Speak TLS at a port that only answers behind a handshake - #184
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`crawl_target.use_tls`, `EndpointKind.Tls` and `TlsMeasured` have existed since the beginning and nothing has ever written any of them: `TelnetProbe` always opened a bare `TcpClient`, so the TLS search facet returned an empty list to everyone who tried it. Four addresses in the live registry are behind a handshake, two of them real games — `chatmud.com:7443` (listed as a separate game with no screen, no count and no protocols) and `mud.drifters.world:3000` (never listed at all). TLS is a transport underneath telnet rather than a protocol beside it, so nothing above the socket changes: the IAC bytes are still there, and ChatMUD's MSSP report and player count now arrive over option 70 exactly as a cleartext game's would. `SessionAsync` wraps the connected client in an `SslStream` and hands it to TelnetNegotiationCore's stream overload; everything downstream is untouched. Detection is a retry, because there is nothing else it can be — a TLS listener sends no bytes at all until it is sent a ClientHello, so it is indistinguishable from a socket that accepts and sits there. A dial that heard nothing is asked once on the other transport, and the answer is remembered on the target so an address pays for it once rather than every cycle. It runs in both directions: without the second, a target once marked TLS whose game moved back to an ordinary port would fail for ever and be published as dark while running fine. Certificates are accepted unverified, self-signed and expired included — the probe reads a login screen a server shows to strangers, and refusing a chain would drop games while protecting nothing. `ProbeTransport.Tls` therefore means a handshake completed and never that anything was verified, and says so where it is defined. Also here, all of it measured rather than reasoned about: - A refused handshake is `DialFailureCause.Tls` rather than the catch-all, which `ProbeIngestor` mapped to `timeout` — a port that answered and would not do TLS was published as a game that did not answer in time. The catalogue's own vocabulary has carried `tls` since migration 0028 with nothing able to reach it. - The retry declines an HTTP response. Two of the four addresses are nginx, which completes the handshake and returns `400 Bad Request` to telnet negotiation; one is already listed as a game, and adopting that reply would put an HTML error document on a game page as its connect screen. - The plain-text page stops telling a reader to `telnet` a TLS port, which is an instruction to open a connection that then says nothing for ever. The first token is now what the reader has to speak. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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WalkthroughThe probe supports TLS-wrapped Telnet sessions, retries between transports, records the answering transport, and classifies TLS failures. Crawling persists successful transport changes. CLI and web output now distinguish TLS endpoints from Telnet endpoints. ChangesTLS transport support
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant CrawlCycle
participant TelnetProbe
participant SslStream
participant CatalogueBinder
participant CrawlTargetRepository
CrawlCycle->>TelnetProbe: pass stored TLS preference
TelnetProbe->>SslStream: authenticate selected TLS session
SslStream-->>TelnetProbe: provide authenticated stream
TelnetProbe-->>CrawlCycle: return observed transport
CrawlCycle->>CatalogueBinder: persist endpoint kind
CrawlCycle->>CrawlTargetRepository: record transport state
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Targets with a stale TLS preference can remain unreachable when their plaintext service accepts connections but waits before sending a banner. This fallback gap should be fixed before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@src/MUI.Crawl/Telnet/TelnetProbe.cs`:
- Line 110: Update the result-selection logic around Learnt and the final return
so SpeaksHttp rejects banners from both the initial and fallback TLS candidates,
not only other. Ensure an initial HTTP response cannot be returned as the final
Answered result, and add coverage for UseTls = true with an HTTP response.
In `@src/MUI.Probe/Program.cs`:
- Line 45: Update the transport output in the probe result display to report the
transport only when result.Outcome is ProbeOutcome.Answered; otherwise print the
existing no-transport fallback, so failed probes do not present their attempted
transport as an answer.
In `@src/MUI.Web/Components/Pages/PlainText.cs`:
- Line 76: Update PlainText.Render to emit the runnable OpenSSL command “openssl
s_client -connect host:port -servername host -crlf” for TLS entries instead of
the unsupported tls form. Document the OpenSSL requirement and update
TlsConnectLineTests to assert the complete generated command, while preserving
the existing telnet output.
In `@tests/MUI.Crawl.Tests/Telnet/TlsTransportTests.cs`:
- Line 270: Track each task returned by SessionAsync in the fixture’s
session-task collection under its existing synchronization mechanism, without
awaiting it inside the accept loop. Add an awaitable helper that snapshots and
awaits tracked sessions, invoke it before each Fault assertion, and call it from
DisposeAsync after _serving completes and before disposing _stopping or
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…er fixes `SpeaksHttp` was consulted on the fallback session alone, so the guard was reachable past: a target with `use_tls` already set dials TLS first, an HTTP reply makes that session `Heard`, and the result returns with nginx's error document as the game's connect screen. That is the case that survives longest — a port that really was a TLS game keeps the flag after the game dies, so the screen would simply change one day, on a live listing, into an HTML error page. The check now lives in `Useful`, which both candidates go through, and when the first session is the web server the silent one wins. Also: - `mui-probe` printed the attempted transport on a failed dial under a comment saying it names which door answered. It now says "none answered (telnet attempted)". - The plain-text page emitted `tls host port`, whose first token names no program. Every other line there is something a reader pastes into a shell, so it is now `openssl s_client -crlf -connect host:port`. `-crlf` is load-bearing (s_client sends bare LF; a MU* wants CR LF). `-servername` and `-quiet` are deliberately not passed: SNI is sent from the connect host automatically, and the longer form breaks `PlainText.Columns` for any ordinary hostname — caught by `NoPlainLineIsWiderThanEightyColumns`, which the first attempt at this failed. - The TLS fixture discarded its session tasks, so disposal could dispose the certificate and the token source under a session still reading through them. They are tracked and awaited now — not awaited inline, which would stop the accept loop reaching the retry every test here depends on. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Review round addressed in c7e8463 — all four findings were real, all four fixed, each answered in its own thread. The one worth reading if you read nothing else: the HTTP guard was reachable past. It was consulted on the fallback session only, so a target with Two notes on what I did not do exactly as suggested:
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In `@src/MUI.Crawl/Telnet/TelnetProbe.cs`:
- Around line 120-130: Update the TLS fallback branch guarded by
SpeaksHttpOverTls(session) so any TLS HTTP response returns an answered result
without its banner when the plaintext fallback is not answered, while preserving
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Review round two found the fall-through case: a TLS session that answered with HTTP and a plaintext retry that never got in returned the HTTP banner. Writing the test found it was worse than that — the *first* branch returned the failed retry outright, because `Learnt` counts a refusal as informative and `Useful` inherited it. `ProbeIngestor` reads a failure as unreachable, so an address that had answered a second earlier was published as down. A retry may now replace the first session only when it answered itself. Where that leaves a web server's reply with nowhere to fall back to, the session stands — it did answer, and saying otherwise invents an outage — and the banner is dropped, because it is not a connect screen and that field is what would publish it as one. Dropping it is the opposite of fabricating: no screen was read, so none is recorded. The fixture gained `ClosesListenerAfterFirstConnection`, which stops listening at accept rather than at the end of the session, so the fallback dial is refused deterministically while the first session carries on over the socket it holds. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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🟠 Major · Retry plaintext after a TLS handshake timeout. · TelnetProbe.cs:163
src/MUI.Crawl/Telnet/TelnetProbe.cs:163
🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winRetry plaintext after a TLS handshake timeout.
If TCP connects but
AuthenticateAsClientAsynctimes out,SessionAsyncclassifies theOperationCanceledExceptionasDialFailureCause.Timeout. The session has noHeardevidence, soLearnt(session)takes its defaulttruebranch.Useful(session)then skips the plaintext retry.A stale
UseTlstarget whose plaintext service waits before sending a banner is therefore reported as failed instead of retried in plaintext. Track the handshake phase and treat only a timeout during the TLS handshake as retryable. Keep TCP connection timeouts and post-handshake timeouts non-retryable.Add coverage for a plaintext fixture that accepts the connection but does not answer the ClientHello.
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In `@src/MUI.Crawl/Telnet/TelnetProbe.cs`:
- Line 163: Update SessionAsync and the failure classification around
Result.Failure.Cause so a timeout is marked retryable only when it occurs during
AuthenticateAsClientAsync. Preserve non-retryable handling for TCP connection
timeouts and timeouts after the TLS handshake, allowing Learnt(session) and
Useful(session) to retry stale UseTls targets in plaintext only for handshake
timeouts. Add coverage using a plaintext fixture that accepts the connection but
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The outside-diff finding from review round two, and it was right. A port that answers a ClientHello with a TLS alert fails fast, classifies as `Tls` and is retried. A port that answers it with nothing at all leaves the handshake hanging until the probe budget expires, which classifies as `Timeout` — and a timeout everywhere else means the far end never got as far as a conversation, so `Learnt` took its default and the retry was skipped. The conversation that failed there *is* the handshake, which is the one thing the other transport does not need. A stale `use_tls` flag over a plaintext server that waits to be spoken to first was therefore published as dark while answering perfectly well — the failure mode this whole change exists to prevent, reached by its last remaining door. `Session.HandshakeIncomplete` carries the phase, separately from the cause the far end earns, so the published reachability record is untouched and only the retry decision changes. And the fallback now wins whenever the first session failed and the other answered: a socket that accepted and said nothing is a truer record than a handshake timeout, and it is the difference between a game reading as reachable-and-quiet and reading as dark. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Second round addressed. The outside-diff finding ( It was real, and it was the last door into the failure this PR exists to close. A port that answers a ClientHello with a TLS alert fails fast, classifies as Done as suggested — the handshake phase is tracked rather than the cause re-classified. Writing the test surfaced a second half you did not name: the retry then happened and the failed TLS session was still returned, so the game still read as dark. The fallback now wins whenever the first session failed and the other answered — a socket that accepted and said nothing is a truer record than a handshake timeout. Coverage is the fixture you asked for: 3,193 tests pass across all six suites. @coderabbitai review |
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crawl_target.use_tls,EndpointKind.TlsandTlsMeasuredhave existed since the beginning and nothing has ever written any of them —TelnetProbealways opened a bareTcpClient, so the TLS search facet has returned an empty list to everyone who has ever tried it.Four addresses in the live registry are behind a handshake. Two are real games:
chatmud.com:7443chatmud-2mud.drifters.world:3000What changed
TLS is a transport underneath telnet, not a protocol beside it, so nothing above the socket changes — the IAC bytes are still there.
SessionAsyncwraps the connected client in anSslStreamand hands it to TelnetNegotiationCore's stream overload; negotiation, MSSP, the WHO parser and the encoding decision are untouched.Detection is a retry, because there is nothing else it could be. A TLS listener sends no bytes until it receives a ClientHello, so it is byte-for-byte indistinguishable from a socket that accepts and sits there. A dial that heard nothing is asked once on the other transport, and the answer is remembered on the target so an address pays for it once rather than every cycle — sixteen of 1,677 targets qualify today.
It runs in both directions, and the second is the one that matters: without it, a target once marked TLS whose game moved back to an ordinary port would dial into a handshake nobody answers, fail every cycle for ever, and be published as dark while running perfectly well.
Certificates are accepted unverified — self-signed and expired included. The probe reads a login screen a server shows to strangers; refusing a chain would drop games while protecting nothing we hold.
ProbeTransport.Tlstherefore means a handshake completed and never that anything was verified, and says so where it is defined.Three things found by running it
DialFailure.Classify's catch-all, whichProbeIngestormaps toFailureCause.Timeout— a port that answered and would not speak TLS recorded as a game that did not answer in time.DialFailureCause.Tlsnow reaches thetlscause the catalogue has carried since migration 0028 with nothing able to produce it.400 Bad Requestto telnet negotiation. One of them is already listed as a game, so adopting that reply would have put an HTML error document on a game page as its connect screen. The retry declines an HTTP status line; both addresses stay exactly as silent as they were.telneta TLS port — an instruction to open a connection that then says nothing for ever, which is the same silence that hid these ports from the crawler, handed to a person as advice. The first token is now what the reader has to speak.Testing
Nine new tests, TDD throughout; the two that passed on first run were verified by mutation. 3,190 tests pass across all six suites, Postgres exercised rather than skipped.
Verified against the real internet afterwards, with no flag passed:
chatmud.com:7443andmud.drifters.world:3000come backtransport tls,mud.ren:8888and110.10.160.150:4001staytransport telnetwith an empty banner, andaardmud.org:4000is unchanged at one dial.Note for the catalogue, not this PR
110-10-160-150-4001is listed as a game and is an HTTPS web server.chatmud-2is ChatMUD's own TLS port listed separately fromchatmud; once it starts reporting MSSP the identity matcher will open aduplicate_reviewfor the pair, which is §7.3 working as intended.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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openssl s_client -crlf -connect host:portcommand; ordinary endpoints continue to use Telnet instructions.Bug Fixes