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fix(relay): report the certificate-selecting SNI and keep certificates a fact - #6509

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Completes quest/m1/auth-contract.md: the auth request reports what the connection actually negotiated, and a client certificate stays a fact for the auth server.

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  • server_name is the certificate-selecting SNI. The HTTPS listener reads the SNI off the rustls stream (HttpStream::server_name) and hands it to /announced, /fetch, and the WebSocket upgrade's link. Plain HTTP and ws:// report none instead of the Host header or :authority, since the auth request has no field that would tell a server the value was client-chosen.
  • No authority fallback on WebTransport. request_for (tokio) and the io_uring path no longer substitute the CONNECT authority or URL host when the client sent no SNI (an IP-literal dial).
  • Hidden routes follow the grant. Cluster::scope and scope_session derive hidden-route visibility from the grant's peer flag instead of request.tls.is_some() || is_lan_path(..). The LAN credential's grant already sets peer, so it keeps the exemption, and a gateway request whose path merely looks like /.cluster no longer gets it.
  • Bounded auth reply. moq_auth::Client reads at most 1 MiB of a reply, chunk by chunk, before parsing. A longer grant is an outage; a longer 401/403 body is a plain refusal.
  • Docs. moq_auth::Request::server_name, Grant::peer, the JS contract mirror, doc/bin/relay/auth.md, and doc/bin/relay/cluster.md now say what the code does. The cluster page documents the rolling-upgrade exemption where operators read about peer.

The consumer for every change is the relay's auth contract itself: an auth server that scopes by hostname, and the mesh's hidden .stats/ routes.

Public API and wire impact

  • Rust API: none public. HttpStream (internal trait) gains server_name(); a crate-private web::ServerName request extension carries it.
  • Auth contract (JSON to the auth server): no shape change. server_name is now absent where it used to carry a client-chosen host (plain HTTP, ws://, WebTransport without SNI). Entries added under ## Unreleased in rs/moq-relay/MIGRATE.md.
  • Behavior: a verified certificate without a peer grant no longer discovers hidden routes unasked. moq auth serve --mtls-peer, which every demo and nix config already passes, keeps the exemption.
  • MoQ wire: none.

Tests

  • web::tests::server_name_is_the_sni_never_the_host: an HTTP/1.1 /announced read and a WebSocket upgrade, each with a forged Host, over HTTPS (reports localhost, the SNI) and plain HTTP (reports none).
  • auth_lifetime::quic_and_webtransport_report_distinct_auth_transports: an IP-literal QUIC and WebTransport dial report no server_name on the tokio stack.
  • runtime_uring::uring_workers_report_link_facts: the same IP-literal dials report none on io_uring, beside the localhost dials that report the SNI.
  • cluster::tests::only_a_peer_grant_discovers_hidden_routes: a certificate-only session sees no hidden routes through either scoping path; a peer grant does.
  • client::tests::replies_are_bounded: a reply of exactly the bound admits, one byte more is refused, and an oversized 403 is a plain refusal.

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  • just check: pass (820 + 226 Rust tests, JS, quest, markdown, shell).
  • cargo nextest run -p moq-relay --features io-uring uring_workers_report_link_facts: pass.

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kixelated and others added 2 commits October 22, 2026 22:21
Quest-Claim: b5cdac5f54b62195
…s a fact

The auth request's `server_name` is now the SNI that selected the relay's
certificate on every transport: HTTPS reads and WebSocket upgrades take it
from the TLS stream, and neither the `Host` header, `:authority`, nor a
WebTransport CONNECT host stands in for a missing one, on either listener
stack. Hidden-route discovery follows the grant's `peer` flag instead of any
verified certificate, and the auth client bounds the reply it reads.

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@kixelated kixelated changed the title The auth request reports what the connection negotiated fix(relay): report the certificate-selecting SNI and keep certificates a fact Oct 23, 2026
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Quest quest/m1/auth-contract.md is implemented in full and the quest file is deleted.

  • server_name is the certificate-selecting SNI on HTTPS reads, WebSocket upgrades, QUIC, and WebTransport on both listener stacks; plain HTTP, ws://, and IP-literal dials report none.
  • Hidden-route discovery follows the grant's peer flag, not a verified certificate.
  • moq_auth::Client reads at most 1 MiB of a reply.
  • just check passes locally, and so does the io_uring link-facts test.

One judgement call, open to challenge: the reply bound is a 1 MiB constant. The quest asked for a bound, and this value bounds the memory each admission in flight holds while leaving room for grants with thousands of patterns.

Suggested follow-up: the tls:// TCP listener reports neither SNI nor a client certificate, because qmux::tls::Server::accept exposes neither.

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The relay now sets server_name from TLS SNI rather than request host information. Hidden-route visibility now depends on the admitted grant’s peer flag. Authentication response bodies are limited to 1 MiB, with tests for oversized responses and the exact limit. Documentation and migration notes describe the updated contracts.

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The behavior is mergeable with bounded documentation follow-up, but operators could misconfigure session filters or hostname-scoped WebSocket policy until the two descriptions are corrected.

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🟡 Minor · Update the Filter.server_name contract. · session.rs:156

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Update the Filter.server_name contract.

The comment still promises a match against “the host the client addressed.” For plain HTTP or ws://, the changed authentication path leaves Request.server_name empty. An operator who filters /sessions or a revalidation push by that host will match no such sessions. Describe this filter as SNI-only. As per coding guidelines, “Fix any outdated docs and comments inline; don't add a separate PR for it.”

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`server_name` is the SNI that selected the relay's certificate. It is absent
over plaintext and for an IP-literal dial, and never filled from a `Host`
header or a WebTransport authority. The client still picks it among the names

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P2 Badge Document the TLS-over-TCP exception

Clarify that tls:// stream sessions also report no server_name. In this commit's moq-tokio path, tcp::Listener::accept_pending discards the rustls connection metadata and spawn_tcp_loop constructs Link { ..Default::default() }, so a hostname-based TLS TCP dial reaches auth with server_name: None even though it is neither plaintext nor IP-literal. As written, operators may configure hostname-scoped auth expecting these documented conditions to cover tls:// and unexpectedly refuse those cluster links.

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Fixed in 42ebdc3: the auth page now lists the tls:// TCP listener among the cases with no server_name. Reporting its SNI (and a client certificate) would need qmux::tls::Server::accept to expose the rustls connection, so that is left as a follow-up rather than added to this PR.

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#	rs/moq-relay/src/websocket.rs
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Merge summary:

  • Merged origin/main (d60f797) to clear conflicts with fix(relay): expose accepted HTTP peers through ConnectInfo #6430 (ConnectInfo is now a plain SocketAddr; kept the ServerName extension alongside it), refactor(stats): one name per stats track, reader, and CLI surface #6472 (both MIGRATE.md entries kept), and the cluster page's backoff wording. Both web.rs tests kept.
  • Reviews: CodeRabbit's two findings (ws:// vs wss:// in the migration note, SNI-only Filter.server_name) and Codex's tls:// finding were fixed in e64d968 and 42ebdc3. Changes since Codex's review of e64d968 are one doc line plus the conflict resolution.
  • Decisions: the 1 MiB auth-reply cap stays as a fixed bound, per the maintainer.
  • Checks: just check passed locally on the merged head (825 + 227 Rust tests, JS, quest, markdown, shell); quest check --base origin/main passed. Check runs in the merge queue.

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