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Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant IoRouter
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participant ChildServe as child::serve
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IoRouter->>NetProcess: Submit fetch request
NetProcess->>ChildServe: Send fetch over IPC
ChildServe->>Fetcher: Submit buffered request
Fetcher-->>ChildServe: Return fetch result
ChildServe-->>NetProcess: Send tagged outcome
NetProcess-->>IoRouter: Return fetch result
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- Around line 178-184: Update the header reconstruction loop in
dispatch_to_net_process to use HeaderMap::append instead of insert, preserving
every value when repeated request headers cross the IPC hop.
- Around line 204-210: Update the `perform` handling of `FetchResult::Buffered`
to check the body size against a response limit that leaves room for serialized
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296-403: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy liftAssert that the engine selects the network child.
When
NetProcess::spawn()fails,IoRouterstoresNoneand dispatches requests to the in-process fetcher. Theenginescenario only checks forNavigationEvent::Finished, so navigation can pass through that fallback. Theguardanddirectscenarios do not test router selection. Add a child-specific selection assertion to this scenario.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 296-403: Update the `engine` scenario to assert that `IoRouter`
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- Around line 195-200: Update ConfigStore and Engine::setting_at_default to
distinguish explicit overrides from effective schema defaults, since
ConfigStore::get returns defaults for unset keys and ConfigStore::has cannot
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that status so an unset security.network_process remains default while an
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- Around line 446-449: Change the `security.network_process` setting’s default
to disabled in `settings.json` until the network-process IPC path supports large
streamed or chunked responses. Preserve the existing setting behavior when
embedders explicitly enable it.
Review comments at @crates/gosub_engine/src/net/io_runtime.rs:
- Around line 101-105: Update IoRouter::shutdown_all to explicitly stop the
network process by invoking net_process.shutdown() through spawn_blocking, so
shutdown does not wait for in-flight Arc clones to be dropped. In
crates/gosub_engine/src/net/process/client.rs at lines 316-320, keep Drop as a
fallback; the explicit shutdown should take the child so this fallback does not
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- Line 36: Update the `headers` value types in `NetFetch` and `FetchOutcome::Ok`
from `String` to `Vec<u8>`. In `dispatch_to_net_process` and `flat_headers`,
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🟠 Major · Make AppContainer mandatory for the network child on Windows. · client.rs:105-124
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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winMake AppContainer mandatory for the network child on Windows.
NetProcess::spawnenables the network role, but the Windows spawner only creates an AppContainer whenGOSUB_WIN_APPCONTAINERis set. Otherwise, it falls back to a restricted token and then to the inherited broker token if token creation fails. The child still starts, andconfine_spawned_childonly applies job limits. It does not provide AppContainer isolation.A compromised child on the inherited-token path can access resources readable by the broker. Enforce AppContainer creation for profiles with
internet: truebeforeCreateProcessWruns.Suggested fix
- let identity = if std::env::var_os("GOSUB_WIN_APPCONTAINER").is_some() { - crate::app_container_identity(container, internet) + let identity = if internet { + Some(crate::app_container_identity(container, internet).ok_or_else(|| { + io::Error::other("network child requires AppContainer setup") + })?) + } else if std::env::var_os("GOSUB_WIN_APPCONTAINER").is_some() { + crate::app_container_identity(container, internet) } else { None };🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 105-124: Update the Windows spawn path’s AppContainer identity
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The test server counted a connection that closed without a request line (the next navigation cancelling the last one's icon fetch) as a load of "/", so "back must refetch /a" failed now and then, also in CI on #1195.
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setting_at_default compared the value with the schema default, so an embedder setting security.network_process to true on macOS/Windows was treated as "never chose" and turned off. Config::is_overridden tells a stored value from a seeded default.
shutdown_all waited for the zones but left the network process to Drop, which runs only when the last in-flight task lets go of its Arc (up to the reply timeout later) and then blocks a runtime worker. It now calls shutdown on a blocking thread; Drop stays as the fallback.
Both directions flattened headers with to_str(), which drops any value with obs-text (UTF-8 in Set-Cookie, a Content-Disposition filename) without a trace; the in-process fetcher keeps them. HeaderList carries raw bytes, and flatten_headers/rebuild_headers are the one conversion both sides use.
The test server counted a connection that closed without a request line (the next navigation cancelling the last one's icon fetch) as a load of "/", so "back must refetch /a" failed now and then, also in CI on #1195.
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02-contract. The first real role: withsecurity.network_processon,the gosub-sonar stack runs in a re-exec'd child whose only privilege is the
network.
What is in here
net::process— protocol (ToNet/FromNet, tagged replies), client(
NetProcess: spawn, ping-before-trust, bounded in-flight requests,cancellation forwarded to the child, reply timeouts, kill-then-reap
shutdown,
plausible_replyrefusing non-webfinal_urls), and the child(
serve: resolver warm-up before lockdown, Landlock scoped to resolver andCA paths,
lock_down_net, one fetcher, drain grace on shutdown).request metadata forgotten on reply so nothing leaks; in-process fetcher
otherwise. Bodies are buffered at this layer (streaming comes in a later PR).
child_process::run_rolegains thenetrole; the engine resolvessecurity.network_processatstart(): dropped quietly when the embeddernever dispatched or on a non-Linux platform, with a warning when the setting
was explicit.
isolation-harnessbinary (an embedder that dispatches) and theprocess_isolationsuite:direct(round trip through the sandboxedprocess, intact body),
resolve(a.invalidname resolves inside thesandbox without killing the process),
engine(a navigation resolves throughthe child),
guard(an undispatched embedder cannot spawn further processes).FetchResultMeta.tainting, twoNetEvents).Testing
Deliberate limits
Buffered bodies only; no cookie vault, no private-network policy yet (later
PRs). The child is trusted with cookie values because it must put them on the
wire.
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