If a connection has timed out the most likely cause is the connection
going stale, in which case calling close could take up to 30 seconds
before the ws lib gives up on waiting for the close message. Terminate
the connection instead on the Node.js side. Note that Firefox does not
permit applications from closing connections with a code other than
1000, or in the range 3000-4999.
Add the roles and their permissions for the user the control connection
is connected as along with updates when these change. This enables the
web interface to know which permissions it has available to it.
The activeConnectors mapping is from session id to connector, but the
master refactor in 67219ed accidentally changed it to try deleting the
entry by the connector reference instead. Possibly mistaking it for a
Set instead of a Map.
Refine the state flow used in the connector abstractions to better
handle close while connecting and resuming. The new logic is to close
the connection immediately in these two states instead of continuing
trying to connect and then giving up some point later.
For the connectors the handshake state is split into connecting
and resuming, new is replaced by closed, and the closing state is turned
into a boolean flag as it's possible that closing is desired while
connecting, connected or resuming. The connecting state is not present
in the server connector because there's nothing for the server to do in
that connector state.
The timeout logic is completely removed, once a connection attempt is
started for the client it will continue to attempt to connect, attempt
to resume dropped connections and attempt reconnects until either an
authentication error occurs or the client explicitly requests to close
the connection.
A new session timeout is added to control how long to attempt to resume
the connection until it's considered dead and invalidated. This allows
stale connections to give up earlier, and swallow up less data while in
the dropped but not yet invalidated state.
For the client side sending messages while it's connecting has been
changed to throw an error instead of queuing up the message and
(possibly) sending it after the connection is established. Code
shouldn't try to send messages without knowing if the connection it's
trying to send them over is active or not.
The jsonwebtoken accept strings as input for secrets which is
nonsensical from a cryptographic standpoint as the algorithms all
operate on byte sequences. Worse still, strings are encoded into bytes
using UTF-8, which disallows certain sequences of bytes from appearing
and potentially weakening the cryptography.
For legacy reasons the master secret was encoded into base64 _and passed
as a string to jsonwebtoken_. This further weakened the crypto as the
bytes that can appear in base 64 is only 1/4 of the 256 possible values
for bytes. This could significantly weaken the cryptographic strength
of the tokens.
I have known of this issue for quite some time but has put off actually
fixing it for too long now. Since the master secret is already
documented as being in base 64, decode it as base 64 and pass it as a
byte Buffer to jsonwebtoken. This will ensure every byte value is
possible in the byte sequence passed to the jsonwebtoken crypto.
The impact of this change is unfortunately that all tokens will become
invalid and will have to be reissued.
Hornwitser