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Summary

Adds the WebSocket handshake coverage requested in #566 to the existing Docker image runtime smoke test.

The new dependency-free probe:

  • opens a WebSocket upgrade request against the running relay over the existing published-port path
  • verifies the HTTP upgrade completes with 101
  • handles any WebSocket bytes delivered in the upgrade head
  • verifies the relay immediately sends a close frame with code 1008 for the unauthenticated connection
  • fails with a clear error if the upgrade fails, the close frame is missing, or the close code is unexpected
  • uses a short timeout so the smoke step cannot hang

No relay behavior was changed.

I also added a small structural guard in dockerPublishSmoke.test.mjs to protect the upgrade/head handling and 1008 close assertion from being accidentally removed.

Validation

  • pnpm exec vitest run --config scripts/vitest.config.mjs scripts/__tests__/dockerPublishSmoke.test.mjs
    • 4/4 tests passed
  • Local Docker image built successfully
  • Existing HTTP smoke checks passed:
    • / → 200
    • /api/v1/auth/status → 200
  • Local WebSocket probe passed:
    • HTTP upgrade → 101
    • unauthenticated close → 1008
  • JWT secret file remained present and non-empty
  • git diff --check passed

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  • Tests written and passing
  • No sensitive info (tokens, paths, credentials)

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Closes #566

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Tests
    • Enhanced Docker runtime smoke testing to verify WebSocket connection upgrades.
    • Added validation for successful handshakes, valid server close frames, and the expected unauthenticated close code.
    • Improved detection and reporting of invalid responses, connection failures, premature closures, and timeouts.
    • WebSocket checks now run during container startup verification before persistence checks.

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The Docker smoke workflow now runs a Node.js WebSocket probe against the container. The probe validates HTTP 101 and close code 1008. A test verifies that the workflow invokes the probe.

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Docker WebSocket smoke validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Workflow wiring and runtime setup
.github/workflows/docker-publish.yml
The workflow sets up Node.js from .nvmrc and runs the WebSocket probe after readiness checks and before JWT persistence validation.
WebSocket upgrade and close-frame validation
scripts/docker-publish-websocket-smoke.mjs
The probe validates the HTTP upgrade, parses the first server frame, requires an unmasked close frame with code 1008, and handles errors, timeouts, and cleanup.
Smoke-step invocation guard
scripts/__tests__/dockerPublishSmoke.test.mjs
The test verifies that the runtime smoke step invokes the WebSocket probe script.

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

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to d2b43

The PR adds a localized WebSocket handshake smoke check without changing relay behavior, but the probe can accept a protocol-invalid fragmented close frame and potentially let an invalid response pass validation; merge is reasonable with explicit owner follow-up to tighten frame validation.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Workflow as Docker publish workflow
  participant Probe as WebSocket smoke probe
  participant Container as Running container
  Workflow->>Probe: Start probe
  Probe->>Container: Request WebSocket upgrade on port 4000
  Container-->>Probe: Return HTTP 101
  Container-->>Probe: Send unmasked close frame with code 1008
  Probe-->>Workflow: Exit with validation status
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy issue #566 by checking HTTP 101, unauthenticated close code 1008, timeout handling, and smoke-step failure propagation.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The workflow, standalone probe, Node setup, and structural guard directly support the linked WebSocket smoke-test objective.
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Thanks — this is the coverage #566 was asking for, and the probe itself is careful work.

You avoided the trap I mentioned on the issue, and the green build shows that. If the connection had arrived over loopback, the relay would have accepted it, no close frame would ever have arrived, and the probe would have timed out after 5s. Instead it passed on both build legs with upgrade status=101 and close code=1008, so it really exercised the reject path at RelayServer.ts:519.

The frame parsing is solid too: waiting for 2 + payloadLength before reading the code, rejecting a masked server frame, and treating any first opcode other than a close frame as a failure. WS_REJECT_REASON is already kept under 123 bytes by connectionAuth.test.ts:58, so the payloadLength > 125 guard can't accidentally trip.

One thing on the test file before I merge.

The structural guard mirrors the probe

expect(smoke).toContain("request.on('upgrade', (res, upgradedSocket, head) => {")
expect(smoke).toContain('consume(head)')
expect(smoke).toContain('opcode 0x8 (close)')
expect(smoke).toContain('const expectedCode = 1008')
expect(smoke).toContain('closeCode !== expectedCode')

The probe runs on every PR, on both build legs. That changes what a guard over it is actually buying us, so I tried three mutations:

Mutation This test CI
rename upgradedSocketsock (probe still works) 🔴 🟢 false alarm
expectedCode = 1000 (a real bug) 🔴 🔴 redundant
delete the probe entirely 🔴 🟢 the one case that earns its place

Only the third row catches something CI can't already catch. The other two are the cost: a harmless rename makes the suite fail, and a real bug already fails the build without any help from this test. opcode 0x8 (close) is probably the clearest example: it asserts on the wording of an error message, so it can still pass after the probe is broken, or fail after a harmless refactor.

Have a look at contributing/test-and-guard-coverage.md, sections 2 and 3. This file went through the same exercise on #565 yesterday and ended up with three assertions for the same reason, so you're in good company. It isn't obvious at first.

I'd keep one assertion for the third row, using values fixed by the protocol rather than names chosen in the implementation:

it('keeps the WebSocket upgrade probe in the smoke step', () => {
  const smoke = stepBlock('Smoke test image runtime')
  expect(smoke).toContain('Sec-WebSocket-Key')
  expect(smoke).toContain('1008')
})

Sec-WebSocket-Key can't disappear without breaking the handshake, and 1008 is the protocol close code. Both survive a refactor, and both disappear if the probe is removed.

While you're in there: the file header currently says it guards two things, a single-architecture publish and the credentialed digest path. If we're adding a third test, it'd be worth adding a third clause so the header still matches the file.

One question and one nit, neither blocking

The probe is about 90 lines of JavaScript inside a YAML heredoc, and it's now the largest part of that step. Would you rather move it into scripts/ and have the workflow call it? It would be covered by linting and the usual review tooling, and the guard above could simply check that the workflow invokes the script, which is much harder to break with a rename. I can also see the case for keeping it next to the container it probes, so I'm asking rather than suggesting a change. The heredoc itself looks correct.

The nit: the build job doesn't run setup-node, so it's using whatever Node version the runner image ships with. That's working today on both images. Adding the step costs a few seconds, but it makes the dependency explicit instead of implicit.

Once the guard is trimmed, I'll merge. Nice first contribution.

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@jo-duchan Thanks so much! I really appreciate the detailed review and the explanation behind the guard coverage, the mutation examples made it really clear why most of those assertions are redundant with the probe already running in CI.

I’ll trim the guard down to the protocol-level assertions you suggested and update the header while I’m there.

I also like the idea of moving the probe into scripts/. I think that would be cleaner and easier to maintain than keeping ~90 lines of JS inside the YAML, so I’m happy to make that change too. And I can add setup-node while I’m in there to make the Node dependency explicit.

Thanks again for taking the time to walk through it so thoroughly, especially on my first contribution! Really appreciate it.

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@jo-duchan Just pushed the follow-up changes, thanks again for the suggestions.

I moved the WebSocket smoke probe out of the workflow and into scripts/docker-publish-websocket-smoke.mjs, added setup-node using the repo’s .nvmrc, and trimmed the guard test down so it only verifies that the smoke step still invokes the standalone probe rather than duplicating the probe’s implementation details.

I also ran the guard tests, lint, syntax check, and the Docker smoke flow locally. The container came up successfully and the extracted probe completed with the expected HTTP 101 upgrade and 1008 close code.

Hopefully this is much closer to what you had in mind. Really appreciate the detailed feedback!

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In `@scripts/docker-publish-websocket-smoke.mjs`:
- Around line 34-35: Update the first WebSocket frame validation near opcode
extraction to also require the FIN bit before accepting a close frame. Reject
frames when the FIN bit is unset, while preserving the existing opcode check and
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const opcode = buffer[0] & 0x0f
if (opcode !== 0x8) return finish(false, `expected first WebSocket frame opcode 0x8 (close) but got 0x${opcode.toString(16)}`)

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Reject fragmented close frames.

Line 34 ignores the FIN bit. A fragmented control frame with opcode 0x8 and code 1008 can pass this probe. Require FIN before accepting the close frame.

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-  const opcode = buffer[0] & 0x0f
+  const firstByte = buffer[0]
+  if ((firstByte & 0x80) === 0) return finish(false, 'close frame must have FIN set')
+  const opcode = firstByte & 0x0f
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const opcode = buffer[0] & 0x0f
if (opcode !== 0x8) return finish(false, `expected first WebSocket frame opcode 0x8 (close) but got 0x${opcode.toString(16)}`)
const firstByte = buffer[0]
if ((firstByte & 0x80) === 0) return finish(false, 'close frame must have FIN set')
const opcode = firstByte & 0x0f
if (opcode !== 0x8) return finish(false, `expected first WebSocket frame opcode 0x8 (close) but got 0x${opcode.toString(16)}`)
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In `@scripts/docker-publish-websocket-smoke.mjs` around lines 34 - 35, Update the
first WebSocket frame validation near opcode extraction to also require the FIN
bit before accepting a close frame. Reject frames when the FIN bit is unset,
while preserving the existing opcode check and failure reporting.

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All three landed, and the probe body came across byte-for-byte. Nothing drifted in the move, so the behavior that was already green stayed green.

I re-ran the mutations against the new shape. Renaming upgradedSocket inside the script now leaves the suite green, and dropping the node scripts/docker-publish-websocket-smoke.mjs line from the step still turns it red. That's exactly the trade I was after. Asserting the invocation instead of the two protocol constants I originally suggested is the better choice now that those constants aren't in the step anymore.

One small thing before I merge.

import { createRequire } from 'node:module'

const require = createRequire(import.meta.url)
const http = require('http')
const crypto = require('crypto')

That's left over from the heredoc version, where the script ran as CommonJS over stdin and require already existed. In an .mjs file it doesn't, so the shim is only there to keep the original two lines working instead of switching them to:

import http from 'http'
import crypto from 'crypto'

I tried it that way to be sure. It reaches the connection attempt and fails with ECONNREFUSED when there's no relay running, which is exactly what I'd expect with no container up.

This isn't a written rule, but the other six files under scripts/ all use normal ESM imports, and createRequire is really for cases where you need CommonJS resolution: require.resolve, for example, or a package without an ESM entry point. Neither applies to two core modules.

I'd rather this file not be the odd one out, since the next script someone writes will probably be copied from whichever file they open first.

Other than that, it's ready. Push that and I'll merge.

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Hi @jvo34 — no rush on this, I just want to make the state explicit rather than let you guess.

One thing is still on your side before I merge, and it sits in the middle of my last comment where it's easy to miss. Swapping the createRequire shim for plain ESM imports:

-import { createRequire } from 'node:module'
-
-const require = createRequire(import.meta.url)
-const http = require('http')
-const crypto = require('crypto')
+import http from 'http'
+import crypto from 'crypto'

That is the whole change. Everything else is ready.

On CodeRabbit's FIN-bit comment: don't let it hold you up. RFC 6455 forbids fragmenting control frames, so a close frame without FIN would be the server violating the protocol — and this probe only ever talks to our own relay, which sets it. It's a smoke probe for one reject path, not a general WebSocket client. I'd leave it.

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@jo-duchan Sorry for the delayed response. I’ve been traveling and mostly offline the last few days, and I apologize for leaving you hanging.

I just pushed the final change swapping the createRequire shim for the plain ESM imports you suggested. I re-ran the syntax check, targeted smoke tests, and lint locally after the change, and everything is still green.

Also, thank you for re-running the mutations and confirming the new guard behaves the way we intended. I really appreciate you taking the time to verify the move and explain the tradeoff there. And thanks for clarifying the CodeRabbit FIN-bit comment as well, I’ve left that behavior unchanged as you recommended.

Thanks again for all the detailed feedback and patience throughout this! I’ve learned a lot from working through your review, especially around keeping the guard focused on the behavior CI actually needs to protect.

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No apology needed at all, @jvo34 — being away for a few days is completely normal, and there was never any rush on this one. Thanks for coming back to it.

I checked d2b43af, and the imports look good. CI is green across both Node versions and both build architectures, so I'll merge it.

Nice work on this. Pulling the probe out of the heredoc without changing its behavior is the kind of refactor that's easy to get subtly wrong, and it made the guard discussion much simpler afterward. The final guard is better than the version I originally had in mind — asserting the invocation was the right choice.

Thanks for sticking with the review, too. This was a solid first contribution to tapflow, and I'd be happy to see you around again.

One last thing, completely optional: if you find the project useful, a ⭐ would really help. Either way, thanks again! 🙏

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