Require http(s) protocol for chat transport baseURL

Co-authored-by: Eric Allam <eric@trigger.dev>

docs/tasks/streams.mdx

@@ -655,7 +655,8 @@ If `onError` is omitted, reconnect still returns `null` and continues without ca
 
 `baseURL` supports optional path prefixes and trailing slashes; both trigger and stream URLs
 are normalized consistently, surrounding whitespace is trimmed before normalization, and
-the resulting value must not be empty. The value must also be a valid absolute URL.
+the resulting value must not be empty. The value must also be a valid absolute URL using
+the `http` or `https` protocol.
 
 For richer TypeScript ergonomics in app code, `@trigger.dev/ai` also exports:
 

packages/ai/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -23,3 +23,4 @@
 - Added surrounding-whitespace trimming for `baseURL` before endpoint normalization.
 - Added explicit validation that `baseURL` is non-empty after normalization.
 - Added explicit validation that `baseURL` is a valid absolute URL.
+- Added explicit validation that `baseURL` uses `http` or `https`.

packages/ai/README.md

@@ -162,6 +162,7 @@ both cleanup steps (`set` inactive state and `delete`) even if one of them fails
 - Surrounding whitespace is trimmed before normalization.
 - `baseURL` must not be empty after trimming/normalization.
 - `baseURL` must be a valid absolute URL.
+- `baseURL` must use the `http` or `https` protocol.
 
 ## `ai.tool(...)` example
 

packages/ai/src/chatTransport.test.ts

@@ -642,6 +642,17 @@ describe("TriggerChatTransport", function () {
     }).toThrowError("baseURL must be a valid absolute URL");
   });
 
+  it("throws when baseURL protocol is not http or https", function () {
+    expect(function () {
+      new TriggerChatTransport({
+        task: "chat-task",
+        accessToken: "pk_trigger",
+        baseURL: "ftp://example.com",
+        stream: "chat-stream",
+      });
+    }).toThrowError("baseURL must use http or https protocol");
+  });
+
   it("combines path prefixes with run and stream URL encoding", async function () {
     let observedTriggerPath: string | undefined;
     let observedStreamPath: string | undefined;
@@ -2778,6 +2789,17 @@ describe("TriggerChatTransport", function () {
     }).toThrowError("baseURL must be a valid absolute URL");
   });
 
+  it("throws from factory when baseURL protocol is not http or https", function () {
+    expect(function () {
+      createTriggerChatTransport({
+        task: "chat-task",
+        accessToken: "pk_trigger",
+        baseURL: "ftp://example.com",
+        stream: "chat-stream",
+      });
+    }).toThrowError("baseURL must use http or https protocol");
+  });
+
   it("continues streaming when onTriggeredRun callback throws", async function () {
     let callbackCalled = false;
     const errors: TriggerChatTransportError[] = [];

packages/ai/src/chatTransport.ts

@@ -466,12 +466,20 @@ function normalizeBaseUrl(baseURL: string) {
     throw new Error("baseURL must not be empty");
   }
 
+  let parsedBaseUrl: URL;
   try {
-    new URL(normalizedBaseUrl);
+    parsedBaseUrl = new URL(normalizedBaseUrl);
   } catch {
     throw new Error("baseURL must be a valid absolute URL");
   }
 
+  if (
+    parsedBaseUrl.protocol !== "http:" &&
+    parsedBaseUrl.protocol !== "https:"
+  ) {
+    throw new Error("baseURL must use http or https protocol");
+  }
+
   return normalizedBaseUrl;
 }