Unanimity is the right rule for a fan-out of peers, but the per-certname
routes are not one: a backend that does not hold the certname answers 404
to say so, not to disagree, so requiring it to agree turned the owner's
real 500 into a 502 that described neither backend.
- Add askOrder, which says whether a set of backends was asked as peers
or owner-first, and resolve each round's replies under its own rule.
- Serve the first backend that answered on owner-routed paths, so an
unreachable owner still falls back rather than collapsing to 502.
- Keep unanimity for the merged, meta, metrics and pass-through routes.
- Cover the owner routes: owner errors against a non-owner 404, both
erroring differently, an unreachable owner, and a non-owner error
behind the owner's 200.
- Record what clientRefusal's 4xx exemption assumes about client certs.
openvoxdb does not reserve 5xx for its own faults: the same malformed
query is a 400 on /nodes and a 500 on /facts, and /metrics answers a flat
403, so a 4xx-only replay rule made pdbmux's behaviour depend on the
route. The meta and metrics handlers held their own copy of the gateway
error and bypassed the replay entirely.
- Replay any status from 400 up that every backend agreed on, with the
backend's own body and content type.
- Keep 502 for backends disagreeing on the status, or a backend that
answered nothing at all.
- Route /pdb/meta, /metrics and the pass-through path through the same
rule as the merged query handlers.
- Count a unanimous 5xx as a failed round and let it fall back to a stale
cache entry; only a unanimous 4xx stays exempt from both.
- Answer successful queries with openvoxdb's application/json;charset=utf-8.
DNS names are case-insensitive, so a backend named back in a different
case escaped redaction and reached the client.
- Fold ASCII case when replacing a backend's URL, host and hostname
- Pin the redaction vectors, the same-status rule and the bare-GET
premise behind treating 406 and 415 as replayable
Every backend gets the same query, so one they all refuse is the client's
mistake; flattening it into "all backends failed" threw openvoxdb's own
explanation away and logged a typo as an outage.
- Carry status, content type and body on a typed upstreamError
- Replay the status and explanation when every backend refuses alike
- Redact backend addresses from replayed bodies
- Keep a refused query out of the partial counters and the cache
unkin-agent