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jaap-jan 5fccd53824 Add the Avalonia app and the xterm renderer, and fix two real bugs
The terminal works end to end. A new integration test drives a real sshd in
a container through a real PTY, the real pump, the real loopback WebSocket
with its token and origin checks, and a ClientWebSocket standing in for the
page: the login banner arrives, typed input round-trips, and `stty size`
reports the 100x30 the session asked for. The only untested link left is
xterm drawing bytes it was handed.

The WebView is de-risked on Windows, which was the plan's largest risk. Not
by assertion: with the app running there is an established TCP connection
from msedgewebview2 to the data plane port, so WebView2 launched, navigated
to the loopback page, executed terminal.js, and completed the WebSocket
handshake against the real token and origin checks. Linux remains unproven
and the package's own release notes now corroborate the concern -- Linux uses
a WPE backend, and it ships a NativeWebDialog described as useful where
embedded WebViews may be unavailable.

Two bugs found by building it, both of which would have shipped:

- ShellStream.Write buffers and needs an explicit Flush. Without one a
  keystroke is accepted, reported as written, and never reaches the remote:
  the terminal displays output perfectly and simply stops responding to
  input. SSH.NET's own WriteLine flushes, which is why the earlier spike
  never hit it. Found by isolating the pump against real SSH and reading
  BytesRead=51 -- banner and prompt through, nothing after.
- The Windows app manifest needs a supportedOS list, or Avalonia's native
  control host fails outright and the terminal never starts.

Also fixed a genuinely flaky test I happened to catch: SyncCursorTests
tampered with the *last* base64url character, whose low bits the decoder
ignores when the input length is not a multiple of three -- so a tampered
cursor sometimes decoded to identical bytes and verified. It failed roughly
one run in thirty, depending on a random key. Now tampers the penultimate
character, which is fully significant at every length; 40 consecutive runs
are clean.

xterm 6.0.0 plus the fit and webgl addons are vendored as UMD bundles rather
than built with npm, so a clean clone needs only the .NET SDK. Provenance
and licences are recorded next to them, along with the UMD global names
terminal.js depends on -- a bundle that switched to ES modules would load
without error and leave Terminal undefined.

The renderer acknowledges output from term.write's completion callback, not
on receipt. Acknowledging early would return flow-control credit for bytes
the screen has not caught up with, which is the one thing the credit window
exists to measure.

TerminalWorkspace moved into DodoSSH.Client.Terminal: it has no Avalonia
dependency, and having it there is what let the end-to-end test exist at all.

404 tests pass, zero warnings on a clean rebuild, format clean.
2026-07-28 22:30:42 +02:00
jaap-jan 94f66be5e8 Add the OIDC client: PKCE loopback sign-in and the key binding flow
Authorization Code with PKCE on a loopback redirect, per RFC 6749, RFC 7636
and RFC 8252. Zero package references: the flow is fully specified, and the
one thing a library would own for us -- nonce generation and validation -- is
exactly what the key binding needs to control. Duende's OidcClient generates
and validates its own nonce as an internal detail, and the binding requires
the nonce be a specific value: the hash of the key statement being enrolled.
Fighting that is worse than owning the flow.

AuthorizeKeyBindingAsync is the client half of the primary trust anchor. It
runs a second authorization with nonce set to the statement hash and
prompt=login, so the ID token that returns is the provider's signature over
exactly those public keys, attesting to a user present now rather than to a
session opened at some unknown earlier time. It requests only openid -- a
second refresh token would be one more long-lived credential for no benefit
-- and rejects a token whose nonce is not the one it asked for, because
enrolling that would store evidence verifying against keys we are not
publishing.

The nonce is read without validating the ID token's signature. Sanctioned by
OIDC Core 3.1.3.7: for a token received by direct communication with the
token endpoint, TLS server authentication may stand in for signature
checking. That reasoning does not extend to another user's binding, which
arrives via the DodoSSH server and must be verified against JWKS fetched
directly -- the directory work in M3.

Raw TcpListener rather than HttpListener for the redirect: an ephemeral port
can be bound and read atomically instead of picking one and hoping it is
still free, there is no HTTP.SYS URL-ACL question on Windows, and the whole
surface is one request line. It answers 404 on other paths and keeps
waiting, because a browser asks for /favicon.ico first and treating that as
the callback would abort every sign-in. 127.0.0.1 rather than localhost: RFC
8252 permits either, but the name resolves through the hosts file.

20 tests, driving the real listener over TCP with a fake browser that
actually fetches the redirect -- injecting a fabricated callback would skip
the parsing, path filtering and response writing that can break. Mostly
negative, because the loopback port is reachable by every local process: a
response with the wrong state is rejected *and* never reaches the token
endpoint, metadata declaring an issuer other than its own authority is
rejected (RFC 8414 3.3, without which a mix-up attack works), a provider
offering only 'plain' is fatal rather than a silent downgrade, and the
verifier sent is checked against the challenge advertised so PKCE is not
theatre that only fails in production.

Two bugs caught by writing the tests: the authorize URL builder dropped
client_id entirely after a refactor, and CancellationTokenSource.CancelAfter
has no TimeProvider overload -- so the browser timeout is now constructed
with the clock and a test can advance it instead of waiting five minutes.
2026-07-28 21:13:35 +02:00
jaap-jan 885fb17bdc Clear the SSH gate: window-change reaches the remote, and licence as MIT
Licence is MIT, set solution-wide rather than only on the packable project:
DodoSSH.Contracts is published so clients can build against it, and a
package with no licence expression is one a corporate policy scanner
rejects outright.

The SSH.NET spike is the M1 client gate and it passes. SSH.NET 2025.1.0
exposes ShellStream.ChangeWindowSize, but a method existing is not the
remote observing it, so the tests read `stty size` back from a real sshd
after resizing rather than asserting the call did not throw. Repeated
resizes each take effect too, which matters because dragging a window edge
produces a stream of them. The IChannelSession fallback is not needed.

Also verified against a real sshd: password and public-key auth, that the
host key arrives as a raw blob we can fingerprint ourselves rather than
reading SSH.NET's MD5 property, and that refusing the key via CanTrust
actually aborts the connection -- without which the TOFU dialog would be
decoration.

Kept as a permanent suite, not deleted after the spike. An upgrade that
silently stopped sending the request would present as wrapped output only
after a resize, which is easy to misattribute to the terminal emulator.

Two bugs in the test itself, both worth naming because either would have
been read as "resize does not work":

- A PTY emits CRLF, and the anchored regex rejected the CR. The output
  visibly contained `24 80` while the match failed.
- Each read can begin with output still buffered from the previous command,
  including its size line. Taking the first match would have reported the
  pre-resize size.

platform-flags.md now records window-change as resolved rather than
unverified -- a stale flag is worse than none -- plus the three real SSH.NET
limits found on the way: ShellStream does not override ReadAsync so every
idle session parks a pool thread, one connection cannot serve both
SshClient and SftpClient, and agent forwarding needs an upstream change.
2026-07-28 16:52:09 +02:00
jaap-jan b7325b78ca Record the platform flags that were only in conversation
ci / build and test (ubuntu) (push) Has been cancelled
ci / build (windows) (push) Has been cancelled
Development and testing are Windows-only, so anything unverified elsewhere
needs to be written down or it gets assumed to work. Several of these have
already cost time once: PostgreSQL 18 moving its data directory silently
gives a carried-over compose file an empty volume, and a loopback-bound
Tomcat beat Docker's 0.0.0.0 publish for `localhost`, making every Keycloak
realm 404 while the container looked healthy.

The largest entry is the Avalonia WebView on Linux, which remains the
biggest risk in the plan and is why the terminal sits behind ITerminalHost.

Also records two things this milestone deliberately left undone -- no rate
limiting on the enrollment and sync write paths until M2, and /me not
touching last_seen_at_utc -- so neither reads later as an oversight.
2026-07-28 16:08:04 +02:00