While working on https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/pull/6389 I discovered
we never checked `cache.get_url` here, which is wrong — though I don't
think it had much effect in practice since the realm would typically
match first. The main problem is that when we call `get_url` later we
hard-code the username to `None` because we assume we checked up here
with the username if present.
## Summary
We retain them if you use `--raw-sources`, but otherwise they're
removed. We still respect them in the subsequent `uv.lock` via an
in-process store.
Closes#6056.
In #2976 I made some changes that led to regressions:
- We stopped tracking URLs that we had not seen credentials for in the
cache
- This means the cache no longer returns a value to indicate we've seen
a realm before
- We stopped seeding the cache with URLs
- Combined with the above, this means we no longer had a list of
locations that we would never attempt to fetch credentials for
- We added caching of credentials found on requests
- Previously the cache was only populated from the seed or credentials
found in the netrc or keyring
- This meant that the cache was populated for locations that we
previously did not cache, i.e. GitHub artifacts(?)
Unfortunately this unveiled problems with the granularity of our cache.
We cache credentials per realm (roughly the hostname) but some realms
have mixed authentication modes i.e. different credentials per URL or
URLs that do not require credentials. Applying credentials to a URL that
does not require it can lead to a failed request, as seen in #3123 where
GitHub throws a 401 when receiving credentials.
To resolve this, the cache is expanded to supporting caching at two
levels:
- URL, cached URL must be a prefix of the request URL
- Realm, exact match required
When we don't have URL-level credentials cached, we attempt the request
without authentication first. On failure, we'll search for realm-level
credentials or fetch credentials from external services. This avoids
providing credentials to new URLs unless we know we need them.
Closes https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/3123
Zanie Blue