install: .npmrc credentials the npm way — verbatim _auth, no URL-embedded credential in the request path, key-walk lookup for registries and tarballs

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All three parts of #33869 in one PR (this now carries what was #40424 and #40425). Replaces #38800; takes the dot-segment guard from #40058.

Fixes #30311. Fixes #28233. Fixes #40549. Fixes #30513.

1. _auth sent as written; no credential left in the request path

_auth is sent as written. npm sends Basic <_auth> verbatim (npm-registry-fetch auth.js). Bun decoded the value as base64 and rejected anything that was not user:pass, so the request never went out. Bun's own JFrog guide (docs/guides/install/jfrog-artifactory.mdx) already promises the value is "sent as-is" in the bunfig URL form; the same value on a .npmrc line was an error. Three inputs change:

.npmrc	before	after	npm
_auth=<not base64>	error, no request	Basic <value>	Basic <value>
_auth=<b64 "tok:"> (blank half)	nothing sent	Basic <b64>	Basic <b64>
_auth + username/_password on one key	Basic <user:pass>	Basic <_auth>	Basic <_auth>

_password decodes leniently, as npm's Buffer.from(v, "base64") does. Trade-off: a plaintext _password used to be a redacted error before any request; now it produces the same garbage credential npm produces, and the registry answers 401.

A credential embedded in the registry URL never reaches the request path. Two documented shapes: yarn's registry=http://host/api/:_authToken=S (docs/guides/install/azure-artifacts.mdx) and the JFrog guide's .../npm/_auth=<base64>. Main stripped the first only while it looked for a credential to adopt, so with another token present S stayed in the path of every request; it stripped the second at the last /, so a base64 value containing / left _auth=<half> in the path and sent no header. The scan now anchors on :<name>= and /<name>= markers, right to left, so a /, : or = inside the value is fine and a plain : or = in a path segment is left alone. A marker is matched as spelled, the rule a .npmrc line follows: a misspelt :<word>= at the very end of the path (:_authtoken=, :_passwd=), the one place yarn writes a credential, is stripped and never adopted; a = segment anywhere else in the path (/a:b=c/npm/, /api/_v=1/npm/) is part of the registry path and stays. --registry used to bypass the scope builder, so --registry http://host/api/:_authToken=S/ sent S in every request path; it now goes through the same builder as .npmrc and env registries, with the same same-host credential carry as npm_config_registry.

Every request builds its Authorization header from one Scope method: install and tarball downloads, bun publish, bun pm view, bun audit, bun pm whoami and bun pm diff. bun pm whoami used to give up without a request unless a token was set; it now sends whatever credential the scope holds.

A same-host npm_config_registry override carried only _authToken across the scope rebuild; it now carries the Basic credential too (.npmrc _auth, username/_password, or registry= userinfo).

_auth is forwarded byte-for-byte, so a CR/LF inside it reaches the header the way _authToken already does; #37458 adds the check for both keys.

2. npm's key walk for .npmrc lines, applied once in the package manager

An .npmrc credential line only applied to a registry when the URL paths matched exactly, so a host-root token was dropped for a registry under a path (GitLab's documented shape, #30311 and #40549) and a scoped registry's own line stopped matching in 1.3.11 (#28233).

npm's model is a flat config map and one walk per URL (npm-registry-fetch's regFromURI). This implements that model in two halves:

• bun_ini collects every //host/path/:<option>= line from every .npmrc file into one map keyed by the literal text between // and :<option>=, last write wins, and collapses it to one entry per key that carries a complete credential (_authToken, else _auth, else username + _password; an empty value supplies nothing). That list is install.url_auth. bun_ini no longer applies credentials to any registry.
• Options::load applies them once, after every source that can set a registry URL (.npmrc, bunfig.toml, $NPM_CONFIG_REGISTRY, --registry): each registry still without credentials gets the first key on the walk from its URL (the full path, then one segment shorter each time, down to the bare host; the key with a trailing slash is a distinct key visited first; a string prefix is not an ancestor). A credential from bunfig, the environment or the command line therefore outranks a .npmrc line by construction. A credential written into the registry URL itself (userinfo, or a :_authToken= segment in the path) is the weakest source, as in npm, whose getAuth never reads it: any complete .npmrc line for the key replaces it. A key carries no scheme, so a line applies to an http:// registry with the same host too; only a credential carried over from a previous registry refuses an https-to-http downgrade.

A registry's key comes from the WHATWG serialisation of its URL, the one requests are built from: host lowercased, a default port dropped, the query left out. Hand-written keys are compared as written, after one fold: a scheme is dropped (Bun's docs show //http://localhost:4873/:_authToken=) with that scheme's default port, and the host is lowercased; a scheme-less key keeps its port, as in npm, so //host:443/ is the key of http://host:443/, not of https://host/.

The option name must end the key. //host/:_authtoken= used to match _auth as a substring and go out as Basic <token>; it now warns _authtoken is not a known .npmrc option; ignoring this line at .npmrc:<line> and sends nothing. The warning never echoes the line, so a value under a misspelt name cannot reach stderr. It fires only for a misspelling of a credential option (_authtoken, authToken, password: the name with case, _ and - ignored). always-auth, tokenHelper, cafile and other per-registry options npm or pnpm accept are ignored silently, as npm ignores them. --silent suppresses it. A known option with a non-string value (_authToken=true) is ignored silently.

Dropped on the way: email is accepted and ignored (npm never sends it, and nothing in Bun read it); a lone username or _password on a registry's own key no longer layers over the URL's userinfo (npm's hasAuth needs the pair).

3. Request-time lookup for tarballs; --registry inheritance scoped to the path

#40423 applies .npmrc lines to every registry the package manager ends up with, whichever source named it. One kind of request still never saw them: a tarball served from another path or host than its registry. GitLab resolves packages through an instance-level path and serves tarballs from a project-level path, so a token keyed to the project path matched nothing (#30513). A registry that moved, with a lockfile still holding the old host's tarball URLs, had the same shape.

Each tarball URL is now matched against #40423's collapsed key list with the same walk: build the URL's own key, then try it and every shorter key down to the bare host. The key comes from the WHATWG serialisation of the URL, so dot segments are resolved and the query string is left out before the walk.

The tarball rule follows npm's getAuth, in this order:

1. The deepest .npmrc key on the tarball URL's own walk wins.
2. With no such key, the registry's credentials follow the tarball when the tarball is on the registry's origin: same scheme, host and effective port, any path. This is what serves GitLab's instance-level registry, whose tarballs live under a project path with no key of their own.
3. One refinement to step 1: if the tarball resolves to the same key the registry itself resolved to, the registry's credentials win. That key is already reflected in them, behind any bunfig, env or CLI credential.

dist.tarball is parsed once, with the WHATWG parser npm's new URL() uses: the request goes to the resolved path, and the .npmrc line is the one for that path. No spelling of a dot segment can put one team's token on a request the server routes to another team's tree. A URL one parse cannot settle (whitespace or a control byte, a URL the parser rejects, a dot segment behind %2f or %5c) is requested as written and matched against no line; on the registry's own origin it still carries the registry's credentials. An http:// tarball on another host never gets a .npmrc line's credential: the keys carry no scheme and the manifest is registry-controlled, so over plaintext a line's credential only goes back to the registry's own origin.

bun pm diff goes through the same rule instead of its own same-origin check.

registry	tarball	before	after
https://host/api/v4/packages/npm/ (instance key)	https://host/api/v4/projects/123/packages/npm/pkg.tgz	sent	sent
https://host/npm/team-a/ + //host/npm/team-b/:_authToken=T	https://host/npm/team-b/pkg.tgz	team-a's token	Bearer T
https://host/npm/team-a/	https://host/npm/team-a/../team-b/pkg.tgz	sent	sent
https://host/npm/team-a/ + //cdn/npm/team-a/:_authToken=T	https://cdn/npm/team-a/..%2fteam-b/pkg.tgz	not sent	not sent
https://host/npm/team-a/	https://other-host/pkg.tgz + //other-host/:_authToken=T	not sent	Bearer T

Configured credentials win over userinfo in a dist.tarball URL, as in npm.

A registry set by --registry or $NPM_CONFIG_REGISTRY used to inherit the default registry's token on host match alone, path ignored, so --registry https://host/npm/team-b/ with a .npmrc line for team-b still sent team-a's token. Now it inherits only at or under the old registry's path (after WHATWG normalisation, so /npm/team-a/../team-b/ is a sibling), and only when .npmrc has no line specific to the new path; otherwise its own .npmrc line applies through #40423's walk. A registry URL written as a bare $VAR is only expanded when its scope is built, so its .npmrc line is found by that walk too; before, no credential was sent for it.

Release note: --registry https://host/repo-b/ (or $NPM_CONFIG_REGISTRY) no longer inherits a token keyed to https://host/repo-a/; the match is path-prefix now, as in npm. An Artifactory multi-repo setup that relied on the host-only match gets a 401 until its key names the host alone: //host/:_authToken= covers both repos.

Not taken from #38800: the "add //host/:_authToken=<token> to .npmrc" hint on a 401. Not taken from #40058: path-scoping a registry's token to its own path (it diverges from npm and breaks GitLab's documented instance-level setup), install.allowedHosts and [[install.rewrite]].

Tests (part 3)

Every case above runs bun install against local mock registries (http and https) that record the exact request path and Authorization header: the request-time block from #38800, the GitLab instance-level shape, a sibling-path tarball with and without its own line, every dot-segment spelling on the registry's origin and on another host with its own line, --registry/env registries on a sibling, child or dot-segmented path, bare $VAR registries, _auth lines at request time, tarball URLs with a query string, and http tarballs from https and http registries. Each fix was also driven by hand against the debug build and the release binary.

Tests

npmrc.test.ts, bun-install.test.ts (the embedded-credential block and the key-walk matrix: ancestor keys, string prefixes, trailing slashes, scoped and default registries, bunfig.toml registries with and without credentials, home and project files), bun-publish.test.ts, bun-info.test.ts, redacted-config-logs.test.ts (no credential value reaches stderr under any spelling). Each row runs the CLI against a local mock registry that records the request path and Authorization header; the new rows fail on main.

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Registry authentication now preserves npmrc _auth values, supports embedded URL credentials, centralizes authorization construction, and applies it to audit, view, whoami, and publish requests. npmrc JavaScript output and authentication tests were updated.

Changes

Registry authentication

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Credential storage and npmrc decoding src/ini/lib.rs, src/options_types/schema.rs	_auth values are stored verbatim in NpmRegistry.auth. Empty values are rejected. _password uses lenient Base64 decoding.
Scope authorization and embedded credentials src/install/npm.rs, src/install/PackageManager/PackageManagerOptions.rs, test/cli/install/bun-install.test.ts	Scope::authorization() constructs Bearer or Basic values. Embedded registry credentials are parsed, removed from URLs, and resolved with configured credential precedence. Compatible environment-selected registries preserve existing authentication.
CLI authorization integration src/runtime/cli/audit_command.rs, src/runtime/cli/pm_view_command.rs, src/runtime/cli/publish_command.rs, test/cli/install/bun-info.test.ts, test/cli/install/bun-publish.test.ts	Audit, view, and publish requests use the consolidated authorization value. Tests cover verbatim _auth forwarding.
npmrc API exposure and validation src/install_jsc/ini_jsc.rs, test/cli/install/npmrc.test.ts, test/cli/install/redacted-config-logs.test.ts	The npmrc loading result now includes default_registry_auth. Tests cover IPv6 registries, embedded credentials, whoami, diagnostics, redaction, and invalid Base64 passwords.

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Split the stdout and exit-code assertions at both sites. This gives stdout failures their own diagnostic and keeps the required assertion order.

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I re-reviewed after 1f497c8 and found no further issues — all seven prior comments (mine and CodeRabbit's) are addressed. Because this reworks credential precedence and what reaches the wire across install/publish/view/audit/whoami, a human pass is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• parse_embedded_auth marker scan: colon-in-value, terminal precedence, duplicate handling, plain-: paths left alone; strip now runs before the credential gate (userinfo test row pins this).
• Scope::authorization() consolidation vs. the per-command header builders it replaces — count/append pairs stay symmetric.
• _auth verbatim storage and the whoami-only decode; _password lenient decode matches Buffer.from(v, "base64").
• The new NpmRegistry.auth field's transfer through the same-host env-registry override and has_credentials().

Extended reasoning...

Overview

Part 1 of a 3-part series. Stores .npmrc _auth verbatim (new NpmRegistry.auth field) instead of decoding it into username/password; sends Basic <_auth> unchanged, matching npm. Switches _password to lenient base64 decode. Hoists the yarn-style embedded-credential strip (parse_embedded_auth) out of its guard so a token in the registry path is always sanitized before requests go out. Consolidates Authorization header construction into Scope::authorization() and rewires audit/view/publish/whoami to it. Adds ~15 new test cases across 5 test files.

Security risks

This is squarely security-sensitive: it changes which credential is sent, in what form, and whether a secret can leak into a request path. The direction of every change is toward npm parity and stricter sanitization (always strip embedded markers; never print an undecodable _password). The precedence order (token > _auth > embedded > username/password) and the whoami identity derivation are the subtle bits; both are covered by new tests, and the author added the userinfo regression row I asked for so the load-bearing hoist has a test that fails on main.

Level of scrutiny

High. Credential handling in the package manager decides what secrets go where. The refactor of Scope::from_api is not mechanical — it reorders when the pathname is mutated relative to when .npmrc credentials are consulted, and introduces a terminal flag that gates which embedded values are adopted. The consolidation into authorization() is straightforward, but a maintainer should confirm the precedence and the env-registry auth transfer match the intended series design.

Other factors

All prior review feedback (4 CodeRabbit + 3 of mine) was addressed in 1f497c8, including the pre-existing npm_config_registry same-host _auth drop I flagged — that fix is now in the diff with a test. Test coverage is thorough for the variant matrix (opaque blobs, blank username/password, colon-in-value, duplicate markers, terminal precedence). No outstanding unresolved threads.

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Check install success before reading bun.lock.

If bun install fails, file(...).text() can fail because the lockfile is absent and hide the process failure. Move expect(await exited).toBe(0) after the stderr assertions and before the lockfile read.

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I re-reviewed after the fix commits and found no bugs — the earlier findings (missing userinfo regression row, vacuous _auth one length test row, and the same-host env-registry _auth drop) are all addressed. Because this reworks credential handling on the wire (_auth verbatim, lenient _password decode, the new parse_embedded_auth scan and its precedence rules), a human look before merge would still be worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• Scope::from_api / parse_embedded_auth: strip now runs unconditionally; checked marker anchoring keeps a plain-colon path intact and that embedded.terminal doesn't stop stripping earlier segments.
• Scope::authorization() and its four callers (whoami, audit, pm view, publish) — count/append pairs stay balanced; whoami still gates on token.is_empty() before using the result.
• .npmrc _auth precedence over URL userinfo and username/_password; env-registry same-host override now moves auth alongside token (path-scoping deferred to #40425 as discussed).
• Test rows for embedded markers, whoami identity derivation, and the redacted-config expected: "" cases now assert no error:/warn: instead of nothing.

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Overview

This PR changes how Bun reads and sends .npmrc registry credentials, part 1 of a 3-part series. Core changes: (1) _auth is stored verbatim on a new NpmRegistry.auth field and sent as Basic <value> without base64 validation, matching npm; (2) _password uses lenient base64 decode instead of erroring; (3) yarn-style :_authToken=… markers embedded in a registry URL's pathname are now stripped unconditionally via a new parse_embedded_auth helper, not only when no other credential exists; (4) a shared Scope::authorization() replaces per-command Bearer/Basic header construction in whoami, audit, pm view, and publish; (5) the same-host npm_config_registry override now carries auth across the scope rebuild, not just token. Tests span npmrc.test.ts, bun-install.test.ts, bun-publish.test.ts, bun-info.test.ts, and redacted-config-logs.test.ts.

Security risks

This is credential-handling code. The relevant risks are: sending a credential to the wrong host/path (the same-host env-registry transfer now includes auth on host+protocol match only — acknowledged and scoped to #40425, and it mirrors the existing token behavior on main), leaving a credential in the request path (the whole point of the always-strip change; the new userinfo test row pins it), and header injection via a verbatim _auth containing CR/LF (the description explicitly defers that to #37458, and _authToken already had the same exposure on main). No new leak surface was introduced that I can see; the lenient _password decode removes a diagnostic that previously echoed the (redacted) value.

Level of scrutiny

High. Registry authentication is production-critical and security-sensitive: a mistake here either strips a legitimate credential (401s against private registries) or sends one where it shouldn't go. The parse_embedded_auth rewrite changes scan semantics (marker-anchored instead of colon-anchored, right-to-left with a terminal flag) in a way that is well-tested but not mechanical.

Other factors

All three findings from my earlier pass were addressed in the follow-up commits, and every review thread is resolved. The bug-hunting system found nothing this run. Test coverage for the new behavior is thorough — the embedded-marker matrix in bun-install.test.ts, the whoami identity-derivation cases in npmrc.test.ts, and the publish/view _auth wire tests each pin a specific clause of the change. The remaining open question (path-scoped credential inheritance across an env-registry override) is explicitly slated for the next PR in the series and does not regress from main. Given the security-sensitive surface and the non-trivial scan rewrite, I'm deferring rather than approving.

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Additional findings (outside the current diff — GitHub can't attach inline comments there):

• 🟣 src/install/PackageManager/PackageManagerOptions.rs — Pre-existing sibling gap in the "never leave a registry URL credential in the request path" fix: the CLI --registry override path calls self.scope.set_url(api_registry.url) directly instead of going through Scope::from_api, so parse_embedded_auth never runs and a yarn-style credential in the flag value stays in the request path.

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  Every other route into a Scope (.npmrc/bunfig registry=, NPM_CONFIG_REGISTRY/npm_config_registry, URL userinfo) now flows through Scope::from_api, which unconditionally calls the new parse_embedded_auth at src/install/npm.rs:475 and strips :_authToken=/:_auth=/:username=/:_password= segments before the URL is stored. The one route that does not is the CLI --registry handler at PackageManagerOptions.rs:652-671: NpmRegistry::from_url(cli.registry) sees no userinfo, has_credentials() returns false, and the else-branch calls self.scope.set_url(api_registry.url) on the raw href — set_url (src/install/npm.rs:426) only re-parses and hashes, it never strips. Concretely, bun install --registry 'http://host/api/:_authToken=SECRET' (or bun add, bun pm view, etc.) still stores http://host/api/:_authToken=SECRET/ as the scope URL, so every manifest/tarball request goes to /api/:_authToken=SECRET/<pkg> — the token reaches proxy and server access logs, and (since scope.token/scope.auth stay empty on the different-origin branch) is never sent as an `Auth

  Verification: pre-existing — a sibling gap in the bug class this PR is fixing, in code the diff does not touch. Trace at src/install/PackageManager/PackageManagerOptions.rs:652-671 (unchanged by this PR, identical on base): For --registry http://host/api/:_authToken=SECRET: 1. NpmRegistry::from_url (src/options_types/schema.rs:159-176) sees no URL userinfo, so falls to line 172 `registry.url = Box::from(url

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[claude]

Re-reviewed after the latest push — all three items I raised earlier are addressed (the userinfo-in-URL strip test now exists in bun-install.test.ts, the vacuous _auth one length row is gone with the expected: "" branch now asserting no error/warn on stderr, and PackageManagerOptions.rs carries auth across the same-host env-registry rebuild with a covering test in npmrc.test.ts). No further bugs found. A human look is still worthwhile given this reworks credential handling across install/publish/view/audit/whoami.

Checked in this pass: parse_embedded_auth's borrow of registry_url vs. the !needs_normalize move — the pathname length check guarantees no embedded slices survive on that branch; Scope::authorization() precedence (token before auth) matches the pre-existing per-command logic it replaces; the whoami .expect("token is set") is guarded by the token.is_empty() early return above it.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR reworks .npmrc _auth handling to forward it verbatim as Basic <value> (matching npm), makes _password decode leniently, and hoists yarn-style embedded-credential stripping in src/install/npm.rs so secrets never remain in the request path regardless of what other credentials exist. It centralizes header construction in Scope::authorization() and rewires audit, pm view, publish, and whoami to use it. Roughly 270 lines of native change across ini/lib.rs, install/npm.rs, options_types/schema.rs, PackageManagerOptions.rs, and four CLI command files, plus ~330 lines of tests.

Security risks

The change is squarely in credential-handling territory: it decides what goes into Authorization headers, whether secrets are stripped from request paths, and whether undecodable values are surfaced in diagnostics. The direction of every change is toward less leakage (path always sanitized, no diagnostic that echoes an undecodable secret) and better npm parity (verbatim _auth, lenient _password). I found no path where a credential newly leaks; the CR/LF-in-_auth header-injection surface is called out in the PR description as pre-existing for _authToken and slated for #37458. The parse_embedded_auth refactor anchors on full :<name>= markers rather than any colon, closing the "plain colon in path gets truncated" hole while still stripping every credential segment.

Level of scrutiny

High — this is auth-header construction shared across five commands, with a security claim in the title. Per the approval guidelines, changes to auth/credential paths warrant a human reviewer regardless of automated findings, so I'm deferring rather than approving.

Other factors

All three concrete issues I raised on the earlier push were addressed in commits c77dde6 and 95b2e64: the missing regression test for stripping an embedded token when userinfo already supplies a credential is now present; the assertion-free redacted-config-logs row was removed and the loop body gained a positive not.toMatch(/\b(error|warn):/) assertion for the expected: "" case; and the same-host npm_config_registry override now transfers auth with a new end-to-end test. Test coverage is thorough across the variant matrix (embedded markers with colons in values, terminal-marker precedence, duplicate markers, userinfo interaction, whoami identity edge cases, verbatim-_auth values a base64 round-trip would alter). No outstanding CHANGES_REQUESTED reviews; CodeRabbit threads were resolved by a non-author.

[claude]

The three points from my earlier pass are all addressed in the latest push — the userinfo-plus-embedded-token strip test now exists, the vacuous _auth one length row is gone (and the empty-expected rows now assert no error:/warn: on stderr), and the same-host env override carries auth forward alongside token. I didn't find anything new; a human look is still worthwhile given this rewires how registry credentials reach the wire.

What was reviewed:

• parse_embedded_auth marker anchoring and the always-strip hoist in Scope::from_api — path is sanitized before .npmrc/userinfo precedence is decided, and bare : in a path is left alone.
• Scope::authorization() and its four call sites — Bearer-then-Basic precedence matches the stored fields; no header built when both are empty.
• The new it.each verbatim-_auth rows use values a base64 round trip would alter, so they pin the "sent as written" claim.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR reworks npm registry authentication in bun install and the pm/publish/audit commands: _auth is stored and forwarded verbatim (no base64 decode/validate), _password decodes leniently to match Buffer.from(v, "base64"), yarn-style credentials embedded in the registry URL pathname are always stripped before requests go out (previously only when no other credential existed), and a shared Scope::authorization() replaces four hand-rolled header builders. Net ~600/-330 lines across src/install/npm.rs, src/ini/lib.rs, src/options_types/schema.rs, three CLI command files, and five test files.

Security risks

The change is squarely in credential handling: it decides what goes into the Authorization header and what stays out of the request path. The main risk classes are (a) a credential leaking into a request path or stderr, (b) precedence between _authToken/_auth/userinfo/embedded markers diverging from npm, and (c) the CR/LF-in-header caveat the PR description already flags for #37458. The always-strip hoist and the marker-anchored scan close a real leak (embedded token reaching the path when userinfo is present); the lenient _password decode removes a diagnostic that could echo a plaintext password. I checked that parse_embedded_auth mutates url.pathname/url.path unconditionally before any credential-precedence branch, and that authorization() returns None (no header) rather than an empty Basic when nothing is set.

Level of scrutiny

High — auth/credential paths are explicitly called out in the approval guidelines as not-auto-approvable, and the parsing here handles adversarial URL shapes. The test matrix is thorough (userinfo + embedded, colons in path, colons in value, left-of-terminal markers, duplicate markers, opaque _auth values that a base64 round trip would change), which raises confidence, but the wire behavior against real Artifactory/Nexus/Gemfury and the precedence table in the PR description are things a maintainer should sign off on.

Other factors

All three concerns I raised on the first push were fixed in commits f411aec and d7fb062: the regression test for strip-with-userinfo-present now exists at test/cli/install/bun-install.test.ts ("when the URL also carries userinfo"), the assertion-free _auth one length row was replaced and the empty-expected branch now positively asserts no diagnostic, and PackageManagerOptions.rs carries self.scope.auth across the same-host env-registry rebuild. No open CHANGES_REQUESTED reviews from other reviewers are visible in the timeline; the CodeRabbit threads are all resolved by non-authors.

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[claude]

This pull request has now been reviewed several times and this review found new issues. Before patching these one by one, step back: would one root-cause fix close several of them? Is the pull request's scope growing with each push? Prefer root-cause fixes, keep scope fixed, and note out-of-scope improvements as follow-ups.

[claude]

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[claude]

This pull request has been reviewed several times and this review found new issues. Where they share a root cause, one fix may close them together.

[robobun]

On the lints: the mordant failure came from main, not this PR. #41130 fixed the cause on main (4f7e15b), and f0b5a3b fixed it on this branch. The job is green here, and the branch merges with main without conflicts.

[dylan-conway]

Read the whole diff against npm-registry-fetch's auth.js/pacote and drove ~30 registry/tarball scenarios through a recording mock against this branch and 1.4.0. The model is right and the headline fixes all reproduce (host-root key on a path registry, scoped registry lines, verbatim _auth, embedded :_authToken= / JFrog /_auth= out of the request path, sibling-path tarball lines, both GitLab shapes). One correctness issue, one test-isolation issue, and some tests that don't pin what they claim; details inline.

Behaviours the description claims that no test exercises:

• rule 3 with a non-.npmrc credential: registry token from bunfig/env/CLI + an .npmrc line on the registry's own key + a same-key tarball should carry the bunfig/CLI token, not the line's
• bun pm diff going through tarball_credentials
• the https→http downgrade refusal for a carried-over credential (only the permissive direction is tested)
• stripping an embedded credential from a default registry=http://host/api/:_authToken=S line, from $NPM_CONFIG_REGISTRY, and from bunfig's string form (only scoped .npmrc, --registry and the bunfig scoped-object form are covered)
• bun audit building its header from Scope::authorization

Pre-existing, FYI only: a registry URL with username-only userinfo and an explicit port (https://ci@host:8443/npm/) is mis-sliced by the fast parser, so its key never matches a .npmrc line.

[alii]

087434a takes the review: the unknown-marker scan is restricted to a :<word>= run at the very end of the path and markers match as spelled (one rule with .npmrc lines), the dead email entry is gone, the redaction tests run against an empty home, and the tests that passed on main now pin the behaviour (raw-registry rows on the registry's own origin with team-a and team-b keyed, swapped trees for the encoded separator, unpadded _auth, recorded publish requests, no-diagnostic assertions).

Tests added for the behaviours the body claimed without one: rule 3 with a bunfig token over a .npmrc line on the same key; bun pm diff sending a cdn host's own line; the https→http downgrade refusal for a carried-over env-registry token; the embedded :_authToken= strip from a default registry= line, $NPM_CONFIG_REGISTRY and bunfig's string form; bun audit sending _authToken and verbatim _auth from a .npmrc line.

[Jarred-Sumner]

Rust lints: the mordant failure was generic_body_not_generic going one over the baseline in src/runtime/server/RequestContext.rs (get_remote_socket_info, from main, not this diff — it is red on other branches too). f0b5a3b hoists that body into a non-generic free function as the lint prescribes rather than bumping the baseline.

[robobun]

One detail on the lint, for whoever reads the mordant output next. Mordant reports the findings past the baseline count in file order, so it names the last finding in the file, not the new one. The new finding is the block #41080 added to finalize_without_deinit (30 of its 373 statements use no type parameter). Reverting that hunk alone clears the report. f0b5a3b brings the file back to the baseline count, so the job is green on this branch.

#41130 against main removes the new block instead: the same nine lines sit in finalize_without_deinit and handle_reject_stream, and both now call one #[inline(never)] helper. It lowers the baseline entry to 7. It touches different lines than f0b5a3b, so both can land, and with it on main the other open PRs go green before this one merges.

[claude]

Code review found no issues

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[robobun]

Heads-up on a file overlap: #42139 rewrites test/cli/install/npmrc.test.ts (concurrent cases, exact output and lockfile assertions). It pins the current wording of two diagnostics that this PR changes: the empty _auth warning (received an empty string) and _password is not valid base64. Whichever PR lands second needs a rebase of that file. If this one lands first, I will rebase #42139 onto it.

[claude]

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