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Improves domain-fronting resilience in http-api-client: rate-limit errors now trigger host rotation without forcing fronting on, fronting policy is more configurable, and shared-resource test flakiness is fixed.

  • Rotate on rate limiting, don't force fronting: HTTP errors indicating rate limiting are now treated as a trigger to rotate to a different host, but no longer automatically enable domain fronting — rotation and fronting are decoupled so a rate-limited (but otherwise healthy) endpoint doesn't unnecessarily flip on fronting.
  • More configurable fronting policy:
    • Even while fronting is enabled, the client still rotates through non-fronting hosts rather than sticking exclusively to fronted ones.
    • Added recovery logic: if non-fronting domains start succeeding again, the client can transition back from fronting-enabled to fronting-disabled instead of being stuck once triggered.
  • Test stability: isolated tests that share a common resource so they no longer interfere with each other's state when run concurrently.

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  • New Features

    • Added configurable domain-fronting retries with failure thresholds, domain rotation, and recovery options.
    • Non-fronted hosts can participate in rotation when enabled.
    • Fronting can recover automatically after successful direct requests.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved detection of rate limits from HTTP 429 responses, throttled 503 responses, and Vercel challenges.
    • Improved fronting state reset after policy changes and successful requests.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for retry thresholds, rotation, recovery, and rate-limit detection.

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The HTTP API client adds configurable domain-fronting retries, per-domain failure tracking, direct-host rotation, recovery after successful 2XX direct requests, broader rate-limit detection, and serialized tests for shared network state.

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Domain-fronting retry policy

Layer / File(s) Summary
Configured retry policy
common/http-api-client/src/fronted.rs
Adds FrontPolicy::ConfiguredRetry and FrontingConfig. The policy tracks domain failures, applies thresholds, controls direct-host rotation, and clears state during recovery or policy changes.
Host rotation and recovery
common/http-api-client/src/url.rs, common/http-api-client/src/lib.rs, common/nym-directory-client/src/test_support.rs
URL state tracks direct-host and front-host turns. Request handling uses the active rotation front, removes stale fronting headers on direct requests, passes domains to retry logic, and disables fronting after eligible successful direct requests.
Rate-limit classification and test isolation
common/http-api-client/src/lib.rs, common/http-api-client/src/tests.rs
Rate-limit detection covers HTTP 429, throttled HTTP 503 responses, and Vercel challenges. Tests cover positive and negative cases and serialize shared network state.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 5df92

The retry and domain-rotation changes may retain stale fronting headers, misattribute failures, perform unnecessary attempts, reuse stale host selections, and break downstream trait implementations. These bounded correctness and compatibility risks should be resolved or explicitly accepted before merging.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant Url
  participant Front
  participant Server
  Client->>Url: apply_hosts_to_req
  Url->>Url: take_rotation_turn
  Url-->>Client: active host or front
  Client->>Server: send request
  Server-->>Client: response or network error
  Client->>Front: retry_enable(domain)
  Client->>Front: recover after successful 2XX direct request
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In `@common/http-api-client/src/lib.rs`:
- Around line 1252-1263: In the successful transport-result branch around
Front::recover, require resp.status().is_success() in addition to the existing
non-fronted, enabled, and recovery-policy checks. Only disable fronting and
reset retry counters for successful HTTP responses, while preserving the current
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common/http-api-client/src/lib.rs (3)

1094-1100: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Clear client-owned fronting headers on the direct path.

A request created while fronting is enabled can already contain HOST and NYM_OUTER_SNI_HEADER. A later send after Front::recover() or host rotation calls apply_hosts_to_req again, but the direct path only changes the URL host. It leaves the previous headers in the request. This can preserve a stale Host or outer SNI and route the request to the wrong endpoint. Remove or overwrite these headers before returning the non-fronted path.

Proposed fix
+        r.headers_mut().remove(reqwest::header::HOST);
+        r.headers_mut().remove(NYM_OUTER_SNI_HEADER);
         (url.as_str(), None)
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In `@common/http-api-client/src/lib.rs` around lines 1094 - 1100, Update the
direct, non-fronted branch of apply_hosts_to_req to remove or overwrite the
client-owned HOST and NYM_OUTER_SNI_HEADER values before returning the request,
ensuring stale fronting headers from earlier sends cannot survive recovery or
host rotation. Preserve the existing URL host selection and fronted-path
behavior.

1288-1293: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Pass the base API domain to ConfiguredRetry.

After apply_hosts_to_req, url is derived from the rewritten request URL. For a fronted attempt, url.host_str() is the front host, not the API host tracked by ConfiguredRetry. This can mix failure counters between API domains and trigger fronting for the wrong domain. Capture the base host before applying fronting and use it in both maybe_enable_fronting call sites.

Proposed fix
+            let domain = self.current_url().host_str().map(str::to_owned);
             let (_, _front_used) = self.apply_hosts_to_req(&mut req);
...
-                        self.maybe_enable_fronting(url.host_str(), ("network", url.as_str(), &err));
+                        self.maybe_enable_fronting(
+                            domain.as_deref(),
+                            ("network", url.as_str(), &err),
+                        );

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In `@common/http-api-client/src/lib.rs` around lines 1288 - 1293, Capture the base
API host before apply_hosts_to_req rewrites the request URL, then pass that
captured host to ConfiguredRetry’s maybe_enable_fronting call sites, including
the one near the network-error handling block and the other reported location.
Do not use url.host_str() for these calls, since it may identify the front host
rather than the API domain.

634-639: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Preserve or version the public trait change.

ApiClientCore is a public trait in the published nym-http-api-client crate. When tunneling is enabled, changing the required maybe_enable_fronting signature can make downstream implementations fail to compile. Preserve compatibility with an adapter, or include the change in a major-version migration.

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In `@common/http-api-client/src/lib.rs` around lines 634 - 639, Update the public
ApiClientCore::maybe_enable_fronting change to preserve downstream implementer
compatibility, either by providing a compatible adapter/default path for the new
domain and context parameters or by versioning it as an intentional major API
migration; keep the tunneling behavior and existing implementations supported.
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In `@common/http-api-client/src/lib.rs`:
- Around line 1094-1100: Update the direct, non-fronted branch of
apply_hosts_to_req to remove or overwrite the client-owned HOST and
NYM_OUTER_SNI_HEADER values before returning the request, ensuring stale
fronting headers from earlier sends cannot survive recovery or host rotation.
Preserve the existing URL host selection and fronted-path behavior.
- Around line 1288-1293: Capture the base API host before apply_hosts_to_req
rewrites the request URL, then pass that captured host to ConfiguredRetry’s
maybe_enable_fronting call sites, including the one near the network-error
handling block and the other reported location. Do not use url.host_str() for
these calls, since it may identify the front host rather than the API domain.
- Around line 634-639: Update the public ApiClientCore::maybe_enable_fronting
change to preserve downstream implementer compatibility, either by providing a
compatible adapter/default path for the new domain and context parameters or by
versioning it as an intentional major API migration; keep the tunneling behavior
and existing implementations supported.

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⚠️ Outside diff range comments (3)
common/http-api-client/src/lib.rs (3)

1270-1279: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Reset URL rotation state when recovery disables fronting.

Front::recover() resets fronting policy state, but this branch does not reset Url::rotation_slot or Url::rotation_seen. If fronting is enabled again later, active_rotation_front_str() can resume a front from the previous fronting epoch and skip the required direct turn.

Reset each URL's rotation cursor as part of recovery, or clear it before the next fronting enable.

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In `@common/http-api-client/src/lib.rs` around lines 1270 - 1279, Update the
non-fronted success recovery branch around self.front.recover() to also reset
every URL’s rotation_slot and rotation_seen state, ensuring a later fronting
epoch starts with a fresh rotation and preserves the required direct turn.

1034-1039: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Advance to the first front after the direct turn.

Url::take_rotation_turn() sets rotation_seen on the first direct failure but returns false, so this branch rotates away while rotation_slot remains 0. When the host is selected again, active_rotation_front_str() is still None, and the host receives a second direct attempt before the first front is used. A finite retry limit can therefore skip configured fronts.

Make the direct-turn transition select the first front before deciding whether to rotate away.

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In `@common/http-api-client/src/lib.rs` around lines 1034 - 1039, Update the
rotation logic around Url::take_rotation_turn so that after the initial direct
turn is consumed, rotation_slot advances to the first configured front before
deciding whether to return or rotate away. Preserve the existing behavior for
subsequent front rotation and ensure the next host selection uses
active_rotation_front_str rather than attempting the direct URL again.

634-639: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Update downstream ApiClientCore implementations for the new parameter.

ApiClientCore is a public, unsealed trait, and the crate is publishable. Downstream implementations using the default tunneling feature must add domain: Option<&str> to maybe_enable_fronting, or they will fail to compile.

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In `@common/http-api-client/src/lib.rs` around lines 634 - 639, Update every
downstream implementation of the public ApiClientCore trait’s
maybe_enable_fronting method to accept the new domain: Option<&str> parameter,
preserving the existing context handling and behavior for tunneling-enabled
builds.
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Inline comments:
In `@common/http-api-client/src/lib.rs`:
- Around line 1225-1226: The send flow currently reads current_url() twice,
allowing domain and request host selection to diverge under concurrent rotation.
Capture one URL snapshot and reuse it for both domain extraction and
apply_hosts_to_req, adjusting the helper as needed, and add a regression test
covering the interleaving.

---

Outside diff comments:
In `@common/http-api-client/src/lib.rs`:
- Around line 1270-1279: Update the non-fronted success recovery branch around
self.front.recover() to also reset every URL’s rotation_slot and rotation_seen
state, ensuring a later fronting epoch starts with a fresh rotation and
preserves the required direct turn.
- Around line 1034-1039: Update the rotation logic around
Url::take_rotation_turn so that after the initial direct turn is consumed,
rotation_slot advances to the first configured front before deciding whether to
return or rotate away. Preserve the existing behavior for subsequent front
rotation and ensure the next host selection uses active_rotation_front_str
rather than attempting the direct URL again.
- Around line 634-639: Update every downstream implementation of the public
ApiClientCore trait’s maybe_enable_fronting method to accept the new domain:
Option<&str> parameter, preserving the existing context handling and behavior
for tunneling-enabled builds.
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