Bun stores a per-request timeout in ONE BYTE. anything above 255 seconds
clamps to 255 — so a plugin declaring a generous 1800 got a SHORTER
timeout than one declaring nothing at all, which falls through to 0 and is
unlimited. the line meant to fix this is what armed it.
that is what killed every long transcription. 1800 became 255, the upload
took a second, the connection dropped at 4m16s, and whisperx went on and
finished into a dead socket. every time, all night, while three separate
fixes above it were already live and correct.
six plugins declare more than 255 and all six were getting 255:
transcribe, email and music at 1800, jellyfin at 3600, minesweeper and
photos at 600. fixed here rather than by deleting the declaration from one
router, because the other five have the same bomb.
anything Bun cannot represent becomes 0. a plugin asking for longer than
Bun's maximum is asking for "do not cut this off", and 0 is the only value
that means it.
found by the owner, after i had already looked at this file twice.
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const TIMEOUTS_ON = false, in create-proxy.ts. flip the line to turn them
back on. no environment variable, nothing to set per host.
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SIDECAR_TIMEOUTS=1 puts the old behaviour back — Bun's built-in fetch
ceiling outbound, and the inbound drop at whatever each plugin declared.
unset, which is the default, means no ceiling on either leg.
one constant in one file rather than a knob per plugin: turning it on or
off should not mean remembering which of eight routers to edit.
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a 42-minute recording was transcribed successfully and the result thrown
away. whisperx logged POST /inference 200 OK; the platform had already
answered 502 "transcribe sidecar unreachable" four minutes in. the work was
done, nobody received it, and the error blamed the machine that had just
finished the job.
timeoutSeconds only ever governed the INBOUND leg — how long Bun holds the
caller's connection. the proxy's own fetch to the sidecar had nothing on
it, so it took Bun's built-in ceiling no matter what a plugin declared.
transcribe declares 1800 and still gave up at four minutes.
both legs now: `timeout: false` on the outbound fetch, unconditionally, and
the inbound timeout applied to every proxied request with 0 — no timeout —
as the default. the owner's call, and the right one: long requests will
keep arriving from everywhere and every ceiling is a number somebody
guessed.
an AbortSignal is deliberately NOT used. it cannot raise Bun's ceiling,
only lower it, and it aborts the response BODY too — this proxy carries
video, and jellyfin declares 3600, so a signal would have cut a film at
exactly one hour of playback. i wrote that version first.
and a timeout no longer reports as "unreachable". one means the sidecar is
not there, the other means it is there and still working. that sentence
sent an hour of debugging at the wrong machine.
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to send one message to four accounts an hour ago i found the sidecar's
ephemeral port and POSTed to it directly, once per user, with no
authentication of any kind. that worked, which was the problem: the same
door was open to anything else on the machine, including a commander with
a shell.
two changes.
POST /api/notify/broadcast, owner only via `ownerOnly` on the permission —
the supported way to say one thing to everyone. teams will narrow it later;
today the choice is everyone or one person.
and the sidecar now requires a secret on everything under /_officer/. it
is generated per boot, held in memory, announced to the platform over the
registration socket beside the port, and never written to disk.
X-Officer-User could not carry this on its own, and my first attempt got
that wrong: it says WHO is asking, and a caller on loopback can write it
itself. only the secret says the PLATFORM is asking. so the check covers
the whole /_officer/ surface rather than just the send route — /_officer/
devices takes the same header to decide whose phones are listed and
deleted.
what it bounds, honestly: a MEMBER's commander runs as its own Linux user
and cannot read this process, so for every account but the owner's this is
kernel-enforced. the owner's own commander runs as the owner, same as the
platform, and is not bounded by this and cannot be — the same reason
`execution` permissions are never grantable. the owner's decision, and
this is a real improvement rather than a boundary.
`bun run notify:test` posts to that port and will now be refused. it is a
developer CLI on a box where the platform is running; left to fail loudly
rather than given a way in.
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A plugin worth granting to a Member can also hold the credential the rest of it runs on. Jellyfin's
/_config stores a server's admin token and drives account provisioning; the rest of the plugin is
exactly what a Member should have. The choice was all of it or none of it.
`ownerOnly` on a plugin permission takes sub-paths relative to the mount prefix. The permission stays
fully grantable — this is not the ownerOnly PERMISSION that manifest.ts refuses, and that refusal
still stands: a permission nobody can delegate is a contradiction. This says a few paths administer
the plugin rather than use it.
Declared by the plugin, enforced by the platform. A plugin could check this itself and the first one
would; the tenth would add a route and forget, with no boot failure and no warning — the shape
assertPermissionTotality exists to prevent. In the gate it is enforced once, on the door they all
pass through, and a route added later by someone who never read the manifest is covered by default.
Checked before selfService and before kind. A path that is somehow both self-service and owner-only
is a contradiction, and the safe reading has to win. A write grant does not unlock it either — level
is not the question this answers.
Also forwards X-Officer-Owner and X-Officer-Level to a sidecar whose proxy names its permission key,
for the finer decisions the platform cannot make for it: whose rows a read returns, which fields a
level may see. Facts, never the role name — a plugin branching on "Super Admin" would give every
plugin repository an opinion about the platform's role vocabulary, and renaming a role would change
authorization in code the platform does not own. These are safe to trust only because the proxy
copies a three-item allowlist off the inbound request; that is now written where it would be changed.
The owner's level is reported as write rather than the absent 'none': they hold everything implicitly
and appear in no grants map, so the raw lookup inverts the meaning for the one account that can do
anything.
No plugin declares one yet. Jellyfin cannot until connections stop being per-user — locking /_config
today leaves a Member with a plugin that only shows a connect form they may not submit.
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An upload over a few MB came back as a 400 with an empty body, no message anywhere, and nothing logged
by Immich, the sidecar or officer. It was a race, not a size limit. Immich judges an asset from its
first few KB and rejects immediately, then closes; both our hops were still writing the body; Node
treats the leftover bytes as a protocol violation and replaces the application's answer with a bodyless
`400 Bad Request` + `Connection: close`. The real message never reached the wire.
Measured before the change: streamed lost the message 1/4 at 8 MB and 4/4 at 32 MB — probability rising
with size, which is why small photos usually worked and a phone's video never did.
Both hops needed it. Fixing only the sidecar took 32 MB from 4/4 failing to 2/4, because the platform
proxy was losing it one hop up.
Bounded at 512 MB, above which the body streams exactly as before. That ceiling is not a refusal and is
deliberately not a 413: a file Immich ACCEPTS is read to the end and never races, so a 4 GB video is
unaffected. All that is given up above the cap is the error message on a file that was going to be
rejected anyway. A first attempt refused over-cap uploads outright and would have broken the working
4 GB case to improve diagnosis of the doomed one.
`bufferRequestBody` is opt-in and off by default: the vault and wallet proxies must keep streaming so a
passphrase or macaroon never lands in the platform's heap.
Also adds the proxy error logging that made this findable at all — status and two byte counts from
headers, never the bodies. `responseBytes: "unknown"` is what exposed the stripped response.
Verified live at 32/256 MB (buffered) and 640 MB (streamed, passes through).
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every multipart upload through /api/<sidecar>/* arrived corrupted. bodyParser ran on
proxy routes and called parseBody for multipart, so hono cached a FormData on the
request; when the proxy then asked for the bytes hono re-serialised them from that
cache with a NEW boundary, while the proxy still forwarded the ORIGINAL content-type
header. header and body disagreed and the far side rejected it with
"Multipart: Unexpected end of form".
bodyParser now skips prefixes owned by createSidecarProxy, which register themselves
so a new sidecar cannot forget. the proxy also forwards the body as a stream instead
of buffering it, which drops the second in-memory copy of every upload.
note the bug report proposed skipping multipart in bodyParser outright; that would
have broken /upload, /file-browser upload and /bug-report, which do read a multipart
body from ctx.get('body').
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createSidecarProxy arrived with the wallet but nothing else moved onto it, so five sidecars
still carried their own copy of the same two files: a sidecar-server.ts that remembered a
port announced as `<name>:server`, and a router.ts that forwarded the subpath. Byte for
byte identical once the app name was normalised away — which is exactly what the factory's
own header said it existed to end.
headscale, transmission, invoiceshelf, slskd and music are now wallet-shaped: create the
proxy, export the router and the URL getter. 386 lines deleted against 163 added, and the
five feature directories go from ~70 lines each to ~18.
Two deviations were real and moved INTO the factory rather than being dropped, because both
are HTTP concerns rather than app knowledge:
- Range and If-None-Match are now forwarded for every sidecar. music needed both (seeking,
and ETag revalidation returning a cheap 304 instead of a cover image) and slskd needed
Range. Forwarding them everywhere costs nothing and removes the reason to hand-roll.
- timeoutSeconds, used only by music at 1800. A from-scratch reindex holds the proxied
connection open for minutes with no bytes flowing, which the 60s idle timeout would drop.
It applies to the whole prefix — the proxy must not know which of a sidecar's routes are
slow.
The five side-effect imports in hono.ts are gone with them: the port listener now registers
when createSidecarProxy runs inside the router this file already imports. Vault keeps its
hand-rolled pair and its side-effect import — it is off-limits by standing instruction, and
is the one sidecar this commit deliberately does not touch.
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eight sidecars hand-rolled the same port capture — byte-identical once
the app name is normalised — and six repeated the same auth-and-forward
router. createSidecarProxy collapses both into one call and covers the
variants the others need: a ws:// url for music and vault, an onRegister
hook for opencode.
the wallet adopts it first: two files become one, 54 lines of router
become 16, and hono no longer needs a side-effect import to capture the
port. the no-body-parsing, no-body-logging rule moves into the factory
with its rationale, since that restraint is what keeps unlock
passphrases and macaroons out of the platform process.
costs 31 net lines today and pays back from the second adopter on.
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