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Fixes PER-10978

Root cause

Asset discovery treats fonts specially. At packages/core/src/network.js (the mimeType.includes('font') branch), the body the browser loaded is thrown away and the font is fetched again from Node through makeDirectRequest → Network#directFetch. That request uses Node's dns.lookup and makeRequest, not the discovery browser's network stack. When it throws, the error reaches the outer catch and the font is dropped completely, even though the browser had already loaded it.

PER-10978 shows the failure in production. Visual scanner build 54343223 scanned a customer's private SIT host. The discovery browser captured that host's CSS and images, but all three font fetches failed:

- Requesting asset directly
Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND nestscheme-sit6.uk.tapue.com
[ASSET_LOAD_MISSING] Network error

The resource manifest has the @font-face CSS but not the .woff2, so every browser rendered the headings in the default serif font. The same page on the public prod host captured the font and rendered correctly.

Fix

If the direct font request throws, keep the browser's response body and log - Direct request failed, using browser response: <error>. A MetadataBlockedError from the SSRF guard is re-thrown, so a direct fetch that lands on a cloud-metadata IP still drops the resource.

Backward compatibility: the success path is unchanged. Direct fetch is still tried first and still wins whenever it succeeds. Only the failure path changes: it used to drop the font and now keeps the browser body.

Testing

I added Discovery › protected resources › when the direct font request fails with two specs:

  • falls back to the browser response body: directFetch throws ENOTFOUND for a font the browser served. The font is uploaded and the fallback is logged. On origin/master this spec fails because only the root resource is uploaded.
  • still drops the font when the metadata guard blocks it: directFetch reports a connection to 169.254.169.254. The font is not uploaded and no fallback is logged.

I also updated the existing spec that asserted the old drop-on-failure behaviour, with resource errors › logs gracefully when direct font request fails. In that spec the direct fetch returns a 400 after the browser got a 200. It is renamed to falls back to the browser body when direct font request fails and now checks that the font is captured with the fallback logged.

These specs pass locally on Node 14 with Chromium. The existing font basic-auth specs also pass. eslint is clean.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Font resources can now be captured from the browser when a direct fetch fails, rather than being skipped. This helps preserve fonts when the server-side request encounters a network error.
    • Fonts from cloud metadata endpoints remain blocked; browser-response fallback does not capture these resources.

…0978)

Fonts are always re-fetched from Node (makeDirectRequest) and the browser
response body is discarded. When that Node-side fetch throws (e.g. a private
host the discovery browser reaches through a proxy/tunnel but Node cannot
resolve: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND), the whole font was dropped, so the render
fell back to the default font. Fall back to the body the browser already
loaded instead; the cloud-metadata SSRF guard still drops the resource.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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When a direct font fetch fails, discovery now retains the browser-captured body for ordinary errors. Metadata endpoint requests remain blocked.

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Font fetch handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Fallback and metadata guard
packages/core/src/network.js, packages/core/test/discovery.test.js
Ordinary direct-fetch errors fall back to the browser-captured font body. MetadataBlockedError is rethrown. Tests cover fallback, resource capture, and metadata blocking.

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Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: rishigupta1599

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The font fallback behavior is preserved, including metadata blocking. The added test does not verify the captured font bytes, leaving a narrow regression gap; the change is mergeable with that assertion as a follow-up.

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3455-3455: LGTM!

Also applies to: 3478-3480

Comment on lines +3483 to +3487
expect(captured[0]).toEqual(jasmine.arrayContaining([
jasmine.objectContaining({
attributes: jasmine.objectContaining({
'resource-url': 'http://localhost:8000/font.woff'
})

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Assert the captured font body.

The test supplies <font> as the browser response but checks only the resource URL. An empty or incorrect fallback body can pass if the URL and fallback log remain unchanged. Assert the body-derived resource ID.

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       expect(captured[0]).toEqual(jasmine.arrayContaining([
         jasmine.objectContaining({
+          id: sha256hash('<font>'),
           attributes: jasmine.objectContaining({
             'resource-url': 'http://localhost:8000/font.woff'
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expect(captured[0]).toEqual(jasmine.arrayContaining([
jasmine.objectContaining({
attributes: jasmine.objectContaining({
'resource-url': 'http://localhost:8000/font.woff'
})
expect(captured[0]).toEqual(jasmine.arrayContaining([
jasmine.objectContaining({
id: sha256hash('<font>'),
attributes: jasmine.objectContaining({
'resource-url': 'http://localhost:8000/font.woff'
})
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Review comment at @packages/core/test/discovery.test.js around lines 3483 -
3487:
Update the captured-resource expectation to assert that its id is derived from
the supplied font response body, using the existing hash helper; keep the
resource URL assertion in place.

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