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Problem

is_transient classifies reqwest::Error::is_body() as retryable — the comment there literally says "mid-stream body drop" — but the retry boundary stopped one step short of reaching it. reqwest resolves a request as soon as the response headers arrive, so the retry loop behind send_with_https_fallback returned a Response, and every caller then read the body outside the loop:

let resp = self.get_async_with_headers(url, headers).await?; // retried
let json = resp.json().await?;                               // not retried

A response that dies partway through streaming therefore failed on the first attempt regardless of http_retries. The same gap existed in TextRequest::send (which backs get_text, ~30 call sites) and get_bytes.

Change

Generalize the existing retry loop over how the response is consumed rather than adding a second loop beside it. send_with_retries takes a read closure and runs it inside the retried unit:

  • callers that buffer a whole body pass a reader that consumes it, so the read is covered
  • callers that need the raw Response — HEAD, streamed downloads, bounded error-body inspection — pass an identity reader and behave exactly as before

Rewired: json_headers, json_headers_with_headers, TextRequest::send, get_bytes. Each keeps its own decoding (json() / text() / bytes()), so charset handling and deserialization are unchanged.

get_html is deliberately untouched: it rejects non-HTML by inspecting Content-Type before touching the body, and moving the read inside the retry would make it download bodies it currently discards.

How this was found

jdx/mise-versions has been unable to refresh the codex entry since 2026-09-01; data/codex.toml is frozen at 0.153.0-alpha.2 while upstream is at 0.153.4, so mise latest codex resolves to 0.152.0. Its 30-minute job fails on page 2 of openai/codex's releases:

GET https://api.github.com/repos/openai/codex/releases?per_page=100              200 OK
GET https://api.github.com/repositories/965415649/releases?per_page=100&page=2   200 OK
mise WARN  Remote versions cannot be fetched for openai/codex: error decoding
           response body for url (...page=2): request or response body error
mise ERROR unable to fetch versions for codex

This patch alone will not fix that case, and I would rather say so up front than imply otherwise. The payload is the real problem there. Measured on page 1 of that endpoint:

bytes share
whole page (100 releases) 27,488,411 100%
assets[] 27,158,425 98.8%
└ uploader sub-objects 17,636,408 64.2%
body (changelogs) 118,189 0.4%
fields GithubRelease/GithubAsset keep ~792,747 ~2.9%

That page carries 16,004 assets (~160 per release), and the uploader object — which mise never deserializes — is repeated once per asset. With MISE_LIST_ALL_VERSIONS=1, which mise-versions sets, that is 11 pages and roughly 300 MB per refresh to produce a ~40 KB TOML. GitHub itself returns 504 on this endpoint often enough that gh api hit one while I was measuring.

So retrying a 27 MB request that dropped mid-stream will often just drop again. Shrinking the request is a separate change with its own trade-offs — GraphQL field selection, or backing per_page off after a body-drop retry — and I did not want to fold it into a bug fix.

What this patch does fix is the general case it exposed: a transient body drop is already classified as retryable, and now the retry actually covers it.

Tests

test_json_retries_when_body_drops_mid_stream: a canned server declares Content-Length: 21, sends 13 bytes, and closes; the second attempt serves the full body. Reverting the production change makes it fail with the same error seen in CI above:

error decoding response body for url (http://127.0.0.1:.../)
Caused by:
   0: request or response body error
   1: error reading a body from connection
   2: end of file before message length reached

test_json_headers_respects_offline_mode: json_headers used to inherit the offline guard from get_async_with_headers, which this change routes around; the test pins the behavior. Reverting the guard makes it fail.

Verification:

MBX_DISABLE=1 cargo test http::                    103 passed, 0 failed
MBX_DISABLE=1 cargo fmt --check                    clean
MBX_DISABLE=1 cargo clippy --workspace --all-features --all-targets -- -D warnings
                                                   clean, no allow attributes

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved reliability of HTTP requests by retrying failures that occur while reading response bodies.
    • Added consistent retry handling for JSON, text, byte, and standard GET responses.
    • JSON requests now correctly reject when offline mode is enabled.

`is_transient` already classifies `reqwest::Error::is_body()` as retryable
("mid-stream body drop"), but the retry boundary stopped one step short. The
retry loop behind `send_with_https_fallback` resolved as soon as the response
headers arrived, and every caller then read the body outside it:

    let resp = self.get_async_with_headers(url, headers).await?; // retried
    let json = resp.json().await?;                               // not retried

A large response that dies partway through streaming therefore failed on the
first attempt regardless of `http_retries`.

Generalize that loop over how the response is consumed. `send_with_retries`
takes a `read` closure and runs it inside the retried unit, so callers that
buffer a whole body get the read covered, while callers that need the raw
`Response` — HEAD, streamed downloads, bounded error-body inspection — pass an
identity reader. `json_headers`, `json_headers_with_headers`,
`TextRequest::send`, and `get_bytes` now read their bodies under retry, each
keeping its own decoding so charset handling and deserialization are
unchanged.

`get_html` is deliberately untouched: it rejects non-HTML by inspecting
`Content-Type` before touching the body, and moving the read inside the retry
would make it download bodies it currently discards.
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Walkthrough

HTTP request handling now uses a shared retry mechanism for request failures and response-body failures. Byte, JSON, text, and HTTPS-fallback paths use this mechanism. JSON requests enforce offline mode. Tests cover truncated JSON recovery and offline rejection.

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HTTP retry flow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared retry execution
src/http.rs
RetryableRequest and send_with_retries centralize retry state and consume response bodies within each retry attempt.
Request type integration
src/http.rs
Byte, JSON, text, and HTTPS-fallback requests use shared retries. JSON requests enforce offline mode.
Retry and offline validation
src/http.rs
Fixtures and tests verify truncated JSON recovery and immediate offline rejection.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to eda87

Offline JSON requests can invoke configured credential resolution before returning the offline-mode error, causing unexpected local side effects despite offline mode. The retry behavior is otherwise covered, but the offline guard should run before authentication resolution.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant RequestAPI
  participant send_with_retries
  participant HTTPClient
  participant ResponseParser
  RequestAPI->>send_with_retries: submit RetryableRequest
  send_with_retries->>HTTPClient: send HTTP request
  HTTPClient->>ResponseParser: read response body
  ResponseParser-->>send_with_retries: parsed body or read error
  send_with_retries-->>RequestAPI: retry or return result
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This PR moves buffered response-body consumption into the existing HTTP retry unit so transient mid-stream drops can be retried.

  • Adds a generic response reader to the retry helper.
  • Covers JSON, text, and byte helpers while preserving raw-response paths.
  • Adds regression coverage for truncated JSON and offline behavior.
  • One arbitrary-text version-list path remains outside the new retry boundary.

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The PR should not merge until regex-based version-list body reads are included in the retry boundary.

The new retry consumer correctly handles the rewired JSON, text, and byte helpers, but fetch_versions still buffers a raw response outside it and consequently retains the mid-stream failure this PR intends to fix.

Files Needing Attention: src/http.rs

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Filename Overview
src/http.rs Generalizes HTTP retries to include response consumption and rewires principal buffered helpers, but leaves regex-based version-list text reads uncovered.

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retries: Settings::get().http_retries(),
error_for_status: true,
},
|resp| async move { Ok(resp) },

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P1 Version-list reads remain unprotected

When a version-list URL configured with version_regex drops mid-body, fetch_versions still consumes resp.text() after get_async() has returned from the retry loop. The read therefore fails on the first attempt despite http_retries, leaving this path affected by the problem this change is intended to fix.

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let headers = host_auth_headers(&url)?;
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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# Inspect whether GitHub header resolution can execute configured credential sources
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# Add a regression test if credential resolution is externally observable:
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Reject offline mode before resolving authentication headers.

json_headers calls host_auth_headers before json_headers_with_headers checks offline mode. For a GitHub API URL, this can run resolve_token, including the configured credential_command, before returning "offline mode is enabled". Add the offline guard before host_auth_headers and retain the guard in json_headers_with_headers for direct callers.

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A request whose response body dropped partway through failed on the
first try, even with `http_retries` set. mise already counts a broken
body read as transient, and #14049 extended that to an HTTP/2 stream
reset during the read. But the retry loop ended once the response
headers arrived, and callers read the body afterwards, outside it:

```rust
let resp = self.get_async(url).await?; // retried
let json = resp.json().await?;         // not retried
```

So a version list or release page cut off mid-transfer failed with
`error decoding response body`, with no retry.

The retry loop now takes a reader and runs it inside each attempt. These
callers read the whole body inside the retry:

- `json` / `json_headers` / `json_headers_with_headers`
- `get_text` and everything built on its request, including the cached
variants
- `get_bytes`
- a version list read with `version_regex`. It used to fetch the
response and read it outside the loop, so it bypassed `get_text`'s HTML
check. It now goes through `get_text` with a new `allow_html()`, which
keeps the HTML pages that regex parsing expects.

Callers that need the response itself, such as HEAD, streamed downloads
and error-body inspection, pass the response through unchanged, so their
behavior is the same. `get_html` is unchanged too: it checks
`Content-Type` before reading, and reading inside the retry would
download bodies it currently discards.

This takes over #12974 by @Binlogo, which pr-closer closed after 7 days
of failing checks. The HTTP client has since moved to
`crates/mise-util/src/http.rs`, so this ports the change and does not
replay it. They are credited as co-author. The original description
gives background: a 27 MB GitHub releases page in `mise-versions` that
drops mid-stream. As it says, retrying alone will not always rescue a
response that large.

Review threads on #12974:

- **Greptile: the `version_regex` path was still unretried.** Fixed, as
described above.
- **CodeRabbit: `json_headers` resolves auth headers before checking
offline mode.** Not changed here. That order predates this PR:
`get_async` resolved the headers before `get_async_with_headers` checked
offline mode. It is a separate fix.

## Validation

- New unit tests in `crates/mise-util/src/http/tests/retry.rs`:
- `get_text`, `json` and `get_bytes` each get a response cut off before
its `Content-Length` on the first attempt and a full one on the second.
Each returns the second body after two connections.
- `allow_html()` returns an HTML page, which is still rejected without
it.
- `cargo test -p mise-util --lib -- http::tests::retry` passes all 33
tests with this change, the four new ones among them.
- The three retry tests, run against `main`'s code, fail with `error
decoding response body`, the symptom this fixes.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
* Text, JSON, and byte requests now retry transient errors encountered
while reading response bodies, not just errors encountered when sending
requests.
  * Updated authentication settings are retained across retry attempts.
* **New Features**
  * Text requests can accept HTML responses when enabled.
* Version lists using a custom pattern can now be fetched from HTML
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