GitHub Asset Acceleration (gh_proxy)

Overview

The gh_proxy mode turns Pavonis into a reverse proxy for GitHub file downloads, accelerating access to various GitHub resources. It is ideal for environments where direct access to GitHub is restricted.

Upstream hosts proxied:

Host	Supported Paths
github.com	Releases, Archive, Raw, Blob, git-upload-pack
raw.githubusercontent.com	Raw file content
gist.github.com	Gist pages
gist.githubusercontent.com	Gist raw files

Request Format

Client request paths follow the format:

/{full GitHub URL}

For example, if the gh_proxy site is bound to gh.example.com:

# Download a GitHub Release asset
https://gh.example.com/https://github.com/user/repo/releases/download/v1.0/app.tar.gz

# Access a Raw file
https://gh.example.com/https://raw.githubusercontent.com/user/repo/main/README.md

# Clone a repository (client must prefix URLs)
git clone https://gh.example.com/https://github.com/user/repo.git

Settings

Corresponding Go config type: GithubDownloadProxySettings

Field	Type	Default	Description
size_limit	int	0	Maximum response body size in bytes. 0 means unlimited. Requests exceeding the limit return 502
raw_text_url_rewrite	bool	false	Whether to rewrite GitHub URLs found inside Raw text file content so they point to this proxy. Requires self_url when enabled
repos_whitelist	[]string	[]	Repository allowlist. Requests for repos not on the list return 403
repos_blacklist	[]string	[]	Repository denylist. Requests for repos on the list return 403

Allow/Deny List Format

Each entry is in the form owner/repo, with * wildcards supported:

repos_whitelist:
  - 'torvalds/linux'      # exact match
  - 'torvalds/*'          # all repos under torvalds
  - '*/linux'             # all repos named linux

Configuration Examples

Basic Usage

sites:
  - id: ghproxy
    host: gh.example.com
    mode: gh_proxy

Limit Download Size

sites:
  - id: ghproxy
    host: gh.example.com
    mode: gh_proxy
    settings:
      size_limit: 104857600   # 100 MiB

Enable Raw Text URL Rewriting

When enabled, URLs pointing to raw.githubusercontent.com and gist.githubusercontent.com found inside text files returned by those hosts are automatically rewritten to point to this proxy.

sites:
  - id: ghproxy
    host: gh.example.com
    mode: gh_proxy
    self_url: https://gh.example.com
    settings:
      raw_text_url_rewrite: true

Configure an Allowlist

sites:
  - id: ghproxy
    host: gh.example.com
    mode: gh_proxy
    settings:
      repos_whitelist:
        - 'my-org/*'
        - 'trusted-user/specific-repo'