An anonymous public HTTP(S) WebFetchProvider for the harness web capability seam (ctx.web). It retrieves a concrete URL and returns a status code plus bounded decoded content.

This is an implementation package: it registers a provider into ctx.web, it does not own the key and it does not register a model-facing tool. It is a function/namespace plugin (inject: ['web']). The separate dsh-web-fetch-approval-policy plugin consumes its public-destination preflight before asking users about restricted web_fetch calls.

Responsibility split

The provider owns safe resource retrieval: URL validation, public-address resolution and connection pinning, HTTP transport, redirect policy, a resource-backstop timeout, abort propagation, byte caps, charset decoding, content-type classification, and binary rejection. @deepseek-ai/dsh-tool-web owns presentation (HTML→markdown, truncation formatting). A non-2xx HTTP response is a result (status code + decoded body), not an error; WebError is reserved for failures to safely retrieve or represent the resource.

The provider's timeoutMs is a resource backstop for direct ctx.web.fetch() callers and misconfigured deployments, not the model-facing tool-call budget. dsh-tool-call-timeout-policy owns the web_fetch tool-call budget by arming exec.signal.

A shipping web-tool deployment sets the provider backstop above the tool budget, so model calls normally return TOOL_TIMEOUT. If the outer deadline reaches the provider first, the provider reports WEB_ABORTED and the outer policy replaces it with TOOL_TIMEOUT. WEB_FETCH_TIMEOUT therefore identifies a direct service caller whose provider budget elapsed.

Transport hygiene

Accepts only http: and https: URLs; rejects credentials in URLs (WEB_BLOCKED_URL) and over-long/malformed URLs (WEB_INVALID_URL).
Resolves each hostname once, rejects the complete answer set if any IPv4 or IPv6 destination is not public unicast (WEB_BLOCKED_URL), and pins the connection to that validated set. This blocks loopback, private, link-local, carrier-grade NAT, multicast, reserved, transition, translation, and private IPv4-mapped IPv6 destinations without a second DNS lookup.
Enforces a max URL length, response byte cap (WEB_FETCH_TOO_LARGE), decoded body character cap, timeout (WEB_FETCH_TIMEOUT), and redirect hop cap.
Propagates the caller's abort signal (WEB_ABORTED) into the network request and the streaming read.
Follows only same-origin redirects; each followed hop repeats public-address resolution and pinning, while a cross-origin redirect fails with WEB_REDIRECT_BLOCKED and requires a fresh tool call (the model of Claude Code's WebFetch).
Sends an explicit product User-Agent, never a browser disguise.
Rejects unsupported (e.g. binary) content types with WEB_UNSUPPORTED_CONTENT_TYPE.

preflightPublicFetchUrl() exposes the URL syntax and public-address check to permission consumers. Its result is advisory, not authorization: the provider always resolves again and pins the actual connection, so DNS changes between approval and execution cannot bypass the destination policy.

Config

Key	Default	Meaning
`maxUrlLength`	`2048`	Maximum accepted request URL length.
`maxResponseBytes`	`5_000_000`	Maximum response body size in bytes.
`maxBodyChars`	`100_000`	Maximum decoded body length in characters.
`timeoutMs`	`30_000`	Fetch timeout within Node's timer range — a resource backstop for direct `ctx.web.fetch()` callers, not the model-facing tool-call budget (that is `dsh-tool-call-timeout-policy`).
`maxRedirects`	`5`	Maximum same-origin redirect hops (`0` follows none).
`userAgent`	`deepseek-harness/…`	`User-Agent` header.

The numeric limits are validated at plugin construction: every cap except maxRedirects must be a positive finite number, and maxRedirects must be a non-negative integer. An invalid value throws rather than silently constructing a provider with nonsensical limits.

Model Experience

Indirectly, through dsh-tool-web, which places this provider's maxBodyChars-bounded decoded text or markdown-shaped HTML under its fetch-result wrapper and retains provider failures while redirects, headers, and transport mechanics remain hidden.

KV Cache effect

No direct invalidation; the named consumer owns any request-prefix changes.

Known Limitations and Deferred Work

Only textual content decodes — html/xhtml and text/*-plus-JSON/XML families; a missing Content-Type or any binary type throws WEB_UNSUPPORTED_CONTENT_TYPE, and text-extractable PDF decoding is named deferred work.
Charset comes only from the Content-Type header (UTF-8 default) — an HTML <meta charset> declaration is ignored, and a declared-but-unrecognized charset label throws rather than falling back.