Commit d7640584 authored by Dominic Couture's avatar Dominic Couture Committed by Nick Gaskill

Modify pypi documentation for dependency confusion

parent b727d9b0
......@@ -317,18 +317,24 @@ more than once, a `404 Bad Request` error occurs.
To install the latest version of a package, use the following command:
```shell
pip install --extra-index-url https://__token__:<personal_access_token>@gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/<project_id>/packages/pypi/simple --no-deps <package_name>
pip install --index-url https://__token__:<personal_access_token>@gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/<project_id>/packages/pypi/simple --no-deps <package_name>
```
- `<package_name>` is the package name.
- `<personal_access_token>` is a personal access token with the `read_api` scope.
- `<project_id>` is the project ID.
In these commands, you can use `--extra-index-url` instead of `--index-url`. However, using
`--extra-index-url` makes you vulnerable to dependency confusion attacks because it checks the PyPi
repository for the package before it checks the custom repository. `--extra-index-url` adds the
provided URL as an additional registry which the client checks if the package is present.
`--index-url` tells the client to check for the package on the provided URL only.
If you were following the guide and want to install the
`MyPyPiPackage` package, you can run:
```shell
pip install mypypipackage --no-deps --extra-index-url https://__token__:<personal_access_token>@gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/<your_project_id>/packages/pypi/simple
pip install mypypipackage --no-deps --index-url https://__token__:<personal_access_token>@gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/<your_project_id>/packages/pypi/simple
```
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