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https://entire.io/gh/jdx/mise/trails/198

Building a GNU formula from source with the brew system package manager failed because GNU's mirror redirector is currently sending requests to a plain-HTTP mirror:

$ curl -sI https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/hello/hello-2.12.3.tar.gz | grep -i location
Location: http://mirror.team-cymru.com/gnu//hello/hello-2.12.3.tar.gz

Since #13292, mise refuses HTTPS→HTTP redirects on downloads, so mise bootstrap packages apply stopped with:

mise brew:hello      download hello-2.12.3.tar.gz
mise brew:hello    ✗ failed
Error:
   0: error following redirect
   1: refusing to redirect a download from HTTPS to HTTP

Homebrew follows these redirects. Every formula source tarball is pinned by sha256, so downgrading the transport doesn't weaken the result. With this change, brew source downloads follow the redirect, the build completes, and a tarball that doesn't match the checksum is still rejected.

This failure is also what broke cli/test_system_install_brew_source_slow on the 2026.9.14 release PR (#13590).

Implementation

• New http::download_file_checksum_pinned(url, path, sha256, pr). It uses a private client whose redirect policy allows the downgrade, and it removes the file if the checksum doesn't match. That private client is the only one that allows the downgrade, and it can only be reached through this helper. Every other client keeps refusing it.
• brew::source::fetch_source now calls this helper instead of HTTP.download_file followed by ensure_checksum.

Validation

• TEST_ALL=1 mise run test:e2e cli/test_system_install_brew_source_slow passes locally. At the time of the run, ftpmirror.gnu.org was redirecting to HTTP, so the test exercised the downgrade path.
• New unit test: a matching file is kept and a mismatched file is removed.
• cargo clippy --workspace --all-features --all-targets -- -D warnings is clean.

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Medium Risk
Narrows the HTTPS→HTTP exception to one unix-only, SHA256-pinned code path; wrong wiring could weaken download security elsewhere, but scope is intentionally tight.

Overview
Fixes brew source builds failing when GNU mirrors (e.g. ftpmirror.gnu.org) redirect from HTTPS to plain HTTP—a case the default HTTP client has refused since the HTTPS→HTTP redirect policy landed.

Adds a Unix-only, checksum-gated download path: download_file_checksum_pinned uses a dedicated client (HTTP_CHECKSUM_PINNED) that may follow those redirects, verifies SHA256 after download, and deletes the file if verification fails. All other HTTP clients still refuse transport downgrades. Homebrew formula source fetching now uses this helper instead of HTTP.download_file plus a separate checksum step.

Includes a unit test for successful retention vs. mismatch cleanup.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • On Unix, source archive downloads now complete when HTTPS links redirect to HTTP mirrors, while still verifying the downloaded file against its expected checksum. Files that fail verification are removed.
  • Other HTTP requests continue to refuse HTTPS-to-HTTP redirects. Checksum-pinned downloads are unavailable on non-Unix platforms.

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Walkthrough

The checksum-pinned HTTP download path and its test are now compiled only on Unix. Brew source fetching uses this path with the source URL and expected SHA-256.

Changes

Checksum-pinned downloads

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Unix-only checksum-pinned download path src/http.rs	The checksum-pinned client, download function, mismatch cleanup helper, redirect-policy branch, and test are now compiled only on Unix. Ordinary clients continue to refuse HTTPS-to-HTTP redirects on all platforms.
Brew source download integration src/system/packages/brew/source.rs	fetch_source uses the checksum-pinned download function with the source URL and expected SHA-256.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: marukome0743

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 532b4

The Brew redirect fix is scoped to Unix, where Brew is available. No actionable merge-blocking risk was established; normal checks can proceed.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 532b4

The redirect exception is limited to checksum-pinned Brew sources, and the normal build path checks the archive before extraction. No verified security finding remains. There is a narrow verification-and-cleanup window worth hardening, but no demonstrated path from it to an unchecked build.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The newly permitted lower-trust transport reaches Brew source archives on Unix. Exact caller inspection found no other production use of the private downgrade client; ordinary HTTP traffic retains downgrade refusal.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• observed — No security finding was retained. The assessed credential-exposure candidate was rejected; its disposition does not establish that every possible redirected URL is free of sensitive information.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The download path derives host authentication headers before sending the request. The source explicitly clears credentials for a cross-host URL replacement; redirect hops are handled by the HTTP dependency’s redirect policy rather than that replacement check.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — Cancellation during final publication or a failed mismatch-removal attempt can leave an unverified cache file. Publication before verification predates this PR, and the observed Brew reuse path rechecks SHA-256; no unchecked extraction path was established.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Verify the downloaded partial file before publishing it at the final cache path, and report cleanup failures, so cancellation and concurrent observation cannot expose an unverified final artifact.

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[Medium risk] Changes how brew source downloads are verified.

The PR appears safe to merge; no new actionable issue or outstanding previous finding remains.

Summary

The PR allows checksum-pinned Homebrew source downloads to follow HTTPS-to-HTTP mirror redirects, verifies the downloaded archive, and removes it on checksum mismatch. The changes since the previous review limit that helper and its test to Unix, matching the brew module’s platform scope.

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src/http.rs (1)

4026-4051: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Add an HTTPS-to-HTTP redirect regression test.

The test starts with an HTTP URL and receives a direct 200 OK, so it never exercises redirect handling. A regression that changes HTTP_CHECKSUM_PINNED to refuse HTTPS-to-HTTP redirects would still pass this test. Add a focused fixture that starts from HTTPS, redirects to HTTP, and asserts successful checksum-pinned download.

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In `@src/http.rs` around lines 4026 - 4051, Add a focused regression test
alongside test_checksum_pinned_download_keeps_match_and_removes_mismatch that
starts with an HTTPS URL and redirects to an HTTP endpoint, then verifies
download_file_checksum_pinned succeeds with the expected checksum and content.
Reuse the existing canned-server and HTTPS test setup where applicable so the
test specifically exercises the HTTPS-to-HTTP redirect path.

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In `@src/http.rs`:
- Around line 4026-4051: Add a focused regression test alongside
test_checksum_pinned_download_keeps_match_and_removes_mismatch that starts with
an HTTPS URL and redirects to an HTTP endpoint, then verifies
download_file_checksum_pinned succeeds with the expected checksum and content.
Reuse the existing canned-server and HTTPS test setup where applicable so the
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Instruction counts

benchmark	trend	instructions	Δ	wall (min)	Δ
env	▁▁▁██	38,499,263 → 38,485,019	-0.04%	20.82 → 20.35ms	-2.29%
hook-env	▁▁▁██	40,449,965 → 40,455,165	+0.01%	20.95 → 21.73ms	+3.72%
ls	▁▁▁██	42,940,207 → 42,798,485	-0.33%	22.91 → 23.50ms	+2.59%
registry	▁▁▁██	39,830,724 → 39,787,751	-0.11%	17.43 → 17.57ms	+0.84%
startup	▁▁▁██	11,055,717 → 11,041,480	-0.13%	11.63 → 11.99ms	+3.04%

No instruction-count regression above 1%.

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