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Targets dev: this is a breaking change to a published crate (see below).

What it does

By default (--auth-api-mode token) the relay is the verifier and nothing changes: the endpoint returns a key for the JWT's kid, or public prefixes for a tokenless connection.

With proxy, the endpoint is the decider. The relay forwards the connection verbatim and enforces what comes back:

GET <base>?root=demo&host=live.example.com&transport=quic
Authorization: Bearer <credential>
{
  "alias": "x7k2qp",
  "tier": "region/sjc",
  "grant": { "subscribe": ["room"], "publish": ["room/alice"], "exp": 1893456000 }
}

The relay verifies nothing and holds no keys. Signature checking, scoping, expiry, per-viewer rules, even subdomain routing become a deploy of the endpoint rather than a roll of the fleet, and the credential need not be a JWT at all - it's an opaque string the endpoint alone interprets.

Why a mode, not a response shape

An earlier revision made this per-response, so one endpoint could answer with a key for one connection and a grant for another. That put both paths inside a single request, and everything awkward followed: which cache key applies, whether the credential may be sent, what "still vouched for" means. Choosing once, per relay, deletes all of it.

The mode lives on AuthApi, not Auth, so it rides on a session's grant alongside the endpoint that issued it - the rule #3069 established. Resolved from whichever Auth runs the re-check instead, a proxy-admitted session re-checked by a token-mode instance sends no credential, finds no key, and closes a session the endpoint is still granting.

The mode is a cost decision

  • token keys on (kid, root, transport), so an audience sharing a signing key is ONE cached request per relay however many distinct tokens they hold. Auth cost tracks broadcasts and keys.
  • proxy puts the credential in the request, so responses cache per credential and auth cost tracks concurrent viewers.

Tokenless connections still cache per path either way, so public broadcasts stay flat in both.

Refusing a viewer

404, an empty grant, or - in proxy mode only - 401/403. The relay reads a 401/403 as a definitive rejection exactly where it forwarded a credential to be rejected. A token-mode request carries no credential, and neither does an anonymous proxy connection, so there the same status can only mean the relay's own identity or a gateway in front of the endpoint, and stays an outage. Reading it otherwise would disconnect a whole audience over a gateway blip.

Expiry

Each re-check's exp replaces the one before it, so an endpoint can cut a session short or extend a renewed one. In token mode the JWT's own exp is a ceiling a reply may lower but never raise - no endpoint reply gets to extend a signed credential's life.

Caching

The relay keys its cache on a SHA-256 of the credential, so an endpoint that forgets Vary: Authorization can't have one viewer served another's grant, and the secret stays out of logs and metrics. Because that key already separates credentials, the cache is declared private: a shared cache refuses to store a credentialed reply on a plain max-age (RFC 9111 §3.5), which would have made the per-credential caching above never actually happen. Nothing reads s-maxage, so the revalidation schedule is unaffected.

Configuration guards

--auth-api-mode proxy cannot be combined with --auth-domain - both decide how a hostname becomes a broadcast root, and proxy mode gives that job to the endpoint. --auth-api-mode without --auth-api is a startup error too: a mode with no endpoint to consult decides nothing.

Breaking change

AuthParams gained a host field, so struct literals naming every field no longer compile; build it with ..Default::default(). No in-tree caller breaks.

Test plan

cargo test -p moq-relay (252 lib), cargo clippy --locked -p moq-relay --all-targets -- -D warnings, cargo sort --workspace --check, cargo fmt --all --check: clean.

New coverage, each verified to fail without its fix: proxy 401/403 closing a session, and token-mode/anonymous-proxy 401/403 staying an outage; a re-check's shortened exp bounding the session, and a reply unable to extend a signed one; both startup guards, plus token mode still accepting --auth-domain; an unknown --auth-api-mode rejected rather than silently defaulting; and a proxy grant re-checked in proxy mode by a token-mode Auth.

Cross-Package Sync: doc/bin/relay/auth.md documents the mode, refusal statuses, expiry, the cache semantics, and the config guards.

Follow-up

mTLS still bypasses the mode entirely (resolve_mtls reads only alias/tier), so an operator can't refuse or scope an mTLS peer through a grant. Unifying that is filed separately - it touches a different code path and carries its own production risk.

(Written by Claude Opus 5)

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Comment thread rs/moq-relay/src/auth.rs
Comment on lines +1514 to +1516
AuthApiMode::Proxy => AuthApiRequest {
path: params.path.clone(),
host: params.host.clone(),

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P1 Badge Preserve the raw URL path in proxy mode

When --auth-domain is configured, params_from_url has already rewritten a URL such as https://customer.cdn.example/foo to /customer/foo, and this branch forwards that rewritten path together with the original host. A proxy endpoint that performs the documented subdomain routing itself will therefore apply customer twice or reject the request, even though proxy mode promises to forward the connection verbatim. Keep the original URL path separately for proxy requests, while retaining the rewritten path for token mode. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)

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Comment thread rs/moq-relay/src/auth.rs
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let mut claims = moq_token::Claims::default()
.with_root(self.root.unwrap_or_else(|| path.to_string()))
.with_subscribe(self.subscribe)
.with_publish(self.publish);
claims.expires = expires;

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P1 Badge Apply updated grant expirations during revalidation

If a proxy endpoint shortens a live session's grant.exp, this value is placed on the temporary token returned by verify_via_api, but recheck_grant only compares root and permission prefixes through Scope::covered_by; the live token continues waiting on its original expiration. With a long max-age, the session can therefore remain authorized well past the endpoint's new outer bound, and if a later response removes exp, that bound may never be enforced. Revalidation needs to propagate or schedule the returned expiration rather than discarding it. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)

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Comment thread rs/moq-relay/src/auth.rs Outdated
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#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, Default, PartialEq, Eq, clap::ValueEnum, Serialize, Deserialize)]
#[serde(rename_all = "lowercase")]
pub enum AuthApiMode {

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P1 Badge Make the new mode enum non-exhaustive

AuthApiMode is exported through moq_relay::*, and auth modes are a naturally extensible configuration surface. Without #[non_exhaustive], downstream exhaustive matches make the next mode a semver-breaking change. Mark this new public enum non-exhaustive before consumers can depend on its closed variant set. rs/CLAUDE.mdL119-L123 (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)

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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()) {

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P2 Badge Reject overflowing proxy expirations

A syntactically valid auth response can provide "exp": 18446744073709551615, which deserializes as u64 but makes UNIX_EPOCH + Duration::from_secs(exp) panic on supported platforms. Thus a malformed or compromised endpoint can panic each connection task instead of producing the documented closed authentication failure. Use SystemTime::checked_add and map overflow to an auth error. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)

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Comment thread rs/moq-relay/src/auth.rs
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/// The URL host, forwarded to the auth API in [`AuthApiMode::Proxy`] so the
/// endpoint can do its own subdomain routing. `None` outside a URL-dialed
/// connection (the gateways pass a path directly).
pub host: Option<String>,

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P2 Badge Forward hosts from the HTTP-authenticated routes

Proxy mode only gets a host when callers populate this new field, but the URL-backed /announced and /fetch handlers still construct AuthParams with host: None in web.rs. Requests through those documented HTTP routes therefore omit the host even though the endpoint is supposed to own host-based routing, so tenant-aware endpoints can reject or misroute them. Extract the request host in those handlers rather than relying on the default. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)

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Comment thread rs/moq-relay/src/auth.rs
/// The URL host, forwarded to the auth API in [`AuthApiMode::Proxy`] so the
/// endpoint can do its own subdomain routing. `None` outside a URL-dialed
/// connection (the gateways pass a path directly).
pub host: Option<String>,

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P1 Badge Preserve existing AuthParams struct literals

Downstream embedders can construct the exported AuthParams with the previous three public fields, so adding the required host field makes those struct literals stop compiling even though proxy mode is presented as an additive feature. Preserve the existing construction shape, or make this a deliberate breaking API change rather than shipping it in a minor release. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)

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Comment thread rs/moq-relay/src/auth.rs Outdated
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if let Some(credential) = &request.credential {
get = get.header(http::header::AUTHORIZATION, format!("Bearer {credential}"));

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P1 Badge Treat proxy 401/403 responses as credential refusals

When a proxy endpoint conventionally rejects this forwarded viewer credential with 401 or 403 during revalidation, error_for_status() converts the response into ApiUnavailable, which recheck treats as an outage rather than revocation. The already-rejected viewer therefore keeps serving through the entire staleness window; in proxy mode, credential-rejection statuses need to produce Refused while genuine relay-authentication failures retain the outage behavior. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)

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Comment thread rs/moq-relay/src/auth.rs

let request = AuthApiRequest {
path: path.to_string(),
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P1 Badge Forward the URL host for mTLS proxy requests

When --auth-api-mode=proxy handles a URL-dialed QUIC peer with a verified client certificate, Connection::authenticate extracts the host but calls verify_mtls with only the path and transport, and this request consequently hard-codes host: None. Host-routed tenants dialing the same path therefore generate indistinguishable auth lookups and may share a cached alias or tier, even though proxy mode delegates subdomain routing to the endpoint. Pass the captured host through the mTLS authentication path.

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Comment thread rs/moq-relay/src/auth.rs
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host: None,
kid: None,
credential: None,
mtls: true,

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P1 Badge Enforce proxy grants for mTLS connections

When --auth-api-mode=proxy handles a peer with a verified client certificate, this mode-agnostic mTLS request is followed by resolve_mtls reading only alias and tier; a 200 {} or a response with a read-only/narrow grant still becomes an unrestricted publish-and-subscribe token. Operators delegating mTLS authorization to the proxy endpoint therefore cannot refuse or restrict these connections through the documented grant response, so the mTLS path needs to validate and enforce the proxy grant rather than only resolving routing metadata. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)

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Comment thread rs/moq-relay/src/auth.rs
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/// the permissions directly. One endpoint and one response type covers both, so
/// it can answer with a `key` for one connection and a `grant` for another; there
/// is no second flag and an operator migrates per connection.

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P2 Badge Describe the selected mode instead of the old mixed response

This comment describes the abandoned per-response design: AuthApiMode is fixed for the relay, and authorize ignores grant in token mode and ignores key in proxy mode, so an endpoint cannot migrate individual connections between the two response shapes as claimed here. Update the comment to describe proxy-mode grants without preserving the earlier design history. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)

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Adds token and proxy authentication API modes. Proxy mode forwards hosts and bearer credentials, validates API-provided grants, enforces expiry, and supports session revalidation and revocation. Auth request flights and HTTP cache entries isolate credentials. Configuration parsing preserves TOML-selected API modes. Tests cover proxy and token behavior, grant validation, credential forwarding, revalidation, and cache separation. Documentation describes proxy-mode requests, grants, expiry, caching, and revalidation.

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280-283: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a language to the fenced code block.

markdownlint reports MD040 for this block. Use http so the request example highlights.

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In `@rs/moq-relay/src/auth.rs`:
- Around line 1520-1551: Update AuthApiMode::Proxy handling in api_request so
the request forwards the incoming mTLS state instead of hardcoding mtls to
false, ensuring proxy-mode endpoints receive mtls=true for mTLS-authenticated
peers. Keep token-mode behavior unchanged and preserve the existing
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- Around line 48-61: Update cache_key to replace DefaultHasher-based
authorization hashing with a SHA-256 digest encoded as hexadecimal, preserving
the existing method/URI key structure and no-authorization behavior. Add direct
sha2 and hex dependencies to moq-relay and use them for the credential cache-key
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Comment thread rs/moq-relay/src/auth.rs Outdated
Comment on lines 1520 to 1551
fn api_request(&self, params: &AuthParams) -> Result<AuthApiRequest, AuthError> {
Ok(AuthApiRequest {
path: params.path.clone(),
kid: match params.jwt.as_deref() {
Some(token) => {
jsonwebtoken::decode_header(token)
.map_err(|_| AuthError::DecodeFailed)?
.kid
}
None => None,
let transport = params.transport.map(Transport::as_str);
Ok(match self.api_mode {
// The credential is NEVER sent: the response depends only on (kid, root,
// transport), which is what lets a whole audience sharing a signing key
// resolve to one cached request per relay.
AuthApiMode::Token => AuthApiRequest {
path: params.path.clone(),
host: None,
kid: match params.jwt.as_deref() {
Some(token) => {
jsonwebtoken::decode_header(token)
.map_err(|_| AuthError::DecodeFailed)?
.kid
}
None => None,
},
credential: None,
mtls: false,
transport,
},
// The connection goes over verbatim and the relay verifies nothing.
AuthApiMode::Proxy => AuthApiRequest {
path: params.path.clone(),
host: params.host.clone(),
kid: None,
credential: params.jwt.clone(),
mtls: false,
transport,
},
mtls: false,
transport: params.transport.map(Transport::as_str),
})
}

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

The proxy request never sets mtls, but the docs say it forwards the mTLS flag.

api_request hardcodes mtls: false for both modes. mTLS peers authenticate through verify_mtls / resolve_mtls, which builds its own request and never uses self.api_mode. So a proxy-mode endpoint never receives mtls=true. The AuthApiMode::Proxy doc comment (Line 631) and doc/bin/relay/auth.md Line 278 both state that the relay forwards the mTLS flag in proxy mode.

Align the documentation with the behavior, or forward the flag in the proxy request.

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of hardcoding mtls to false, ensuring proxy-mode endpoints receive mtls=true for
mTLS-authenticated peers. Keep token-mode behavior unchanged and preserve the
existing verify_mtls/resolve_mtls flow.

Comment on lines +48 to +61
fn cache_key(parts: &http::request::Parts) -> String {
let key = format!("{}:{}", parts.method, parts.uri);
match parts.headers.get(http::header::AUTHORIZATION) {
// Hashed rather than interpolated: the key is a moka map key that can reach
// logs and metrics, and the raw value is a bearer secret.
Some(auth) => {
use std::hash::{Hash, Hasher};
let mut hasher = std::collections::hash_map::DefaultHasher::new();
auth.as_bytes().hash(&mut hasher);
format!("{key}:{:016x}", hasher.finish())
}
None => key,
}
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Use a cryptographic digest for the credential cache-key component.

Proxy requests include Authorization, and cache_key controls shared response reuse. DefaultHasher::new() uses fixed-key SipHash-1-3 and emits only 64 bits, so it is not a collision-resistant credential separator. A colliding credential may reuse another credential’s cached grant. Use a SHA-256 digest with hex encoding, and add direct sha2/hex dependencies to moq-relay.

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Comment thread rs/moq-relay/src/auth.rs Outdated
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#[arg(long = "auth-api-mode", env = "MOQ_AUTH_API_MODE", value_enum)]
#[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
pub api_mode: Option<AuthApiMode>,

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P2 Badge Require an auth API when selecting proxy mode

When --auth-api-mode proxy is set without --auth-api, such as when the endpoint environment variable is accidentally unset, this option has no effect: AuthConfig::is_empty() ignores api_mode, and configurations with another auth source continue into Auth::new, where verify() bypasses api_mode whenever auth_api is None. The relay therefore starts with token or mTLS behavior despite explicitly requesting proxy authorization. Reject this invalid combination at startup rather than silently accepting a security-relevant mode that cannot take effect.

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280-283: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Add a language to the fenced block.

markdownlint reports MD040 for this fence. Use http so the request example highlights and the lint passes.

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Comment thread rs/moq-relay/Cargo.toml
bytesize = "2.4.2"
clap = { version = "4", features = ["derive"] }
futures = "0.3"
hex = "0.4"

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Add both dependencies to the root Cargo.toml [workspace.dependencies], then reference them with { workspace = true } in rs/moq-relay/Cargo.toml. The lockfile already resolves sha2 to 0.11.0 and hex to 0.4.3; no stable-release change is needed.

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Comment thread rs/moq-relay/src/auth.rs
let response = self.client.get(request.url(&self.base)).send().await?;
let mut get = self.client.get(request.url(&self.base));
if let Some(credential) = &request.credential {
get = get.header(http::header::AUTHORIZATION, format!("Bearer {credential}"));

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P2 Badge Make authorized proxy replies cacheable

When a proxy endpoint follows the documented pattern and returns only Cache-Control: max-age=..., adding this Authorization header prevents http-cache-reqwest's shared-cache semantics from storing the response unless an authorization-enabling directive such as public, s-maxage, or must-revalidate is also present. Consequently, the new credential-specific cache key does not help for the documented response, and repeated admissions or revalidations for the same credential continue hitting the endpoint instead of caching per credential as promised. Configure these entries with appropriate private-cache semantics or require and document a directive that permits caching authorized responses. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)

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By default (`--auth-api-mode token`) the relay is the verifier and nothing
changes. With `proxy`, the relay forwards the connection verbatim - host,
path, transport, and the credential as `Authorization: Bearer` - and enforces
the `grant` it gets back, verifying nothing and holding no keys.

The mode lives on `AuthApi` rather than `Auth`, so it rides on a session's
grant alongside the endpoint that issued it: a re-check asks the question
admission asked, never the one whichever `Auth` runs it would ask.

BREAKING CHANGE: `AuthParams` gained a `host` field, so struct literals that
name every field no longer compile. Build it with `..Default::default()`.

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@kixelated kixelated changed the title feat(relay): add --auth-api-mode proxy, where the endpoint decides feat(relay)!: add --auth-api-mode proxy, where the endpoint decides Aug 26, 2026

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Comment thread rs/moq-relay/src/auth.rs
Comment on lines +1571 to +1576
AuthApiMode::Proxy => {
let grant = resp.grant.as_ref().ok_or(AuthError::Refused)?;
if grant.is_empty() {
return Err(AuthError::Refused);
}
grant.to_claims(&params.path)?

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P1 Badge Allow proxy aliases to include host-derived path segments

After this revision rejects combining proxy mode with --auth-domain, the endpoint is solely responsible for turning the forwarded host into a broadcast root, but these claims are still finalized against only params.path and finalize requires the alias to have the same segment depth. For example, https://customer.example/ with { "alias": "x7k2qp", "grant": { "subscribe": [""] } } is rejected as IncorrectRoot because / has depth zero while the host-derived alias has depth one; paths such as /room similarly cannot become x7k2qp/room. Thus the newly delegated subdomain-routing flow cannot actually prepend its canonical host root. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)

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Comment thread rs/moq-relay/src/auth.rs
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bound = match grant.api.mode {
AuthApiMode::Token => match (grant.expires, expires) {
(Some(ceiling), Some(expires)) => Some(ceiling.min(expires)),
(ceiling, None) => ceiling,
(None, expires) => expires,
},
AuthApiMode::Proxy => expires,
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P2 Badge Let proxy revalidation replace the admission expiry

When a proxy session is admitted with a near exp and a successful recheck returns a later one, this branch updates only the revalidation loop's local bound. Auth::expired is concurrently awaiting token.expired() using the immutable admission-time expiry, so that timer still closes the session at the original time and the endpoint cannot extend a renewed grant as documented. The proxy session needs a single dynamically replaceable expiry path rather than retaining the admission timer in parallel. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)

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Comment thread rs/moq-relay/src/web.rs Outdated
Comment on lines +663 to +667
fn request_host(headers: &http::HeaderMap) -> Option<String> {
headers
.get(http::header::HOST)
.and_then(|host| host.to_str().ok())
.map(str::to_ascii_lowercase)

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P2 Badge Read the HTTP/2 authority when forwarding route hosts

The newly added host extraction still loses the tenant host when /announced or /fetch is served over HTTP/2: HTTP/2 carries the host in the request URI's :authority, and Hyper exposes that as Uri::authority() rather than requiring a Host header. Since the HTTPS listener advertises h2, ordinary clients can therefore produce host: None and be rejected or routed as the wrong tenant in proxy mode. Extract the authority with an HTTP-aware host extractor or fall back between URI authority and Host. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)

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`Auth::expired` raced the revalidation loop against `token.expired()`, a
timer built from admission's immutable expiry. A re-check could therefore
shorten a session but never extend one, though the docs claimed both: the
admission timer fired first and closed a grant the endpoint had renewed. The
loop already starts from that same bound and tracks every reply's, so it
subsumes the timer rather than racing it.

Also read the host from the URI authority in `/announced` and `/fetch`:
HTTP/2 carries it in `:authority` and usually sends no `Host` header, and the
HTTPS listener advertises h2, so proxy mode lost the tenant for ordinary
clients.

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Comment thread rs/moq-relay/src/web.rs
.get(http::header::HOST)
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// A `Host` header may carry a port; `Authority::host` already strips one.
.map(|host| host.rsplit_once(':').map_or(host, |(host, _)| host).to_string())

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P2 Badge Parse IPv6 Host headers before stripping the port

For an HTTP/1.1 /announced or /fetch request whose Host is an IPv6 literal without a port, such as [2001:db8::1], rsplit_once(':') treats the final address component as a port and forwards a truncated host like [2001:db8: to the proxy auth endpoint. This can reject or misroute otherwise valid IPv6-addressed requests; parse the header as an HTTP Authority and use its host component instead.

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