The .archive virtual prefix is now project-scoped at exactly one URL
depth: any /<project>/<sub>/.../.archive/... gets a 301 to the
canonical /<project>/.archive/.... The dispatcher does this before
calling the handler; query strings are preserved (the browser handles
the fragment automatically). .archive is also GET/HEAD-only — anything
else returns 405 with Allow: GET, HEAD, ahead of the file API.
Why: offline-built HTML files reference siblings as
"../.archive/<tracking>.html" from arbitrary depths. All of those refs
should converge on a single stable URL per (project, tracking) so
external links and bookmarks don't fork by entry point.
Permissions now follow the resolved file, not .archive itself.
.archive is a virtual surface — it has no on-disk directory and no
.zddc of its own, so gating it as if it did is wrong. Two gates only:
- Resolve: only the per-target file's ACL chain decides. A user
explicitly allowed at one transmittal folder but denied at the
project root can still fetch tracking numbers that resolve there.
Per-target denial returns 404 (not 403) so existence doesn't leak.
- Listing: filter entries by per-target ACL. If the project bucket
has zero indexed entries → 404 (unknown / empty project, indistinguishable
from a probe). If the bucket is non-empty but the caller can read
no entries → 403 (existence-leak guard: don't confirm an inaccessible
project's archive exists). Otherwise → 200 with the filtered subset.
The listing endpoint is now content-negotiated like ServeDirectory:
Accept: text/html serves the embedded `browse` SPA bytes (with the
embedded ETag and X-ZDDC-Source: embedded:browse); Accept:
application/json returns the JSON entry array (with content-hash ETag
and 304 short-circuit). Vary: Accept set on both. The browse SPA's
auto-detect path-fetch then renders the archive entries as a sortable,
filterable flat list at /<project>/.archive/.
ServeArchive's signature is now (cfg, idx, w, r, project, filename) —
the dispatcher hands the normalized project string in directly, so
projectFromContextPath is gone. Old behavior was to derive project
from contextPath inside the handler; with the upstream redirect that's
redundant and the handler's preconditions are simpler.
Tests: archivehandler_test.go rewritten around the new semantics;
added per-target-only resolve, project-root-deny + per-target-allow
rescue, listing 403/404 distinction, JSON/HTML content-negotiation,
and conditional GET. main_test.go gains TestDispatchArchiveRedirect
(deep paths, query preservation, already-canonical no-op) and
TestDispatchArchiveMethodGate (PUT/POST/DELETE → 405).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replaces the binary acl.allow/deny model with five permission verbs
(r/w/c/d/a) and first-class roles, and adds an authenticated file API
(PUT/DELETE/POST move/mkdir) so the HTML tools can edit-in-place over
HTTP. Closes the AC-3(7) and AC-6 federal-readiness gaps.
File API (zddc/internal/handler/fileapi.go)
- PUT <new> → action c
- PUT <existing> → action w
- PUT <.zddc> → action a (CanEditZddc strict-ancestor rule)
- DELETE → action d
- POST mkdir → action c (auto-writes creator-owned .zddc when the
parent is Incoming/Working/Staging)
- POST move → action w on src + c on dst, atomic via os.Rename
- Optional If-Match for optimistic concurrency, --max-write-bytes cap,
audit log emits a structured file_write event per operation.
Permission model (zddc/internal/zddc/{acl,file,roles,cascade_mode}.go)
- acl.permissions: { principal → verb-set } map; principals are email
patterns or role names. Empty verb set is an explicit deny.
- roles: { name → members } definitions, available at the level they
declare and all descendants. Closer-to-leaf shadows ancestor.
- Legacy acl.allow/deny still work; they fold into permissions at
parse time (allow → "rwcd", deny → "").
- Cascade walks leaf→root; first level with any matching entry wins;
the union of matching verb sets at that level decides.
- --cascade-mode=strict adds a root→leaf ancestor-deny pre-pass so an
ancestor explicit-deny is absolute (NIST AC-6). Default delegated
preserves the existing commercial behavior.
Special folders (zddc/internal/zddc/special.go)
- Incoming / Working / Staging: mkdir auto-writes a .zddc into the new
subdir granting created_by + that email rwcda directly. Same form
operators write by hand; creator can edit it later to add others.
- Issued / Received: server-enforced WORM split. Cascade grants
inherited from above the WORM folder are masked to r only; grants
placed at-or-below the WORM folder retain r,c. Operators grant
write-once (cr) to the doc controller via an explicit .zddc at the
Issued/Received folder. Admins exempt — only escape hatch.
Browser polyfill (shared/zddc-source.js)
- HttpDirectoryHandle + HttpFileHandle implement the FS Access API
surface (values, getFileHandle, createWritable, removeEntry,
queryPermission/requestPermission) over zddc-server's listing JSON
and file API. Existing tools written against showDirectoryPicker
work unchanged.
- detectServerRoot() returns { handle, status }: tools auto-load on
HTTP, surface a clear "no permission to list" message on 403, and
fall back to the welcome screen on 0.
- classifier renames take the atomic POST move path on HTTP-backed
handles; mdedit and transmittal route reads/writes through the
polyfill so prior FS-API code paths cover both modes.
Tests
- zddc/internal/zddc/{cascade_mode,roles,special,acl}_test.go cover
delegated vs strict, role membership / shadowing / legacy fallback,
WORM split semantics, verb-set parser round-trip.
- zddc/internal/handler/fileapi_test.go now also covers role-based
vendor scenarios, WORM blocking vendor & doc controller writes,
explicit Issued .zddc unlocking the cr drop-box, admin bypass,
auto-ownership on mkdir, and strict-mode lockouts.
Docs
- ARCHITECTURE.md + zddc/README.md document the verb model, role
syntax, special-folder behaviors, cascade-mode flag, and full file
API surface. Federal-readiness gap analysis strikes AC-3(7) and
AC-6.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two interlocking pieces shipped together:
1. Strict Ed25519 signature verification on URL-fetched apps artifacts.
Every URL the apps cascade resolves must publish a corresponding
<url>.sig (raw 64-byte Ed25519 signature). The fetcher rejects on
any failure (sig 404, transport error, wrong key, tampered body)
and the resolver falls back to the embedded copy.
The trusted public key is OPERATOR-CONFIGURED via --apps-pubkey /
ZDDC_APPS_PUBKEY (PEM file path). No baked-in default — same posture
as TLS certificates. Operators using zddc.varasys.io's canonical
channels download pubkey.pem from there and configure the local
path. Operators with their own signing infrastructure pass their
own public key.
Build pipeline (./build) gains sign_release_artifacts: walks
dist/release-output/ after promote and produces an Ed25519 .sig
alongside every real file. ZDDC_SIGNING_KEY=~/.config/zddc-signing/
key.pem (mode 0600). Symlinks skip — the .sig at the symlink
target is what counts.
Test coverage: parse-PEM round-trip, malformed/wrong-type PEM
rejection, valid-signature accept, tampered-body reject, wrong-key
reject, malformed-signature reject, end-to-end fetch+sign+verify,
fetch-rejects-tampered, fetch-rejects-missing-sig, fetch-rejects-
wrong-key. Existing fetch tests updated to use signed-fixture
helpers.
2. Dev Helm chart mounts production data READ-ONLY and layers an
OverlayFS writable scratch on top. Prod data is the lowerdir;
dev's writes (form submissions, archive index state, .zddc edits)
land in upperdir; main container sees the merged read-write view
at $ZDDC_ROOT. Setup runs in a privileged init container; main
container runs unprivileged. Solves the dev-replica-on-shared-
dataset problem at the filesystem layer with no zddc-server code
change.
Docs: env-var tables in zddc/README.md and AGENTS.md gain a
ZDDC_APPS_PUBKEY row. The Federal-readiness gap analysis "Code-signed
apps: URL fetches" subsection is rewritten as "what's currently in
place" instead of "what would need to be added," with a forward
pointer to per-entry signed_by: (multi-key) and Sigstore as the
federally-acceptable evolution.
The website "Verify your downloads" section + the embedded pubkey
gone — but the website needs separate updates landing in zddc-website
to publish pubkey.pem and add the verify section. Pending in that
repo's commit.
Production binary unchanged at 13.1 MB. All 11 Go test packages green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add github.com/klauspost/compress/gzhttp wrapper around the request
handler. With MinSize(1024), responses ≥ 1 KB get gzip-encoded when
the client advertises Accept-Encoding: gzip; smaller bodies + 304
Not Modified pass through unchanged.
The wrapper auto-appends Vary: Accept-Encoding (compatible with the
existing Vary: Accept on directory.go's content-negotiated path).
Live-tested against zddc-server -root /tmp/empty:
GET / w/ Accept-Encoding: gzip → 20.9 KB compressed (was 80.9 KB
uncompressed). 74% reduction.
Decompresses cleanly back to the original bytes.
Helps every code path that bypasses Caddy: devshell pods, local dev
binaries, tests, anywhere zddc-server is hit directly. Production
behind Caddy already had compression at the proxy layer; this just
makes the Go server self-sufficient.
Tests in cmd/zddc-server/main_test.go cover:
- large body + Accept-Encoding → compressed + Vary header
- small body → not compressed (under MinSize)
- no Accept-Encoding header → plain bytes
Adds command-line flags to zddc-server alongside the existing env vars.
Each setting can be set via --<flag-name> or ZDDC_<NAME>; the flag wins
on conflict, the env var wins over the hard-coded default.
--root / ZDDC_ROOT (now defaults to CWD if both unset)
--addr / ZDDC_ADDR (:8443)
--tls-cert / ZDDC_TLS_CERT ("none" / empty / path)
--tls-key / ZDDC_TLS_KEY
--log-level / ZDDC_LOG_LEVEL (info)
--index-path / ZDDC_INDEX_PATH (.archive)
--email-header / ZDDC_EMAIL_HEADER (X-Auth-Request-Email)
--cors-origin / ZDDC_CORS_ORIGIN (https://zddc.varasys.io; "" disables)
--insecure-direct / ZDDC_INSECURE_DIRECT (false)
--help (prints flag list to stderr, exits 0)
--version (prints binary + embedded tool versions, exits 0)
So an operator can `cd /srv/zddc && zddc-server` with zero config — the
served root defaults to the current directory, and TLS defaults to a
self-signed cert. config.Load now takes []string (test-friendly: nil
skips flag parsing entirely; tests pass an empty slice for env-only
loads).
Adds a `version` package-level var in main.go injected at link time via
`-ldflags="-X main.version=..."`. The build.sh runs git describe against
zddc-server-v* tags; for in-flight commits between releases it produces
e.g. zddc-server-v0.0.7-19-gadb6904-dirty.
Adds an embedded versions manifest:
- Each tool's compute_build_label (in shared/build-lib.sh) writes a
sidecar <tool>.label to $BUILD_LABELS_DIR if that env var is set.
- Top-level build.sh sets BUILD_LABELS_DIR before running each tool's
build, then assembles zddc/internal/apps/embedded/versions.txt as
one `<app>=<build label>` line per app.
- apps.EmbeddedVersions() loads the manifest at runtime.
- main.go logs a compact summary on every startup; --version dumps
the full per-app label.
Removes the old cfg.BuildVersion field — the X-ZDDC-Source: embedded
header now uses the package-level main.version directly.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds internal/apps/ package serving the five tool HTMLs at virtual paths
based on the surrounding folder name convention:
archive every directory (multi-project, project, archive, vendor)
classifier any Incoming/Working/Staging directory and subtree
mdedit any Working directory and subtree
transmittal any Staging directory and subtree
landing only at deployment root
The current-stable build of every tool is //go:embed'd into the binary
at compile time — that's the default with zero config. Operators
override per-directory via .zddc apps: entries; closer-to-leaf wins.
Spec syntax (in any apps: value):
stable / beta / alpha / :stable channel
v0.0.4 / v0.0 / v0 / :v0.0.4 version
https://my-mirror/releases URL prefix only
https://my-mirror/releases:beta URL prefix + channel
https://my-fork/archive.html terminal full URL
./local.html / /abs/path.html terminal local path
The special apps.default key provides a baseline URL prefix and channel
inherited by any app not overridden per-name. Per-axis cascade: a deeper
.zddc can override the URL, the channel, or both.
Cascade walks root→leaf; default applies first at each level, then the
per-app entry. Terminal sources (paths and full .html URLs) short-circuit
composition; deeper non-terminal entries override parent terminals.
URL sources fetch once on first request and cache forever in
<ZDDC_ROOT>/_app/<host>/<path> — different upstreams with the same
filename stay distinct. No background refresh, no SHA-256 verification:
operators delete the cache file to force a refetch. Concurrent misses
for the same source dedupe via a 30-line hand-rolled singleflight.
Per-request override: any user can append ?v=<spec> to a tool URL
(e.g. ?v=beta, ?v=v0.0.4, ?v=:alpha, ?v=https://mirror/releases:beta)
to ask for a different build for one request. Security: ?v= serves
ONLY versions already in the cache (cache miss returns 404; path
sources are rejected outright with 400). Users cannot trigger
arbitrary upstream fetches via crafted URLs.
Failed URL fetches (network down, 5xx) fall back to embedded with a
one-time WARN log. The X-ZDDC-Source response header reports what
served: fetch:URL / cache:URL / path:/abs / embedded:<app>@<build>.
Wire-in (cmd/zddc-server/main.go): dispatch routes <dir>/<app>.html
through apps.MatchAppHTML + AppAvailableAt + apps.Server.Serve when
no real file exists. Direct URL access to /_app/... is blocked at
the dispatch layer — cached files must go through the apps resolver
so they get correct Content-Type and ACL gating.
Schema (internal/zddc/file.go): ZddcFile gains Apps map[string]string
for cascade overrides. Validator (internal/zddc/validate.go) accepts
the special "default" key alongside the five canonical app names and
all spec forms.
Removes ZDDC_APPS_* env vars (no admin UI, no refresh interval, no
upstream allow-list — the simpler model has fewer knobs).
40+ unit tests across the new package: parser shapes, cascade
resolution with default+per-app interactions, terminal short-circuit
semantics, ?v= cache-only enforcement, embedded fallback, atomic
cache writes, singleflight dedup. Plus end-to-end dispatch tests in
cmd/zddc-server/main_test.go.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replaces the super-admin-only /.admin/ surface with a public-by-default
/.profile/ page that layers admin tools server-side based on the
caller's effective access:
- Universal (everyone, anonymous included): identity card, effective
access summary, theme picker, localStorage utilities (export / import
/ clear, landing-presets viewer).
- Subtree admins additionally see: editable .zddc files list (linking
to the existing form-based editor) and a "Create new project folder"
form.
- Super-admins additionally see: server config, log viewer, whoami
headers (the old /.admin/ JSON endpoints, repointed under /.profile/).
Project creation is gated on CanEditZddc(newDir) — the same strict-
ancestor rule that already governs .zddc writes — so no new authority
concept is introduced. ValidateProjectName mirrors the existing
reserved-prefix policy (no leading '.' or '_', no path separators).
/.admin/* is hard-cut: no redirect shim. Old URLs fall through to the
existing dot-prefix guard and 404. Custom CSS file rename: prefer
<root>/.profile.css, fall back to legacy <root>/.admin.css.
Per-resource 404 leakage gates preserved on whoami / config / logs /
zddc / projects so non-admin callers cannot detect the existence of
admin-only sub-resources.
Tree-wide gofmt -w applied as a side-effect.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three improvements bundled because they all ship as zddc-server v0.0.2:
* /.admin/ debug dashboard with /whoami, /config, /logs sub-routes.
Authorization via a top-level `admins:` glob list in <ZDDC_ROOT>/.zddc
(root-only — subdir entries deliberately ignored to prevent privilege
escalation via subtree write access). Non-admin requests get 404 so the
page is invisible. Recent logs surface via a 500-entry slog ring buffer
teed off the existing TextHandler. Lets operators debug without
kubectl exec.
* Default ZDDC_EMAIL_HEADER changes from `X-Email` to
`X-Auth-Request-Email` — the oauth2-proxy / nginx auth-request
convention that the TND helm chart already sets explicitly.
Operators who set the env var explicitly are unaffected; deployments
relying on the previous default need to set ZDDC_EMAIL_HEADER=X-Email
or update their proxy.
* dispatch() rejects any URL whose segments contain a dot prefix other
than the recognized virtual prefixes (.admin, cfg.IndexPath /
.archive). Matches the existing listing-pipeline filter so hidden
subtrees on the served PVC (e.g. /srv/.devshell — used by the
in-cluster dev-shell for persistent home-dir state) become
unreachable via direct HTTP fetch, not just hidden in listings.
Refreshes the X-Email reference in website/index.html accordingly.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
