fix(desktop): check the backend's launch id before sending the bootstrap token#21102

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apps/desktop/src/backend/DesktopBackendManager.ts · Earlier revision 49a0b6a1 · right 585–601

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@@ -548,24 +577,50 @@ export const runBackendProcess = Effect.fn("runBackendProcess")(function* (
   // the initial readiness budget while the backend is about to come up moments
   // later; a one-shot probe left the app stuck on "Connecting to WSL…" forever
   // even though the backend kept running and became healthy.
-  const probeReadiness = Effect.fn("desktop.backendProcess.probeReadiness")(() =>
-    waitForHttpReady({
+  //
+  // Any HTTP answer is not enough: the port scan ran before this backend
+  // bound, so another server can be answering there by now. Only a server that
+  // echoes this launch's id counts as ready.
+  const portTaken = yield* Ref.make(false);
+  const probeReadiness = Effect.fn("desktop.backendProcess.probeReadiness")(function* () {
+    const answered = yield* waitForHttpReady({
       executablePath: options.executablePath,
       entryPath: options.entryPath,
       cwd: options.cwd,
       httpBaseUrl: options.httpBaseUrl,
       timeout: options.readinessTimeout ?? DEFAULT_BACKEND_READINESS_TIMEOUT,
     }).pipe(
-      Effect.flatMap(() => options.onReady?.() ?? Effect.void),
       Effect.as(true),
       Effect.catchTags({
         BackendReadinessTimeoutError: (error) =>
           (options.onReadinessFailure?.(error) ?? Effect.void).pipe(Effect.as(false)),
       }),
-    ),
-  );
+    );
+    if (!answered) {
+      return false;
+    }

apps/desktop/src/backend/DesktopBackendManager.ts · right 585–601

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2printf '\n--- readiness implementation ---\n'
3sed -n '1,130p' packages/shared/src/httpReadiness.ts
4printf '\n--- backend process implementation ---\n'
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Handle persistent non-2xx readiness responses as port-taken.

HttpClient.filterStatusOk retries a persistent 401 or 404 until the per-probe timeout. probeReadiness then returns false, skips checkBackendOwnership, and starts another probe. No outer timeout ends this loop while the backend process remains alive. If the process exits, portTaken is still false, so the manager follows the normal restart path instead of invoking onPortTaken. Startup can remain blocked on the same port.

Pass completed non-2xx responses to ownership handling, or classify them as "foreign" before converting them to BackendReadinessTimeoutError. Then use the existing portTaken cleanup and onPortTaken flow.

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6Review comment at @apps/desktop/src/backend/DesktopBackendManager.ts around
7lines 585 - 601:
8Update probeReadiness so completed non-2xx readiness responses reach
9checkBackendOwnership or are classified as foreign before becoming
10BackendReadinessTimeoutError; ensure foreign ownership sets portTaken and
11follows the existing cleanup and onPortTaken flow instead of restarting probes
12on the same port.
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✅ Confirmed as addressed by @juliusmarminge

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Fixed in 18ff53b048. Readiness now uses the ownership probe directly, so permanent HTTP errors such as 401/404 reach port-taken recovery instead of status-only polling. Persistent 401/404 tests fail before the fix and pass afterward. 5xx and transport failures remain retryable. Current-head Linux HTTP/process proof also verifies those responders receive no token POSTs.

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@juliusmarminge, thanks for the fix. The updated code routes 401/404 responses through "foreign" ownership to port-taken recovery. HTTP 5xx and transport failures remain retryable. This addresses the finding.


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apps/desktop/src/backend/DesktopLocalEnvironmentAuth.ts · Earlier revision 49a0b6a1 · right 115–152

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@@ -96,25 +112,44 @@ export const make = Effect.gen(function* () {
         if (!credential) {
           return yield* new DesktopLocalEnvironmentAuthBackendNotConfiguredError();
         }
-        const session = yield* bootstrapRemoteBearerSession({
-          httpBaseUrl: config.httpBaseUrl.href,
-          credential,
-          clientMetadata: {
-            label: "T3 Code Desktop",
-            deviceType: "desktop",
-          },
+        // Readiness already checked this, but the exchange can run much later,
+        // after another server has taken the port. Every attempt checks again;
+        // the check and the POST are still two separate requests.
+        const session = yield* DesktopBackendManager.checkBackendOwnership({
+          httpBaseUrl: config.httpBaseUrl,
+          desktopLaunchId: config.bootstrap.desktopLaunchId,
         }).pipe(
+          Effect.mapError((cause) => new OwnershipCheckUnavailableError({ cause })),
+          Effect.flatMap(
+            Effect.fnUntraced(function* (ownership) {
+              if (ownership === "foreign") {
+                return yield* new DesktopLocalEnvironmentAuthForeignServerError({
+                  port: config.bootstrap.port,
+                });
+              }
+              return yield* bootstrapRemoteBearerSession({
+                httpBaseUrl: config.httpBaseUrl.href,
+                credential,
+                clientMetadata: {
+                  label: "T3 Code Desktop",
+                  deviceType: "desktop",
+                },
+              });
+            }),
+          ),
           Effect.provideService(HttpClient.HttpClient, httpClient),
           Effect.retry({
-            while: isTransientBearerBootstrapError,
+            while: (error) =>
+              error._tag === "OwnershipCheckUnavailableError" ||
+              (error._tag !== "DesktopLocalEnvironmentAuthForeignServerError" &&
+                isTransientBearerBootstrapError(error)),
             schedule: Schedule.spaced(BOOTSTRAP_TRANSIENT_RETRY_INTERVAL),
           }),
           Effect.timeout(BOOTSTRAP_TRANSIENT_RETRY_TIMEOUT),
-          Effect.mapError(
-            (cause) =>
-              new DesktopLocalEnvironmentAuthSessionBootstrapError({
-                cause,
-              }),
+          Effect.mapError((cause) =>
+            cause._tag === "DesktopLocalEnvironmentAuthForeignServerError"
+              ? cause
+              : new DesktopLocalEnvironmentAuthSessionBootstrapError({ cause }),

apps/desktop/src/backend/DesktopLocalEnvironmentAuth.ts · right 115–152

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6printf '%s\n' '--- relevant HTTP status handling ---'
7rg -n -F --glob '*.ts' -e 'filterStatusOk' -e 'status === 401' -e 'status === 404' -e 'BACKEND_READINESS_PATH' apps/desktop/src/backend

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8git diff 6a6ebb278dc70dd859439a3c28960a7d23a1e645 49a0b6a1f2a7c23717837a3ea2287ad0a660eea8 -- apps/desktop/src/backend/DesktopLocalEnvironmentAuth.ts apps/desktop/src/backend/DesktopBackendManager.ts

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Map 401 and 404 descriptor responses to the foreign-server error.

HttpClient.filterStatusOk rejects a descriptor response with status 401 or 404 before checkBackendOwnership can return "foreign". The wrapper then retries OwnershipCheckUnavailableError for up to 15 seconds and reports DesktopLocalEnvironmentAuthSessionBootstrapError.

For a persistent 401 or 404, bootstrapRemoteBearerSession is never reached, so no token is posted. Map these statuses to "foreign" in checkBackendOwnership. This is independent of readiness’s port-taken handling.

Suggested fix
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1+import * as HttpClientResponse from "effect/http/HttpClientResponse";
2 import { HttpClient } from "effect/http";
3
4@@
5- const client = (yield* HttpClient.HttpClient).pipe(HttpClient.filterStatusOk);
6- const body = yield* client.get(new URL(BACKEND_READINESS_PATH, input.httpBaseUrl)).pipe(
7- Effect.flatMap((response) => response.text),
8+ const client = yield* HttpClient.HttpClient;
9+ const bodyOrForeign = yield* client
10+ .get(new URL(BACKEND_READINESS_PATH, input.httpBaseUrl))
11+ .pipe(
12+ Effect.flatMap((response) =>
13+ response.status === 401 || response.status === 404
14+ ? Effect.succeed<string | null>(null)
15+ : HttpClientResponse.filterStatusOk(response).pipe(
16+ Effect.flatMap((response) => response.text),
17+ ),
18+ ),
19+ Effect.timeout(DEFAULT_BACKEND_READINESS_REQUEST_TIMEOUT),
20+ );
21+ if (bodyOrForeign === null) {
22+ return "foreign";
23+ }
24+ const body = bodyOrForeign;
25- Effect.timeout(DEFAULT_BACKEND_READINESS_REQUEST_TIMEOUT),
26- );
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6Review comment at @apps/desktop/src/backend/DesktopLocalEnvironmentAuth.ts
7around lines 115 - 152:
8Update DesktopBackendManager.checkBackendOwnership to treat descriptor responses
9with status 401 or 404 as "foreign" before status filtering turns them into
10errors; preserve existing handling for other responses so the auth flow does not
11retry these statuses as unavailable.
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✅ Confirmed as addressed by @juliusmarminge

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Fixed through the shared ownership probe in 18ff53b048. A permanent 401/404 response is classified as foreign before status filtering can turn it into a retryable unavailable error. Local auth returns DesktopLocalEnvironmentAuthForeignServerError without posting the credential; the live HTTP proof covers both statuses. Transient 5xx retries and checks before each token retry remain covered.

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@juliusmarminge Thanks for the fix. The shared probe now classifies permanent 401/404 responses as foreign before status filtering. This addresses the finding without changing transient 5xx retries or ownership checks before token retries.


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