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fix(auth/http): retry transient fetch failures once within an overall deadline - #1847
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The well-known key fetch was a single attempt, so one transient unreachable moment — a dial timeout, a reset connection, a CDN edge answering 5xx — failed the whole HTTP login with 401 even though the endpoint answers moments later (modelcontextprotocol#1625). FetchKey now retries transient failures (transport errors and HTTP 408/429/5xx) up to 3 attempts with 500ms backoff, bounded by the caller's context. Permanent failures (other 4xx, redirects, oversized bodies) still fail immediately on the first attempt. When every attempt fails, the error reports how many attempts were made so fetch problems can be distinguished from key problems. The documented fetch contract in authentication.mdx is updated accordingly.
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Reviewed the bounded retry behavior and security implications. One retry shares a 15-second overall deadline, with cancellation and permanent failures handled promptly. Signature verification, namespace permissions, TLS verification, address restrictions, redirect refusal, and response-size limits remain intact. Auth race tests, additional adversarial checks, lint/validation, and full CI pass. The bounded increase in unauthenticated fetch work is acceptable for the observed transient-failure cases.
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HTTP authentication currently fails on the first verification-fetch error. This change allows one retry for transient connection/read failures and HTTP 408, 429, or 5xx responses.
The fetch has a 15-second overall deadline covering both attempts, body reads, and the 500 ms backoff. Each attempt retains the existing 10-second limit, subject to the remaining overall budget and any earlier caller deadline. A first-attempt timeout therefore leaves about 4.5 seconds for the retry.
TLS certificate verification failures, blocked addresses, nonexistent domains, redirects, other 4xx responses, and oversized bodies fail immediately. TLS verification, DNS/IP pinning and address restrictions, the 4096-byte response limit, signature verification, and namespace permissions remain in place. No new metrics are added.
Related to #1625. This improves resilience but does not establish or conclusively fix the historical connectivity failure reported there.
Rebased onto current main (
899011e), preserving the multiple-proof and key-retirement documentation.Validation:
go test -race ./internal/api/handlers/v0/auth/... ./internal/auth/...passed.make lint validatepassed with golangci-lint v2.14.0.2fdcd6230034285bfa4bd27fed355dda9d0f394a: build/lint/validation/vulnerability checks, full tests, and deployment configuration tests.