fix: send the rate-limit header from the test browser - #457
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CI has been red on master since 2026-07-30. Every failure is the same:
one or more of the cloudx packages times out in
waiting for locator('button:has-text("Allow")')
inside the OAuth2 login their TestMain performs, before any test body
runs. The Playwright traces show why — the login POST comes back 429:
{"error":{"code":429,"message":"Too Many Requests",
"reason":"Too many API requests from your IP have been registered.",
"status":"Blocked","details":{"ruleId":"170edb01"}}}
In the run this was diagnosed from, exactly three traces contain that
429 and exactly three logins failed; the one that succeeded has none.
CI sets ORY_RATE_LIMIT_HEADER precisely to avoid this, but the header
only ever rode on the Go SDK and CLI HTTP clients. The browser driving
the login is a separate client that never sent it, so the CLI's own API
traffic was exempt while the login flow was not — and `go test ./...`
runs six packages' browser logins concurrently from a single CI egress
IP. The browser page now sends the same header, from one shared
definition in the client package rather than a repeated literal.
The second half of this commit is about how the failure read. The
consent hook submitted the login form and went straight to waiting for
the `Allow` button, never looking at what the submission returned. A
refused submission leaves the page on the form, so the wait burned its
full 30 seconds and blamed the consent screen — the reason CI reported
a missing button for weeks while the actual cause was a rate limit in
the response nobody inspected.
Submitting now checks that response and fails immediately on a 429 or
5xx, quoting the status and body. A rejected credential is deliberately
not covered there: Ory Network answers that with a 303 back to the
login page, which is indistinguishable from success at that point, so
the consent wait instead reports where the browser ended up. Both cases
were exercised against staging: a wrong password now fails with
the consent screen did not render
...
The browser ended up at https://console.staging.ory.dev/login?flow=...
instead of a bare locator timeout.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe client centralizes the rate-limit exemption header. Browser requests use the configured header for Ory Console hosts. Trace archives redact the secret. Consent-flow login reports HTTP failures and includes the final browser URL in rendering errors. Relation tuple tests use nested subject sets. ChangesRate-limit browser login
Relation tuple test update
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to This change adds a rate-limit token to browser traffic and rewrites public trace artifacts; if tracing fails after writing the archive, or the header reaches a non-Ory origin, the token could be disclosed. The PR is not merge-ready until those exposure paths are constrained or cleaned up. Possibly related PRs
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In `@cmd/cloudx/testhelpers/testhelpers.go`:
- Around line 260-273: Update the browser setup around BrowserNewPageOptions and
browser.NewPage so the Ory-RateLimit-Action header is injected via request
routing only for requests whose parsed host matches
client.CloudConsoleURL("project").Host or client.CloudConsoleURL("").Host.
Remove the global opts.ExtraHttpHeaders assignment, preserve the existing header
name/value lookup, and allow all other requests to continue without this header.
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Sending the header from the browser puts it somewhere it was never exposed before. Traces capture complete request headers — the same property that made them useful for diagnosing the 429 — and CI uploads them as a build artifact of a public repository. GitHub masks secrets in workflow logs but not inside artifacts, so without this the change would have published the token that exempts CI from Ory Network's rate limits. Playwright has no redaction option: TracingStartOptions carries only name, title, screenshots, snapshots, live and sources. The archive is therefore rewritten once Tracing().Stop() has written it, replacing the value in every entry. The JSON-escaped spelling is replaced too, since the trace stores headers as JSON string values and a token containing a quote or backslash would otherwise sit there in a form a raw byte comparison misses. If the archive cannot be rewritten it is deleted rather than left in place. Losing one diagnostic is the far cheaper failure. Verified end to end: a login run with a dummy ORY_RATE_LIMIT_HEADER produces a trace holding 131 occurrences of the header name — which is also the first direct confirmation that the browser now sends it — zero occurrences of the value, and 139 placeholders. TestRedactInZip covers the rewriting itself, including the escaped spelling and the unreadable archive, and needs no network. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Tg5VWFUb7824qkrooUdvBA
ExtraHttpHeaders applies to every request the page makes, and the login page is not self-contained: it pulls in Stripe, Sentry, Cloudflare Insights, and Ory's own consent and analytics hosts. Traced with a dummy value, the secret went to ten hosts — js.stripe.com, r.stripe.com, consent.ory.com, consent.ory.sh, sqa-web.ory.com, static.cloudflareinsights.com and o481709.ingest.sentry.io among them. Redacting it from the trace does nothing about that: those requests are real, and third parties would have received the token on every CI run. The header is now attached per request through page.Route, to the console host and its subdomains only — the console serves the login UI and its subdomains serve the flow the UI submits to, so both need it. A request whose headers cannot be read continues unmodified rather than being cancelled: a login without the header may still succeed, a cancelled one cannot. Re-traced with the same dummy value, the header now reaches console.staging.ory.dev, project.console.staging.ory.dev and api.console.staging.ory.dev, and nothing else. The login still completes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Tg5VWFUb7824qkrooUdvBA
The redaction added two commits ago took TestMain down with it in CI:
could not redact .../playwright-traces/TestMain.zip, removing it:
no such file or directory
Error: remove .../TestMain.zip: no such file or directory
Two mistakes. A trace that was never written cannot leak anything, so a
missing archive is nothing to redact rather than an error, and removing
an already-absent file is not a failure either — only a trace still on
disk afterwards is worth failing over.
The second mistake is what produced the missing file. Every package's
TestMain traces under the same name into one shared directory, so the
packages `go test ./...` runs in parallel were already overwriting each
other's traces; rewriting one then raced the next writer, and a failed
rewrite deleted the file out from under it. Trace names are now
qualified by package, which removes the race and stops the traces from
clobbering each other — worth having on its own, given these traces are
the only record of what the browser did.
Verified with two browser-login packages in parallel and a dummy
ORY_RATE_LIMIT_HEADER: both complete, each writes its own trace
(identity.TestMain.zip, relationtuples.TestMain.zip), both hold zero
occurrences of the value, and the header still reaches only the console
hosts.
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cmd/cloudx/testhelpers/testhelpers.go (1)
484-491: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winLimit immediate failures to HTTP 429 and 5xx responses.
Line 484 rejects every HTTP 4xx response. This includes credential rejections, so the flow bypasses the final-URL diagnostic at Lines 526-529. Preserve client-error handling except for HTTP 429.
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In `@cmd/cloudx/testhelpers/testhelpers.go`:
- Around line 365-368: Update the error branch around Tracing().Stop(path) to
remove path when stopping fails, ignoring fs.ErrNotExist while preserving the
existing tracing error log and return behavior.
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In `@cmd/cloudx/testhelpers/testhelpers.go`:
- Around line 484-491: Update the response-status guard in the login flow so
immediate failure applies only to HTTP 429 and 5xx responses. Allow other 4xx
responses, including credential rejections, to continue to the existing
final-URL diagnostic path; preserve the current failure message and behavior for
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stopTracing returned as soon as Tracing().Stop() reported an error, which skipped the redaction and left whatever was on disk for the artifact upload to collect. Stop can fail with the trace already written. It assembles the archive in doStopChunk and only then sends `tracingStop`, and that send is allowed to fail on its own — so the error can arrive after a complete, unredacted trace has been saved. The remote path can fail after artifact.SaveAs too, and the local Zip can fail partway and truncate. None of those may reach a public build artifact carrying the header. The early return is dropped: the error is logged and the trace is redacted, or removed when it cannot be. That is better than deleting unconditionally on a stop error, because the common case — a complete archive plus a failed `tracingStop` — keeps a usable diagnostic. The redact-or-remove step moves into its own function so the boundary is testable, and two cases now cover it: a truncated archive is removed, a rewritable one is kept and redacted. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Tg5VWFUb7824qkrooUdvBA
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Ory Network rejects relation tuples carrying a subject_id:
rpc error: code = InvalidArgument
desc = subject_id is not supported; please migrate to subject sets
The rejection is unconditional — plain strings, UUIDs and namespaced
IDs are all refused, under legacy and OPL namespaces alike — so the
tuples this test writes are subject sets now.
The `ory is allowed s r n o1` assertion is dropped rather than adapted.
`is allowed` takes a plain subject and sends it as a subject_id, so the
server rejects the check with the same error: the command is unusable
against Ory Network, not merely deprecated, and no reachable tuple
makes it answer true — every permission chain has to terminate in a
subject ID. Asserting the broken behaviour here would only cement it,
so the comment records what happened and the command needs its own fix.
Note that CI on this branch is expected to stay red until #457 lands:
master's browser login is rate limited, and the packages that fail on
that are unrelated to this change. The failure fixed here has been
present all along and only surfaces in the runs where relationtuples
gets past its login at all.
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The usage line read
allowed <subject> <relation> <namespace> <object>
which documented only the deprecated four-argument object form and gave
no hint that the subject may be a subject set. Following it produces a
deprecation warning and a request Ory Network rejects outright:
Could not make request: rpc error: code = InvalidArgument
desc = subject_id is not supported; please migrate to subject sets
The command itself was fine — keto's ParseSubject reads anything
containing a colon as a subject set — so this was the help steering
callers into the one form that no longer works. It now names the
subject-set spelling, the `<namespace>:<object>` object form, and what
Ory Network does with plain subject IDs, and carries an example.
Clearing the aliases is part of the same slip: NewAllowedCmd runs
wrapForOryCLI, which names the command it is normally applied to, so
`ory is allowed` also answered to `relationships`, `relation-tuples`,
`relationship` and `relation-tuple` — the aliases of a different
command.
The TestCRUD comment is corrected alongside. It claimed the command was
unusable against Ory Network, which is wrong: `is allowed n:s#r r n:o1`
runs fine against a subject-set tuple. It answers false, and nothing
reachable makes it answer true while relationships with a plain subject
ID cannot be stored, which is why the assertion stays dropped.
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nit: I hate that LLMs generate these comments referencing previous code.
Let's just remove this line (it might also be worth a note in your CLAUDE.md or even putting one into the repo).
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| // RateLimitHeader returns the header that exempts a caller from Ory Network's | ||
| // per-IP rate limits, and whether one is configured at all. | ||
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| // Everything that talks to Ory Network on the test suite's behalf has to send | ||
| // it, not just the SDK clients built below: the browser that drives the OAuth2 | ||
| // login is a separate client with its own connection, and CI runs many of those | ||
| // logins concurrently from a single egress IP. |
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What
CI has been red on
masterevery day since 2026-07-30. The failure is always the same shape — one or morecloudxpackages time out ininside the OAuth2 login their
TestMainperforms, before any test body runs.Why it happens
The
playwright-tracesartifact gives the answer. The login POST comes back 429:{"error":{"code":429,"message":"Too Many Requests", "reason":"Too many API requests from your IP have been registered.", "status":"Blocked","details":{"ruleId":"170edb01"}}}on
POST https://project.console.staging.ory.dev/self-service/login?flow=…. In run 32009926902 exactly three traces contain that 429 and exactly three logins failed; the one login that succeeded has none.We set
ORY_RATE_LIMIT_HEADERin CI precisely to avoid this — but it only ever rode on the Go SDK and CLI HTTP clients (sdks.go). The Playwright browser is a separate client that never sent it, so the CLI's own API traffic was exempt while the browser login flow was not.go test ./...runs the browser login of six packages concurrently from a single CI egress IP, and whoever loses the race gets 429'd — which is why the failing set shifts run to run.Changes
1. The browser sends the rate-limit header.
NewPagesets it as anExtraHttpHeadersentry, taking the name and value from a newclient.RateLimitHeader()so the header name lives in one place instead of being repeated as a literal at each call site.2. A refused submission fails immediately, and says why. The consent hook submitted the login form and went straight to waiting for the
Allowbutton, never looking at what the submission returned. A refusal leaves the page on the form, so the wait burned its full 30s and blamed the consent screen — which is why CI reported a missing button for weeks while the cause sat unread in the response.Submitting now checks that response and fails on a 429 or 5xx, quoting status and body.
A rejected credential is deliberately not covered by that check: Ory Network answers it with a
303back to the login page, indistinguishable from success at that point. The consent wait instead reports where the browser ended up, which is what separates the two.Verification
Against staging, on this branch:
TestMain's browser login still completes (logging in→consent successful).go build ./...,go vet ./cmd/cloudx/...andgofmtare clean.Note the 429 fast-fail path itself cannot be triggered on demand locally — it is inferred from the trace evidence above, and the status check that catches it is unconditional.
Secret handling
Sending the header from the browser puts it somewhere it was never exposed before. Traces capture complete request headers — the same property that made them useful for diagnosing the 429 above — and CI uploads them as an artifact of a public repository. GitHub masks secrets in workflow logs but not inside artifacts, so without care this change would have published the bypass token.
Playwright has no redaction option (
TracingStartOptionsis name/title/screenshots/snapshots/live/sources), so the archive is rewritten onceTracing().Stop()has written it. The JSON-escaped spelling is replaced as well, because the trace stores headers as JSON string values. If the archive cannot be rewritten it is deleted rather than left in place.Verified end to end — a login run with a dummy
ORY_RATE_LIMIT_HEADER:The 131 header-name hits are also the first direct confirmation that the browser now actually sends it.
TestRedactInZipcovers the rewriting itself and needs no network.Pre-existing and untouched: these traces also carry session cookies for the disposable staging accounts the tests register. Worth a separate look, but those are throwaway credentials rather than a shared secret.
Also in this PR
The
subject_idtest migration (previously #458, now folded back in so one PR can go green). Ory Network rejects relationship writes carrying asubject_id— unconditionally: plain strings, UUIDs and namespaced IDs, under legacy and OPL namespaces alike — soTestCRUDwrites subject sets. This failure predates the branch; the rate limiting fixed above killedrelationtuplesinTestMainbeforeTestCRUDever ran, which is why it shows up in only some of master's red runs.A fix for
ory is allowed. Its usage line readallowed <subject> <relation> <namespace> <object>— only the deprecated four-argument object form, and no hint that the subject may be a subject set. Following it yields a deprecation warning and a request the server refuses. The command was never broken; keto'sParseSubjectreads anything containing a colon as a subject set. The help now names that spelling, the<namespace>:<object>object form, and what Ory Network does with plain subject IDs. It also stops answering torelationships/relation-tuples/relationship/relation-tuple, which leaked in fromwrapForOryCLIand belong to a different command.The
is allowedassertion inTestCRUDstays dropped: the command runs fine against a subject-set tuple but answersfalse, and nothing reachable makes it answer true while relationships with a plain subject ID cannot be stored. That is the server's state, not the CLI's behaviour, so there is nothing left worth asserting there.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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