Fix HTTP 451 DMCA and 403 TOS handling regression (#487)#488
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Fix HTTP 451 DMCA and 403 TOS handling regression (#487)#488josegonzalez merged 1 commit intojosegonzalez:masterfrom
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The DMCA handling added in PR josegonzalez#454 had a bug: make_request_with_retry() raises HTTPError before retrieve_data() could check the status code via getcode(), making the case 451 handler dead code. This also affected HTTP 403 TOS violations (e.g. jumoog/MagiskOnWSA). Fix by catching HTTPError in retrieve_data() and converting 451 and blocked 403 responses (identified by "block" key in response body) to RepositoryUnavailableError. Non-block 403s (permissions, scopes) still propagate as HTTPError. Also handle RepositoryUnavailableError in retrieve_repositories() for the --repository case. Rewrote tests to mock urlopen (not make_request_with_retry) to exercise the real code path that was previously untested. Closes josegonzalez#487
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Fixes issues raised in #487
Found a bug that made the HTTP 451 DMCA handling from #454 dead code. make_request_with_retry() raises HTTPError before retrieve_data() ever checks the status code via getcode(), so the case 451 handler was never reached. The same issue affected HTTP 403 TOS-blocked repositories.
Fixed by catching HTTPError around the make_request_with_retry() call in retrieve_data() and converting HTTP 451 and TOS-block 403s (distinguished by the "block" key in the response body) into RepositoryUnavailableError. Also added a catch in retrieve_repositories() for the single-repo fetch path (--repository flag), which returns [] with a warning instead of crashing.
Improved by narrowing the 403 handler to only convert responses with a "block" key (TOS violations), leaving permission-denied and rate-limit 403s unchanged. Renamed dmca_url to legal_url throughout since the attribute now covers both DMCA and TOS cases. Removed the dead match/case statement and replaced it with a guard assertion.
Confirmed by updating tests in test_http_451.py to mock urlopen (not make_request_with_retry) so they exercise the real error path, and adding tests for 403 TOS blocks, non-block 403 pass-through, rate-limit 403 retry behavior, and retrieve_repositories graceful handling. Also ran live tests against joskwanten/msx-picoverse (DMCA 451), jumoog/MagiskOnWSA (TOS 403), iamrodos/Emu (normal private repo), full joskwanten user backup, and a non-existent repo (404) to confirm all scenarios work correctly.