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  • Header::logged_value() (src/picohttp/lib.rs) prints Bearer [redacted] for Authorization / Proxy-Authorization and [redacted] for Cookie, Set-Cookie and x-amz-security-token. The >, < and curl -H printers use it.
  • The curl line masks the URL password and npm tokens (redacted_url_credentials, src/bun_core/fmt.rs). It keeps a UUID, so a URL with a resource id still runs.
  • Correct because Header's Display serves only the trace. The wire serializer is the separate Headers formatter.
  • Verified: test/js/web/fetch/fetch.test.ts -t redact (2 new cases, fail on 1.4.3). Also redacted-config-logs.test.ts and 12042.test.ts.

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  • Users who copy the curl line of a request with credentials must add them back.
  • Users who debug sessions with the trace now see [redacted] for Cookie / Set-Cookie, with no opt-out.
  • Still printed: query-string tokens (also X-Amz-Signature of a presigned S3 URL), key headers such as X-Api-Key, and the request body.
Notes
  • Cost for code that does not trace: nothing per call. Every call of print_request / print_response is behind verbose != HTTPVerboseLevel::None (src/http/lib.rs, h2_client/ClientSession.rs, h3_client/encode.rs), and the changed formatters have no other caller. Per process the change adds one Display impl and one bool field, and removes the inline block in print_request. No host function, no startup work.
  • URL on the curl line: an earlier revision used redacted_npm_url there, the same as the > line. It printed every UUID as ***, so the command stopped running for a URL such as /orders/<uuid> that has no credential at all. The curl line now masks only the password and npm_ tokens. The > line is unchanged from main and still masks a UUID. redacted_npm_url and its callers in bun install are unchanged.
  • Authorization keeps its scheme word: Bearer [redacted], Basic [redacted], AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 [redacted]. This is the format Robustness and input-handling pass across install, shell, TLS/QUIC, HTTP/3, SQL and crypto #37669 chose for the > line.
  • fetch("http://user:pw@host/") derives a Basic header from the URL. The trace prints it as Authorization: Basic [redacted].
  • The request body (--data-raw for json / form / text bodies) is left as is. It is documented in debugger.mdx, and the docs now say that credentials are redacted and the body is not.
  • Generic key headers (X-Api-Key, X-Auth-Token, Private-Token) and query-string values are not redacted. For headers the list is one constant (LoggedHeaderValue::SECRET_HEADERS) if more names are wanted. Query-string credentials (?token=, the X-Amz-* values of a presigned URL) need a decision on which parameter names count, so they are not in this change.
  • A folded continuation line (picohttpparser reports it with an empty name) prints as [redacted], because the header it continues is not known at that point. Response::parse_parts rejects a folded response before the trace prints it, so this is a fail-safe only.
  • http: escape control characters in the verbose request/response trace #38673 (escape control characters in the trace) and http: restore the "> " and "[fetch] " prefixes on verbose trace request lines #38691 (restore the > prefixes) touch the same two functions. Neither redacts the curl line or these headers. Whichever lands second needs a small rebase.
  • Rebased onto main bf42a525d5 on 2026-09-30 with no conflict.
  • Suites run on the debug build: fetch.test.ts -t redact (3 pass, the 2 new cases fail on 1.4.3), test/cli/install/redacted-config-logs.test.ts (16 pass), test/regression/issue/12042.test.ts. A full fetch.test.ts run on the first revision had only the failures that main has in this container (public HTTPS hosts, IPv6, root file permissions, 5 s timeouts under ASAN).
  • Self-reviewed: checked every Display user of picohttp::Header, the HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 trace callers, and the open PRs on the same printers.

no test proof · iteration 3 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/js/web/fetch/fetch.test.ts

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Verbose fetch logging and generated curl commands now redact selected header values and URL credentials. Tests cover standard and curl output. Documentation describes the redaction behavior.

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Verbose fetch redaction

Layer / File(s) Summary
Redacted header and URL formatting
src/bun_core/fmt.rs, src/picohttp/lib.rs, src/http/lib.rs
Header formatting redacts selected values while preserving authorization schemes. URL formatting masks passwords and npm tokens, with UUID masking controlled by the formatter. Request logs and generated curl commands use redacted formatting.
Redaction validation and documentation
test/js/web/fetch/fetch.test.ts, docs/runtime/debugger.mdx
Tests cover standard and curl verbose output, including sensitive headers, URL credentials, response cookies, and visible non-sensitive content. Documentation describes redaction and notes that request bodies remain fully logged.

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Selected credentials are redacted, but custom header secrets and query-string tokens can still appear in verbose output. Narrow the documentation guarantee so users do not mistake these logs for fully sanitized output; the remaining risk is bounded.

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Updated 7:42 PM PT - Sep 30th, 2026

✅ @robobun, your commit 934c9cf2e3624d76020e55b59012e7881dc95051 passed in Build #122104! 🎉


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Status: ready for review.

Reproduced on bun 1.4.3 and on main before the change:

BUN_CONFIG_VERBOSE_FETCH=curl bun -e 'using s = Bun.serve({port:0, fetch:()=>new Response("ok")}); await fetch(`http://user:pw-S3CRET@127.0.0.1:${s.port}/`, {headers:{Authorization:"Bearer A-S3CRET", Cookie:"sid=C-S3CRET", "x-amz-security-token":"T-S3CRET"}})' 2>&1 | grep -c S3CRET
# before: 3 lines carry a secret (the curl line has all four, the > block has Cookie and the token)
# after: 0

The two new cases in test/js/web/fetch/fetch.test.ts (-t redact) fail on 1.4.3 and pass on this branch.

With the change, the curl line for a URL with a password, a UUID and an npm token reads:

curl --http1.1 "http://user:*********@127.0.0.1:36855/orders/550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000?t=***" -H "Authorization: Basic [redacted]" ...

The password and the npm token are masked. The UUID stays, so a URL with a resource id still runs.

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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

Beyond the inline findings, I also checked that the wire serializer is unaffected — Headers Display (src/picohttp/lib.rs:620) still writes header.value() directly, and the new test's expect(stdout).toBe("Bearer ${secrets.authorization}\n") proves the server received the real token. The single-Header Display impl is only reached from the verbose-trace printers.

Extended reasoning...

The main correctness risk with moving redaction into Header's Display impl would be accidentally redacting the on-wire request itself. I verified this is not the case: the HTTP/1 request writer uses the separate Headers<'_> Display impl at src/picohttp/lib.rs:620-632, which formats BStr::new(header.value()) directly and never goes through logged_value(). The new test independently confirms this by asserting the child's stdout is the unredacted Bearer auth-sekret echoed back from the local server. The two inline findings (docs under-describing what redacted_npm_url masks, and the hand-rolled matches duplicating strings::eql_any_case_insensitive_ascii) stand on their own; nothing further to add.

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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

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In `@src/picohttp/lib.rs`:
- Line 176: Update the header formatting paths, including Header::fmt and the
fallback around name, so folded continuation lines cannot expose sensitive
header values; track the preceding header’s sensitivity or redact all
continuations consistently with logged_value(). Add response regressions
covering raw folded Set-Cookie and Authorization headers.

In `@test/js/web/fetch/fetch.test.ts`:
- Line 3653: Replace the for...of mode loop with a describe.each matrix over
["1", "curl"], naming each suite BUN_CONFIG_VERBOSE_FETCH=%s and passing mode
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LGTM — the per-line header assertions in ec08f92 now check Cookie and Set-Cookie independently, which was the last open point.

Confirmed the wire serializer (Display for Headers, src/picohttp/lib.rs:611) still writes header.value() raw, so redaction is confined to the trace/curl output; the old inline redaction in print_request is deleted; docs now enumerate everything redacted_npm_url masks.

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Overview

The PR centralizes credential redaction for BUN_CONFIG_VERBOSE_FETCH output by adding Header::logged_value() in src/picohttp/lib.rs and routing Display for Header, HeaderCurlFormatter, and RequestCurlFormatter's URL through it (and redacted_npm_url). The per-callsite redaction in src/http/lib.rs:print_request is removed. Coverage now includes Cookie, Set-Cookie, and x-amz-security-token in addition to the two auth headers, and applies to the > request lines, < response lines, and the emitted curl command. A docs paragraph and a two-mode test suite in fetch.test.ts accompany the change.

Security risks

None introduced. This is a hardening change to debug/trace output — it strictly reduces credential exposure in logs. The critical correctness question was whether Display for Header is reachable from the wire serializer; I re-verified that Display for Headers<'_> (the request serializer at src/picohttp/lib.rs:611-623) still writes BStr::new(header.value()) directly and is untouched, so real HTTP requests carry the unredacted values. No auth, crypto, or permission logic is modified.

Level of scrutiny

Moderate. The diff is small (~120 lines), mechanical, and follows the REVIEW.md guidance of moving a guard into the shared helper so all three printers (request trace, response trace, curl line) get it, then deleting the superseded per-callsite copy. I have reviewed three prior pushes of this PR; each round's feedback (docs completeness on URL masking, using eql_any_case_insensitive_ascii instead of a hand-rolled loop, and independent Cookie/Set-Cookie assertions) was addressed in the subsequent commit.

Other factors

Tests follow harness conventions: port: 0, bunExe()/bunEnv spread, await using, Promise.all draining pipes, exit-code asserted last, describe.concurrent, CRLF-safe line splitting, and both BUN_CONFIG_VERBOSE_FETCH=1 and =curl covered with positive (redacted lines present) and negative (raw secrets absent) checks plus a non-redacted control header. No outstanding third-party CHANGES_REQUESTED reviews; the two github-actions inline comments were followed by a6af527 (doc-comment trimming). Exit reason was dry_streak.

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On the folded-header finding: that path is not reachable through the trace today. Response::parse_parts (src/picohttp/lib.rs, the RFC 9112 section 5.2 check) rejects any response that contains an obs-fold continuation with Malformed_HTTP_Response before a < line is printed, and request headers come from Headers, which cannot hold CR/LF. A raw-socket probe that answers with a folded Set-Cookie confirms it: the fetch fails and nothing from the continuation reaches stderr, on 1.4.3 and on this branch. So there is no way to write a folded-response regression through fetch().

bd427bc still makes the printer fail safe: a nameless continuation line now prints as [redacted] through the same logged_value() path, so the trace no longer has a branch that formats header.value() directly.

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BUN_CONFIG_VERBOSE_FETCH=curl printed Authorization and
Proxy-Authorization raw, one line above the redacted request block.
Cookie, Set-Cookie and x-amz-security-token were printed raw in both
modes, and the curl line carried the URL password.

Move the redaction into one formatter on picohttp::Header. Every
verbose printer (the > and < header lines and the curl line) uses it.
The curl line masks the URL the same way the request line does.
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Rebased onto main bf42a52 for a fresh CI run (was bd427bc, now bfa137a). There was no conflict and the diff is unchanged: the added and removed lines are the same as before.

Checked on a local debug build of bf42a52 with this branch and 12 other rebased branches merged in: the 2 verbose fetch logging redacts credentials tests of fetch.test.ts pass.

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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

Beyond the inline findings, I also checked that routing redaction through Header's Display cannot reach the wire: the on-wire serializer is the separate Headers formatter in src/picohttp/lib.rs (still writes header.value() raw), and every {}/.curl() use of Header resolves to print_request/print_response (including the h2/h3 callers), so only the trace output changes.

Extended reasoning...

The change moves verbose-fetch credential redaction from print_request in src/http/lib.rs into a LoggedHeaderValue Display adapter in src/picohttp/lib.rs, extends it to Cookie/Set-Cookie/x-amz-security-token, routes the curl -H flags and response lines through it, and wraps the curl URL in redacted_npm_url; it touches credential exposure in debug logging. The prior nits (duplicate matches helper, docs enumeration of UUID/npm-token masking, Cookie vs Set-Cookie assertion overlap) are addressed in the current code. Two confirmed findings on the URL redaction at src/picohttp/lib.rs:390 are posted inline, so approval is not appropriate.

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The curl line used redacted_npm_url, which also prints every UUID as
`***`. A UUID in a fetch URL is usually a resource id, and the command
no longer ran for such a URL. Add redacted_url_credentials, which masks
the password and npm tokens and keeps a UUID, and use it for the curl
line. The > request line is unchanged.

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