route-proxy: a second authority for internal names, and a target a route names the scheme of

Internal aliases were served over plain HTTP only — correctly refused a
public certificate (no public CA can validate a private name), and then
left with nothing. The mesh has two authorities for its two name spaces
(08-connectivity §2), so the proxy now takes an optional internal ACME
directory and dispatches at the handshake by the same question HostPolicy
already answers: which authority may certify this name at all.

A route may also say its target speaks https, with insecure for a backend
whose own certificate nothing would trust — the shape Mailu's webmail
front needs, and the exception: everything else the mesh hands this proxy
stays plain http on the private network.
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2026-09-25 20:37:03 +02:00
parent 7ffe6ce21b
commit 5fad1f89cf
2 changed files with 219 additions and 31 deletions
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@@ -130,6 +130,68 @@ func TestAContributionMissingWhatARouteNeedsIsSkipped(t *testing.T) {
}
}
// A route may name a target reached over https, for a backend that terminates its own TLS — the
// shape Mailu's webmail front needs, which this proxy reaches as a plain workload otherwise.
func TestARouteMayTargetHttps(t *testing.T) {
routes, _, err := routesFrom(write(t, `{"given":[
{"from":"mail","node":"anchor","at":"anchor.internal",
"values":{"name":"mail.example","port":7443,"scheme":"https","insecure":true}}
]}`))
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
if targetOf(routes, "mail.example") != "https://anchor.internal:7443" {
t.Fatalf("an https target was not built as one: %v", routes)
}
if !routes["mail.example"][0].insecure {
t.Fatal("insecure was declared and not carried onto the rule")
}
}
// A scheme that is neither http nor https is refused rather than guessed at.
func TestARouteWithAnUnknownSchemeIsSkipped(t *testing.T) {
routes, _, err := routesFrom(write(t, `{"given":[
{"from":"a","node":"n","at":"n.internal","values":{"name":"bad.example","port":80,"scheme":"ftp"}}
]}`))
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
if len(routes) != 0 {
t.Fatalf("a route with an unusable scheme was served: %v", routes)
}
}
// End to end: a backend terminating TLS with a certificate nothing would ordinarily trust is still
// reached when the route declared `insecure`, and the response comes back through unmodified.
func TestTheProxyReachesAnInsecureHttpsBackend(t *testing.T) {
workload := httptest.NewTLSServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, _ *http.Request) {
_, _ = w.Write([]byte("the workload, over its own TLS"))
}))
defer workload.Close()
target := strings.TrimPrefix(workload.URL, "https://")
held := newTable()
routes := map[string][]rule{"mail.example": {{target: "https://" + target, insecure: true}}}
held.set(routes, allPublic(routes))
proxy := httptest.NewServer(handler(held))
defer proxy.Close()
asked, err := http.NewRequest(http.MethodGet, proxy.URL, nil)
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
asked.Host = "mail.example"
answer, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(asked)
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
defer answer.Body.Close()
if answer.StatusCode != http.StatusOK {
t.Fatalf("an insecure https backend was not reached: %d", answer.StatusCode)
}
}
// End to end through the proxy itself: a request for the name reaches the workload, and a name
// nobody asked for is refused in a way that says what IS served.
func TestTheProxyReachesTheWorkloadAndNamesWhatItServes(t *testing.T) {
@@ -271,6 +333,31 @@ func TestNoCertificateIsAskedForOnAnInternalAlias(t *testing.T) {
}
}
// A certificate is asked of the *internal* authority only for a name that is routed here and is
// not a route's own public name — the internal-network alias, never the route it accompanies.
func TestTheInternalAuthorityOnlyCertifiesInternalOnlyAliases(t *testing.T) {
routes, public, err := routesFrom(write(t, `{"given":[
{"from":"app","node":"anchor","at":"anchor.internal",
"values":{"name":"app.example","internal-name":"app.anchor.internal","port":8080}}
]}`))
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
held := newTable()
held.set(routes, public)
policy := onlyInternalNamesTheMeshSaid(held)
if err := policy(context.Background(), "app.anchor.internal"); err != nil {
t.Errorf("the internal alias was refused by its own authority: %v", err)
}
if err := policy(context.Background(), "app.example"); err == nil {
t.Error("the internal authority certified a route's public name, which the public authority already covers")
}
if err := policy(context.Background(), "unrouted.internal"); err == nil {
t.Error("the internal authority certified a name nobody routed here")
}
}
// A route withdrawn stops being certifiable, without the proxy restarting.
func TestWithdrawingARouteWithdrawsItsCertificate(t *testing.T) {
held := newTable()