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jobspresso: URL must use HTTPS

Error message

jobspresso: URL must use HTTPS: ${url}

What it means

assertJobspressoUrl requires the https: protocol. Any URL that parses but uses http:// (or another scheme) is rejected — Jobspresso's feed is only fetched over TLS to protect request integrity and prevent downgrade/SSRF variants. This check runs after parseability and before the hostname allowlist.

Solutions

  1. Change the scheme to https:// in the portals.yml entry
  2. Fix any underlying TLS problem instead of downgrading to http
  3. Do not point this provider at non-https mirrors — it hard-requires TLS

Example fix

// before
assertJobspressoUrl('http://jobspresso.co/?feed=job_feed');
// after
assertJobspressoUrl('https://jobspresso.co/?feed=job_feed');
Defensive patterns

Strategy: validation

Validate before calling

function isHttpsJobspresso(url) {
  try { return new URL(url).protocol === 'https:'; } catch { return false; }
}

Type guard

function requireHttps(u) {
  const p = URL.canParse(u) ? new URL(u) : null;
  if (!p || p.protocol !== 'https:') throw new TypeError(`not https: ${u}`);
  return p;
}

Try / catch

try {
  assertJobspressoUrl(u);
} catch (e) {
  if (/must use HTTPS/.test(e.message)) {
    console.error('Jobspresso feed requires https:// — fix the scheme in portals.yml');
    return [];
  }
  throw e;
}

Prevention

When it happens

Trigger: Calling assertJobspressoUrl with 'http://jobspresso.co/?feed=job_feed' or any other non-https scheme that parses as a valid URL.

Common situations: http:// pasted into the job_boards config; an internal http-only staging mirror configured for the provider; tooling that strips the 's' during config templating.

Understand the failure class

Background: "Invalid URL" errors: why new URL(), URI.parse, and reqwest::Url reject your string — missing scheme, whitespace, and bad path format — this error's family across 39 libraries.

Related errors

AI-assisted analysis of santifer/career-ops@aac998c7ed (2026-09-16). Data as JSON: /api/errors/827ca5e7a356d850. Report an issue: GitHub.

Appendix: source

Thrown at providers/jobspresso.mjs:24

// (https://jobspresso.co/?feed=job_feed). The feed is public, no-auth,
// and XML, so it is parsed in-process with the same tiny tag extractor
// approach as providers/personio.mjs rather than adding an XML dependency.
//
// Wire in via a `job_boards:` entry with `provider: jobspresso`.

const FEED_URL = 'https://jobspresso.co/?feed=job_feed';
const TRUSTED_HOST = 'jobspresso.co';

/** @param {string} url */
function assertJobspressoUrl(url) {
  let parsed;
  try {
    parsed = new URL(url);
  } catch {
    throw new Error(`jobspresso: invalid URL: ${url}`);
  }
  if (parsed.protocol !== "https:")
    throw new Error(`jobspresso: URL must use HTTPS: ${url}`);
  if (parsed.hostname !== TRUSTED_HOST) {
    throw new Error(
      `jobspresso: untrusted hostname "${parsed.hostname}" - must be ${TRUSTED_HOST}`,
    );
  }
  return url;
}

// NaN-safe Date.parse - `|| undefined` would also coerce a valid epoch 0.
function toEpochMs(value) {
  if (!value) return undefined;
  const parsed = Date.parse(value);
  return Number.isNaN(parsed) ? undefined : parsed;
}

/** @type {Provider} */
export default {
  id: "jobspresso",

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