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Copilot AI commented Oct 26, 2025

Issue #[number] reported that error scenarios stopped working in v0.0.5. Investigation revealed the functionality is working correctly—the issue appears to be environmental or in external test suites.

To prevent future confusion and improve debuggability, this PR adds:

Enhanced Logging

  • Config handler logs exact error scenario configuration including enabled state
  • storeErrorScenario logs final computed values (endpoint, error code, enabled status)
  • Distinguishes between nil, true, and false for the enabled field pointer

Documentation

  • Explains the three-state Enabled *bool pointer behavior:
    • nil (field omitted) → defaults to true
    • explicitly true → enabled
    • explicitly false → disabled
  • Documents OAuth2 RFC 6749 Section 4.1.2.1 compliance
  • Clarifies that store maintains one error scenario at a time (replaces on update)

Test Coverage

Added 6 edge-case integration tests:

  • Default enabled behavior when field omitted
  • Switching error codes for same endpoint
  • Explicit enabled: true
  • Re-enabling after disabling
  • Optional error description field
  • State parameter preservation in error responses

All tests include proper error handling (HTTP errors, URL parsing, location header validation).

Example Usage

// Enable error (implicit)
{"error_scenario": {"endpoint": "authorize", "error": "access_denied"}}

// Disable error
{"error_scenario": {"enabled": false, "endpoint": "authorize"}}

// Re-enable with new error
{"error_scenario": {"endpoint": "authorize", "error": "server_error"}}

The error scenario functionality works correctly across all OAuth2 endpoints (authorize, token, userinfo) and error codes.

Original prompt

This section details on the original issue you should resolve

<issue_title>[BUG] regression on error scenarios</issue_title>
<issue_description># Mock OAuth Server v0.0.5 Test Results

Date: October 26, 2025
Mock OAuth Server Version: 0.0.5 (commit: 335c556, build: 2025-10-26T21:53:23Z)
Image Digest: sha256:4ff5a7b52afd673d771a4cf90d75bc28633ce7c449857c5dea4f65a0301eae4b

Summary

Retested all previously skipped OAuth error scenario tests with the updated mock OAuth server v0.0.5. Unfortunately, all error scenario tests still fail with the same issue: the mock server continues to auto-approve authentication requests even when error scenarios are configured.

Test Results

✅ Tests Passing (7 tests)

Basic OAuth Flow:

  1. ✅ should complete OAuth flow with mock server
  2. ✅ should receive session cookie after authentication
  3. ✅ should show user information on dashboard
  4. ✅ should be able to logout
  5. ✅ should redirect to dashboard after login
  6. ✅ Basic Page Navigation: should load home page
  7. ✅ Basic Page Navigation: should have navigation links on home page

⏭️ Tests Still Skipped (10 tests - ALL STILL FAILING)

OAuth Error Scenarios (10 tests):

Test Status Issue
should redirect to login when accessing dashboard without authentication ❌ FAILS Auto-approves despite error scenario
should handle OAuth access denied error ❌ FAILS Auth succeeds instead of returning error
should handle unauthorized client error ❌ FAILS Auth succeeds instead of returning error
should handle invalid scope error ❌ FAILS Auth succeeds instead of returning error
should handle server error from OAuth provider ❌ FAILS Auth succeeds instead of returning error
should handle temporarily unavailable error ❌ FAILS Auth succeeds instead of returning error
should handle invalid request error ❌ FAILS Auth succeeds instead of returning error
should handle unsupported response type error ❌ FAILS Auth succeeds instead of returning error
should handle token endpoint error ❌ FAILS Token exchange succeeds, user gets authenticated
should recover from error scenario when disabled ❌ FAILS Depends on error scenarios working

Comparison with Previous Version

v0.0.4 (October 25, 2025)

  • 10 tests passing (7 basic + 3 error scenarios)
  • 7 tests skipped (6 error scenarios + 1 recovery test)
  • Error scenarios working: access_denied, server_error, token endpoint errors

v0.0.5 (October 26, 2025) - REGRESSION

  • 7 tests passing (only basic flow tests)
  • 10 tests skipped (all error scenarios + recovery test)
  • Error scenarios working: NONE ❌

Result: v0.0.5 is a regression - it lost support for the 3 error scenarios that were working in v0.0.4!

Server Behavior Analysis

What the Server Receives

Looking at the logs, the server IS receiving the error scenario configuration:

[WebServer] Received config request: {ErrorScenario:0xc00002a280}
[WebServer] Received config request: {ErrorScenario:0xc0000b0340}

What the Server Does

Despite receiving the error configuration, the server continues to:

  1. Return successful authorization codes: ?code=fd95a170-e39b-40e2-b2d0-4afa3e29d919
  2. Allow token exchange to succeed
  3. Create authenticated sessions (session cookies are set)

Expected Behavior

When error_scenario.enabled=true with error='access_denied', the server should:

  1. Return an error redirect: ?error=access_denied&error_description=...
  2. NOT issue an authorization code
  3. NOT allow authentication to succeed

Root Cause

The mock OAuth server v0.0.5 is:

  • ✅ Accepting the /config endpoint requests
  • ✅ Parsing the error_scenario configuration
  • NOT using the configuration to modify authorization behavior
  • ❌ Still auto-approving all requests regardless of error scenario settings

Recommendations

For Mock OAuth Server Development

The v0.0.5 update appears to have broken the partial error scenario support that was working in v0.0.4. Recommendations:

  1. Revert to v0.0.4 or investigate what changed between v0.0.4 and v0.0.5
  2. Add unit tests in the mock OAuth server repository to prevent regressions
  3. Implement proper error handling at the /authorize endpoint:
    if errorScenario.Enabled {
        // Return error redirect
        redirectURL := fmt.Sprintf("%s?error=%s&error_description=%s&state=%s",
            redirectURI, errorScenario.Error, errorScenario.ErrorDescription, state)
        http.Redirect(w, r, redirectURL, http.StatusFound)
        return
    }
    // Normal flow...

Version History

Version Date Error Scenarios Working Notes
v0.0.4 Oct 25, 2025 3 scenarios access_denied, server_error, token errors ✅
v0.0.5 Oct 26, 2025 0 scenarios REGRESSION - all scenarios broke...

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Copilot AI and others added 4 commits October 26, 2025 22:26
Co-authored-by: chrisw-dev <68233262+chrisw-dev@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: chrisw-dev <68233262+chrisw-dev@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: chrisw-dev <68233262+chrisw-dev@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: chrisw-dev <68233262+chrisw-dev@users.noreply.github.com>
Copilot AI changed the title [WIP] Fix regression on error scenarios in mock OAuth server Add comprehensive logging, documentation, and edge-case tests for error scenario handling Oct 26, 2025
Copilot AI requested a review from chrisw-dev October 26, 2025 22:35
@chrisw-dev chrisw-dev marked this pull request as ready for review October 26, 2025 22:44
@chrisw-dev chrisw-dev merged commit 9ddf997 into main Oct 27, 2025
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@chrisw-dev chrisw-dev deleted the copilot/fix-oauth-error-scenarios branch October 27, 2025 07:16
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