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Supersedes #2974, whose commit this builds on so @wrangelvid's authorship stays in the history. GitHub won't take a fork branch as a base, so this targets main.

Split out of what this PR used to be: the --auth-api-mode proxy half now lives in #3042, stacked on this.

The predicate

#2974 decided "still vouched for" by asking whether the endpoint still returns a key for the session's kid. That can't see:

  • Anonymous sessions. No kid, and no exp either, so they got no re-check at all. Gating a project stopped new admissions while its existing tokenless viewers streamed until the peer hung up - the case a project-wide stop exists for.
  • A key replaced under that same kid. Every session the compromised key admitted stays authorized until exp, while only new connections see the new key.

So the re-check replays the admission request and keeps the session only while the reply still grants what it holds. One predicate, every credential shape. A narrowed grant closes the session and the client reconnects into the narrower one; a widened grant disturbs nobody. mTLS peers are exempt, so a customer-facing decision can't tear down the relay mesh.

Timings belong to the endpoint

No flag - revalidation is what --auth-api means, since an endpoint that can refuse a connection should be able to stop one. --auth-api-revalidate and --auth-api-revalidate-stale from #2974 are gone, and both timings come off the response instead, so they can be decided per project and per request without a fleet roll:

directive meaning here default guardrail
max-age re-check cadence, so also the bound on how long a revoked grant keeps serving 60s clamped to 1s..24h
stale-while-revalidate how long to keep serving on the last good answer while re-checks keep failing 3x cadence capped at 24h

A network error, 5xx, or garbage body is evidence of nothing, so the session keeps serving through jittered retries until that window passes. A brief auth outage doesn't mass-disconnect; a sustained one still fails closed.

Cost

Two things hold the request rate to one per grant rather than one per viewer: identical requests share one in-flight re-check, and re-checks ride the same cached client as admission, which merges the ones that aren't concurrent (sessions start at staggered times, so without it a staggered audience each dials on its own schedule). The price is a reply up to one max-age old, so worst-case revocation is 2 x max-age - documented rather than traded away for a per-viewer request rate.

MokaManager::default() is a 42-entry cache, a library sample value that was fine when it was only read at admission and isn't once every live session reads it on a cadence. Raised to 10k.

Public API

  • Expired and Auth::expired are pub. They were pub(crate), unusable from a crate embedding moq_relay::Auth - exactly the consumers that need to close a session on revocation, and the reason to have one seam rather than one revocation path per gateway.
  • AuthParams derives Clone; AuthError gains NotFound.
  • AuthConfig::revalidate / revalidate_stale removed (added in feat(relay): revalidate live session grants against the auth API #2974, never released).

Test plan

cargo test -p moq-relay (204 lib + all integration suites), cargo clippy --locked --all-targets -- -D warnings, cargo fmt --all --check, RUSTDOCFLAGS="-D warnings" cargo doc, cargo check --workspace --all-targets: clean.

Two end-to-end tests encode the root cause, and both fail on #2974 as written:

Unit coverage: scope coverage (unchanged / widened / narrowed / re-rooted), withdrawn public, rotated key, cadence for absent / zero / tiny / huge max-age, stale-while-revalidate governing the outage window end to end, a garbage body classified unavailable rather than revoked, and coalescing across one kid's audience (two distinct tokens, one request) but not across roots.

Cross-Package Sync: doc/bin/relay/auth.md gains the revalidation contract.

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if response.status() == http::StatusCode::NOT_FOUND {
return Err(AuthError::NotFound);
}
let response = response.error_for_status()?;

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P1 Badge Treat authentication rejections as revocations

When a revalidation request receives the standard authentication responses 401 or 403, error_for_status() converts them to ApiUnavailable, which recheck_grant retries until the staleness deadline instead of immediately revoking the session. With the maximum cadence, a credential explicitly rejected by the API can therefore retain access for up to 72 hours. Classify deterministic authentication 4xx responses as refusals while preserving retry behavior for statuses such as 429 and 5xx.

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let flight = async move {
let _guard = guard;
auth.recheck_grant(&client, &base, &owned).await

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P1 Badge Keep recheck verdicts scoped to each session

The shared future includes recheck_grant, so it compares the API response against only the first waiter's retained Scope and returns that verdict to every waiter with the same credential, path, and transport. For example, two anonymous sessions admitted before and after public access was widened can hold different scopes while sharing a FlightKey; after access narrows again, a flight started by the narrower session can return Valid to the wider session and leave revoked access active for another cadence. Share only the HTTP response, then verify coverage independently for each session.

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let key = FlightKey {
credential: grant.params.jwt.clone(),
path: grant.params.path.clone(),
transport: grant.params.transport,

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P1 Badge Coalesce key lookups instead of full JWTs

For JWTs that contain a kid, this key stores the entire JWT even though the auth request sends only the kid. Consequently, every viewer normally has a distinct flight, and because rechecks use NoStore, a large audience generates one auth API request per viewer per cadence rather than the promised one request per (kid, root, transport). Coalesce the key fetch on the actual request identity and perform each token's signature and scope checks after the shared fetch.

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/// Why [`Auth::expired`] decided a session's credential is no longer valid.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
pub enum Expired {

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P1 Badge Keep the public expiration enum extensible

Expired is re-exported from the crate and returned by the new public Auth::expired method, but it is exhaustive. Downstream consumers can therefore exhaustively match these three reasons, making any future reason a semver-breaking change. Mark this new public enum #[non_exhaustive] before consumers depend on its current variant set.

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.with_root(self.root.unwrap_or_else(|| path.to_string()))
.with_subscribe(self.subscribe)
.with_publish(self.publish);
claims.expires = self.exp.map(|exp| std::time::UNIX_EPOCH + Duration::from_secs(exp));

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P2 Badge Reject out-of-range grant expirations

A syntactically valid auth response can supply any u64 for grant.exp, but adding sufficiently large values such as u64::MAX to UNIX_EPOCH panics on supported Rust platforms. A malformed or misconfigured auth API response can therefore panic the connection task instead of producing a controlled authentication failure. Use checked timestamp construction and classify overflow as an invalid API response.

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The re-check REPLAYS the admission request rather than asking a narrower question, which is what makes one mechanism correct for every credential shape: a key replaced under an existing `kid` no longer verifies the retained JWT, a withdrawn `public` block revokes anonymous sessions, and a `grant` reply has no key to look for. `exp` still applies as the outer bound wherever the credential has one. mTLS peers are never revalidated, so a customer-facing decision cannot tear down the relay mesh.

**The endpoint owns the window.** `max-age` is no longer only a caching hint - it is how long a revoked grant keeps serving, so pick it deliberately and cap it on the endpoint side. The relay clamps to 10s..24h; a reply with no `max-age` at all (including `no-store`) expresses no opinion and gets 60s rather than the floor. Re-checks bypass the relay's HTTP cache, since the cadence IS the cache TTL and a cached answer would say nothing new. Sessions that would issue an identical request share one in flight, so cost scales with distinct grants times relays, not with viewers.

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P2 Badge Match the documented revalidation floor

The documentation says the relay clamps max-age to a 10-second minimum, but REVALIDATE_MIN is one second. An operator relying on the documented bound can therefore configure a short TTL and unexpectedly cause up to ten times the anticipated auth API traffic. Either enforce the documented 10-second floor or document the actual one-second behavior.

AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L185-L192

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The relay now revalidates all Auth API-authorized live sessions except mTLS sessions. Revalidation replays the full admission request, tracks granted scope, coalesces identical requests, and applies bounded max-age and stale-while-revalidate timing. Refused or narrowed grants close sessions, while temporary failures remain valid within the configured outage window. TCP and WebSocket handlers log expiration reasons. Tests cover key revocation, anonymous access withdrawal, key rotation, cache timing, outages, malformed responses, and request coalescing.

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In `@doc/bin/relay/auth.md`:
- Line 256: Correct the documented relay cadence floor in the paragraph
describing endpoint-owned windows to match REVALIDATE_MIN and the
cadence_treats_no_opinion_as_the_default test: state a 1-second minimum instead
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- Around line 1068-1070: Update the documentation comment for the revalidate
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- Around line 1615-1666: Change the shared revalidation flow so the in-flight
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self-reviewed by Claude Code (built-in code-review skill, high effort, --fix). Five findings, all fixed in fa19490. Three were introduced by the first commit.

Revalidation cost one request per viewer, not per grant. The flight key was the raw credential, but every viewer of a broadcast holds a distinct JWT signed by the same key - so re-checks for one kid stopped sharing a flight. Bypassing the HTTP cache compounded it: coalescing only merges re-checks in flight at the same moment, and sessions start at staggered times, so the cache was what merged the rest. Together they'd have turned a 10k-viewer broadcast into 10k auth-API requests per cadence against /cluster/auth and the ProjectAuth DO - the exact inverse of the property the design rests on.

Fixed by restoring the cache and giving both the request and the flight key one Lookup to derive from, since that drift is what let them disagree. The honest cost, now documented rather than traded away: a re-check can be answered from an entry up to one max-age old, so worst-case revocation is 2 x max-age. Regression test asserts two sessions holding different tokens under one kid make exactly one request.

A grant was honored on a kid lookup. There the relay never forwards the token, so it cannot check the signature - and the reply is cached per kid and shared across the audience, so a forged token with a known kid would have inherited the grant. A grant is now honored only when the credential was actually forwarded. Test presents an unsigned token with a valid kid header against an endpoint answering with a grant.

A verdict grant with a past exp was admitted and then closed on the next tick, which reads as a flap and drives a reconnect loop. Refused at admission, matching what Key::verify does with an expired JWT.

One pre-existing issue fixed in passing: MokaManager::default() is Cache::new(42), a library sample value. That was tolerable when the auth cache was only read at admission; now every live session reads it on a cadence, so a relay with more than 42 distinct grants would thrash it and re-dial on every miss. Raised to 10k.

cargo test -p moq-relay (212 lib + integration), cargo clippy --all-targets, cargo fmt --check, cargo check --workspace --all-targets: clean.

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Comment thread rs/moq-relay/src/auth.rs Outdated
/// to look at in verdict mode.
async fn recheck_grant(&self, client: &ClientWithMiddleware, base: &url::Url, grant: &Revalidate) -> Recheck {
match self.verify_via_api(base, client, &grant.params).await {
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P1 Badge Honor expiration returned by rechecks

When a credential-mode endpoint keeps the same scope but adds or shortens the grant's future exp, this arm discards token.expires and propagates only the new cache TTL. Auth::expired continues watching the expiration captured at admission, so a session admitted without an expiry, or with a later one, remains authorized until a subsequent recheck notices that the new expiry is already past, potentially up to the 24-hour cadence beyond the API's explicit outer bound. Carry the rechecked expiration into the session's deadline or otherwise schedule closure at that time. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)

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226-231: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Document the grant field in the unified response schema.

The text says the response has four optional fields. AuthApiResponse has five fields: alias, public, key, grant, and tier. Add grant to this list and describe that it applies only when the relay forwards a credential.

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Make the time-dependent tests deterministic.

The cited tests wait on tokio::time::sleep_until, WireMock delays, and timeouts. They use real-time test clocks and std::time::Instant. Mark them start_paused = true, use tokio::time::Instant, and call tokio::time::advance() for each cadence, retry, backoff, and timeout boundary.

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In `@rs/moq-relay/src/auth.rs`:
- Around line 756-760: Update GrantResponse::into_claims to use
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AuthError::Refused instead of allowing a panic; preserve rejection of already
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Comment thread rs/moq-relay/src/auth.rs Outdated
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fn into_claims(self, path: &str) -> Result<moq_token::Claims, AuthError> {
let expires = self.exp.map(|exp| std::time::UNIX_EPOCH + Duration::from_secs(exp));
if expires.is_some_and(|expires| expires <= std::time::SystemTime::now()) {
return Err(AuthError::Refused);
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

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Reject unrepresentable grant expiry values without panicking.

If the auth endpoint returns exp: u64::MAX, GrantResponse::into_claims adds Duration::from_secs(exp) to UNIX_EPOCH. The SystemTime addition can panic on overflow before verify returns AuthError. Use SystemTime::checked_add and map None to AuthError::Refused. Add a regression test for exp: u64::MAX.

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Recheck::Valid { ttl: max_age } => {
ttl = cadence(max_age);
let now = Instant::now();
next = now + ttl;
deadline = now + staleness(ttl);

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P1 Badge Bypass stale cache entries when measuring auth outages

When a cacheable grant was previously admitted and the auth endpoint later becomes unreachable, the HTTP cache middleware serves the stale response after revalidation fails, as relied upon by cluster.rs's HTTP polling path. This arm treats that cached body as a fresh success and resets deadline, so each poll renews the staleness window and the session can continue indefinitely instead of reaching Expired::Stale. Rechecks need to distinguish stale-if-error fallback from a successful endpoint response, or bypass that fallback before resetting the deadline. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)

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match self.verify_via_api(base, client, &grant.params).await {
Ok((token, ttl)) if grant.scope.covered_by(&token) => Recheck::Valid { ttl },
Ok(_) => Recheck::Revoked,

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P2 Badge Reconnect sessions when the billing tier changes

When a recheck returns the same authorization scope but a different tier, this condition reports the grant as valid and then drops the new token. The session's stats handle was already created from the admission token's tier in connection.rs, so a long-lived session continues attributing all traffic to the old billing tier indefinitely. Treat a tier change as requiring reconnection, or otherwise update the session's stats context. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)

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Reworked in 85cd019 after @kixelated pushed back that this had gotten more complicated than the problem warranted. He was right, and the cause was a decision I inherited rather than questioned: making verdict "a response shape, not a mode" so one endpoint could answer either way per connection.

That put both paths inside a single request, and everything awkward in the previous revision followed from it - the kid-vs-credential split, the never-send-the-credential-with-a-kid rule, the cache-key partitioning, and the coalescing bug the self-review caught. None of it was the cost of revocation. It was the cost of dual-mode.

--auth-api-mode token|proxy deletes all of it. token is untouched, so existing operators (including #2974's use case) are unaffected. proxy forwards the connection verbatim and enforces the grant - the relay verifies nothing and holds no keys.

The flight key is now taken from the request that actually gets sent, rather than rebuilt beside it, which is what made the earlier bug possible in the first place.

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let resp = Self::fetch_auth_api(client, base, path, None, true, transport.map(Transport::as_str)).await?;
let request = AuthApiRequest {
path: path.to_string(),
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P1 Badge Forward the host for proxy-mode mTLS requests

When --auth-api-mode proxy handles an mTLS WebSocket or QUIC peer, both callers reduce the connection to path and transport, and this hard-coded None drops the URL host. Proxy mode promises the host for subdomain routing, so an endpoint that distinguishes identical paths across hosts can reject the peer or assign the wrong alias or billing tier. Pass the full request parameters into the mTLS resolver instead of constructing a hostless request. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)

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pub struct AuthParams {
/// The URL path identifying the broadcast root.
pub path: String,
/// The URL host, forwarded to the auth API in [`AuthApiMode::Proxy`] so the

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P1 Badge Make AuthParams non-exhaustive before adding host

Adding this public field already breaks downstream consumers that construct AuthParams with a struct literal, and leaving the type exhaustive guarantees that the next request-metadata field causes the same break again. Since this commit is already the compatibility boundary, mark AuthParams #[non_exhaustive] and keep construction through new or Default so future optional fields remain additive. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)

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/// path independently simple.
#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, Default, PartialEq, Eq, clap::ValueEnum, Serialize, Deserialize)]
#[serde(rename_all = "lowercase")]
pub enum AuthApiMode {

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P1 Badge Keep the public auth mode enum extensible

AuthApiMode is re-exported from the crate and exposed through AuthConfig, but downstream consumers can exhaustively match its two current variants. Adding another authentication strategy would therefore require a semver-breaking release; mark this new public enum #[non_exhaustive] before consumers depend on the current set. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)

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Pushed e612197: the endpoint now owns both timings, per response, with no relay config for either.

directive meaning here default guardrail
max-age re-check cadence, so also the bound on how long a revoked grant keeps serving 60s clamped to 1s..24h
stale-if-error how long to keep serving while re-checks FAIL 3x cadence capped at 24h

The cadence already came from max-age; the outage window was a hardcoded 3 x that, which is the part that didn't belong in the relay. Both being per-response means an endpoint can hand a project nowhere near its limits a long window and a project close to them a short one, decided per request, with no fleet roll.

stale-if-error rather than stale-while-revalidate on purpose. RFC 5861 splits them: stale-if-error is "keep using what you have when revalidation ERRORS", which is exactly this; stale-while-revalidate licenses serving a stale answer during a routine background refresh, which the relay never does. Not pedantic in practice either - moq.pro's /cluster/auth already emits stale-while-revalidate=300, so honoring that one would have silently moved the outage window from 180s to 300s with nobody deciding it. There's a unit test asserting SWR is not read as a session bound.

The relay keeps only guardrails, since an endpoint shouldn't be able to make it poll hot or serve forever.

One asymmetry worth knowing before picking a long max-age, now documented: the cadence is set by the reply the relay is already holding, so shortening max-age later can't pull in a re-check that's already scheduled. Whatever TTL you hand a healthy connection is how long an unannounced revocation takes to reach it.

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let mut ttl = cadence(grant.hints.max_age);
let mut next = Instant::now() + ttl;
let mut deadline = Instant::now() + staleness(&grant.hints, ttl);

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P2 Badge Start stale-if-error after the response becomes stale

When an endpoint sets stale-if-error shorter than max-age (for example, max-age=3600, stale-if-error=300), this deadline expires before the first scheduled recheck. The first failed recheck therefore closes every session immediately instead of allowing the documented five-minute error window. Since this directive extends the period after the cached response becomes stale, anchor the deadline at the first recheck/freshness expiry, or add the cadence to the directive. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)

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loop {
tokio::time::sleep_until(next).await;
match self.recheck(&revalidator, grant).await {

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P2 Badge Bound each recheck by the staleness deadline

When the auth endpoint accepts a request but responds slowly, this await can run past deadline; the shared HTTP client permits it to run for ten seconds, and even a late Valid result resets the deadline. A one-second outage budget can consequently keep a revoked session serving for roughly eleven seconds, while a late success can bypass the elapsed budget entirely. Race the in-flight recheck against sleep_until(deadline) so the retry sequence actually stops at its configured budget. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)

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rs/moq-relay/src/auth.rs (3)

1170-1172: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the link to the deleted AuthConfig::revalidate field.

AuthConfig no longer declares a revalidate field, so [AuthConfig::revalidate] does not resolve. Rustdoc reports a broken intra-doc link, and the text points readers at a flag this PR removed. The earlier comment on this line is marked as addressed, but the text is unchanged in the supplied code.

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-	/// Live-session revalidation against the auth API. See
-	/// [`AuthConfig::revalidate`] and [`Auth::revalidate`].
+	/// Live-session revalidation against the auth API. Armed whenever
+	/// `--auth-api` is configured; see [`Auth::revalidate`].
 	revalidate: Option<Arc<Revalidator>>,
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In `@rs/moq-relay/src/auth.rs` around lines 1170 - 1172, Update the documentation
comment for the revalidate field to remove the deleted AuthConfig::revalidate
link, while retaining the valid Auth::revalidate reference and the description
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819-830: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Use checked_add for the grant exp.

Line 820 still adds an endpoint-supplied u64 to UNIX_EPOCH with +. impl Add<Duration> for SystemTime panics on overflow, so a response carrying a very large exp (for example u64::MAX) panics in the auth path instead of returning AuthError::Refused. The previous review comment on this line is marked as addressed, but the supplied code is unchanged and no exp: u64::MAX test exists.

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-		let expires = self.exp.map(|exp| std::time::UNIX_EPOCH + Duration::from_secs(exp));
+		let expires = match self.exp {
+			Some(exp) => Some(
+				std::time::UNIX_EPOCH
+					.checked_add(Duration::from_secs(exp))
+					.ok_or(AuthError::Refused)?,
+			),
+			None => None,
+		};
 		if expires.is_some_and(|expires| expires <= std::time::SystemTime::now()) {
 			return Err(AuthError::Refused);
 		}

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In `@rs/moq-relay/src/auth.rs` around lines 819 - 830, Update
AuthConfig::into_claims to construct the expiration with SystemTime::checked_add
instead of +, mapping overflow to AuthError::Refused so oversized
endpoint-supplied values cannot panic. Add a regression test covering exp:
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1769-1818: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Evaluate covered_by per waiter, not once inside the shared flight.

FlightKey is { url, credential }. In AuthApiMode::Token the credential is absent, so two sessions on the same path with the same kid share one flight even when they hold different scopes. revalidate_coalesces_across_one_kids_audience demonstrates exactly that pair: one grant is subscribe-only, the other adds publish.

The shared flight still resolves to a single verdict computed from the creator's owned.scope at line 1813, so both directions are wrong:

  • If the creator's scope is narrower, a waiter with a wider scope receives Valid and keeps serving authority the endpoint no longer grants.
  • If the creator's scope is wider, a waiter with a narrower scope receives Revoked and closes while it is still granted.

Share the request, not the verdict. The previous comment on this code is marked as addressed, but the verdict is still computed inside the flight.

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 enum Recheck {
-	/// Still vouched for; check again after the new max-age.
-	Valid { hints: CacheHints },
+	/// The API answered; each waiter decides whether it still covers its scope.
+	Answered { token: Arc<AuthToken>, hints: CacheHints },
+	/// Still vouched for; check again after the new max-age.
+	Valid { hints: CacheHints },
 	Revoked,
 	Unavailable,
 }
-	async fn recheck_grant(&self, client: &ClientWithMiddleware, base: &url::Url, grant: &Revalidate) -> Recheck {
-		match self.verify_via_api(base, client, &grant.params).await {
-			Ok((token, hints)) if grant.scope.covered_by(&token) => Recheck::Valid { hints },
-			Ok(_) => Recheck::Revoked,
+	async fn recheck_grant(&self, client: &ClientWithMiddleware, base: &url::Url, params: &AuthParams) -> Recheck {
+		match self.verify_via_api(base, client, params).await {
+			Ok((token, hints)) => Recheck::Answered {
+				token: Arc::new(token),
+				hints,
+			},
 			Err(err) if err.is_refusal() => Recheck::Revoked,
 			Err(_) => Recheck::Unavailable,
 		}
 	}

Then map the shared answer through each waiter's own scope at the end of recheck:

match flight.await {
    Recheck::Answered { token, hints } if grant.scope.covered_by(&token) => Recheck::Valid { hints },
    Recheck::Answered { .. } => Recheck::Revoked,
    other => other,
}

Add a regression test in which two grants share one kid and one path but hold different scopes, and assert that only the narrowed one closes.

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In `@rs/moq-relay/src/auth.rs` around lines 1769 - 1818, Update recheck and
recheck_grant so the shared flight returns the verified token and hints rather
than evaluating covered_by against the creator’s grant; in recheck, map the
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unavailable and other non-answer outcomes. Add a regression test covering same
kid/path grants with different scopes and verify only the grant not covered by
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1706-1733: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Delete the duplicated paragraph and correct the staleness sentence.

Two problems in this doc block:

  • Lines 1708-1714 and 1716-1722 are the same paragraph, repeated verbatim.
  • Line 1727 says the window is "3x the last max-age". staleness now prefers the endpoint's stale-if-error and uses 3 cadences only as the fallback.
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 	/// Re-checks ride the same cached HTTP client as admission, which is the other
 	/// half of the cost story: coalescing merges re-checks in flight at the same
 	/// moment, and the cache merges the ones that are not. Sessions start at
 	/// different times, so without it a staggered audience would each dial on its
 	/// own schedule. The price is that a re-check may be answered from an entry up
 	/// to one `max-age` old, so the revocation window is up to TWICE the
 	/// endpoint's `max-age`. Size it accordingly.
 	///
-	/// Re-checks ride the same cached HTTP client as admission, which is the other
-	/// half of the cost story: coalescing merges re-checks in flight at the same
-	/// moment, and the cache merges the ones that are not. Sessions start at
-	/// different times, so without it a staggered audience would each dial on its
-	/// own schedule. The price is that a re-check may be answered from an entry up
-	/// to one `max-age` old, so the revocation window is up to TWICE the
-	/// endpoint's `max-age`. Size it accordingly.
-	///
 	/// Re-checks on the endpoint's `Cache-Control: max-age` cadence and resolves
 	/// once the API refuses the replayed request or answers with a smaller grant
-	/// ([`Expired::Revoked`]), or keeps failing for the whole staleness window,
-	/// 3x the last max-age ([`Expired::Stale`]).
+	/// ([`Expired::Revoked`]), or keeps failing for the whole staleness window -
+	/// the endpoint's `stale-if-error`, or 3x the last max-age when it sends none
+	/// ([`Expired::Stale`]).
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In `@rs/moq-relay/src/auth.rs` around lines 1706 - 1733, In the documentation for
the auth session re-check method, remove the duplicated “Re-checks ride the same
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Inline comments:
In `@doc/bin/relay/auth.md`:
- Around line 277-280: Update the fenced request example around the GET request
and Authorization header to declare the http language, preserving its contents
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Duplicate comments:
In `@rs/moq-relay/src/auth.rs`:
- Around line 1170-1172: Update the documentation comment for the revalidate
field to remove the deleted AuthConfig::revalidate link, while retaining the
valid Auth::revalidate reference and the description of live-session
revalidation.
- Around line 819-830: Update AuthConfig::into_claims to construct the
expiration with SystemTime::checked_add instead of +, mapping overflow to
AuthError::Refused so oversized endpoint-supplied values cannot panic. Add a
regression test covering exp: u64::MAX and assert that into_claims returns
AuthError::Refused.
- Around line 1769-1818: Update recheck and recheck_grant so the shared flight
returns the verified token and hints rather than evaluating covered_by against
the creator’s grant; in recheck, map the awaited shared answer through that
waiter’s own grant.scope, preserving unavailable and other non-answer outcomes.
Add a regression test covering same kid/path grants with different scopes and
verify only the grant not covered by the returned token is revoked.

---

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In `@rs/moq-relay/src/auth.rs`:
- Around line 1706-1733: In the documentation for the auth session re-check
method, remove the duplicated “Re-checks ride the same cached HTTP client as
admission” paragraph and update the staleness description to state that the
window uses the endpoint’s stale-if-error value, with three max-age cadences
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Add a language to the request fence.

markdownlint reports MD040 for this block. Set a language so the lint passes and the block gets highlighting.

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Split into two, since both are landing:

They're independently useful and independently reviewable: revocation fixes a hole that exists today, and the mode is a new capability.

Also switched the outage window from stale-if-error to stale-while-revalidate (d831a91). @kixelated's reading is the better one: past max-age the loop is literally serving the session on the last good answer while it keeps retrying the re-check, which is what the directive describes. stale-if-error's trigger matches too, but it's a request-satisfaction rule for a response cache, which this loop isn't — and SWR is the far more widely implemented directive.

Worth flagging for the moq.pro side: /cluster/auth already emits stale-while-revalidate=300, which is inert today. On the pin bump it becomes live meaning, moving the outage window from the 180s default to 300s. Benign, but it should be a deliberate value rather than one inherited from when it did nothing.

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/// The seconds value of one `Cache-Control` directive.
fn cache_directive(headers: &http::HeaderMap, name: &str) -> Option<Duration> {
let value = headers.get(http::header::CACHE_CONTROL)?.to_str().ok()?;

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When the auth API or an intermediary emits Cache-Control across multiple field lines, this reads only the first value, even though repeated Cache-Control fields are valid and semantically combined. If max-age or stale-while-revalidate appears in a later value, revalidation silently uses the 60-second/default staleness timings, allowing revoked grants to remain active longer than the endpoint requested. Iterate over headers.get_all(CACHE_CONTROL) when parsing directives. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)

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1030-1032: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the reference to the deleted AuthConfig::revalidate field.

AuthConfig no longer has a revalidate field, so [AuthConfig::revalidate] does not resolve. Rustdoc reports a broken intra-doc link, and the comment points readers at a flag that no longer exists.

📝 Proposed fix
-	/// Live-session revalidation against the auth API. See
-	/// [`AuthConfig::revalidate`] and [`Auth::revalidate`].
+	/// Live-session revalidation against the auth API. Armed whenever
+	/// `--auth-api` is configured; see [`Auth::revalidate`].
 	revalidate: Option<Arc<Revalidator>>,
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1611-1641: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Share the request, not the verdict.

FlightKey excludes the credential and the scope, so sessions with the same kid, root, and transport share one flight. The flight closure captures owned = grant.clone() and recheck_grant then uses that one grant for both the credential verification (verify_via_api(.., &grant.params)) and the coverage test (grant.scope.covered_by(&token)). Every waiter receives the creator's verdict.

Two failures follow, and this PR's own revalidate_coalesces_across_one_kids_audience test builds waiters with distinct tokens and distinct scopes on one flight key:

  • Credential: only the creator's JWT is verified. After a key is replaced under the same kid, a session whose retained JWT no longer verifies can join a flight created by a session whose JWT does verify, receive Recheck::Valid, and keep serving. That is the case revalidate_closes_on_a_rotated_key covers for a single session.
  • Scope: a session holding a wider scope can receive Valid from a narrower creator's check and keep authority the endpoint no longer grants. A session holding a narrower scope can receive Revoked from a wider creator's check and close while it is still granted.

Return the endpoint's answer from the flight, then verify the credential and evaluate Scope::covered_by per waiter in recheck.

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 enum Recheck {
-	/// Still vouched for; check again after the new max-age.
-	Valid { hints: CacheHints },
+	/// The API answered; each waiter decides whether the answer still covers it.
+	Answered {
+		resp: Arc<AuthApiResponse>,
+		hints: CacheHints,
+	},
 	Revoked,
 	Unavailable,
 }

Then key the flight on the request only, and in recheck finish the per-waiter work:

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    Recheck::Answered { resp, hints } => match self.finish(&grant.params, &resp) {
        Ok(token) if grant.scope.covered_by(&token) => Recheck::Valid { hints },
        Ok(_) => Recheck::Revoked,
        Err(err) if err.is_refusal() => Recheck::Revoked,
        Err(_) => Recheck::Unavailable,
    },
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}

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Delete the duplicated doc paragraph.

Lines 1531-1537 and 1539-1545 repeat the same paragraph verbatim. Keep one copy. Line 1550 also states the staleness window is "3x the last max-age"; that is now only the fallback, because stale-while-revalidate overrides it.

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 	/// Re-checks ride the same cached HTTP client as admission, which is the other
 	/// half of the cost story: coalescing merges re-checks in flight at the same
 	/// moment, and the cache merges the ones that are not. Sessions start at
 	/// different times, so without it a staggered audience would each dial on its
 	/// own schedule. The price is that a re-check may be answered from an entry up
 	/// to one `max-age` old, so the revocation window is up to TWICE the
 	/// endpoint's `max-age`. Size it accordingly.
 	///
-	/// Re-checks ride the same cached HTTP client as admission, which is the other
-	/// half of the cost story: coalescing merges re-checks in flight at the same
-	/// moment, and the cache merges the ones that are not. Sessions start at
-	/// different times, so without it a staggered audience would each dial on its
-	/// own schedule. The price is that a re-check may be answered from an entry up
-	/// to one `max-age` old, so the revocation window is up to TWICE the
-	/// endpoint's `max-age`. Size it accordingly.
-	///
 	/// Re-checks on the endpoint's `Cache-Control: max-age` cadence and resolves
 	/// once the API refuses the replayed request or answers with a smaller grant
-	/// ([`Expired::Revoked`]), or keeps failing for the whole staleness window,
-	/// 3x the last max-age ([`Expired::Stale`]).
+	/// ([`Expired::Revoked`]), or keeps failing for the whole staleness window
+	/// (`stale-while-revalidate`, or 3x the last max-age) ([`Expired::Stale`]).
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- Around line 1287-1289: Update the documentation comment for verify_via_api to
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- Around line 1030-1032: Update the documentation comment for the revalidate
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- Around line 1611-1641: Refactor the revalidation flight to share only the
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/// Ceiling on how long a cached peer-list response stays fresh, whatever
/// `max-age` the endpoint sends. Peers are polled on their own schedule; this
/// only stops a pathological value pinning a stale list indefinitely.
const CLUSTER_CACHE_MAX_TTL: Duration = Duration::from_secs(60 * 60);

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Document the one-hour peer-list cache ceiling.

CLUSTER_CACHE_MAX_TTL now limits Cache-Control: max-age to one hour for HTTP(S) --cluster-connect-api polling. However, doc/bin/relay/cluster.md still says that the endpoint's Cache-Control controls when a real fetch occurs without stating this ceiling. An endpoint that sends max-age=86400 is therefore fetched hourly, not daily. Update the cluster documentation to state the one-hour maximum.

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impl CacheHints {
fn from_headers(headers: &http::HeaderMap) -> Self {
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P1 Badge Align cache freshness when max-age is absent

When an auth response omits Cache-Control: max-age but remains cacheable through Expires or heuristic freshness from Last-Modified, this records no TTL and the revalidation loop uses the 60-second default, while the HTTP middleware can keep serving the same cached response until its 24-hour max_ttl. A withdrawn grant can therefore remain active for far longer than the documented default and twice-max-age bound. Derive the cadence from the cache's actual freshness or ensure responses without max-age cannot remain fresh beyond the default. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)

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pub async fn expired(&self, token: &AuthToken) -> Expired {
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Some(grant) => self.revalidate(grant).await,

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P1 Badge Bind revalidation state to the token

For an embedded consumer with two separately configured Auth instances, the public API permits passing a token returned by one instance to the other's expired method. This line then uses the second instance's endpoint and flight state; if that instance has no auth API, revocation silently pends forever, and if it has a different endpoint, the token is judged against the wrong authority. Keep the originating revalidation state in the token or otherwise make cross-instance evaluation unrepresentable. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)

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/// Reconstructing a key from parts instead is how an earlier revision managed
/// to key an audience's shared `kid` lookup on each viewer's distinct token,
/// turning one re-check per broadcast into one per viewer.

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P1 Badge Remove revision history from implementation comments

This newly added comment explains how an earlier revision constructed the flight key rather than describing only the current request-identity invariant. Move that historical rationale to the commit or PR description and leave the current constraint in the source comment. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)

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`SystemTime + Duration` panics on overflow, so an endpoint answering with an
exp near u64::MAX would take down the connection task rather than have the
grant refused. Found by the adversarial review of #3041.

Also marks AuthApiMode #[non_exhaustive], same reasoning as Expired: a third
strategy should not be a breaking release.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Adversarial review by Codex (a different model), triaged and applied in 32692b2. Verdict was "do not ship" and it was right — three high-severity findings, all of which let a revoked grant keep serving or a healthy one get dropped.

The 24h ceiling was decorative. The loop clamped how often it polls, but every poll went through a cache whose freshness still followed the endpoint's raw max-age. With max-age=31536000 the relay would wake every 24h, be handed the same cached grant, reset its timer, and never reach the origin at all — a revoked session surviving indefinitely, contradicting both the guardrail and the documented 2 x max-age bound. The cache now gets the same ceiling as its max_ttl.

The singleflight shared a verdict, not a fetch. The flight captured whichever Revalidate created it, verified that session's credential, compared that session's scope, and returned the answer to every waiter. Two anonymous sessions on one path share a flight key but can have been admitted either side of a narrowed public block; two JWTs under one kid can carry different claims or expiries. So a session could keep authority the reply no longer granted, or be closed because a different viewer's token had expired. The flight now returns the shared reply and each waiter authorizes it against its own credential and scope — the HTTP request is still coalesced, which was the whole point. CodeRabbit independently flagged this one too.

The outage deadline expired before revalidation began. It was anchored to the last success rather than to the end of freshness, so max-age=300, stale-while-revalidate=60 put the deadline four minutes before the first re-check: a single transient 500 would have disconnected every affected session at once — precisely the mass-disconnect the window exists to prevent. It now runs from where freshness ends, and bounds the request in flight rather than only being checked after it, so a stalled endpoint can't carry a session past the deadline on the client's 10s timeout.

Each has a regression test that fails without its fix.

Also applied: Expired is #[non_exhaustive], repeated Cache-Control field lines are read rather than only the first, and two doc links left dangling by the PR split.

Rejected — 401/403 should be treated as revocation. A 401/403 from the auth API rejects the relay's own credential (its client cert), not the user's session. Treating that as a per-session refusal would disconnect every live session on the fleet the moment the relay's cert expires — the exact failure the staleness window is for. Per-session refusal is expressed as 404, or a 200 that no longer grants the scope. Documented in auth.md rather than changed.

Not fixed here — a re-check that returns a changed tier keeps the admission tier. Real, but the tier is bound to the session's stats handle at admission and changing it mid-session needs that handle rebuilt; it takes effect on reconnect. Worth its own change if it matters.

cargo test -p moq-relay (207 lib + integration), clippy, fmt, rustdoc, and workspace check all clean. #3044 has been rebased onto this and carries its own fix for a grant.exp overflow panic the same review surfaced.

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When the last local consumer leaves or the broadcast closes, this now only finishes the writer. For drafts 14–16 the publisher requires UNSUBSCRIBE, while draft 17+ requires STOP_SENDING; a FIN is not a cancellation. The remote publisher can therefore keep an established subscription running and sending data that nobody consumes. Against the parent main tree, this replaces the dedicated cancel_subscribe path that handled both protocol families, so retain that path for End::Unused and End::BroadcastClosed. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)

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let outcome = match tokio::time::timeout_at(deadline, self.recheck(&api, grant)).await {
Ok(outcome) => outcome,
Err(_) => return Expired::Stale,

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P1 Badge Allow a recheck when the stale window is zero

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license = "MIT OR Apache-2.0"

version = "0.14.13"
version = "0.14.12"

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P2 Badge Restore the current package versions

This auth feature changes moq-relay from 0.14.13 back to the already superseded 0.14.12 and similarly rolls back version metadata across many workspace packages. Merging it would make builds from newer source identify themselves as older releases and leave subsequent packaging based on stale version metadata. Keep the parent branch's package and lockfile versions unchanged. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)

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Force-pushed 436ec2e. Two changes.

No revalidate flags anywhere, including in history. The final tree already had none - revalidation is unconditional - but the history added --auth-api-revalidate / --auth-api-revalidate-stale in the first commit and removed them in the second, so a reader or a bisect still met them. Squashed to one commit; auth-api-revalidate now appears nowhere in the diff. @wrangelvid keeps credit via Co-Authored-By.

Refactor: auth_api and the revalidator were two Options that could never disagree. Auth held auth_api: Option<(Url, Client)> and revalidate: Option<Arc<Revalidator>>, built as auth_api.is_some().then(...) - so they were always both-Some or both-None, and the code carried an .expect("revalidation requires an auth API") plus an Option-returning flight_key to handle a state that cannot occur. They are now one AuthApi { base, client, revalidator }, which deletes the expect, the impossible-state plumbing, and the if self.revalidate.is_some() guard on arming a re-check. The 3-argument (client, base, request) calls became api.fetch(request).

That the two were inseparable is the same fact the flag removal asserts: revalidation is what --auth-api MEANS. Worth having the type say it rather than a constructor.

cargo test -p moq-relay (207 lib + integration), clippy, fmt, rustdoc, workspace check: clean. #3044 rebased onto this and squashed likewise.

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P1 Badge Honor s-maxage when scheduling revalidation

When the endpoint sends both directives, such as max-age=1, s-maxage=3600, the shared HTTP cache uses s-maxage for freshness while this code schedules rechecks from max-age. Those per-second rechecks therefore keep receiving the cached grant for an hour and resetting the session deadline without contacting the auth API, so a revoked grant can survive far beyond the documented twice-max-age window. Derive the cadence from the shared cache's effective freshness or configure the cache so it follows the same directive used here.

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Two changes in 5c800fa.

Revalidation is now opt-in by the endpoint

max-age is the opt-in. A reply naming one is telling the relay how long its answer is good for, which is exactly a cadence. A reply with no usable max-age - none at all, no-store, no-cache, max-age=0 - has not asked to be re-consulted, so the session gets no re-check at all and its credential's exp stays the only bound, exactly as before this feature existed.

That removes the last arbitrary constant. The old 60s default was the relay inventing a polling interval for an endpoint that had declined to give one, and it meant this change silently added request load to any existing deployment that wasn't sending Cache-Control. Now such a deployment is untouched until it opts in.

It also keeps the property the flag removal was about: the relay operator still cannot configure revocation away. The opt-in moved to the endpoint, which is per-project, per-response, and the side that actually knows.

stale-if-error is now read too. Either stale directive grants the outage window and stale-if-error wins when both are present, being the precise license for the case the relay is in - revalidation is erroring, session keeps serving on the last good answer. Absent both it stays 3x the cadence; there is deliberately no way to set it to zero, since one transient 500 would then disconnect every affected session.

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Six loose REVALIDATE_* constants and three free functions (cadence, staleness, cache_directive), with CacheHints defined 1700 lines away from the constants governing it, are now one type:

  • CacheHints - the raw directives, with the guardrails as associated consts (MIN_CADENCE, MAX_CADENCE, STALE_CADENCES, MAX_STALE) and directive() as a private helper.
  • CacheHints::schedule() -> Option<Schedule> - the whole policy in one function, where None is "the endpoint didn't opt in". The opt-in change fell out of this rather than being bolted on.
  • Schedule { cadence, staleness } - what a live session actually runs on, so the loop reads schedule.cadence instead of recomputing from raw hints each iteration.

REVALIDATE_BACKOFF became Revalidator::BACKOFF, since it belongs to the retry loop rather than to anything the endpoint says. http_client::build now takes CacheHints::MAX_CADENCE, which makes the "cache ceiling must equal cadence ceiling" coupling visible at the call site instead of living in a comment.

Also restored the 2 x max-age explanation, which I'd dropped while rewriting that section.

cargo test -p moq-relay (209 lib + integration), clippy, fmt, rustdoc, workspace check: clean. New tests cover no-opt-in (no-store/no-cache/max-age=0/absent, and a stale directive alone), cadence clamping, and stale-if-error winning over stale-while-revalidate. #3044 rebased on top.

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let cadence = self
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When a successful admission response uses Cache-Control: max-age=0 to require immediate staleness, this filter returns None, so admit_via_api stores no Revalidate state at all. An anonymous token has no credential expiry, so withdrawing that grant later never triggers another API request and the live session remains authorized until the peer disconnects. Clamp zero to the minimum cadence instead of treating it like an absent max-age.

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Comment thread rs/moq-relay/src/auth.rs
Comment on lines +603 to +607
headers
.get_all(http::header::WARNING)
.iter()
.filter_map(|value| value.to_str().ok())
.any(|value| value.trim_start().starts_with("111"))

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P1 Badge Parse every Warning value before renewing the deadline

When the cache returns a combined field such as Warning: 110 proxy "Response is stale", 111 proxy "Revalidation failed", this new detector checks only the beginning of the field and misses the 111 value. Because Warning is list-valued, caches and intermediaries may legally combine these values; the stale body is then accepted as a fresh success and every recheck resets the deadline, allowing sessions to survive an auth outage indefinitely. Parse every warning-value rather than only the field prefix. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)

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Comment thread rs/moq-relay/src/auth.rs Outdated
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let cadence = self
.max_age
.filter(|max_age| !max_age.is_zero())?
.clamp(Self::MIN_CADENCE, Self::MAX_CADENCE);

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P2 Badge Honor no-store and no-cache when arming revalidation

When an endpoint sends a positive max-age together with no-store or no-cache, this code still creates a schedule because it never checks either directive. That contradicts the newly documented contract that either directive means there is no usable max-age and the live session is never rechecked, so an operator following the documentation can unexpectedly generate periodic auth traffic and have existing sessions revoked. Either suppress the schedule for these directives or update the documented behavior. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)

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Comment thread rs/moq-relay/src/auth.rs
/// bound, anonymous ones included; mTLS peers carry neither. This is the one
/// seam a session loop needs: selecting on the credential's expiry alone
/// would keep serving through a revoked grant.
pub async fn expired(&self, token: &AuthToken) -> Expired {

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P1 Badge Preserve revalidation state across cancelled waits

When an embedded consumer polls this public method in a select! loop alongside recurring work, each winning sibling branch drops the expired future; the next call reconstructs next, deadline, and backoff from scratch in revalidate. If that work fires more frequently than max-age, the auth recheck never runs, so a revoked JWT or anonymous session can remain authorized indefinitely. Keep the scheduler state in a cancellation-stable token-owned handle rather than restarting the retry sequence on every call. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)

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Not merging. Codex's re-review returned HOLD and it was right on both counts. Pushed 73dd7be with what is unambiguous; one open question needs a decision.

Open: the 24h cadence ceiling does not bound a revoked grant

The earlier round found that clamping the poll to 24h is meaningless if the cache keeps serving a max-age=31536000 entry, and I "fixed" it by passing max_ttl to the cache. max_ttl is inert in the version we actually resolve. Proven, not argued: fetch twice through the real client with a 1ms ceiling against a max-age=3600 origin, plus an uncapped control - the control is served from cache (1 request) and so is the capped one (1 request, should have been 2).

The cause was mine: I read http-cache 1.0.0-alpha.6 source for every conclusion, while the lockfile resolves alpha.7 (http-cache-reqwest alpha.8). The caret range moved under me and I never checked. Every claim I made about max_ttl, Warning: 111, the moka default, and stale-while-revalidate support came from the wrong file.

So the hole is open: an endpoint sending a max-age above the ceiling keeps its cached grant fresh for that whole duration, and the clamped poll is answered from cache. The MAX_CADENCE doc no longer claims otherwise, and the behaviour is pinned by a test so a dependency bump turns it red rather than passing unnoticed.

Three ways out, and the choice is a product call rather than a mechanical fix:

  1. Bypass the cache for a re-check whose raw max-age exceeded the ceiling. Precise - only the pathological endpoint pays, everyone else keeps the one-request-per-grant property.
  2. Drop the ceiling and honour whatever max-age says, keeping only an arithmetic-safety cap. Most consistent with "the endpoint owns the timings", and makes a year-long window the endpoint's explicit choice.
  3. Find the right knob in alpha.7 (cache_options, response_cache_mode_fn) - unknown cost, and pins us harder to an alpha.

Fixed in 73dd7be

ApiStale fell through the status mapping to 401. The endpoint was unreachable and the cache answered for it, so reporting a rejected credential is both wrong and misdiagnoses the outage. It joins the 502 arm.

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  • Stale-on-error reset (its earlier critical): confirmed fixed. Warning: 111 is rejected before the body is parsed, ApiStale is not a refusal, and only Recheck::Valid touches the deadline.
  • The synthetic-max-age concern: my first test proved nothing - it used an uncacheable reply, so the second fetch hit the origin and would have passed whatever the cache did. Codex asked directly whether I was fooling myself, and I was. Rewritten with request-count assertions covering both halves.
  • Zero stale window: correct, and Codex flagged a comment left stale by the fix, now rewritten.

Still deferred, by request: the tier/alias-change-on-recheck issue, and Auth::expired resolving the endpoint from self rather than the token.

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Comment thread rs/moq-relay/src/http_client.rs Outdated
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with_cap, 1,
"max_ttl is inert here; if this ever becomes 2 the ceiling works and \
CacheHints::MAX_CADENCE's doc comment should say so again"

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P1 Badge Enforce the advertised 24-hour cache ceiling

When the auth API sends a max-age longer than 24 hours, this test explicitly confirms that max_ttl is inert: the second request still comes from cache. Revalidation therefore polls every 24 hours but keeps accepting and renewing the cached grant for the origin's full TTL, so a revoked session can survive for months despite doc/bin/relay/auth.md promising that cache freshness is capped at 24 hours. Replace or configure the cache so the ceiling actually expires the entry rather than asserting the broken behavior. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)

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A grant checked only at connect time can only stop NEW connections. Revoking a
key, gating a project, or exhausting a quota leaves every session it already
admitted running until the token's `exp` - and an anonymous session has no
`exp` at all, so it runs until the peer hangs up.

So `--auth-api` keeps asking. Each live session re-issues its own admission
request on the endpoint's `Cache-Control` cadence and closes once the reply no
longer grants what the session holds.

Replaying admission, rather than asking something narrower, is what makes one
mechanism correct for every credential: a key REPLACED under an existing `kid`
stops verifying the retained JWT, and a withdrawn `public` block revokes the
anonymous sessions that had no `kid` to check in the first place. `exp` remains
the outer bound where a credential has one. mTLS peers are exempt, so a
customer-facing decision can never tear down the relay mesh.

There is no relay flag, because `max-age` already is one. An endpoint naming a
`max-age` is saying how long its answer is good for, which is exactly a
revalidation cadence; an endpoint naming none has not asked to be re-consulted,
and gets no re-check at all rather than a cadence the relay invented for it.
That makes revalidation opt-in per response and per project, decided by the
side that knows, and leaves a deployment sending no `Cache-Control` untouched.

The endpoint owns the window outright: there is no relay-side ceiling, so a
long `max-age` is a long revocation window by explicit choice. The only bound
is far beyond any real value, so `Instant` arithmetic cannot overflow on a
`max-age` near `u64::MAX`.

How long a session keeps serving while re-checks FAIL comes from
`stale-if-error`, or `stale-while-revalidate` when that is how the endpoint
expresses it, and defaults to an hour. Flat rather than proportional on
purpose: a short cadence asks for a tight REVOCATION window, not permission to
sever every live session over a brief auth outage, and three cadences would
drop the fleet three minutes into an ordinary Worker deploy. Past the window it
still fails closed. The window runs from where freshness ends, and zero means
"close on the first FAILED re-check" - the attempt itself always gets a full
request budget, so a session is never closed without the endpoint being asked.

Two things hold the request rate to one per grant rather than one per viewer:
identical requests share one in-flight fetch, and re-checks ride the same
cached client as admission, which merges the ones that are not concurrent. The
flight shares the REPLY, never a verdict - sessions sharing a request do not
necessarily hold the same grant, so each authorizes the shared reply against
its own credential and scope. The price of the cache is a reply up to one
max-age old, so worst-case revocation is 2x max-age.

A cached reply the middleware served only because it could not reach the origin
(`Warning: 111`) is not evidence the grant is still good: it is `ApiStale`,
which classifies as unavailable rather than as a revocation, and reports as 502
rather than telling a client its credential was rejected. Without that a
sustained outage would hand back the same cached grant every cadence and push
the staleness deadline forward forever.

`Expired` and `Auth::expired` are public: they were pub(crate), unusable from a
crate embedding moq_relay::Auth - exactly the consumers that need to close a
session on revocation, and the reason to have one seam rather than one
revocation path per gateway.

Co-Authored-By: David von Wrangel <wrangelvid@gmail.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Resolved the HOLD, squashed to one commit (f714d6c). Two decisions.

No relay-side ceiling on max-age

The 24h cadence ceiling is gone rather than reimplemented. It never actually bounded anything - max_ttl is inert in the resolved version, so the cache kept serving the entry regardless - and the honest fix was to stop imposing it. A long max-age is a long revocation window by the endpoint's explicit choice, which is the same principle that makes max-age the opt-in in the first place. The only remaining bound is far beyond any real value and exists so Instant arithmetic cannot overflow on a max-age near u64::MAX.

That deletes the inert max_ttl plumbing too, so cluster peer-list polling is back to untouched caching and cluster.rs is no longer in the diff at all.

The outage default is an hour, not three cadences

An auth API going down must not sever the fleet. The default was proportional to the cadence, so a 60s cadence dropped every live session three minutes into an outage - which an ordinary Worker deploy can exceed. It is now a flat hour: long enough to ride out a real incident, still failing closed past that. A short cadence is a request for a tight revocation window, not permission to disconnect everyone over a blip.

stale-if-error is read and wins over stale-while-revalidate, so an endpoint that wants less says so explicitly.

Covered by a paused-time test that admits a session, takes the endpoint down entirely, and proves it is still serving after 30 minutes and closed by two hours.

Also fixed

ApiStale fell through the status mapping to 401 - telling a client its credential was rejected when the endpoint was simply unreachable and the cache answered for it. It joins the 502 arm.

Method note

The max_ttl reasoning was wrong because I read http-cache alpha.6 source while the lockfile resolves alpha.7 (http-cache-reqwest alpha.8). The caret range had moved. Everything I concluded about max_ttl, Warning: 111, the moka default and stale-directive support came from the wrong file, and it took an empirical probe rather than more reading to establish what actually happens.

213 lib tests plus the integration suites, clippy, fmt, rustdoc and a workspace check all clean.

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Comment thread rs/moq-relay/src/auth.rs
pub expires: Option<std::time::SystemTime>,
/// The grant the auth API must keep vouching for; see [`Auth::revalidate`].
/// Set for every auth-API session, anonymous ones included; never for mTLS.
pub(crate) revalidate: Option<Revalidate>,

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P1 Badge Redact retained JWTs from Debug output

When an embedded caller or diagnostic log formats a successful AuthToken with {:?}, the existing derived Debug now recursively formats this new Revalidate field, whose params contains the original AuthParams.jwt. This exposes the complete bearer token in logs for every JWT session using revalidation; use a custom/redacted Debug implementation or keep the credential in a wrapper that does not print its contents. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)

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