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Clone with Personal Access Token fails with HTTP 500

Summary

Git clone over https with a personal access token results in a 500

Steps to reproduce

  1. Create a Personal Access Token (PAT)
  2. Clone existing URL using https://igmar:PAT@gitlab.url.com/group/project.git

Example Project

Not relevant, happens on all repo's

What is the current bug behavior?

HTTP 500 error

What is the expected correct behavior?

Cloned GIT repo

Relevant logs and/or screenshots

Completed 500 Internal Server Error in 40ms (ActiveRecord: 6.1ms)

JWT::DecodeError (Nil JSON web token):
  lib/gitlab/workhorse.rb:197:in `decode_jwt'
  lib/gitlab/workhorse.rb:193:in `verify_api_request!'
  app/controllers/concerns/workhorse_request.rb:11:in `verify_workhorse_api!'
  lib/gitlab/i18n.rb:51:in `with_locale'
  lib/gitlab/i18n.rb:57:in `with_user_locale'
  app/controllers/application_controller.rb:362:in `set_locale'
  lib/gitlab/middleware/multipart.rb:97:in `call'
  lib/gitlab/request_profiler/middleware.rb:14:in `call'
  lib/gitlab/middleware/go.rb:17:in `call'
  lib/gitlab/etag_caching/middleware.rb:11:in `call'
  lib/gitlab/middleware/read_only/controller.rb:38:in `call'
  lib/gitlab/middleware/read_only.rb:16:in `call'
  lib/gitlab/request_context.rb:18:in `call'
  lib/gitlab/metrics/requests_rack_middleware.rb:27:in `call'
  lib/gitlab/middleware/release_env.rb:10:in `call'

Output of checks

Checking GitLab ... Finished

Results of GitLab environment info

System information
System:		CentOS 7.5.1804
Current User:	git
Using RVM:	no
Ruby Version:	2.4.4p296
Gem Version:	2.7.6
Bundler Version:1.16.2
Rake Version:	12.3.1
Redis Version:	3.2.11
Git Version:	2.17.1
Sidekiq Version:5.1.3
Go Version:	unknown

GitLab information
Version:	11.1.4
Revision:	63daf37
Directory:	/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-rails
DB Adapter:	postgresql
URL:		<redacted>
HTTP Clone URL:	<redacted>
SSH Clone URL:	<redacted>
Using LDAP:	no
Using Omniauth:	no

GitLab Shell
Version:	7.1.4
Repository storage paths:
- default: 	/var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repositories
Hooks:		/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-shell/hooks
Git:		/opt/gitlab/embedded/bin/git

Results of GitLab application Check

Checking GitLab ... Finished

Possible fixes