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manfred: untrusted hostname "${parsed.hostname}" — must be $

Error message

manfred: untrusted hostname "${parsed.hostname}" — must be ${TRUSTED_HOST}

What it means

Third guard in assertManfredUrl: parsed.hostname must equal TRUSTED_HOST ('www.getmanfred.com'). Any other host is rejected. This is the SSRF allowlist — it prevents a config or construction error from directing the fetch at an off-brand or attacker-controlled host. The offending hostname is interpolated into the message.

Source

Thrown at providers/manfred.mjs:37

// Wire in via a `job_boards:` entry with `provider: manfred`.

const FEED_BASE = 'https://www.getmanfred.com/api/v2/public/offers';
const TRUSTED_HOST = 'www.getmanfred.com';
const OFFER_BASE = 'https://www.getmanfred.com/ofertas-empleo';
const VALID_LANGS = ['EN', 'ES'];
const DEFAULT_LANG = 'EN';

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

/** Resolve the feed language: `lang` on the entry, uppercased, else EN. */
export function resolveLang(entry) {
  const raw = typeof entry?.lang === 'string' ? entry.lang.trim().toUpperCase() : '';
  return VALID_LANGS.includes(raw) ? raw : DEFAULT_LANG;
}

// The feed reports currency as the SYMBOL, not an ISO code, and the observed
// values include a narrow-no-break-space variant of the euro sign. scan.mjs's
// salary_filter compares currencies case-insensitively as plain strings, so a
// symbol would never match a user's `currency: EUR` — map to ISO, and drop the
// field entirely rather than guess when the symbol is unknown.
const CURRENCY_BY_SYMBOL = new Map([
  ['€', 'EUR'],
  ['£', 'GBP'],

View on GitHub (pinned to 9b17a8ac97)

Solutions

1. Use exactly https://www.getmanfred.com/... (include the www).
2. If the host legitimately moved, verify the new official host and update TRUSTED_HOST in providers/manfred.mjs.
3. Audit how the URL was constructed (apex vs www is the most common slip).

Example fix

// before
feedUrl = 'https://getmanfred.com/api/v2/public/offers'

// after
feedUrl = 'https://www.getmanfred.com/api/v2/public/offers'

import { URL } from 'node:url';
const TRUSTED = new Set(['www.getmanfred.com']);
export function isTrustedManfredHost(value) {
  try { return TRUSTED.has(new URL(value).hostname); } catch { return false; }
}

/** @param {string} url */
function isManfredHost(url) {
  try { return new URL(url).hostname === 'www.getmanfred.com'; } catch { return false; }
}

try {
  assertManfredUrl(url);
} catch (err) {
  if (err.message.includes('untrusted hostname')) console.error(`[security] ${err.message}`);
  throw err;
}

When it happens

Trigger: An HTTPS URL whose hostname is not 'www.getmanfred.com' — e.g. getmanfred.com (apex, missing www.), api.getmanfred.com, www.getmanfred.com.evil.com, or an unrelated host.

Common situations: The apex domain (getmanfred.com) was used instead of www; a subdomain typo; a copied URL pointed at a different domain; the trusted host genuinely changed and the constant needs updating.

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