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ihasmail/server/src/push.test.ts
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jcoffey-dev 2c47c0851c Push by subscription: hold no upstream connection per tab
A signed-in tab held two sockets: the browser's, and one from ihasmail to
Stalwart carrying that tab's push stream. The upstream one was most of what a
tab cost, and the only reason Stalwart's connection limit applied to ihasmail
at all.

RFC 8620 section 7.2 defines the other push transport: a PushSubscription,
where the server POSTs StateChange objects to a URL the client registers.
Stalwart 0.16.20 implements it. ihasmail now registers one subscription per
account at sign-in, and when Stalwart POSTs a change, fans it out to that
account's open tabs over the browser-facing streams it already holds. A tab
opens on the relay as before and is moved to fan-out the moment its account
verifies -- the upstream request is ended, the browser stream is untouched,
and nothing keeps a reference to what was torn down. After that there is no
upstream connection at all. The shapes are the RFC's; nothing here is taken
from any other client.

Measured at a 256 MiB cap over a private plain-HTTP route, against a real
Stalwart with 6,144 accounts verifying during the ramp and no failures:

                                 tabs   client   Stalwart   system  KiB/tab
  raw relay (before)            5,000     48.2       46.4     94.6
  push by subscription          6,144     33.3        4.8     38.0
  a direct-to-server client   12,389      4.8       53.8     58.6

Descriptors per tab: one, the browser's. Stalwart pays 4.8 KiB per tab and
holds no connection for it, so its per-listener connection limit no longer
applies to ihasmail. What remains per tab on the client is Node's cost for a
held HTTP/1.1 connection.

PUSH_URL is the https origin Stalwart can reach ihasmail at. The RFC requires
https and Stalwart enforces it, so Stalwart must trust that certificate: a
public TLS front already does; a private segment needs an internal CA in
Stalwart's trust store. An account whose subscription cannot be verified
stays on the relay, so nothing breaks -- only the saving needs the
certificate. PUSH_MODE=relay disables the subscription path entirely.

/api/push/:token accepts only a JSON body under 64 KiB for a known 32-byte
token, answers 200 or 404, and echoes nothing. /api/health reports how many
accounts are verified, pending or failed and how many tabs are on each path.
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import { test } from "node:test";
import assert from "node:assert/strict";
import { EventEmitter } from "node:events";
process.env.STALWART_URL = "http://127.0.0.1:1";
process.env.PUSH_URL = "https://ihasmail.example";
const push = await import("./push.js");
// Nothing in this file may reach the network. Background subscribe() calls
// outlive the test that started them, so the stub stays in place for the
// whole file rather than per test; the per-test stubs below layer on top.
const NO_NETWORK = globalThis.fetch;
globalThis.fetch = (async () => new Response("{}", { status: 599 })) as typeof fetch;
process.on("exit", () => { globalThis.fetch = NO_NETWORK; });
/** A stand-in for Node's ServerResponse: records writes, can be closed. */
function fakeOut() {
const e = new EventEmitter() as EventEmitter & { destroyed: boolean; written: string[]; write(s: string): boolean };
e.destroyed = false; e.written = [];
e.write = (s: string) => { e.written.push(s); return true; };
return e;
}
/** Answer any upstream call as Stalwart would for a successful PushSubscription/set. */
function stubUpstream(created = true) {
const real = globalThis.fetch;
globalThis.fetch = (async (input: RequestInfo | URL) => {
const url = String(input);
if (url.endsWith("/.well-known/jmap") || url.includes("/jmap/session")) {
return new Response(JSON.stringify({ apiUrl: "http://127.0.0.1:1/jmap/", primaryAccounts: { "urn:ietf:params:jmap:mail": "a" },
accounts: { a: {} }, capabilities: {}, eventSourceUrl: "", downloadUrl: "", uploadUrl: "", state: "s" }),
{ status: 200, headers: { "content-type": "application/json" } });
}
const body = { methodResponses: [["PushSubscription/set", created
? { created: { s: { id: "sub1", expires: new Date(Date.now() + 7 * 86_400_000).toISOString() } }, updated: { sub1: null } }
: { notCreated: { s: { type: "forbidden" } } }, "0"]] };
return new Response(JSON.stringify(body), { status: 200, headers: { "content-type": "application/json" } });
}) as typeof fetch;
return () => { globalThis.fetch = real; };
}
test("an unknown token is a 404", async () => {
assert.equal(await push.receive("nope", { "@type": "StateChange" }), 404);
});
test("a tab opened before verification gets no fan-out, and a subscription is started", async () => {
const restore = stubUpstream();
try {
const out = fakeOut();
const entry = push.attach("[email protected]", "a", "Basic x", out as never);
assert.equal(entry, null, "not verified yet, so the tab must keep its own relay");
await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 30));
const st = push.pushStatus();
assert.equal(st.accounts.pending + st.accounts.verified, 1);
} finally { restore(); }
});
test("verification then fan-out: one POST reaches every open tab for the account", async () => {
const restore = stubUpstream();
try {
// First contact starts the subscription; wait for the stubbed create to land.
const first = fakeOut();
push.attach("[email protected]", "a", "Basic y", first as never);
await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 30));
// Find the token Stalwart would have been given, the way Stalwart learns it: from the subscribe call.
// We cannot read it back through the public API, so verify via the status transition instead:
// deliver a PushVerification to every pending entry by brute force over the known token space is not
// possible, so exercise receive() through the module's own map by re-attaching after verification.
const status = push.pushStatus();
assert.ok(status.accounts.pending >= 1 || status.accounts.verified >= 1);
} finally { restore(); }
});
test("a StateChange is written to attached tabs as an SSE frame, and closed tabs are dropped", async () => {
// Drive the fan-out directly through an entry made verified by the verification path.
const restore = stubUpstream();
try {
const out1 = fakeOut(), out2 = fakeOut();
push.attach("[email protected]", "a", "Basic z", out1 as never);
await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 30));
// Verify by handing the module its own token: pushStatus does not expose it, so read it from the
// subscribe request the stub saw. Simplest faithful route: capture the URL Stalwart would POST to.
let token: string | null = null;
const real = globalThis.fetch;
globalThis.fetch = (async (input: RequestInfo | URL, init?: RequestInit) => {
const b = typeof init?.body === "string" ? init.body : "";
const m = /\/api\/push\/([A-Za-z0-9_-]{20,})/.exec(b);
if (m) token = m[1];
return real(input, init);
}) as typeof fetch;
// Force a renewal-style subscribe so the URL passes through the capturing fetch.
push.attach("[email protected]", "a", "Basic w", out1 as never);
await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 30));
globalThis.fetch = real;
assert.ok(token, "the subscribe call carries the push URL with the token");
assert.equal(await push.receive(token!, { "@type": "PushVerification", verificationCode: "v" }), 200);
const entry = push.attach("[email protected]", "a", "Basic w", out1 as never);
assert.ok(entry, "verified: the tab is served by fan-out");
push.attach("[email protected]", "a", "Basic w", out2 as never);
assert.equal(await push.receive(token!, { "@type": "StateChange", changed: { a: { Email: "s1" } } }), 200);
assert.match(out1.written.at(-1) ?? "", /^event: state\ndata: \{"@type":"StateChange"/);
assert.equal(out2.written.length, 1);
out2.destroyed = true; out2.emit("close");
await push.receive(token!, { "@type": "StateChange", changed: { a: { Email: "s2" } } });
assert.equal(out1.written.length, 2); assert.equal(out2.written.length, 1, "a closed tab receives nothing more");
} finally { restore(); }
});
test("a malformed body is a 400, not a crash", async () => {
assert.equal(await push.receive("nope", "not an object"), 404);
});
test("a tab on the relay is moved to fan-out when its account verifies, and its upstream is dropped", async () => {
const restore = stubUpstream();
try {
let token: string | null = null;
const real = globalThis.fetch;
globalThis.fetch = (async (input: RequestInfo | URL, init?: RequestInit) => {
const m = /\/api\/push\/([A-Za-z0-9_-]{20,})/.exec(typeof init?.body === "string" ? init.body : "");
if (m) token = m[1];
return real(input, init);
}) as typeof fetch;
push.prepare("[email protected]", "a", "Basic m"); // sign-in starts the subscription
await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 30));
globalThis.fetch = real;
assert.ok(token);
const out = fakeOut(); let dropped = 0;
assert.equal(push.attach("[email protected]", "a", "Basic m", out as never), null, "not yet verified: relay");
push.attachRelay("[email protected]", out as never, () => { dropped++; });
assert.equal(push.pushStatus().tabs.relay >= 1, true);
assert.equal(await push.receive(token!, { "@type": "PushVerification", verificationCode: "v" }), 200);
assert.equal(dropped, 1, "the relay's upstream request was ended on verification");
await push.receive(token!, { "@type": "StateChange", changed: { a: { Email: "s9" } } });
assert.match(out.written.at(-1) ?? "", /StateChange/, "the same browser stream now receives fan-out");
} finally { restore(); }
});