fix(api-block): stop spoofing a browser fingerprint on outbound HTTP requests (#5496)

* fix(api-block): stop spoofing a browser fingerprint on outbound HTTP requests

getDefaultHeaders() sent a Chrome User-Agent, a Referer pointing at Sim's
own app, and mismatched Sec-Ch-Ua client hints on every API block request.
Atlassian's Jira/Confluence Cloud REST API (and other browser-aware
anti-CSRF/bot-defense layers) reject requests carrying a browser
User-Agent with 403 "XSRF check failed", even with a valid Basic-auth
header and X-Atlassian-Token: no-check set.

Default headers now identify honestly as Sim, matching how other HTTP
clients (curl, Postman, axios) behave. User-supplied headers still
override any default.

* fix(testing): sync shared tool-tester mock headers with new defaults

createMockHeaders in the shared @sim/testing tool-tester builder still
hardcoded the old Chrome UA / Referer / Sec-Ch-Ua fallback values. It was
unreachable in current tests but would silently diverge from production
getDefaultHeaders() for any future test hitting its fallback path.

Author: waleedlatif1

apps/sim/tools/http/request.test.ts

@@ -119,28 +119,29 @@ describe('HTTP Request Tool', () => {
       expect(headers2['content-type']).toBe('text/plain')
     })
 
-    it('should set dynamic Referer header correctly', async () => {
-      const originalWindow = global.window
-      Object.defineProperty(global, 'window', {
-        value: {
-          location: {
-            origin: 'https://sim.ai',
-          },
-        },
-        writable: true,
+    it('should not set a default Referer header', async () => {
+      tester.setup(mockHttpResponses.simple)
+
+      await tester.execute({
+        url: 'https://api.example.com',
+        method: 'GET',
       })
 
+      const fetchCall = (global.fetch as any).mock.calls[0]
+      expect(fetchCall[1].headers.Referer).toBeUndefined()
+    })
+
+    it('should respect a user-provided Referer header', async () => {
       tester.setup(mockHttpResponses.simple)
 
       await tester.execute({
         url: 'https://api.example.com',
         method: 'GET',
+        headers: [{ cells: { Key: 'Referer', Value: 'https://custom.example.com' } }],
       })
 
       const fetchCall = (global.fetch as any).mock.calls[0]
-      expect(fetchCall[1].headers.Referer).toBe('https://sim.ai')
-
-      global.window = originalWindow
+      expect(fetchCall[1].headers.Referer).toBe('https://custom.example.com')
     })
 
     it('should set dynamic Host header correctly', async () => {
@@ -193,16 +194,6 @@ describe('HTTP Request Tool', () => {
     it('should apply default and dynamic headers to requests', async () => {
       tester.setup(mockHttpResponses.simple)
 
-      const originalWindow = global.window
-      Object.defineProperty(global, 'window', {
-        value: {
-          location: {
-            origin: 'https://sim.ai',
-          },
-        },
-        writable: true,
-      })
-
       await tester.execute({
         url: 'https://api.example.com/data',
         method: 'GET',
@@ -212,15 +203,13 @@ describe('HTTP Request Tool', () => {
       const headers = fetchCall[1].headers
 
       expect(headers.Host).toBe('api.example.com')
-      expect(headers.Referer).toBe('https://sim.ai')
-      expect(headers['User-Agent']).toContain('Mozilla')
+      expect(headers.Referer).toBeUndefined()
+      expect(headers['User-Agent']).toBe('Sim/1.0 (+https://sim.ai)')
       expect(headers.Accept).toBe('*/*')
       expect(headers['Accept-Encoding']).toContain('gzip')
       expect(headers['Cache-Control']).toBe('no-cache')
       expect(headers.Connection).toBe('keep-alive')
-      expect(headers['Sec-Ch-Ua']).toContain('Chromium')
-
-      global.window = originalWindow
+      expect(headers['Sec-Ch-Ua']).toBeUndefined()
     })
 
     it('should handle successful GET requests', async () => {
@@ -434,16 +423,6 @@ describe('HTTP Request Tool', () => {
     it('should apply all default headers correctly', async () => {
       tester.setup(mockHttpResponses.simple)
 
-      const originalWindow = global.window
-      Object.defineProperty(global, 'window', {
-        value: {
-          location: {
-            origin: 'https://sim.ai',
-          },
-        },
-        writable: true,
-      })
-
       await tester.execute({
         url: 'https://api.example.com/data',
         method: 'GET',
@@ -452,18 +431,16 @@ describe('HTTP Request Tool', () => {
       const fetchCall = (global.fetch as any).mock.calls[0]
       const headers = fetchCall[1].headers
 
-      expect(headers['User-Agent']).toMatch(/Mozilla\/5\.0.*Chrome.*Safari/)
+      expect(headers['User-Agent']).toBe('Sim/1.0 (+https://sim.ai)')
       expect(headers.Accept).toBe('*/*')
       expect(headers['Accept-Encoding']).toBe('gzip, deflate, br')
       expect(headers['Cache-Control']).toBe('no-cache')
       expect(headers.Connection).toBe('keep-alive')
-      expect(headers['Sec-Ch-Ua']).toMatch(/Chromium.*Not-A\.Brand/)
-      expect(headers['Sec-Ch-Ua-Mobile']).toBe('?0')
-      expect(headers['Sec-Ch-Ua-Platform']).toBe('"macOS"')
-      expect(headers.Referer).toBe('https://sim.ai')
+      expect(headers['Sec-Ch-Ua']).toBeUndefined()
+      expect(headers['Sec-Ch-Ua-Mobile']).toBeUndefined()
+      expect(headers['Sec-Ch-Ua-Platform']).toBeUndefined()
+      expect(headers.Referer).toBeUndefined()
       expect(headers.Host).toBe('api.example.com')
-
-      global.window = originalWindow
     })
 
     it('should allow overriding default headers', async () => {

apps/sim/tools/http/utils.ts

@@ -1,9 +1,14 @@
-import { getBaseUrl } from '@/lib/core/utils/urls'
 import { transformTable } from '@/tools/shared/table'
 import type { TableRow } from '@/tools/types'
 
 /**
- * Creates a set of default headers used in HTTP requests
+ * Creates a set of default headers used in HTTP requests.
+ *
+ * Identifies as Sim rather than impersonating a browser. Browser-fingerprint
+ * headers (Referer, Sec-Ch-Ua*) trip anti-CSRF/bot-defense heuristics on
+ * providers like Atlassian, which reject REST calls carrying a browser
+ * User-Agent regardless of X-Atlassian-Token. See
+ * https://support.atlassian.com/jira/kb/rest-api-calls-with-a-browser-user-agent-header-may-fail-csrf-checks/
  * @param customHeaders Additional user-provided headers to include
  * @param url Target URL for the request (used for setting Host header)
  * @returns Record of HTTP headers
@@ -13,16 +18,11 @@ export const getDefaultHeaders = (
   url?: string
 ): Record<string, string> => {
   const headers: Record<string, string> = {
-    'User-Agent':
-      'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/135.0.0.0 Safari/537.36',
+    'User-Agent': 'Sim/1.0 (+https://sim.ai)',
     Accept: '*/*',
     'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate, br',
     'Cache-Control': 'no-cache',
     Connection: 'keep-alive',
-    Referer: getBaseUrl(),
-    'Sec-Ch-Ua': 'Chromium;v=91, Not-A.Brand;v=99',
-    'Sec-Ch-Ua-Mobile': '?0',
-    'Sec-Ch-Ua-Platform': '"macOS"',
     ...customHeaders,
   }
 

packages/testing/src/builders/tool-tester.builder.ts

@@ -43,16 +43,11 @@ export interface ToolResponse {
  */
 const createMockHeaders = (customHeaders: Record<string, string> = {}) => {
   return {
-    'User-Agent':
-      'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/135.0.0.0 Safari/537.36',
+    'User-Agent': 'Sim/1.0 (+https://sim.ai)',
     Accept: '*/*',
     'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate, br',
     'Cache-Control': 'no-cache',
     Connection: 'keep-alive',
-    Referer: 'https://www.sim.ai',
-    'Sec-Ch-Ua': 'Chromium;v=91, Not-A.Brand;v=99',
-    'Sec-Ch-Ua-Mobile': '?0',
-    'Sec-Ch-Ua-Platform': '"macOS"',
     ...customHeaders,
   }
 }