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fix(forge): require a host in --public-url, bound the startup-settings test - #299

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Two minor review findings left over from #298, kept out of it to avoid another CI cycle.

 validate_public_url(url)
   scheme must be http:// or https://
+  host must come first (rejects http:///forge, http://:3000, http://@host)
   visible ASCII only

 serve_refuses_unusable_settings_at_startup (test)
-  Command::output()            // would hang if a bad setting were accepted
+  spawn, poll try_wait, kill and reap after 10 s

Evidence

  • Before: --public-url http:///forge started the server with an unusable base URL; a regression in startup validation could stall CI.
    After: the unit test lists http:///forge, http://:3000 and http://@host as rejected; the startup test fails fast instead of hanging.
  • cargo test -p scl-forge: 21 unit + 33 e2e + 2 route-table pass; clippy -D warnings clean (local 1.99).

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Door: two-way.

Blast Radius: sc-forge serve startup validation only.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Public URLs are validated more consistently. Invalid authorities, including URLs with missing hosts, user information, queries, fragments, empty ports, or malformed domain labels, are rejected.
    • Valid URLs are normalized before use, including Unicode domains and percent-encoded path characters. Trailing slashes are handled consistently.
    • The server rejects invalid startup settings, including a zero connection limit and malformed public URLs.
  • Tests
    • Startup validation checks cover malformed URL cases and verify support for valid internationalized domains and ports.

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The public URL validator now parses and normalizes URLs. The serve command passes the normalized URL to application setup. Unit and startup tests cover URL validation and server rejection of invalid settings.

Changes: Public URL Validation

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URL parsing and normalization
crates/forge/Cargo.toml, crates/forge/src/server.rs
The validator uses the url crate, accepts literal HTTP or HTTPS prefixes, and rejects invalid authorities and domain labels. It returns a normalized URL. Unit tests cover accepted, normalized, and rejected URL forms.
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crates/forge/src/cli.rs, crates/forge/tests/e2e_a.rs
run_serve passes the validated URL to make_app. The startup test polls for process exit for up to 10 seconds, kills and reaps a process that remains active, and checks errors for invalid settings.

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Change: Bug fix

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Security architecture risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 37074

The reviewed change strengthens startup validation and consistently uses the normalized public URL. The URL remains operator-configured, and the change does not introduce a request-controlled destination or expand listening privileges. No material security risk was identified in the changed flow.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — Control of startup configuration can influence generated URLs across the Forge instance, including user and organization avatar URLs, user HTML URLs and pagination headers. That authority predates this PR; the changed flow normalizes its value rather than granting remote request callers authority over the base.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The configuration-to-response boundary now uses parsed HTTP(S) URLs with a host, rejects user-info and query or fragment components, and passes the serialized result to the application. Startup retains the existing bind gate and trusted-proxy configuration checks, and still binds the separately supplied listen address rather than the public URL.
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Comment thread crates/forge/src/server.rs Outdated
.and_then(|r| r.split(['/', '?', '#']).next())
.unwrap_or("");
// A host must come first: not empty, and not just a port or user-info.
let host_ok = !host.is_empty() && !host.starts_with([':', '@']);

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P2 Badge Reject user-info authorities that omit the host

When --public-url uses an authority such as http://user@/forge, host is computed as user@, so this check accepts it even though the actual host after @ is empty. The server then starts with the same unusable hostless base URL this change is intended to reject; validate the authority portion after any user-info delimiter, or reject user-info entirely.

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Comment thread crates/forge/src/server.rs Outdated
// A host must come first: not empty, and not just a port or user-info.
// No user-info: credentials in a base URL would leak into every Link header, and the
// host after an `@` is easy to get empty.
let host_ok = !host.is_empty() && !host.starts_with(':') && !host.contains('@');

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P2 Badge Validate bracketed authorities before accepting the host

When an operator supplies --public-url http://[]/forge (or an authority with an unbalanced bracket), host is nonempty and passes host_ok, even though the authority contains no valid host. The server therefore starts and emits malformed URLs from this base, defeating the startup guard; parse the authority as a URL or explicitly validate bracketed IPv6 syntax.

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A DNS-style host or a valid bracketed IPv6 address plus an optional numeric
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Comment thread crates/forge/src/server.rs Outdated
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host_ok
&& port
.is_none_or(|p| !p.is_empty() && p.len() <= 5 && p.bytes().all(|b| b.is_ascii_digit()))

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P2 Badge Reject out-of-range ports

When --public-url contains a five-digit port above 65535, such as http://forge.example:99999, this predicate accepts it because it checks only length and digits. The server then starts and emits that base in API bodies and Link headers, but standard HTTP clients reject the generated URLs as having an invalid port; parse the port as a u16 instead.

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let authority = rest
.and_then(|r| r.split(['/', '?', '#']).next())

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P2 Badge Reject query and fragment delimiters in the base URL

When --public-url is http://forge.example?x or http://forge.example#x, splitting on ? and # leaves a valid authority and the validator accepts the whole value. App::new preserves those suffixes while API builders append paths textually, producing URLs such as http://forge.example?x/api/swagger whose appended endpoint is interpreted as query or fragment content rather than a path; reject query and fragment components from this base URL.

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.unwrap_or("");
match rest {
Some(r) if !r.is_empty() && r.bytes().all(|b| b.is_ascii_graphic()) => Ok(()),
Some(r) if valid_authority(authority) && r.bytes().all(|b| b.is_ascii_graphic()) => Ok(()),

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P2 Badge Reject raw angle brackets in the public URL

When the path contains a raw angle bracket, such as http://forge.example/x>, it consists entirely of graphic ASCII and is accepted here even though it is not a valid HTTP URL. Pagination then constructs a header like <http://forge.example/x>/api/v1...>; rel="next", where the configured > closes the link target early, so clients receive a malformed Link header; validate the complete URL or explicitly reject link-value delimiters.

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…zed base

Replaces the hand-rolled validator that kept missing cases (port range, query and
fragment, angle brackets, empty hostname labels, user-info, empty port): a real
parse plus the literal scheme://host shape, and the normalized (percent-encoded,
no trailing slash) base is what URLs in bodies and Link headers are built from.

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Approved: required checks green on the final head; Codex code and security reviews of 37074c6 found nothing; bot findings addressed.

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