Harden bootstrapper: resolve releases via redirect, not the rate-limited API - #333
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The bootstrapper resolved the latest release by calling
api.github.com/releases/latest, which is rate-limited to 60 requests/hour per IP when unauthenticated. Shared CI and corporate egress IPs exhaust that quota and get HTTP 403, so installs andself updatefail intermittently.It now resolves the latest tag via the
github.com/releases/latestweb redirect instead, which is not subject to that quota and needs no token. All HTTP GETs also gain a small retry with backoff.Verified against all three callers (install,
self update, and the version-check notification): the return still carriestag_nameandpublished_at, so nothing downstream breaks. The change stays standard-library-only and Python 3.9+, per the bootstrapper's constraints.