer token; the change is ready to merge.

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RetriggerConfidence Score: 5/5

The PR appears safe to merge; the previously reported enterprise-token exposure is fixed and no new actionable regression remains.

Summary

This PR enables authenticated HTTPS requests to raw.githubusercontent.com so private Homebrew tap files can resolve while preserving credential boundaries.

  • Maps raw-content requests to GitHub.com token sources, including device-flow OAuth credentials.
  • Keeps GitHub Enterprise credentials away from the public raw-content host.
  • Excludes cleartext HTTP and release-asset hosts from token attachment.
  • Routes eligible raw-content downloads through GitHub authentication without adding API-only headers.
  • Adds focused coverage for authorization, enterprise-token isolation, and HTTP downgrade behavior.

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In `@src/github.rs`:
- Line 925: Update the raw-content host condition around
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Two problems with the raw-content auth path as first written, both
found in review.

resolve_token classified hosts by string comparison against
"github.com" and "api.github.com", so raw.githubusercontent.com fell
into the enterprise branch and was handed
MISE_GITHUB_ENTERPRISE_TOKEN: a credential scoped to a private GHES
instance, sent to a public GitHub service. Classify through
canonical_token_host instead, so every github.com-backed service is
covered by one rule rather than a list that has to be kept in sync.

The raw-content predicate also took a host, so an http:// URL would
have carried the bearer token in cleartext. It now takes the URL and
requires https.

Both are pinned by tests. The enterprise one fails without the fix,
asserting the leaked value specifically rather than just that some
token is absent.
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🟡 Minor · Resolve OAuth tokens with the canonical host. · github.rs:827-864

src/github.rs:827-864
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Resolve OAuth tokens with the canonical host.

The HTTPS raw-content path passes raw.githubusercontent.com to oauth::resolve_token. The resolver does not match that host to the configured public api.github.com OAuth endpoint, so the path can omit the bearer token.

Pass the canonical host to OAuth resolution. Keep the raw host for remember_token_source. The enterprise-token exclusion remains unchanged because it uses !is_ghcom.

-    if let Some(token) = oauth::resolve_token(host) {
+    if let Some(token) = oauth::resolve_token(canonical_token_host(host)) {
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In `@src/github.rs` around lines 827 - 864, Update the OAuth resolution call in
the token lookup flow to pass canonical_token_host(host) instead of the raw
host, while retaining the raw host for remember_token_source and leaving the
!is_ghcom enterprise-token exclusion unchanged.

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In `@src/github.rs`:
- Line 1461: Update the unit test’s token lookup to call
resolve_token_inner(host, false) instead of resolve_token(host), preventing
configured credential helpers from running while preserving enterprise-token
exclusion coverage.

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In `@src/github.rs`:
- Around line 827-864: Update the OAuth resolution call in the token lookup flow
to pass canonical_token_host(host) instead of the raw host, while retaining the
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Two follow-ups from review.

oauth::resolve_token was passed the raw host. Its resolver matches the
configured OAuth endpoint, which knows github.com and api.github.com but
not raw.githubusercontent.com, so a user authenticated by device flow
rather than by GITHUB_TOKEN would have silently got no token and the
private tap would still have 404'd for them. Ask about the canonical
host, matching what the credential command above already does.

The enterprise-token test called resolve_token, which permits git
credential helpers to run; those can prompt or block. Call
resolve_token_inner(host, false) instead, which keeps the exclusion
coverage without the side effects.
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