[Ololadestephen]

What does this PR do?

Prevent authenticated API requests from forwarding x-api-key to another origin through redirects. The shared client requests redirects manually and checks each destination's scheme, hostname and port before dispatch. A rejected redirect raises a typed transport error naming both origins, without URL credentials, paths or query strings, and is not retried.

Same-origin redirects remain supported, including Fetch's method/body rules, relative locations, the original request signal and request ID, intermediate-body cleanup, and a 20-hop limit. No new dependency.

Related issue

Closes #446

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Type of change

• Bug fix (non-breaking change that fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change that adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that changes existing behavior)
• Documentation only
• Build / CI / chore

Validation

Tested against upstream d61e6dfc400f5e88ee34ac799c5496ac5c5a7751 (v0.15.0 source).

• The pre-fix cross-origin regression sends the synthetic API key to the destination handler; after the fix that handler is never reached. Same-origin GET redirects pass before and after.
• 28 mock-based redirect cases cover 301/302/303/307/308, scheme/port changes, later hops, method/body handling, cancellation, timeout classification, body cleanup, malformed locations and redirect bounds.
• Node 22: 4,826 unit tests passed, 2 skipped. Coverage: lines 92.30%, statements 90.12%, branches 85.11%, functions 83.73%.
• Lint, typecheck, formatting, build and CLI version/help smoke passed. Lint reports 215 existing unused-suppression warnings. Formatting excludes local-only analysis output; tracked formatting configuration is unchanged.
• Native Node 20/22/24 loopback smoke: zero cross-origin destination requests; same-origin POST redirect behavior verified for all five statuses.
• Local E2E: 109 passed, 1 skipped, 1 unrelated eight-target agent-install case exceeded its default five-second timeout. That unchanged case passed separately with a 15-second timeout (11.07 seconds). The default complete E2E invocation was not green.

Checklist

• PR targets the main branch.
• Commits follow Conventional Commits.
• npm run lint and formatting checks pass (local-only analysis files excluded).
• npm run typecheck passes.
• npm test passes and coverage stays at or above the 80% gate.
• New behavior is covered by unit tests (mock-based; no network or credentials required).
• No secrets, API keys, internal endpoints, or personal data are included in the change.
• User-facing changes are reflected in DOCUMENTATION.md.

Notes for reviewers

This takes the accepted same-origin-only option rather than rejecting every redirect. Error messages retain origins only. Some pre-fix POST cases encounter MSW automatic-follow limitations, so those failures are not evidence of additional CLI defects; the native loopback checks separately verify POST behavior.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Authenticated requests follow redirects only when they remain within the configured origin, preventing credentials from being sent to other origins.
  • Same-origin redirects preserve the appropriate request method and body. Redirect chains are limited to 20 hops.
  • Invalid, cross-origin, credential-bearing, and excessive redirects return non-retriable errors. Abort and timeout behavior continues across redirect chains.

• Documentation

  • Added guidance on redirect restrictions, credential handling, and redirect limits.

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Walkthrough

HttpClient now handles redirects manually. It follows valid same-origin redirects, rejects cross-origin or invalid targets, and limits redirect chains to 20 hops. The change adds redirect tests and documentation.

Changes

Authenticated redirect handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Redirect policy and request integration src/lib/http.ts	Requests use fetchSameOrigin with manual redirect handling. The client validates redirect targets, cancels intermediate response bodies, applies method and body rules, and returns non-retriable RedirectError instances for redirect-policy failures.
Redirect tests and documentation src/lib/http.redirect.spec.ts, DOCUMENTATION.md	Tests cover credential isolation, same-origin redirect behavior, redirect limits, request propagation, and error handling. Documentation describes the origin restriction and 20-hop limit.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: High

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant HttpClient
  participant fetchSameOrigin
  participant fetchImpl
  HttpClient->>fetchSameOrigin: Send request with manual redirect handling
  fetchSameOrigin->>fetchImpl: Fetch current URL
  fetchImpl-->>fetchSameOrigin: Return redirect response and Location
  fetchSameOrigin->>fetchSameOrigin: Validate target origin and hop limit
  fetchSameOrigin->>fetchImpl: Fetch approved same-origin target
  fetchImpl-->>fetchSameOrigin: Return response
  fetchSameOrigin-->>HttpClient: Return final response or RedirectError

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Possibly related PRs

• TestSprite/testsprite-cli#608: #608 routes fetch failures through shared transport-retry handling. #629 bypasses that retry handling for redirect errors.
• TestSprite/testsprite-cli#624: #624 preserves transport retries for eligible requests. #629 bypasses that retry path for redirect errors.

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 60693

This change stops authenticated requests from forwarding the API key to a different origin on redirect, while same-origin redirects still work. No merge-blocking issue remains from the supplied evidence.

Pre-merge checks: 5

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check		The title clearly summarizes the main change: preventing credentials from being forwarded across origins during redirects.
Linked Issues check		Issue [#446] requires preventing cross-origin redirects from receiving x-api-key, retaining same-origin redirects, testing a cross-origin 302, and adding no dependency. src/lib/http.ts uses manual…
Out of Scope Changes check		The changes support issue [#446]. src/lib/http.ts implements redirect checks and retry suppression. The redirect tests cover security and preserved redirect behavior. DOCUMENTATION.md documents th…
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is inconclusive: files from earlier reviews still need to be rechecked within the check's analysis limits. Not blocking.

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Explanation

Issue [#446] requires preventing cross-origin redirects from receiving x-api-key, retaining same-origin redirects, testing a cross-origin 302, and adding no dependency. src/lib/http.ts uses manual redirects and rejects a destination when its scheme, hostname, or port differs from the initial origin. src/lib/http.redirect.spec.ts verifies that a 302 destination is not reached, and tests same-origin redirects. The whole-PR diff adds no dependency.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

The changes support issue [#446]. src/lib/http.ts implements redirect checks and retry suppression. The redirect tests cover security and preserved redirect behavior. DOCUMENTATION.md documents this behavior. No unrelated change appears in the whole-PR diff.

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[zeshi-du]

Thanks @Ololadestephen, the same-origin redirect handling matches the scope on #446, and the tests fail on main as they should. #608 has since merged and changed the same fetch catch in src/lib/http.ts. Please rebase on main and keep if (err instanceof RedirectError) throw err; ahead of the new transportRetryDelayOrThrow(...) call, so a cross-origin redirect is never retried. Then we'll approve the CI run (it hasn't run on this PR yet) and merge.

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- Around line 927-928: Export RedirectError from the HTTP module and update the
polling retry loop to rethrow RedirectError before applying retry rules, so
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Script executed:

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Do not retry refused redirects in the polling loop.

RedirectError has code UNAVAILABLE, so the polling loop can retry a refused redirect despite the error’s “This request was not retried” message. Export the error and exclude it from the polling retry.

Suggested fix

In src/lib/http.ts:

-class RedirectError extends TransportError {
+export class RedirectError extends TransportError {

In src/lib/poll.ts:

 import { ApiError, InterruptError } from './errors.js';
+import { RedirectError } from './http.js';

       if (!(err instanceof ApiError)) throw err;
+      if (err instanceof RedirectError) throw err;

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Review comment at @src/lib/http.ts around lines 927 - 928:
Export RedirectError from the HTTP module and update the polling retry loop to
rethrow RedirectError before applying retry rules, so refused redirects are not
retried.

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[Ololadestephen]

Thanks @Ololadestephen, the same-origin redirect handling matches the scope on #446, and the tests fail on main as they should. #608 has since merged and changed the same fetch catch in src/lib/http.ts. Please rebase on main and keep if (err instanceof RedirectError) throw err; ahead of the new transportRetryDelayOrThrow(...) call, so a cross-origin redirect is never retried. Then we'll approve the CI run (it hasn't run on this PR yet) and merge.

Thanks for the review! I rebased onto main in 67c4bf1 and kept the RedirectError rethrow before transportRetryDelayOrThrow(...), so rejected redirects still skip retries. The local suite passed with 5,045 tests and 2 skips. Ready for CI approval.