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A client asking to switch protocol gets its Upgrade header removed — correctly, since RFC 9110 makes it hop-by-hop and a proxy must not forward it. The consequence is baffling: the origin receives a bare GET, and one whose endpoint takes a POST or an upgrade and nothing else answers 405. Codex does exactly this against chatgpt.com. Measured on a real turn: 7 upgrade attempts, all 405, once per process start — then it falls back to HTTPS and works. The user is left looking at `405 Method Not Allowed` in their agent's own output, with every reason to think Cortex broke it, and a timeline saying only `backend_error/405` with nothing joining the two. Records the protocol asked for on the request row. The pair now reads: seq=29 request upgradeStripped=websocket seq=33 response status=405 error=backend_error/405 agentop's detail pane renders it beside the existing redirected: and model: lines — all three answer one question, "why doesn't this row match what my agent asked for", and it is the same question whoever did it, so rewriteHeader's doc no longer claims they are all a plugin's doing. Deliberately independent of the response status: that an upgrade was stripped is true whether the origin answered 405, 200 or nothing, and a marker appearing only beside a failure would miss an origin that quietly serves the un-upgraded request. Not WebSocket support, and not a step toward it — see #1411 for why the cheap version would make Codex LESS observable than this fallback does. Two things worth noting for review: The call site is before the request row is appended, not beside stripForUpstream where the strip happens. It was the latter first, and three unit tests driving the method directly all passed while the feature recorded nothing end to end; only the real-request test caught it. Reading the header early is equivalent — the strip is unconditional. The value is client-controlled and lands in a terminal, so it goes through the same sanitize-then-cap a User-Agent does, which is why the setter is a Context method rather than listener-side: sanitizeUA and capUA are unexported in core/pipeline. Verified: full core and agentop suites; both mutations caught (deleting the call site fails the end-to-end test, keeping the header fails two); and live against real Codex traffic, binary reverted after. Refs #1411. Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cha <Alan.cha1@ibm.com>
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- Line 845: Update the Upgrade header extraction that uses h.Get("Upgrade") to
join all values from h.Values("Upgrade") in their original order before
trimming, sanitizing, and applying the existing cap, so repeated field lines are
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| // is not ours to guess, so this stays a statement about what the client asked for | ||
| // rather than a prediction about what it would have got. | ||
| func (c *Context) RecordStrippedUpgrade(h http.Header) { | ||
| v := strings.TrimSpace(h.Get("Upgrade")) |
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Record every Upgrade field-line value.
If a client sends Upgrade: h2c and Upgrade: websocket as separate field lines, h.Get("Upgrade") records only h2c. The request event then omits a protocol the proxy stripped. Join h.Values("Upgrade") in order before trimming, sanitizing, and capping the result. Go documents the first-value behavior, and HTTP permits combining repeated list-valued field lines in order. (pkg.go.dev)
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Review comment at @core/pipeline/context.go at line 845:
Update the Upgrade header extraction that uses h.Get("Upgrade") to join all
values from h.Values("Upgrade") in their original order before trimming,
sanitizing, and applying the existing cap, so repeated field lines are all
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+1, reproduced. A throwaway end-to-end test through the real forward proxy sent two field lines, Upgrade: h2c then Upgrade: websocket. The proxy stripped both, but the request row recorded only the first:
phase=request status=0 upgradeStripped="h2c"
phase=response status=405 upgradeStripped=""
The doc comment a few lines up promises "Records the WHOLE header value, not the first token", and h.Get breaks that as soon as the list arrives as separate lines rather than comma-joined. strings.TrimSpace(strings.Join(h.Values("Upgrade"), ", ")) keeps everything after it unchanged (tab normalisation, sanitise, cap). It's worth a two-line case in TestRecordStrippedUpgrade_KeepsTheWholeList.
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@huang195 Thanks for reproducing this. Your proposed extraction preserves both field-line values in order:
v := strings.TrimSpace(strings.Join(h.Values("Upgrade"), ", "))The tab normalization, sanitization, and cap can remain unchanged. In TestRecordStrippedUpgrade_KeepsTheWholeList, use two Header.Add calls and assert that UpgradeStripped equals "h2c, websocket". Keep the existing comma-separated case too.
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Approving. The marker records on the request row, survives the wire round-trip and view=summary, and the end-to-end test does pin the call site. I ran the whole diff at head, trial-merged main (clean; nothing on main touches these files), and re-ran core/{pipeline,listener/forwardproxy,sessionapi,session/...} and cmd/agentop/tui on the merge: all green. Inline: three suggestions and one nit, none blocking.
Also +1 to CodeRabbit's thread at context.go:845, reproduced below on that thread. A request with two Upgrade field lines (h2c, then websocket) recorded upgradeStripped="h2c", so the protocol that actually got the 405 never reaches the row.
One thing outside the diff: docs/session-api.md on main (from #1423) lists the event fields one by one, requestedHost, httpMethod/httpPath and so on. upgradeStripped should get a bullet there too, and in CLAUDE.md's event-schema list, or it ships undocumented.
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| // in their agent's output and blames Cortex, which then works a second later over | ||
| // HTTPS. Without this the paired response row says `backend_error/405` and nothing | ||
| // on the timeline connects the two. | ||
| func upgradeHeader(e *pipeline.SessionEvent) string { |
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suggestion: this line only renders on the request row, and the 405 is on the response row, which is the one an operator opens. A throwaway end-to-end test through the real proxy (backend answering 405):
phase=request status=0 upgradeStripped="websocket"
phase=response status=405 upgradeStripped=""
showDetail renders r.event alone, so selecting the 405 row shows backend_error/405 with no upgrade: line, which is the confusion the PR body describes. The explanation is one row up, but nothing on the 405 row points to it. Two fixes would close the gap. One: have the detail pane draw this line from the row's partner request (the events pane already builds a partner map for hideInactive). Two: also set UpgradeStripped on the response event in recordOutboundResponseEvent, since pctx is still alive there. The first keeps the "on the REQUEST row, where the fact is true" split from session.go:248.
| // true whether the origin answered 405, 200 or nothing at all, and a marker | ||
| // that only appeared alongside a failure would be useless for the case where | ||
| // an origin quietly serves the un-upgraded request instead. | ||
| UpgradeStripped string |
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suggestion: consider an unexported field plus an accessor, the way requestedHost/RequestedHost() work, instead of an exported mutable field. The doc above says "Set by the listener, not a plugin", but nothing enforces that. serveOutbound calls RecordStrippedUpgrade after OutboundPipeline.Run, and RecordStrippedUpgrade returns early when the header is absent without clearing the field. So if a plugin writes pctx.UpgradeStripped = "websocket" on an ordinary POST, that value lands on the row, and agentop prints "origin may answer 405" for a request that asked for nothing. RequestedHost was built specifically so that "a later write to Host can neither hide a redirect nor invent one". The same reasoning applies here, and core is consumed outside this repo, so an exported field is harder to take back later.
| for _, ev := range v.Events { | ||
| t.Logf(" phase=%v upgradeStripped=%q path=%q", ev.Phase, ev.UpgradeStripped, ev.HTTPPath) | ||
| } | ||
| t.Error("no request event carried UpgradeStripped=websocket — is handleRequest still calling RecordStrippedUpgrade before stripForUpstream?") |
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nit: this failure hint points a future debugger at the wrong place. The call is in serveOutbound, not handleRequest, and the ordering that matters is before recordOutboundRequestEvent. "Before stripForUpstream" is the placement the PR body says recorded nothing. Line 36 says the same thing ("What handleRequest does immediately before stripForUpstream"). Also, line 102's "the three above drive pctx.RecordStrippedUpgrade themselves": TestStripForUpstream_StillRemovesTheUpgrade doesn't call it, so that should be two.
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The problem
A client asking to switch protocol gets its
Upgradeheader removed — correctly, since RFC 9110 makes it hop-by-hop and a proxy must not forward it. The consequence is baffling: the origin receives a bareGET, and one whose endpoint takes a POST or an upgrade and nothing else answers 405.Codex does exactly this against
chatgpt.com. Measured on a real turn: 7 upgrade attempts, all 405, once per process start — then it falls back to HTTPS and works fine. So the user sees this in their agent's own output:…has every reason to conclude Cortex broke something, and finds a timeline saying only
backend_error/405with nothing connecting the two. The 405 is the origin's answer, not Cortex's; Cortex merely caused it.The change
Records the protocol asked for on the request row, so the pair reads:
agentop's detail pane renders it beside the existing
redirected:andmodel:lines:All three answer one question — "why doesn't this row match what my agent asked for" — and it's the same question whoever did it, so
rewriteHeader's doc no longer claims they're all a plugin's doing (two are; this one is the proxy's own strip).Deliberately independent of the response status. That an upgrade was stripped is true whether the origin answered 405, 200, or nothing — a marker appearing only beside a failure would miss an origin that quietly serves the un-upgraded request, which is the case hardest to debug without this.
Not WebSocket support, and not a step toward it. See #1411 for why the cheap version — forwarding the upgrade and relaying bytes — would make Codex less observable than this fallback: an opaque tunnel has no protocol parse, so the model, tokens, cost and tool calls all disappear.
Two things worth a reviewer's attention
The call site is before the request row is appended, not beside
stripForUpstreamwhere the strip happens. It was the latter first — and three unit tests driving the method directly all passed while the feature recorded nothing end to end, because the row is appended ~20 lines earlier. Only the real-request test caught it. Reading the header early is equivalent: the strip is unconditional, so anUpgradepresent inbound is one that will be removed.The setter is a
Contextmethod, not listener-side. The value is client-controlled and lands in a terminal via an unauthenticated API, so it goes through the same sanitize-then-cap a User-Agent does — andsanitizeUA/capUAare unexported incore/pipeline. Keeping one sanitising implementation beat reimplementing it in the listener.Test plan
gofmt/go build/go vet/go mod tidy -diffclean forcoreandcmd/agentopcoresuite and fullcmd/agentopsuite passTestSummarizeEvent_ShapeIsGuardedcaught the new field, as designed, and forced the keep-vs-drop decision. Kept, followingRequestedHostandRequestedModel: the detail pane draws from the projected event before the full one arrives, so dropping it would leave the explanation missing until a round trip lands. It's a scalar capped atmaxClientLen— not whatview=summaryexists to remove. Count bumped, assertion added.r.Header.Del("Upgrade")fails two (the marker must record the strip, not replace it)upgradeStripped: "websocket"onGET /backend-api/codex/responses, each paired with its 405. Binary reverted afterwards.Refs #1411.
Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) noreply@anthropic.com
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