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Overview

Successful managed responses dropped the provider's headers. Failures kept them. So a client got request-id and the rate limit headers on a 429 but not on a 200. This relays them on success too, following "always provide headers" from the issue.

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  • Each successful attempt records its filtered headers, keyed by what it produced: its JSON for a buffered call, its first event for a stream. The client gets the headers of the attempt whose key matches what the gateway actually returns.
  • Several matches (identical bodies), or a rewritten response with several successes, keep only the headers every candidate sent with the same values. A single success keeps its headers even if middleware rewrote the body, since it's the only upstream call.
  • The gateway keeps its own content-type and drops content-encoding, since it re-encodes the body. It also drops x-nemo-relay-*, so a provider can't raise x-nemo-relay-worker-route-failure at the broker. The worker paths already strip that one.
  • The two gateway_concurrent_next_uses_canonical_selected_* tests from feat: add opt-in exact-match caching for LLM responses #404 now expect the selected attempt's header instead of none. New tests cover two 200 attempts, middleware that reads both streams before returning one, and identical bodies with different headers.

Real run on main e9d7c05, mock provider sending 7 headers:

Path before after
curl through the gateway, streaming / not 0 / 0 7 / 7
Claude Code 2.1.316 via nemo-relay run --agent claude (ratelimit-unified-status / request-id in its debug log) 0 / 0 2 / 3, same as direct

just test-rust: 6756 passed.

Not in this PR: the failure path still forwards a provider's x-nemo-relay-* headers, same as before.

Where should the reviewer start?

CapturedUpstreamSuccesses and FirstEventTap in crates/cli/src/gateway/mod.rs, then gateway_streaming_headers_follow_the_returned_stream_after_both_are_read.

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  • New Features
    • Managed responses retain headers agreed upon by eligible upstream attempts, including request IDs, rate-limit metadata, and multiple cookies.
    • Streaming responses use the first event delivered to select an upstream attempt. If no attempt can be selected, only headers shared by all candidates are retained.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Response content types now reflect the gateway’s output format. Upstream content-encoding, digest, provider relay, and worker-route-failure headers are excluded.

Managed buffered and streaming successes drop the provider's request-id and rate limit headers, while failures keep them. This test fails until they are relayed.

Signed-off-by: Somay-kousis <somaykaush@gmail.com>
Managed buffered and streaming successes built their headers from an empty map, so clients lost request-id and rate limit headers that failures keep. Capture each successful attempt's headers and always relay one attempt's: for buffered calls the attempt whose JSON was returned, for streams the attempt whose stream yielded the first event, else the latest success. Relay's own x-nemo-relay-* headers, content-type and content-encoding are not taken from the provider. The two concurrent-next tests now expect the selected attempt's header instead of none.

Signed-off-by: Somay-kousis <somaykaush@gmail.com>
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Walkthrough

The gateway captures headers from successful upstream attempts. Buffered responses match attempts against the runtime-selected JSON. Streaming responses match attempts against the first event delivered to the client. When multiple candidates remain, the gateway retains only headers shared by every candidate. Both paths filter specified headers and set the gateway content type.

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Managed response headers

Layer / File(s) Summary
Buffered response header selection
crates/cli/src/gateway/mod.rs, crates/cli/tests/coverage/shared/gateway_tests.rs
The gateway captures headers from successful buffered attempts and matches them against the returned JSON. If multiple candidates remain, it retains only headers whose complete value lists agree. Tests cover no attempts, matching and rewritten responses, and ambiguous candidates.
Streaming response header selection
crates/cli/src/gateway/mod.rs, crates/cli/tests/coverage/shared/gateway_tests.rs
The gateway associates captured headers with each successful stream’s first event and selects headers using the first event delivered to the client. The stream wrapper delegates polling, terminalization, and closing. Tests verify event capture and lifecycle delegation.
Concurrent successes and provider headers
crates/cli/tests/coverage/shared/server_tests.rs
Tests cover concurrent successful attempts, delayed losing attempts, and identical buffered bodies. They also check forwarding of provider request IDs, rate-limit metadata, and multiple Set-Cookie values, while excluding specified representation and worker-route-failure headers.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related PRs

  • NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay#1536: Both changes involve first-event handling in managed streaming responses.
  • NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay#1658: This routing change sends additional Claude requests through the managed path whose successful-response headers this change relays.
  • NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay#1361: Stream validation affects the managed stream path where this change captures first-event data.
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The reviewed managed-response header changes are ready to merge after normal checks.

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  • observed — crates (service) was modified; 3 changed files map to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

  • observed — Modified behavior in crates/cli/src/gateway/mod.rs: Imports LlmStreamInner for the stream wrapper’s lifecycle delegation.
  • observed — Modified behavior in crates/cli/src/gateway/mod.rs: Adds successful-attempt header capture and selection. Buffered attempts are matched by returned JSON; streaming attempts are matched by first event. If no attempts match, all are candidates; when multiple candidates exist, only headers with identical complete value lists across all candidates are retained. Private relay and provider body-representation headers are removed, and the gateway content type is inserted. FirstEventTap observes the first successful event and delegates polling, terminalization, and closing to the wrapped stream.
  • observed — Modified behavior in crates/cli/src/gateway/mod.rs: Creates shared successful-attempt storage for managed buffered execution and passes it to the callback.
  • observed — Modified behavior in crates/cli/src/gateway/mod.rs: Buffered success responses now derive headers from captured attempts matching the runtime-returned JSON instead of constructing a content-type-only header map.
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Title check Passed The title follows Conventional Commits format, uses the allowed lowercase type fix, gives an imperative summary, and is under 72 characters with no trailing period.
Description check Passed The description includes the required overview, both confirmation checkboxes, implementation details, reviewer starting point, and a related issue with the required Fixes keyword.
Linked Issues check Passed Issue #1687 requires successful managed responses to relay provider headers, excluding hop-by-hop headers and content-length. The gateway captures headers per successful attempt and selects them by …
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The changes support issue #1687. Removing provider encoding and digest headers matches the gateway’s body re-encoding. Filtering provider x-nemo-relay-* headers prevents providers from setting Relay…
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Explanation

Issue #1687 requires successful managed responses to relay provider headers, excluding hop-by-hop headers and content-length. The gateway captures headers per successful attempt and selects them by the buffered JSON or the stream’s first event. When several attempts are candidates, it retains only header values shared by all candidates. response_headers removes hop-by-hop headers and content-length; success handling also preserves the gateway’s content-type and removes headers invalidated by body re-encoding. The tests cover attempt selection, ambiguous matches, header filtering, and streams read before selection.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

The changes support issue #1687. Removing provider encoding and digest headers matches the gateway’s body re-encoding. Filtering provider x-nemo-relay-* headers prevents providers from setting Relay control headers. The latest commit adds stream-tap coverage. No unrelated changes are evident.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @crates/cli/src/gateway/mod.rs:
- Around line 521-541: Update the response-header handling in the gateway’s
re-encoding path to remove provider-supplied Content-Digest and Repr-Digest
headers alongside Content-Type and Content-Encoding before inserting the new
Content-Type, so clients do not receive digests for the provider’s original
bytes.

Review comments at @crates/cli/tests/coverage/shared/gateway_tests.rs:
- Around line 2883-2910: Extend the test’s attempt() fixture with an
x-nemo-relay-route-failure header and assert that
CapturedUpstreamSuccesses::response_headers omits it. Add a streaming case with
two captured attempts, call mark_first_event(0), and verify
response_headers(None, ...) selects req_1; also verify an exact JSON match takes
priority over the marked first event.

Review comments at @crates/cli/tests/coverage/shared/server_tests.rs:
- Around line 7324-7419: Update the provider fixture in
managed_success_responses_keep_provider_headers to include a content-encoding
header, then assert it is absent from the gateway response for both streaming
and non-streaming cases. Preserve the existing header-filtering assertions.
- Line 7399: Update the assertion on headers.get_all("set-cookie") to compare
the collected cookie values with the expected provider values, a=1 and b=2,
rather than checking only their count.
- Around line 5666-5764: Update
gateway_concurrent_successes_keep_the_selected_attempt_headers so the streaming
case makes the losing attempt yield its first event before the selected attempt
succeeds, then verify the response retains the selected attempt’s header. Also
assert the body contains the selected attempt’s content, while preserving the
buffered case’s returned-JSON selection behavior.

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Comment thread crates/cli/src/gateway/mod.rs Resolved
@willkill07 willkill07 self-assigned this Nov 9, 2026
content-digest and repr-digest describe the provider's bytes, which the gateway no longer sends. Tests now also cover the private header and digest drops, the first-event selection for streams, and the exact set-cookie values.

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Comment thread crates/cli/src/gateway/mod.rs Resolved
Comment thread crates/cli/src/gateway/mod.rs Resolved
Headers followed the stream polled last and the last matching body, so middleware that read both streams, or two attempts with the same body, could give the client the wrong attempt's headers. Key each attempt by its JSON or first stream event and match what the gateway actually returns. Several matches, or a rewritten response with several successes, keep only the headers every candidate sent with the same values.

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item, and that terminalize and close delegate to the inner stream; use an inner
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content type is not the losing stream’s provider content type. After collecting
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851-852: Functional Correctness

The captured success headers have already passed through the shared filter. The claimed stale content-length and hop-by-hop headers cannot reach the downstream response through these paths.

crates/cli/tests/coverage/shared/server_tests.rs: 2

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The tap observes only the first successful event and passes terminalize and close through. The pre-read stream test also checks the shared header, the gateway content type, and that no losing content reaches the client.

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[Bug]: Gateway drops provider response headers on successful managed calls

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