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Anyone logged in to the chat server could make it send web requests to machines inside its own network, and every redeploy replaced the push key, which silently stopped notifications for every browser that had signed up.

Before:

flowchart LR
  A[Any address someone signs up] --> B[Backend sends to it, internal machines included]
  R[Redeploy] --> K[New push key] --> X[Every sign-up stops working]
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After:

flowchart LR
  A[Address someone signs up] --> B{Public and secure?}
  B -- yes --> P[Push delivered]
  B -- no --> F[Refused, and the chat server forgets it]
  R[Redeploy] --> K[Same push key] --> OK[Sign-ups keep working]
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  • Security
    • Push notifications are sent only to HTTPS endpoints, and requests to private or otherwise restricted network addresses are blocked. Rejected destinations are reported as unavailable.
  • Reliability
    • Missing push credentials are generated and saved for reuse. Unreadable or incomplete credential files now cause initialization to fail, and newly generated credentials must be saved successfully before startup can continue.
  • Notifications
    • Push requests now specify high urgency.

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VAPID key initialization now uses data/vapid.json by default, reports key-file errors, and persists generated keys. Push delivery validates HTTPS endpoints, blocks non-public destination addresses, refuses redirects, and sets high urgency. Rejected endpoints receive HTTP 200 with JSON status 410.

Changes: VAPID key storage and push delivery

Layer / File(s) Summary
VAPID key file initialization
webpush.go, webpush_test.go
The default VAPID key path changes to data/vapid.json. Initialization generates keys only when the file is absent and returns errors for read failures, invalid or incomplete key data, and persistence failures. The persistence helper creates the parent directory and writes through a temporary file. Tests cover error handling, persistence, and key reuse.
Endpoint checks and delivery
webpush.go, webpush_test.go
The handler rejects endpoints that are not valid HTTPS URLs or contain user information. The custom HTTP client applies timeouts, refuses redirects, and rejects non-public destination addresses. Refused endpoints receive HTTP 200 with JSON status 410; other send errors retain status 502. Push requests set high urgency. Tests cover endpoint validation, address checks, plain-HTTP rejection, and request urgency.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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sequenceDiagram
  participant PushHandler
  participant EndpointValidator
  participant PushHTTPClient
  participant AddressDialer
  PushHandler->>EndpointValidator: Validate subscription endpoint
  EndpointValidator-->>PushHandler: Return validation result
  PushHandler->>PushHTTPClient: Send high-urgency push request
  PushHTTPClient->>AddressDialer: Connect to destination address
  AddressDialer-->>PushHTTPClient: Allow public address or reject connection
  PushHTTPClient-->>PushHandler: Return delivery result
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 1c388

Push hardening is mostly in place, but one NAT64 address range can still reach internal machines where a translator exists. After the key-path change, existing deployments may also generate a new VAPID key and lose browser subscriptions. Resolve these before merging.

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- Line 51: Update the VAPID key loading flow in InitWebPush to fall back to the
legacy ./vapid.json when the default path from vapidKeyPath is missing, without
overriding an explicitly configured key path. When the legacy key is found,
persist it at the new data/vapid.json path so future startups use the migrated
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- Around line 108-112: Update the keypair initialization flow around the
temporary-file write and rename to use a unique temporary file per process and
coordinate the initial read with committing the generated keypair, ensuring only
one keypair becomes authoritative and each process uses the persisted pair. Keep
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- Line 78: Update InitWebPush so a failure from writeVAPIDKeyfile is returned
immediately, before the generated keys are stored or made available; only expose
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tmp := path + ".tmp"
if err := os.WriteFile(tmp, b, 0o600); err != nil {
return err
}
return os.Rename(tmp, path)

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Prevent concurrent initializers from replacing each other’s keypair.

If two processes see the key file as missing, both generate keys and write to the same .tmp path. Their writes can interfere, and os.Rename can replace a key file installed by the other process. A process can then serve a public key that does not match the persisted private key. Use distinct temporary files, and coordinate the initial read and commit so only one generated keypair becomes authoritative. Go documents that WriteFile truncates an existing file and that Rename replaces an existing destination. (pkg.go.dev)

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Update the keypair initialization flow around the temporary-file write and
rename to use a unique temporary file per process and coordinate the initial
read with committing the generated keypair, ensuring only one keypair becomes
authoritative and each process uses the persisted pair. Keep the change scoped
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- Line 254: Update the non-public prefix exclusions used by isPublicIP to
include the local-use NAT64 prefix 64:ff9b:1::/48, then add a test verifying
refuseInternalAddress rejects an address within that prefix, such as one
translating to an internal IPv4 address.
- Line 117: In the key-installation flow around f.Sync, after a successful
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