Unable to use built-in GitHub Token for avoiding rate limit issues on GHES #683
Description
Description:
For our enterprise we are facing "API rate limit exceeded ..." errors. I read the documentation how to avoid rate limit issues but for our enterprise using PAT is not feasible. I would like to use the GITHUB-TOKEN for authentication in my Github Workflow since this is the recommended way from GitHub. However, this is not possible at the moment resulting in a Bad Credentials error.
It seems that the AUTH variable variable is not usable in this case since only personal tokens are authenticated with Authorization: token <TOKEN> but for GITHUB-TOKEN one needs to use Authorization: <GITHUB_TOKEN> instead as can be seen in the workflow below in step read limit.
Action version:
4.6.1
Platform:
- Ubuntu
Runner type:
- Self-hosted
Tools version:
All
Repro steps:
On GHES, following this example I used the following workflow:
name: CI With GitHub Token
on: [workflow_dispatch]
jobs:
sample_build:
runs-on: [azure-runners]
steps:
- name: "rate limit"
run: |
curl \
-H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
-H "Authorization: $TOKEN" \
https://api.github.com/rate_limit
env:
TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
- name: Clear the tool cache
run: rm -rf /Users/runner/hostedtoolcache/Python/
- name: Set up Python
uses: actions/setup-python@v4.6.1
with:
token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
python-version: 3.9.12
- name: "rate limit"
run: |
curl \
-H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
-H "Authorization: $TOKEN" \
https://api.github.com/rate_limit
env:
TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
Expected behavior:
Installation of python version 3.9.12 and drop of rate limits from 60 to 58.
Actual behavior:
Failure with error Bad Credentials.