api: five reads that were declared as writes are now GET

The permission model being built reads the HTTP method to decide whether a
non-owner may make a call: safe methods are reads, everything else is a write.
That only works if the method tells the truth. These five read something and
returned it while announcing themselves as writes, so a member would have been
denied a read they are entitled to because of a habit in how the route was
declared.

  /api/file-browser/video-info         POST {url}  -> GET ?url=
  /api/file-browser/video-playlist     POST {url}  -> GET ?url=
  /api/server-settings/ocr/models      POST {url}  -> GET ?url=
  /api/transmission/_officer/port-test POST        -> GET
  /api/jellyfin/_config/:id/test       POST|GET    -> GET only

The last one already answered to both, which is worse than either: a method that
means nothing cannot be the thing authorisation reads.

Deliberately stops at five. A sweep of all 100 mutating routes found many more
reads wearing POST, and they are staying, for two reasons that are not going
away: some need a request body GET cannot carry (/stt takes multipart audio;
/tts, /ocr, /transcribe take payloads), and some carry a credential, where a
query string is the wrong place — access logs, shell history and Referer headers
all capture those, request bodies do not (/tts/voices takes an apiKey, the four
/test endpoints take connection secrets, /local-providers/probe takes auth).

So the method alone can never carry the permission model, and the registry will
need an explicit per-route classification regardless. Converting these five is
worth it because it is free; converting the rest would be a breaking change
across 117 mobile call sites that buys nothing.

Web callers updated in the same commit; the sidecar contract comments now match.
Mobile has exactly one caller to change — transmissionPortTest in
packages/core/src/services/transmission.ts — and no shim was added, because an
endpoint answering to both methods is the problem this commit exists to fix.

docs/api-method-changes-2026-08-06.md is the handoff for the mobile team: what
changed, the one line to edit, what deliberately did NOT change and why, and how
to verify.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

src/servers/api/file-browser/router.ts

@@ -1331,8 +1331,10 @@ router.get('/download-video/:jobId', (ctx) => {
 // Prefetch a single video's metadata (title / thumbnail / duration / uploader) — proxied straight to
 // ReClip's /api/info so the download dialog can show a preview card before committing. Errors (private
 // video, timeout, …) come back as { error } with a 200 so the client can render them inline.
-router.post('/video-info', async (ctx) => {
-  const { url } = ctx.get('body') as { url?: string };
+// GET, not POST: it reads and writes nothing. The method is not cosmetic — the permission model reads
+// it to decide whether a non-owner may call this, and a read filed as a write is a read they lose.
+router.get('/video-info', async (ctx) => {
+  const url = ctx.req.query('url');
   if (!url) throw errors.BAD_REQUEST('url is required');
   const res = await fetch(`${RECLIP_BASE}/api/info`, {
     method: 'POST',
@@ -1347,8 +1349,9 @@ router.post('/video-info', async (ctx) => {
 
 // Expand a playlist URL into its individual video URLs (ReClip's /api/playlist → { urls }). The client
 // then prefetches /video-info per url to build the per-entry cards.
-router.post('/video-playlist', async (ctx) => {
-  const { url } = ctx.get('body') as { url?: string };
+// GET for the same reason as /video-info above.
+router.get('/video-playlist', async (ctx) => {
+  const url = ctx.req.query('url');
   if (!url) throw errors.BAD_REQUEST('url is required');
   const res = await fetch(`${RECLIP_BASE}/api/playlist`, {
     method: 'POST',

src/servers/api/server-settings/ocr.ts

@@ -27,8 +27,11 @@ ocrRouter.put('/', async (ctx) => {
   return ctx.json({ success: true });
 });
 
-ocrRouter.post('/models', async (ctx) => {
-  const body = await ctx.req.json<{ url: string }>();
+// GET: it asks a provider what models it has and returns the answer. Nothing is written, and the only
+// input is a URL — no credential, so a query string is the right place for it. Kept POST until
+// 2026-08-06 purely by habit, and the permission model reads the method.
+ocrRouter.get('/models', async (ctx) => {
+  const body = { url: ctx.req.query('url') ?? '' };
   if (!body.url) return ctx.json({ error: 'URL required' }, 400);
 
   try {

src/servers/sidecar/jellyfin/config.ts

@@ -226,8 +226,11 @@ export async function handleConfigRoute(req: Request, userId: number, subpath: s
     return serverList(userId);
   }
 
+  // GET only. It probes one server and reports whether it answered — nothing is written, and nothing is
+  // switched (that is `activate`, below). It accepted POST as well until 2026-08-06, which made the
+  // method meaningless for deciding whether this is a read; the permission model needs that answer.
   if (action === 'test') {
-    if (req.method !== 'POST' && req.method !== 'GET') return bad('method not allowed', 405);
+    if (req.method !== 'GET') return bad('method not allowed', 405);
     return testServer(userId, id);
   }
 

src/servers/sidecar/jellyfin/index.ts

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ import { getConfig, probe } from './upstream';
 //                                        for an access token and never stored
 //   PATCH /_config/:id                   same fields, all optional; no password keeps the stored token
 //   POST /_config/:id/activate           switch to that server
-//   POST /_config/:id/test               probe one server without switching to it
+//   GET  /_config/:id/test               probe one server without switching to it
 //   DEL  /_config/:id                    remove it; the newest survivor is promoted if it was active
 //
 //   GET  /_officer/home                  views + resume + next-up + latest-per-view, one round trip

src/servers/sidecar/transmission/index.ts

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ import { getTransmissionConfig } from './upstream';
 //   POST /_officer/torrents/rename    {id, path, name}
 //   POST /_officer/torrents/remove    {ids, deleteLocalData}
 //   GET  /_officer/free-space?path=   free space at a path
-//   POST /_officer/port-test          is the peer port reachable from outside
+//   GET  /_officer/port-test          is the peer port reachable from outside
 //   POST /_officer/blocklist-update   refresh the blocklist, returns the new size
 //   anything else                     404
 //

src/servers/sidecar/transmission/routes.ts

@@ -198,8 +198,11 @@ async function handleFreeSpace(ctx: OfficerContext): Promise<Response> {
   return Response.json({ path: result.path, bytes: result['size-bytes'] });
 }
 
+// GET: it asks the daemon whether the peer port is reachable and returns the answer. Nothing changes,
+// on this side or Transmission's. Blocklist-update below stays POST because it genuinely refetches and
+// replaces the list — the two look alike and are not.
 async function handlePortTest(ctx: OfficerContext): Promise<Response> {
-  if (ctx.req.method !== 'POST') return methodNotAllowed();
+  if (ctx.req.method !== 'GET') return methodNotAllowed();
   const result = await rpc<{ 'port-is-open': boolean }>(ctx.userId, 'port-test');
   return Response.json({ open: result['port-is-open'] });
 }