fix: stop reporting TLS-only ports as plain http - #2577
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Ports above 1024 are probed as plain HTTP first, and the scheme retry only fires on a transport error. A TLS listener answers a plaintext request with a perfectly valid HTTP 400 saying TLS is required, so err == nil, the retry never happens, and a TLS-only service is reported as plain http with a 400 and no title or technologies. Detect that response and reuse the existing scheme retry. Only the distinctive server phrasings count (nginx, Netty, Apache, HAProxy); a bare "400 Bad Request" is a legitimate HTTP answer and is left alone, so the extra request is limited to targets that already told us to use TLS. Downstream this mattered: consumers that persist the probed scheme were recording TLS-only ports as http assets, and every HTTP-based scan of those targets then ran over plaintext and matched nothing. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015AKXsNzjd3HjGMq4B8JCNH Claude-Local-Session: claude --resume 0fe5b680-5ba5-43e6-b354-43d4388aaf9c
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 10 included reviews per hour; 6 remain after this review. WalkthroughThe analyzer now retries eligible automatic HTTP 400 responses over HTTPS once. Tests cover TLS-only services and cleartext HTTP 400 responses. ChangesTLS upgrade fallback
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change correctly retries TLS for plaintext 400 responses, but some targets may receive one redundant HTTPS attempt and incur a full timeout before the unchanged result is returned. This is a bounded performance concern that is mergeable with owner awareness or follow-up. Suggested reviewers: Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant analyze
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analyze->>HTTPProbe: send automatic HTTP request
HTTPProbe->>TestService: receive HTTP 400
TestService-->>HTTPProbe: return HTTP 400
analyze->>HTTPSProbe: retry once over HTTPS
HTTPSProbe->>TestService: perform TLS request
TestService-->>HTTPSProbe: return HTTPS response
HTTPSProbe-->>analyze: report HTTPS result
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Tests for runner.go belong in runner_test.go; a per-scenario file drifts away from the code it covers. Also cut the four-line preamble on the retry down to the one fact that is not already on the next line. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015AKXsNzjd3HjGMq4B8JCNH Claude-Local-Session: claude --resume 0fe5b680-5ba5-43e6-b354-43d4388aaf9c
errcheck flagged the unchecked Serve in the TLS-only test listener. It always returns io.EOF there, since the listener yields a single connection, so discard it explicitly. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015AKXsNzjd3HjGMq4B8JCNH Claude-Local-Session: claude --resume 0fe5b680-5ba5-43e6-b354-43d4388aaf9c
Matching the server's rejection wording only worked for the phrasings we had seen; nginx, Netty, Apache and HAProxy each word it differently and a titleless 400 matched nothing. Trigger the upgrade on the shape of the exchange instead — a plaintext probe answered 400 — and let the TLS handshake settle it: if TLS works the port is https, and if it does not the existing scheme fallback recovers the original http result. This also stops the upgrade consuming the single retry budget, so a target whose https attempt fails is no longer left without a result. Drops respondsOnlyOverTLS and its signal list. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015AKXsNzjd3HjGMq4B8JCNH Claude-Local-Session: claude --resume 0fe5b680-5ba5-43e6-b354-43d4388aaf9c
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TestPlainHTTPPortStaysHTTP wrote its 400 on accept, before the client
had finished sending. Go discards a reply that arrives on a channel it
has not spoken on ("unsolicited response"), so the result went missing
and the assertion saw zero results. It passed locally on timing luck and
failed on all three CI runners.
Read the request head first, with a deadline so a silent client cannot
park the goroutine. The TLS listener's plaintext branch had the same
dependency and is fixed alongside.
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Unsafe mode bypasses the scheme fallback, so the upgrade had nothing to fall back to: a plain HTTP service answering 400 lost its result entirely rather than being reported as http. The rfc-path integration tests cover exactly that shape and caught it. Verified locally: `-unsafe` against a plain HTTP 400 went from 0 results back to 1, and both integration tests pass. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015AKXsNzjd3HjGMq4B8JCNH Claude-Local-Session: claude --resume 0fe5b680-5ba5-43e6-b354-43d4388aaf9c
Removing the string-matching test left a trailing blank-line diff, which is noise in review. The helper it covered is gone with the phrase list, so both ports_optimization files are unchanged from dev now. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015AKXsNzjd3HjGMq4B8JCNH Claude-Local-Session: claude --resume 0fe5b680-5ba5-43e6-b354-43d4388aaf9c
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Review found that the upgrade discarded a successful HTTP 400 before trying HTTPS, and the error path then issued a fresh HTTP request rather than restoring it. A transient, one-shot or rate-limited service could answer once, fail the HTTPS attempt, fail the repeat request, and vanish from the output despite having been reachable. Hold the plaintext response and restore it on any HTTPS failure, so no second HTTP request is made and nothing is lost. An earlier revision gated the upgrade on a TLS handshake preflight. That is dropped: the HTTPS request opens with the same handshake, so the preflight only duplicated it on the success path, and dialling outside the client bypassed transport.Proxy and CONNECT while reimplementing CustomIP and TLS impersonation. Going through the normal client path inherits all of it. Tests: a cleartext service that answers 400 exactly once and refuses afterwards, and one whose TLS handshake succeeds before it closes without an HTTP response. Both must still be reported as http. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015AKXsNzjd3HjGMq4B8JCNH Claude-Local-Session: claude --resume 0fe5b680-5ba5-43e6-b354-43d4388aaf9c
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Review found that the restore left URL as the object built for the failed HTTPS attempt, so SupportHTTP2 received protocol "http" with an https URL, and the stored-response filename hashed the https form for a result reported as http. URL is cloned before the upgrade and restored with the response; the comment claiming resp, req and protocol were the whole of the downstream state was wrong and is corrected. Adds the handshake-success-then-close test that the previous message claimed was present and was not: TLS completes, the connection closes without an HTTP response, and the cleartext service answers only once. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015AKXsNzjd3HjGMq4B8JCNH Claude-Local-Session: claude --resume 0fe5b680-5ba5-43e6-b354-43d4388aaf9c
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runner/runner.go (1)
1953-1953: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winSkip the upgrade when the HTTPS probe already failed.
The condition on Line 1951 does not consider
retried. IfdetermineMostLikelySchemeOrderchooses HTTPS first and that probe fails, the fallback at Line 2037 switches to HTTP and setsretried = true. For a port other than 443 the host:port is unchanged. The plaintext pass then returns 400, and this block probes the same host:port over HTTPS a second time. That attempt already failed, so it costs one extra connection and a fullTimeoutwait before the plaintext response is restored. The reported result does not change.Add
!retriedto the guard.♻️ Proposed guard
- if err == nil && !tlsUpgraded && !scanopts.Unsafe && origProtocol == httpx.HTTPorHTTPS && + if err == nil && !tlsUpgraded && !retried && !scanopts.Unsafe && origProtocol == httpx.HTTPorHTTPS && protocol == httpx.HTTP && resp != nil && resp.StatusCode == http.StatusBadRequest { keptResp, keptReq, keptURL, keptProtocol = resp, req, URL.Clone(), protocol🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@runner/runner.go`:
- Line 1953: Update the guard surrounding the kept HTTPS response assignment to
also require !retried, preventing a second HTTPS probe after
determineMostLikelySchemeOrder has already failed HTTPS and fallen back to HTTP.
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The HTTPS upgrade logic added in [PR `#2577`]($pr_url) retries an automatic plaintext HTTP probe that receives an HTTP 400 response. If the target is cleartext-only or otherwise does not support HTTPS, the HTTPS retry can consume the full probe timeout before httpx restores the original plaintext HTTP result.
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Evaluate and implement a bounded strategy that reduces or avoids the latency from an HTTPS retry that cannot succeed. Preserve the scheme-detection behavior for TLS-only services that initially return HTTP 400 to a plaintext probe.
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A port above 1024 is probed as plain HTTP first, and the scheme retry only fires on a transport error. A TLS-only listener answers a plaintext request with a perfectly valid HTTP 400, so
err == nil, the retry never happens, and the service is reported as plain http with a 400, no title and no technologies.retried, so when TLS does not work the existing scheme fallback still recovers the original http result.Evidence
TestTLSOnlyPortIsProbedOverHTTPS: real runner against an in-process TLS-only listener.devreportsscheme=http/400; this reportsscheme=https/200.TestPlainHTTPPortStaysHTTP: the other direction — a genuine cleartext 400 must stay http. This is what makes the text-free trigger safe.devacross 7 server shapes (TLS-only, explicit http, explicit https, plain 200, plain 400, unsafe, probe): exactly one changed, the bug.rfc pathcases cover the unsafe behaviour.Still open
*443ports would avoid the extra connections, but misses TLS on arbitrary high ports, so it was not taken.Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015AKXsNzjd3HjGMq4B8JCNH
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