[Bug] CI infrequently fails with 403 error

[gordonmessmer]

GEF+GDB version

main branch

Operating System

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Describe the issue you encountered

CI jobs occasionally fail, reporting a 403 response to a request for the project's tags via api.github.com. This probably indicates that CI is exceeding the rate limit for that endpoint.

This might be fixed by authenticating the request with the value of GITHUB_TOKEN, with a header like "Authorization: Bearer $GITHUB_TOKEN"

https://docs.github.com/en/rest/authentication/authenticating-to-the-rest-api

The CI exception looks like:

_____________________ GefInstallScript.test_script_gef_sh ______________________
[gw2] linux -- Python 3.14.2 /usr/sbin/python3.14
self = <tests.scripts.test_gef.GefInstallScript testMethod=test_script_gef_sh>

    def setUp(self):
        url = "https://api.github.com/repos/hugsy/gef/tags"
        res = requests.get(url)
>       assert res.status_code == 200
E       assert 403 == 200
E        +  where 403 = <Response [403]>.status_code

Do you read the docs and look at previously closed issues/PRs for similar cases?

Yes

Architecture impacted

• X86
• X64
• ARM
• ARM64
• MIPS
• MIPS64
• PPC
• PPC64
• RISCV

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Minimalist test case

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Additional context?

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