Import a Hetzner Cloud project's servers, and forget the token that read it
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An estate on Hetzner is already described somewhere: the project lists every
server, its addresses, its plan and where it runs. Getting that into a keychain
meant copying forty addresses out of a browser by hand, which is the same work
the ssh_config importer exists to remove for the machines described in a file.

◆ A WIZARD RATHER THAN A SCREEN, AND THE DIFFERENCE IS WHAT EACH STEP COSTS.

ImportScreen reads a file that is already on this machine, so it scans on open
and shows a list. This cannot: it needs a credential that has to be made in
another company's console first, and then it makes a request over the internet.
Those are two moments rather than one, and a screen that mixed the token box in
with the list would ask for the credential again every time somebody came back
to look at the list.

So three steps — token, choose, done — and the first two write nothing. Step two
carries one address choice, one login user and one port for the whole import,
because an estate is reached the same way throughout and a per-server dropdown
would be forty answers to one question.

◆ THE TOKEN IS USED ONCE AND CLEARED, INCLUDING WHEN IT WORKED.

The half worth stating is the success path. Clearing only on failure would leave
a credential capable of listing somebody's whole estate sitting in a text box for
as long as they spend reading forty rows, which is the longest anybody stands on
this screen. Nothing writes it to the vault, to settings or to a log, and
reopening the wizard restarts at step one rather than resuming — a resumed step
two would be a list nothing on screen has the means to refresh, going on looking
current for as long as the application stays open.

Read is the only permission it needs and the note above the box says so: a
Read & Write token would work identically here and would be a credential capable
of deleting the estate, pasted in for no gain. The note also says a token belongs
to one project — there is no API call that will say which, and none that lists
the others — so an account with four projects runs this four times. Without that
sentence the wizard looks like it lost most of the estate.

◆ THE ADDRESS IS A CHOICE, AND TWO OF THE THREE FALL BACK WHERE THE THIRD MUST NOT.

Public IPv4 and public IPv6 fall back to each other: the same machine over the
same internet, so the worst case is a route nobody picked, and the row says which.
Private does not fall back at all. A server on no private network is simply not
importable under that choice — its tickbox is disabled, and neither direction of
the header's tick-all can reach it — because falling back would put an address on
the open internet into a bookmark that was asked to stay off it.

IPv6 needs saying twice over. Hetzner routes a whole /64 and the API reports the
network, which nothing can dial; the address a stock image answers on is the
first one in it. That is a convention of Hetzner's own images rather than a fact
the API stated, so every use of it carries a warning on the row and in the stored
note, and it is computed by setting the low byte rather than by string surgery on
the prefix. It is not an edge case either — IPv4 is billed separately now and a
project built since then can be entirely IPv6-only.

◆ NOTHING IMPORTED HERE AUTHENTICATES, AND THAT IS SAID BEFORE THE BUTTON.

Hetzner has never held the private half of an SSH key. The API will name a
project's keys and hand over their public halves; there is no private half to
bring. So every host arrives bound to nothing and asks for a password until
somebody points it at a key already in the keychain — the same shape an
ssh_config import has with its key tick off, and stated above the button on the
same reasoning: somebody who is not told will conclude the import was broken.

What the note keeps is what does not go stale — the id, the plan, the location,
the image, the labels. The power state is a column and never a note: "running"
about a machine somebody switched off last March is worse than no note.

◆ WHERE IT LIVES: TWO FLAGS OVER ONE CONTENT COLUMN.

Drawn over the Preferences page inside settings mode exactly as ImportScreen is,
with SettingsNav unmoved and the titlebar offering "Back to preferences".
IsHetznerImportOpen is a second flag rather than a "which importer" enum, because
they are two independent facts about the content column and a single value would
need a "neither" member IsImportOpen already expresses; what keeps them from both
being true is that every path that opens one closes the other. The titlebar and
the Preferences page ask IsImporterOpen, which is written against both.

Preferences grows a second importer row beside the first rather than one row that
asks "from where?", which would put a question in front of the far more common
answer.

◆ WHAT IS NOT HERE.

Hetzner's Robot — dedicated servers and Storage Boxes — is a different API behind
a different credential, and nothing in this touches it. Said on the Preferences
row and on the token step rather than left to be discovered by an account that
has both.

And there is no phone layout. This one would work on Android, unlike the
ssh_config importer beside it: it is a token and a network request, the view
model is shared already, and scoped storage has nothing to do with it. What is
missing is a screen — the desktop draws a five-column table, and the phone
version of that is a different layout rather than the same one narrower. Recorded
in android-port.md and on the phone's own Preferences screen, because the note
there previously read as though no import of any kind could work.

◆ TESTS, AND WHAT IS LEFT FOR A PERSON.

HetznerCloudClientTests is 16 cases over the shapes the API actually returns,
against a stubbed HttpMessageHandler: paging followed, the token in a header and
never a query string, a refused token distinguished from a fault at Hetzner's
end, a token with a line break refused before anything is sent, the /64, the
private-network asymmetry, and a server the API described without a name.

ShellFlowTests.Hetzner.cs is 11 more against this fixture's real vault, real
cache and real server — split into a file of its own, as FakeVaultServer keeps
its team endpoints. What they establish beyond the reader's own suite is the half
it cannot reach: that reading stores nothing, that importing goes through the
ordinary create-and-push path and lands on the server with nothing pressing Sync,
that a server the keychain already has arrives unticked, and that the token does
not outlive the request.

Two layout cases measure both steps against the same content budget every other
settings page gets, which is also what proves the markup binds to names that
exist.

Manual checks 2.11a–2.11d are what no test in this repository can do, because
there is no account, no token and no network in the ordinary suite: a real
project listed against the real console, a wrong token, the private choice, and
what an imported host does when you connect to it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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local-and-non-roaming requirement more cleanly than any desktop platform does.
- **The device name** on log entries comes from the head, not `Environment.MachineName`, which returns
something like `localhost` on Android and would make every entry from a phone indistinguishable.
- **The Hetzner Cloud importer is not ported, and it is the one gap here that is not a platform limit.**
Its view model is in `DodoSSH.Client.Shell` like every other and its reader is an `HttpClient` call, so
both halves already run on a phone — unlike the `~/.ssh/config` importer beside it, which has no file to
read under scoped storage and never will. What is missing is a layout: the desktop draws a five-column
table of servers, and a phone version of that is a different screen rather than the same one narrower.
Said on the Preferences screen rather than left to be discovered.
- **`NativeKeyboardFocus` is not ported.** It exists for a documented Win32 asymmetry — focus crosses into
WebView2 but does not come back — and Android's focus model is different enough that the problem should be
confirmed to exist before anything is written to solve it.
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comes up over settings mode the same way it would over any other screen.
**Failure means:** a back button that never changes label is `SettingsTitleBar.axaml`'s two buttons both
bound to the same side of `IsImportOpen`. SettingsNav lighting a different row while the importer is up is
bound to the same side of `IsImporterOpen` — which is the flag now, rather than `IsImportOpen`, because
there are two importers over that page and the bar behaves identically for both. SettingsNav lighting a
different row while an importer is up is
`MainWindowViewModel.IsSettingsPreferencesPage` reading `IsImportOpen` when it must not —
`Import.dc.html` draws the rail unmoved on purpose; see the remark on `IsImportOpen`. Ctrl+K doing nothing
over the importer would be a guard added to `OnKeyDown` for `IsSettingsMode` that the design never asked for
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## Phase 2 — Importing from Hetzner Cloud
The reader has its own suite over the shapes the API returns, and the end-to-end path is covered by
`ImportingFromHetzner_ShowsTheProjectFirstAndThenStoresWhatWasTicked` against a stubbed transport. What no
test in this repository does is talk to Hetzner — there is no account, no token and no network in the
ordinary suite — so everything below needs a real project.
### 2.11a A read-only token lists your project
Make a token in the Hetzner console under **Security → API tokens** with **Read** permission only. Settings
→ Preferences → **OPEN WIZARD**, paste it, press **READ THE PROJECT**.
**Pass:** every server in that project is listed, with the address, the plan and the location the Hetzner
console shows for it. The token box is **empty** afterwards — it is used for one request and dropped — and
the Hosts screen is unchanged, because reading writes nothing.
**What to look for specifically:**
- A project with more than fifty servers must list all of them. Fifty is Hetzner's page size, and a list
that stops there exactly is the paginator not being followed.
- A server with no public IPv4 should show the first address of its `/64` with a warning chip saying so.
Check that address against what the server actually answers on — the convention is Hetzner's own images,
not a fact the API states, and a machine whose operator moved it elsewhere in the `/64` will not answer.
- A server the console shows as **off** should still be listed, with `off` in the STATE column.
**Failure means:** the importer and the console disagree about what the project holds, which produces
bookmarks that dial the wrong machine. Worse than an import that refused.
### 2.11b A wrong token says so, and says where tokens come from
Paste anything that is not a valid token — a truncated one is the realistic case, since the console shows
the value once.
**Pass:** the wizard stays on the token step, the message names the Hetzner console and the Security → API
tokens page, and the box is cleared for a fresh paste. Nothing has been stored.
Now try a token from a **different** project.
**Pass:** it lists that project instead. A token belongs to one project and there is no API call that will
say which — an account with several projects runs this once per project, which the note above the box says.
### 2.11c The private-network choice does not fall back
With a project holding at least one server on a private network and one on none, press **PRIVATE NETWORK**.
**Pass:** the server with no private network shows an em dash for its address, a chip reading *no address of
that kind*, and a tickbox that cannot be ticked — including by the tick-all box in the header. The other
one shows its `10.x` address.
**Failure means:** a public address quietly stored under a choice that asked to stay off the internet. This
is the one asymmetry in how addresses resolve and it is deliberate; v4 and v6 fall back to each other,
private does not.
### 2.11d Imported hosts are correct, and ask for a password
Import a couple, then open one on the Hosts screen.
**Pass:** the address, port and login user are what the wizard showed, and the notes carry the server id,
the plan, the location and the image — and **not** the power state, which would be stale the moment somebody
pressed a button in the console. Connecting asks for a **password**: no key came with these hosts, because
Hetzner has never held the private half of one. Bind it to a key in your keychain and it connects.
Now go back to the list and import the same project again.
**Pass:** the ones already stored are marked *already here* and arrive unticked. Importing one twice is
allowed and takes a click.
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## Phase 2 — Drag and drop on the SFTP page
**This is the least-covered thing in the repository, and unavoidably so.** Headless Avalonia has no native