package authn
import (
"context"
"fmt"
"log"
"net/http"
"strings"
"sourcecraft.dev/bigbes/sr-ht-spec/core"
)
// Resolver turns a request into a Principal. It holds the instance owner
// username — the one name a cookie has to match to carry authority — and the
// TokenStore agents are checked against.
type Resolver struct {
owner string
store TokenStore
}
// NewResolver builds a Resolver for the instance owner named in
// [sr.ht] owner-name.
//
// A nil store is rejected rather than tolerated: with no store every agent
// token would resolve as unknown, which looks exactly like a mass revocation
// and is a miserable thing to debug at 2am. Wire a store or do not build a
// resolver.
func NewResolver(owner string, store TokenStore) (*Resolver, error) {
owner = strings.TrimPrefix(owner, "~")
if err := core.ValidateOwner(owner); err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("authn: instance owner: %w", err)
}
if store == nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("authn: nil TokenStore")
}
return &Resolver{owner: owner, store: store}, nil
}
// Owner returns the instance owner username this resolver recognises.
func (rs *Resolver) Owner() string { return rs.owner }
// Resolve determines who is making a request.
//
// A bearer token wins over a cookie when both are present: an agent that went
// to the trouble of presenting a credential is asking to be treated as an
// agent, and letting a stale browser cookie promote it to the owner would hand
// it the approved branch. The two credentials are checked in that order and
// never merged.
//
// The error contract is asymmetric on purpose:
//
// - No bearer token: never an error. The cookie decides between KindOwner and
// KindAnonymous, and any cookie problem is anonymity, not failure.
// - A bearer token that fails: an error. IsAuthFailure separates the 401 case
// (unknown, revoked, malformed) from the 503 case (store unreachable).
//
// The agent identity and session headers are read here but not required: they
// are demanded at the write, by AgentWrite.Validate, which is the only place
// the design requires them and the only place a missing one can do harm.
func (rs *Resolver) Resolve(ctx context.Context, r *http.Request) (Principal, error) {
if presented := BearerFromRequest(r); presented != "" {
tok, err := ResolveAgentToken(ctx, rs.store, presented)
if err != nil {
return Anonymous(), err
}
return Principal{
Kind: KindAgent,
Owner: rs.owner,
Agent: strings.TrimSpace(r.Header.Get(HeaderAgent)),
Session: strings.TrimSpace(r.Header.Get(HeaderAgentSession)),
TokenName: tok.Name,
}, nil
}
username := UsernameFromRequest(r)
if username == "" {
return Anonymous(), nil
}
if username != rs.owner {
// A real user of the instance who is not bigbes. Single-user means
// there is nothing to grant them, so they read exactly as an anonymous
// viewer does; the name is kept for the log line and the "you are
// signed in as" affordance only.
return Principal{Kind: KindAnonymous, CookieUser: username}, nil
}
return Principal{Kind: KindOwner, Owner: username, CookieUser: username}, nil
}
// Middleware attaches the resolved Principal to the request context, where
// PrincipalFromContext reads it.
//
// It rejects only a failed bearer token — 401 for a bad credential, 503 for a
// store that could not answer. Everything else, including every cookie
// problem, flows through as anonymous: the read plane is anonymous-capable and
// must never answer an error page on identity grounds.
func (rs *Resolver) Middleware() func(http.Handler) http.Handler {
return func(next http.Handler) http.Handler {
return http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
p, err := rs.Resolve(r.Context(), r)
if err != nil {
if IsAuthFailure(err) {
http.Error(w, "invalid agent token", http.StatusUnauthorized)
return
}
// Fail closed and loudly. The alternative — degrading to
// anonymous — would turn a Postgres blip into agents silently
// losing their write access.
log.Printf("authn: resolving agent token: %v", err)
http.Error(w, "authentication backend unavailable", http.StatusServiceUnavailable)
return
}
next.ServeHTTP(w, r.WithContext(WithPrincipal(r.Context(), p)))
})
}
}