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Feat: Add the praxis hop and the egress listener to the forward proxy - #1764
Part of #1721. This is PR 1 of 3 of the plan docs/superpowers/plans/2026-11-09-praxis-mode-4-hop-and-egress.md.
What changed
attribution.Wire (core/attribution/wire.go): the encoder of X-Cortex-Attribution. It has 8 fields, and Encode gives base64url (no padding) of the JSON. A golden file pins the encoding. The Rust test decodes_go_golden decodes the same file.
Hop headers (praxis/filters/src/record/attribution.rs, core/listener/forwardproxy/hopheaders.go): the gateway keeps X-Cortex-Dest and X-Cortex-Token for the egress listener. It removes the other hop headers before the upstream. upstream_strip_headers() gets that list from HOP_HEADERS, so a new hop header is removed too.
Egress listener (core/listener/forwardproxy/egress.go): the gateway sends each upstream request here. It does these checks in this sequence:
403 for a wrong or empty token.
204 for a probe.
400 for a bad X-Cortex-Dest (a path, a query, user info or no port).
The relay removes the hop headers. A guard refusal gives 403 destination_private. An upstream failure gives 502 with the TransportError kind.
The hop (core/listener/forwardproxy/hop.go): when Server.Hop is set, the forward proxy dials cortex-gateway and not the origin. Five branch points in serveOutbound and record.go give the request rows and response rows to the gateway. When the gateway does not answer a dial, Cortex records a 503 gateway_unavailable row.
This PR is inert. No code sets Server.Hop yet. P2 sets it.
How it was tested
go test -race ./attribution/ ./listener/forwardproxy/ in core/. The egress tests also passed with -race -count=5.
cargo fmt --all --check, cargo clippy --all-targets --locked -- -D warnings and cargo test --locked, run from praxis/ with ~/.cargo/bin first on PATH.
go vet and gofmt -l on the changed modules.
The plan's gate line fails as written, and the change does not cause this. cargo fmt --check --manifest-path praxis/Cargo.toml needs --all, because praxis/Cargo.toml is a virtual workspace. From the repo root, rustup also ignores the 1.96.0 that praxis/rust-toolchain.toml pins. Run the cargo steps from praxis/.
Exempt: 435 lines. These are the plan document (434) and core/attribution/testdata/wire.golden (1), which -update writes.
Known limits (planned for P2 and P3)
Nothing sets Server.Hop, so these paths cannot run now. They are not defects in this PR.
resendIfAsked uses the origin client on a request that now points to the gateway, so it bypasses the hop client. With the TLS bridge's upstream client, the egress guard would refuse the loopback dial.
A hopped request that fails after the dial (a non-dial error, or a cut mid-stream) gets no response row, because branch point 5 suppresses it (Task 6).
After a probe, the hop keeps idle connections to the gateway. If the gateway stops, a request on a pooled connection gets a write or read error, not a dial error. The client gets 502 upstream_refused, and no row is recorded anywhere (Task 6).
Branch point 5 covers only recordOutboundResponseEvent. Two writers can still write a row for a request that the hop owns: recordOutboundRejectIn at the egress-allow redirect re-check (a denied row with no request row), and the response-phase deny writer in record.go, which calls AppendCapture directly. Both need outbound plugins, and praxis mode builds none (Task 7).
A TLS-bridged hopped request has no test (Tasks 6 and 8).
Review findings not fixed
hopDo classifies every dial *net.OpError as gateway_unavailable. A client that disconnects during the dial gives 503 gateway_unavailable, but direct mode gives 499. A fix is to check r.Context().Err() first.
gatewayUnavailable records the request row with a nil capture, as the plan says. So an inference request that the down gateway refuses loses its request capture, but direct mode keeps it. Also, serveOutbound still builds the request capture and wraps the response in WrapCapture for each hopped request, and branch point 5 drops both. This can use up to MaxResponseCapture per in-flight hopped inference request.
The egress ErrorHandler gives an empty 502 body for an upstream failure. Direct mode gives a JSON body. The session row kind is the same in both modes, as Decision 10 requires. (A guard refusal now gives the same destination_private JSON body as direct mode.)
The Rewrite form of ReverseProxy removes the client's X-Forwarded-* and Forwarded headers. Direct mode does not. The plan specifies Rewrite.
No test covers the ErrorHandler branch for a client that has gone.
TestEgress_StreamsFrames does not prove FlushInterval: -1, because an SSE response flushes at once anyway. A non-SSE chunked body would pin it.
TestServeOutbound_DirectModeBranchPoints checks the captures, not the store rows.
TestWire_KeysMatchRust compares against a hard-coded key list. decodes_go_golden catches a rename on one side, so the two tests together give the parity check.
The plan splits rossoctl#1721 into 8 tasks and 3 stacked PRs. It records
the open decisions with their reasons: the X-Cortex-Dest form, the
probe, the join rules and the end-to-end harness.
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Name the attribution.Strip call for branch point 1, the exact ingest
counter and capture path for joined request rows, the outbound build
call in main.go, and the working directory of the CI end-to-end step.
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The praxis hop sends the attribution result to cortex-gateway in one
header. Wire.Encode makes that header value: the JSON of Wire in
base64url with no padding. The JSON keys are the camelCase names of the
Rust Attribution struct.
testdata/wire.golden holds one encoded Wire. A Go test makes sure that
the encoder gives this file, and a Rust test makes sure that the
gateway decoder reads it back to the same values.
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The gateway now removes only ten hop headers before its upstream.
X-Cortex-Dest and X-Cortex-Token stay, because the interim upstream is
always the Cortex egress listener, which removes them itself. The
request capture still removes all twelve, so the token is never in a
capture.
egress_kind now keeps destination_private, so an egress-guard refusal
gives the same row in praxis mode and in direct mode.
Part of rossoctl#1721.
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Add NewEgressHandler. cortex-gateway sends each recorded request to it
with X-Cortex-Dest and X-Cortex-Token. The handler checks the token,
answers the probe with 204, refuses a bad Dest with 400, and relays
the request to the origin with no buffering. An egress-guard refusal
gives 403 destination_private. A failed dial gives 502 with the
transport error kind in X-Cortex-Egress-Error.
Add the hop header constants in hopheaders.go.
Part of rossoctl#1721.
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Task 2's constant is now on this branch, so the local copy goes.
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Add the praxis hop (rossoctl#1721). When Server.Hop is set, the forward proxy
sends each recorded request to cortex-gateway. Only the dial target
changes. The Host header and the path stay the same, and the real
destination goes in X-Cortex-Dest.
serveOutbound gets five branch points. Each one tests s.Hop or the
local hopped:
1. Remove the hop headers that the client sent.
2. Mark the request as owned by the hop, in place of the request row.
3. The hop always owns the encoding.
4. Dial the gateway in place of the origin.
5. recordOutboundResponseEvent records no row for an owned request.
When the gateway is not ready, or the dial to it fails, the hop
answers 503 with the new error kind gateway_unavailable. It records
the request row and the 503 row, because the gateway did not see the
request. Probe sends a probe each interval until the gateway gives
204.
Nothing sets Server.Hop yet. Direct mode does not change.
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Adds Praxis forward-proxy hopping, an authenticated egress handler, and an attribution wire format shared with Praxis. The changes add readiness probes, header handling, gateway-unavailable event recording, and tests for forwarding, streaming, errors, attribution, and direct-mode behavior.
Adds a Wire attribution format encoded as unpadded base64url. Go tests check the golden fixture, JSON keys, and encoding. A Rust test checks decoding of the same fixture.
Defines the headers retained for the egress listener and those stripped before other upstreams. Gateway tests check forwarded headers, request IDs, and captured headers. destination_private is preserved as an error kind.
Hop forwarding and request ownership core/listener/forwardproxy/hop.go, core/listener/forwardproxy/hopheaders.go, core/listener/forwardproxy/server.go, core/listener/forwardproxy/record.go, core/model/session.go, core/pipeline/model_alias.go, core/listener/forwardproxy/hop*_test.go, docs/superpowers/plans/2026-11-09-praxis-mode-4-hop-and-egress.md
Adds gateway probing and request forwarding for eligible requests. The hop supplies destination, token, request ID, and attribution headers. It records gateway-unavailable responses as request and response events. Tests cover readiness, routing, attribution, error handling, bypasses, and direct mode. The plan document also describes follow-on join, wiring, and end-to-end tasks.
A supported custom gateway route can expose its token to an origin. Restrict token forwarding before enabling that route. The documented validation commands also need correction; an uncommon gateway failure can leave an incomplete request record.
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Minor · Update the cortex_attribution description. It contradicts decision 20. · README.md:45-46
praxis/README.md:45-46 Minor · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win
Update the cortex_attribution description. It contradicts decision 20.
Line 46 says the filter "removes the hop headers before the upstream". The filter now strips only UPSTREAM_STRIP_HEADERS. That list omits X-Cortex-Dest and X-Cortex-Token. Decision 20 on Line 81 says the gateway keeps both for the egress listener.
Change Line 46 so it names the ten stripped headers. State that X-Cortex-Dest and X-Cortex-Token stay for the upstream.
📝 Proposed fix
- `X-Cortex-Token` with 403, and removes the hop headers before the upstream.+ `X-Cortex-Token` with 403, and removes the hop headers before the upstream.+ `X-Cortex-Dest` and `X-Cortex-Token` stay for the upstream (decision 20).
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Update the `cortex_attribution` description to name the ten headers actually
stripped by `UPSTREAM_STRIP_HEADERS`, and clarify that `X-Cortex-Dest` and
`X-Cortex-Token` are retained for the upstream egress listener, consistent with
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Update the `http.Error` inline code span in the 503 path description to use
double-backtick delimiters, preserving the text and its inner backticks.
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- Line 98: Update the Rust gate commands in Step 5 and the corresponding command
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- Around line 45-46: Update the `cortex_attribution` description to name the ten
headers actually stripped by `UPSTREAM_STRIP_HEADERS`, and clarify that
`X-Cortex-Dest` and `X-Cortex-Token` are retained for the upstream egress
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- Line 232: Update the `http.Error` inline code span in the 503 path description
to use double-backtick delimiters, preserving the text and its inner backticks.
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Summary
This adds attribution.Wire (with a Go/Rust golden for the encoding), the egress listener, the dial-only hop with its five branch points in serveOutbound/record.go, and the gateway change that keeps X-Cortex-Dest/X-Cortex-Token for the egress listener. Nothing sets Server.Hop yet, so direct mode does not change. The direct-mode branch points look right: hopped is false when Hop is nil, ownEncoding and the recording path stay the same, and the redirect re-check still runs against the origin before the hop rewrites r.URL. I found no must-fix issues. There is one suggestion inline, about the X-Cortex-Dest the hop sends for an origin-form request. The known limits and unfixed findings in the description match what I saw in the code, and P2/P3 cover them.
What I checked locally on the head commit:
go test -race -count=1 ./attribution/ ./listener/forwardproxy/ passes. go vet and gofmt -l are clean.
Client-forged hop headers (X-Cortex-Token, -Dest, -Attribution, -Request-Id, -Probe) are removed at entry and replaced by the hop's own values (TestHop_ClientHopHeadersNeverReachGateway). The token comparison is constant-time on both sides, and an empty token matches nothing.
parseEgressDest refuses a path, a query, a fragment, user info, an opaque URL and a missing port. An origin's own X-Cortex-Egress-Error is removed in ModifyResponse.
The Rust UPSTREAM_STRIP_HEADERS list is HOP_HEADERS without Dest and Token, and the capture still removes all twelve (the updated hop_headers_removed_custom_kept asserts this).
The new destination_private arm in egress_kind matches the kinds Go's TransportError can produce, plus the guard's.
The JSON-decoder concern (a new typed field failing the whole parse) does not apply here. The Wire is produced by Cortex itself, and the Rust decoder (#[serde(default)], all strings) is unchanged.
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suggestion: For an origin-form request (GET /foo sent to the proxy with no absolute URL), r.URL.Scheme and r.URL.Host are empty. Then this gives ://:80, and hopDo still sends the request to the gateway. I tried it with a temporary test against hopProxy: the gateway got X-Cortex-Dest: ://:80, and Cortex recorded no rows because the hop owns the request. The egress listener will refuse it with 400, so nothing gets out. But the gateway then records a row for a request that has no destination, while in direct mode client.Do refuses an empty scheme, so the request fails locally on the normal 502 path. Can hopDo refuse an empty scheme or host before the dial, the same way direct mode does? Or hopDest could return ok=false and the caller would fall back to the normal error path. P2 is a good time for this, when the hop goes live.
The gateway removed the headers in UPSTREAM_STRIP_HEADERS, a copy of 10
of the 12 names in HOP_HEADERS. A new hop header that was added to only
HOP_HEADERS went to the egress listener, and from there to the origin.
upstream_strip_headers() now gives HOP_HEADERS without Dest and the token.
The egress listener sent an empty 403 for a guard refusal. It now writes
the destination_private JSON body that direct mode writes, and
TestEgress_GuardRefusal403 checks the body.
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- Line 52: Update the header filtering logic around the DEST_HEADER and
TOKEN_HEADER checks to prevent forwarding the gateway token to non-egress
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identifies egress before changing the filter; if that distinction is unavailable
at this point, reject configurations that route cortex_attribution to an origin
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Restrict token forwarding to the egress route.
A hand-written gateway configuration can route cortex_attribution to an origin. In that configuration, the filter can send the gateway token to the origin.
Strip the token before non-egress upstreams or reject those configurations. Preserve the token for the egress listener.
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Review comment at @praxis/filters/src/record/attribution.rs at line 52:
Update the header filtering logic around the DEST_HEADER and TOKEN_HEADER checks
to prevent forwarding the gateway token to non-egress upstreams, while
preserving it for the egress listener. Establish how the route identifies egress
before changing the filter; if that distinction is unavailable at this point,
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Not changed in code. The generated config (cmd/cortex/gateway.go) always routes / to the egress cluster, and phase B removes all of HOP_HEADERS. A hand-written config that routes cortex_attribution to an origin is a config mistake. f338c50 adds to praxis/README.md that the upstream must be the egress listener. Also, the egress listener now removes every hop and attribution header before the origin.
@huang195 Thanks for clarifying. The generated route points to egress, and the README now requires that upstream. The egress handler also strips the hop and attribution headers before forwarding to the origin.
A hand-written route that bypasses egress can still expose the token; the requirement is documented but not enforced. I understand your decision not to change the code.
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Summary
The PR adds attribution.Wire and a Go/Rust golden for its encoding. It also adds the praxis-mode egress listener, the dial-only Hop with its five branch points, and the gateway change that keeps X-Cortex-Dest and X-Cortex-Token for the egress listener. Server.Hop is never set, so direct mode behaves as before. I found no must-fix issues. The head commit's stated fixes work: upstream_strip_headers() is HOP_HEADERS minus Dest and Token, and the capture still drops all twelve headers. The egress 403 now uses the same destination_private rejection body as serveOutbound. I left two suggestions inline. Both are about keeping the hop and direct mode in step, and neither blocks.
What I checked on the head commit:
go test -race -count=1 ./attribution/ ./listener/forwardproxy/ passes in core/. go vet and gofmt -l are clean on the changed packages.
Direct mode: with Hop == nil, hopped is false, ownEncoding is unchanged, recordCapturedRequest still runs, and branch point 5 is a no-op.
Ordering: hopDo runs after the egress-allow redirect re-check, so the allow list still judges the origin and not the gateway.
Decoder strictness: the Rust Attribution is #[serde(default)], all strings, with no deny_unknown_fields, so a Wire key added later does not fail the parse. The new destination_private arm in egress_kind is a string match that falls back to upstream_error. The Go ingest path does not validate error.kind.
I did not repeat points already raised: the origin-form X-Cortex-Dest (clawgenti), the Rust gate commands in the plan, and token forwarding on hand-written configs (CodeRabbit). The PR description's "Known limits" and "Review findings not fixed" also match the code.
Author: huang195 (MEMBER — maintainer) Areas reviewed: Go (core/attribution, core/listener/forwardproxy, core/model, core/pipeline), Rust (praxis/filters, praxis/server tests), Docs (plan, praxis/README) Agent/IDE config (.claude/.vscode): none Commits: 8 commits, all signed-off: yes CI status: passing
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suggestion: The Wire reads pctx.SessionID, pctx.SessionSource, pctx.SessionHeader and pctx.ChainSession after OutboundPipeline.Run. All four are exported fields that a plugin can write. serveOutbound itself warns against this for OutboundSessionID: the pipeline runs between hydration and every recording site. The direct-mode request row takes SessionHeader from the pinned pctx.NamingHeader() (sessionevent.Request), not from pctx.SessionHeader. The gateway puts sessionHeader on the request row (row.rs, session_header: self.attribution.session_header), so a plugin that rewrote pctx.SessionHeader would change the hopped row but not the direct row.
No plugin writes the field today, so this is latent. Using pctx.NamingHeader() here keeps the two modes on one source:
SessionHeader: pctx.NamingHeader(),
You could also snapshot Session, Source and ChainSession before Run, for example in a local next to sessionID. That would make Decision 8 ("must not resolve attribution a second time") hold even when a plugin writes these fields.
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suggestion: The parity guard for this struct is the Rust test decodes_go_golden. .github/workflows/praxis.yaml runs it only when praxis/** or one of its listed core/ paths changes, and core/attribution/** is not in either paths list. A Go-only PR that renames a key and regenerates wire.golden with -update would therefore not run the Rust job. TestWire_KeysMatchRust would also be updated in the same PR, so nothing would catch the drift until the next praxis change. Task 8 of the plan adds hop*.go, egress*.go and the cmd/cortex files to the paths, but not this package. Please add core/attribution/wire.go and core/attribution/testdata/** to both paths lists, here or in P3.
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- An origin-form request has no scheme or host to dial. It now stays on
the direct path, where client.Do refuses it with a 502, as in direct
mode. Before, the hop sent it to the gateway with X-Cortex-Dest "://:80".
- The Wire takes SessionHeader from pctx.NamingHeader(), the pinned value
that the direct-mode request row records. A plugin can write
pctx.SessionHeader.
- The egress listener removes every hop and attribution header, not only
Dest and Token. Then an origin does not get the session id or process
names when the gateway's strip list is wrong.
- The Praxis workflow runs when core/attribution/wire.go or its golden
changes, so the Rust decodes_go_golden test sees a Go-only key change.
- praxis/README.md: cortex_attribution keeps X-Cortex-Dest and
X-Cortex-Token, so its upstream must be the egress listener.
- Plan: run the cargo commands from praxis/, with fmt --all.
Each new or changed Go test fails without its fix.
Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Hai Huang <huang195@gmail.com>
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Summary
The head commit f338c50 makes six fixes, and each one works. (1) An origin-form request now stays on the direct path: hopped needs r.URL.Scheme and r.URL.Host, so GET /p gets the direct-mode 502 and never reaches the gateway (TestHop_OriginFormStaysDirect). (2) The Wire takes SessionHeader from pctx.NamingHeader(). This is the value SetAttribution pins before the pipeline runs, and sessionevent.Request records the same value on the direct-mode row. (3) The egress Rewrite now calls stripHopHeaders and attribution.Strip, so a wrong gateway strip list can no longer leak session or process attribution to an origin. (4) praxis.yaml now has core/attribution/wire.go and core/attribution/testdata/** in both paths lists. (5) The README states that the upstream of cortex_attribution must be the egress listener. (6) The plan's cargo commands are fixed. I found no must-fix issues. I left one suggestion inline: the egress error logs always have an empty dest.
go test -race -count=1 ./attribution/ ./listener/forwardproxy/ passes in core/. go vet and gofmt -l are clean on both packages.
I wrote a temporary test that sends the egress listener a Dest whose port has no listener. The client gets 502 with X-Cortex-Egress-Error: upstream_refused, as intended. The log line is egress: upstream failed dest="". See the inline comment.
Decoder strictness: the Rust Attribution is #[serde(default)], all strings, and has no deny_unknown_fields. decode falls back to the default. So the SessionHeader source change cannot break the parse. With the new workflow paths, a Go-only key change now runs decodes_go_golden.
Direct mode is unchanged. With Hop == nil, hopped is false, so the new URL conditions short-circuit and nothing new runs.
I did not repeat points already raised, or points listed under "Known limits" and "Review findings not fixed" in the description.
Author: huang195 (MEMBER — maintainer) Areas reviewed: Go (core/attribution, core/listener/forwardproxy, core/model, core/pipeline), Rust (praxis/filters, praxis/server tests), CI (.github/workflows/praxis.yaml), Docs (plan, praxis/README) Agent/IDE config (.claude/.vscode): none Commits: 9 commits, all signed-off: yes CI status: passing (CodeRabbit neutral)
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suggestion: dest is always empty here. ReverseProxy gives the ErrorHandler the outgoing request (p.getErrorHandler()(rw, outreq, err) after RoundTrip), and Rewrite has already removed X-Cortex-Dest from pr.Out.Header. f338c50 makes the strip wider, but pr.Out.Header.Del(headerDest) already did this before. I checked with a temporary test that sends a Dest whose port has no listener. The client got 502 with X-Cortex-Egress-Error: upstream_refused, which is correct. But the log line was egress: upstream failed dest="" kind=upstream_refused ..., and the destination refused warning has the same problem. When the egress listener is live, these two warnings are where an operator finds out which origin failed.
Rewrite set pr.Out.URL to the parsed Dest, so you can read it back here:
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Part of #1721. This is PR 1 of 3 of the plan
docs/superpowers/plans/2026-11-09-praxis-mode-4-hop-and-egress.md.What changed
attribution.Wire(core/attribution/wire.go): the encoder ofX-Cortex-Attribution. It has 8 fields, andEncodegives base64url (no padding) of the JSON. A golden file pins the encoding. The Rust testdecodes_go_goldendecodes the same file.praxis/filters/src/record/attribution.rs,core/listener/forwardproxy/hopheaders.go): the gateway keepsX-Cortex-DestandX-Cortex-Tokenfor the egress listener. It removes the other hop headers before the upstream.upstream_strip_headers()gets that list fromHOP_HEADERS, so a new hop header is removed too.core/listener/forwardproxy/egress.go): the gateway sends each upstream request here. It does these checks in this sequence:X-Cortex-Dest(a path, a query, user info or no port).destination_private. An upstream failure gives 502 with theTransportErrorkind.core/listener/forwardproxy/hop.go): whenServer.Hopis set, the forward proxy dialscortex-gatewayand not the origin. Five branch points inserveOutboundandrecord.gogive the request rows and response rows to the gateway. When the gateway does not answer a dial, Cortex records a 503gateway_unavailablerow.This PR is inert. No code sets
Server.Hopyet. P2 sets it.How it was tested
go test -race ./attribution/ ./listener/forwardproxy/incore/. The egress tests also passed with-race -count=5.cargo fmt --all --check,cargo clippy --all-targets --locked -- -D warningsandcargo test --locked, run frompraxis/with~/.cargo/binfirst onPATH.go vetandgofmt -lon the changed modules.The plan's gate line fails as written, and the change does not cause this.
cargo fmt --check --manifest-path praxis/Cargo.tomlneeds--all, becausepraxis/Cargo.tomlis a virtual workspace. From the repo root, rustup also ignores the 1.96.0 thatpraxis/rust-toolchain.tomlpins. Run the cargo steps frompraxis/.Size
core/attribution/testdata/wire.golden(1), which-updatewrites.Known limits (planned for P2 and P3)
Nothing sets
Server.Hop, so these paths cannot run now. They are not defects in this PR.resendIfAskeduses the origin client on a request that now points to the gateway, so it bypasses the hop client. With the TLS bridge's upstream client, the egress guard would refuse the loopback dial.upstream_refused, and no row is recorded anywhere (Task 6).recordOutboundResponseEvent. Two writers can still write a row for a request that the hop owns:recordOutboundRejectInat the egress-allow redirect re-check (a denied row with no request row), and the response-phase deny writer inrecord.go, which callsAppendCapturedirectly. Both need outbound plugins, and praxis mode builds none (Task 7).Review findings not fixed
hopDoclassifies every dial*net.OpErrorasgateway_unavailable. A client that disconnects during the dial gives 503gateway_unavailable, but direct mode gives 499. A fix is to checkr.Context().Err()first.gatewayUnavailablerecords the request row with a nil capture, as the plan says. So an inference request that the down gateway refuses loses its request capture, but direct mode keeps it. Also,serveOutboundstill builds the request capture and wraps the response inWrapCapturefor each hopped request, and branch point 5 drops both. This can use up toMaxResponseCaptureper in-flight hopped inference request.ErrorHandlergives an empty 502 body for an upstream failure. Direct mode gives a JSON body. The session row kind is the same in both modes, as Decision 10 requires. (A guard refusal now gives the samedestination_privateJSON body as direct mode.)Rewriteform ofReverseProxyremoves the client'sX-Forwarded-*andForwardedheaders. Direct mode does not. The plan specifiesRewrite.ErrorHandlerbranch for a client that has gone.TestEgress_StreamsFramesdoes not proveFlushInterval: -1, because an SSE response flushes at once anyway. A non-SSE chunked body would pin it.TestServeOutbound_DirectModeBranchPointschecks the captures, not the store rows.TestWire_KeysMatchRustcompares against a hard-coded key list.decodes_go_goldencatches a rename on one side, so the two tests together give the parity check.Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) noreply@anthropic.com
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