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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 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:

Address Listed as Before After
chatmud.com:7443 chatmud-2 100% reachable, no screen, no count, no protocols MSSP over option 70, 1737-char screen, 5 players
mud.drifters.world:3000 not listed silent target since first seen GMCP, 252-char screen, prompt markers

What changed

TLS is a transport underneath telnet, not a protocol beside it, so nothing above the socket changes — the IAC bytes are still there. SessionAsync wraps the connected client in an SslStream and 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.Tls therefore means a handshake completed and never that anything was verified, and says so where it is defined.

Three things found by running it

  • A refused handshake was published as a timeout. It fell to DialFailure.Classify's catch-all, which ProbeIngestor maps to FailureCause.Timeout — a port that answered and would not speak TLS recorded as a game that did not answer in time. DialFailureCause.Tls now reaches the tls cause the catalogue has carried since migration 0028 with nothing able to produce it.
  • Two of the four are nginx, which completes the handshake and returns 400 Bad Request to 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.
  • The plain-text page told readers to telnet a 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:7443 and mud.drifters.world:3000 come back transport tls, mud.ren:8888 and 110.10.160.150:4001 stay transport telnet with an empty banner, and aardmud.org:4000 is unchanged at one dial.

Note for the catalogue, not this PR

110-10-160-150-4001 is listed as a game and is an HTTPS web server. chatmud-2 is ChatMUD's own TLS port listed separately from chatmud; once it starts reporting MSSP the identity matcher will open a duplicate_review for the pair, which is §7.3 working as intended.

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  • New Features

    • Added TLS-aware probing for telnet services, including transport detection and fallback between TLS and plain telnet.
    • Crawl results now record successful TLS transport and reuse that preference on subsequent probes.
    • TLS endpoints now display an openssl s_client -crlf -connect host:port command; ordinary endpoints continue to use Telnet instructions.
    • TLS handshake failures are reported separately from other connection failures.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Prevented HTTP responses from being mistaken for game banners.
    • Preserved meaningful results when transport retries are unnecessary.

`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.

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The 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.

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TLS transport support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Transport contracts and failure classification
src/MUI.Crawl/Telnet/DialFailure.cs, src/MUI.Crawl/Telnet/ProbeResult.cs, src/MUI.Crawl/Telnet/Probing.cs
Probe targets and results now represent TLS selection and observed transport. TLS authentication failures use DialFailureCause.Tls.
TLS probing and fallback
src/MUI.Crawl/Telnet/TelnetProbe.cs, tests/MUI.Crawl.Tests/Telnet/*
The probe performs TLS handshakes, tracks session evidence, retries the opposite transport when needed, rejects HTTP banners, and records the answering transport.
Crawler transport persistence
src/MUI.Crawler/Crawl/*, src/MUI.Crawler/Persistence/NpgsqlCrawlTargetRepository.cs, src/MUI.Discovery/Scheduling/CrawlTarget.cs, tests/MUI.Crawler.Tests/*, tests/MUI.Discovery.Tests/*
The crawler passes stored TLS preference to probes and records successful transport changes in targets and endpoint catalogues.
Transport diagnostics and endpoint rendering
src/MUI.Probe/Program.cs, src/MUI.Web/Components/Pages/PlainText.cs, tests/MUI.Web.Tests/*
CLI output reports measured transport. Web output selects TLS or Telnet endpoint commands.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

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  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
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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.

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- 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
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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.

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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 use_tls already set dialled TLS first, and an HTTP reply made that session count as heard. The case that reaches it is not hypothetical decay — a port that really was a TLS game keeps the flag after the game dies, so the day a web server takes the port over, nginx's error document becomes that game's connect screen on a live listing, silently. The check moved to Useful, which both candidates go through, with a new test at UseTls = true.

Two notes on what I did not do exactly as suggested:

  • The proposed openssl command (-servername, -quiet) is 91 columns for the shortest fixture host and breaks PlainText.Columns; NoPlainLineIsWiderThanEightyColumns caught it. -servername is also redundant — s_client sends SNI from the connect host by default. Shipped as openssl s_client -crlf -connect host:port, with the test now asserting the whole line and its width.
  • In the fixture, sessions are tracked and awaited before disposal, but not before the Fault assertions. Awaiting there would block on a session that only ends at teardown. Fault is a trap for fixture defects rather than a synchronisation point; the disposal ordering was the part that could corrupt a run, and it is closed.

3,191 tests pass across all six suites, Postgres exercised. Re-verified against the live addresses afterwards: chatmud.com:7443 transport tls, 192.0.2.1:4000 now prints transport none answered (telnet attempted) instead of claiming telnet answered.

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In `@src/MUI.Crawl/Telnet/TelnetProbe.cs`:
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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.

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🟠 Major · Retry plaintext after a TLS handshake timeout. · TelnetProbe.cs:163

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Retry plaintext after a TLS handshake timeout.

If TCP connects but AuthenticateAsClientAsync times out, SessionAsync classifies the OperationCanceledException as DialFailureCause.Timeout. The session has no Heard evidence, so Learnt(session) takes its default true branch. Useful(session) then skips the plaintext retry.

A stale UseTls target 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` at 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
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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
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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 (TelnetProbe.cs:163, "Retry plaintext after a TLS handshake timeout") was correct and is fixed in 53c8150 — noting it here because it was in the review body rather than a thread, so it has nowhere of its own to be answered.

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 Tls, and is retried. A port that answers it with nothing leaves the handshake hanging until the budget expires, which classifies as Timeout — and a timeout everywhere else in this probe means the far end never got as far as a conversation, so Learnt took its default true and the retry was skipped. The conversation that failed there is the handshake itself, 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 published as dark while answering perfectly well.

Done as suggested — the handshake phase is tracked rather than the cause re-classified. Session.HandshakeIncomplete is carried beside the result, so what gets published as the reachability cause is untouched and only the retry decision changes; re-classifying would have put our own dial choice into a game's public record (rule 5).

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: AHandshakeThatHangsIsStillRetriedInTheClear, a server that accepts and then does nothing at all — no handshake, no banner, no reply — held open rather than closed, since a closed socket is a different measurement. It asserts two connections, Answered, and Transport = Telnet.

3,193 tests pass across all six suites.

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