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Problem: the Settings → Network "Ping regions" button reports local tunnel latency, not region latency, for users behind VPN tunnels or transparent proxies. A TCP connect against such a tunnel completes on the spot (~2 ms), so the picker shows values that look like frame-render numbers instead of real RTT. Fixes #1288.

Reproduction (macOS, VPN active):

eu-germany.cloudmatchbeta.nvidiagrid.net  TCP connect: 1.8-2.8 ms   (impossible for a real round trip)
eu-germany.cloudmatchbeta.nvidiagrid.net  HTTPS round trip: ~280 ms (TLS + request through the real path)

Fix: measure_region now measures with a reused HTTPS connection: a warm-up request establishes TLS (and validates the endpoint), then three timed HEAD samples each measure one request/response round trip through the real network path, which a local interceptor cannot satisfy without producing a server response. Any HTTP response (including 4xx/5xx) counts as a successful round trip; only transport failure fails a sample. Averaging and cancellation semantics are unchanged.

Scope: network.rs is shared core code, so all platforms take the new measurement. For users without intercepting tunnels the value is equivalent to the old one (plus one TLS handshake per measurement); for users behind them, the old value was wrong on every OS. The queue probe (measure_queue_region) keeps its TCP measurement: it probes the streaming path where TCP behavior is what matters.

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measure_region retains its TCP warm-up and now measures latency with HTTPS HEAD requests. It uses a three-second client timeout and returns errors when client creation, warm-up, or all measurement requests fail.

Changes: Region latency measurement

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HTTPS measurement flow
native/opennow-core/src/network.rs
measure_region creates a blocking HTTPS client with a three-second timeout and sends a warm-up HEAD request. It records responses, including HTTP errors, as successful samples; transport failures discard samples. The offline-region test expects the HTTPS warm-up error.

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Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: zortos293

Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review c3877

Region pings now use HTTPS, but the HTTP client is built without system-proxy support. On networks that require a configured system proxy, every region ping can fail. Enable the proxy feature before merging. A smaller edge case remains: an endpoint that redirects to an unreachable location is reported as failed.

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- Around line 179-181: Update the reqwest blocking client builder in the
measurement request setup to disable automatic redirects by applying redirect
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let client = match reqwest::blocking::Client::builder()
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Disable automatic redirects for measurement requests.

Reqwest follows redirects by default. If an endpoint returns a 302 to an unreachable destination or into a redirect loop, .send() returns an error despite receiving an HTTP response. The warm-up then reports failure, contrary to the rule that any HTTP response counts. Set redirect(reqwest::redirect::Policy::none()) so the probe measures and accepts the endpoint’s response. (docs.rs)

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Review comment at @native/opennow-core/src/network.rs around lines 179 - 181:
Update the reqwest blocking client builder in the measurement request setup to
disable automatic redirects by applying redirect policy none before build.
Preserve the existing CONNECT_TIMEOUT and response-acceptance behavior so
redirected HTTP responses are treated as received responses rather than
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set -eu
printf '%s\n' '--- changed network code ---'
git diff --unified=35 60ce69a07bf94ba484af7406d386ccb28e5a13e6 c387732f6eb738900d4b39cca0ba285a0fae40bb -- native/opennow-core/src/network.rs
printf '%s\n' '--- reqwest declarations and feature references ---'
rg -n -F --glob 'Cargo.toml' --glob 'Cargo.lock' -e 'reqwest' -e 'system-proxy' -e 'default-features' -e 'features' . || test "$?" -eq 1
printf '%s\n' '--- relevant manifest ---'
sed -n '1,240p' native/opennow-core/Cargo.toml
printf '%s\n' '--- workspace manifest if present ---'
if test -f Cargo.toml; then sed -n '1,260p' Cargo.toml; fi
printf '%s\n' '--- lockfile reqwest package section ---'
if test -f Cargo.lock; then awk '
  /^\[\[package\]\]/{p=0}
  /^name = "reqwest"$/{p=1}
  p{print}
' Cargo.lock; fi

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printf '%s\n' '--- resolved reqwest feature tree ---'
cargo tree --manifest-path native/opennow-core/Cargo.toml --locked -e features -i reqwest

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official reqwest 0.12 system-proxy feature default-features false Client proxy documentation

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For **reqwest 0.12.28**, `system-proxy` is enabled by default. With `default-features = false`, it’s **off unless you explicitly enable it**. To keep automatic system-proxy support, add `"system-proxy"` to your features; it maps to `hyper-util/client-proxy-system`. ([docs.rs](https://docs.rs/reqwest/0.12.28/reqwest/))

```toml
reqwest = {
  version = "0.12",
  default-features = false,
  features = ["system-proxy", "rustls-tls"]
}
```

`ClientBuilder::proxy(...)` adds a proxy and disables automatic system-proxy use; `no_proxy()` disables proxy use altogether. ([docs.rs](https://docs.rs/reqwest/0.12.28/reqwest/struct.ClientBuilder.html))

The exact patch release matters: the official sources above are for **0.12.28**.

Citations:

- 1: https://docs.rs/reqwest/0.12.28/reqwest/
- 2: https://docs.rs/reqwest/0.12.28/reqwest/struct.ClientBuilder.html

Enable reqwest system-proxy support.

default-features = false disables reqwest 0.12.28's default system-proxy feature. The new reqwest::blocking::Client can therefore ignore configured system proxies, causing the HTTPS warm-up request to fail for proxy-only users.

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-reqwest = { version = "0.12", default-features = false, features = ["blocking", "json", "multipart", "rustls-tls", "socks"] }
+reqwest = { version = "0.12", default-features = false, features = ["blocking", "json", "multipart", "rustls-tls", "socks", "system-proxy"] }
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Enable reqwest’s system-proxy feature in the dependency configuration used by
the blocking Client builder, while preserving the existing features and
default-features setting so configured system proxies are honored by the HTTPS
warm-up request.

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Rechecked both findings in this thread. Redirect following is already disabled by Policy::none(). OS-level proxy discovery is still absent because the core's reqwest features do not include system-proxy; environment proxy variables remain supported. Whether these probes should follow the OS proxy or OpenNOW's explicit session proxy needs a deliberate routing decision, so I am leaving this thread open.

Separately, pushed fa3f82c to fix the three platform rustfmt failures and de3ccd2 to reuse the existing bounded resolver instead of doing an unbounded DNS lookup before client timeouts. The new cancellation regression fails before the fix and passes afterward. Seven focused network tests, 68 network-related tests, strict all-target Clippy and formatting pass. This does not establish live VPN RTT accuracy or resolve proxy-policy and connection-reuse validation.

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Thanks. HTTPS round-trip timing is the right fix for #1288. A few problems need fixing first (all reproduced against this branch). The PR also targets main; please retarget it to dev, where it merges cleanly.

  • Redirects (P2): network.rs:179-181,203 uses the client's default redirect policy, so a redirect sends the measurement to another host. A 20 ms origin redirecting to a 140 ms host reported 161 ms. Disable redirects so only the original region is timed.
  • Fresh TLS in samples (P2): network.rs:200-204: if the server closes the connection, the next sample includes a new TLS handshake (~174 ms vs ~20 ms with keep-alive), reported under the same pingMs. Either detect a reconnect and drop or retry that sample, or report the probe as failed instead of mixing the two.
  • Timeout not bounded (P2): network.rs:179-190: reqwest's blocking Client joins its runtime thread on drop and waits for an in-flight DNS job. With DNS delayed 6 s, the probe took 6002 ms despite its 3 s timeout (202 ms on the parent commit).
  • Cancellation (P3): network.rs:178-188 still sends the HEAD request after cancellation during the TCP warm-up (exit took ~3.15 s). Remove the now-unneeded TCP warm-up, or check cancellation before starting HTTPS.

The rest checks out: HTTP stalls time out at ~3 s, failed or untrusted TLS returns null instead of falling back to TCP timing, and the core suite passes (833).

VPN tunnels make TCP connect RTT lie. Time an HTTPS HEAD on a
keep-alive connection instead, with redirects disabled, DNS pinned to
pre-resolved addresses so Client drop cannot outlive the timeout, and
fresh-TLS outliers retried then dropped.

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Addressed the review notes and retargeted to dev:

  • Redirects: redirect::Policy::none() so only the origin region is timed.
  • Timeout / DNS on drop: resolve via region_endpoint, then ClientBuilder::resolve so reqwest does not start an unbounded DNS job that outlives CONNECT_TIMEOUT when the client is dropped. Also set connect_timeout.
  • Fresh TLS samples: keep-alive baseline; reconnect-sized outliers are retried once then dropped instead of mixed into pingMs.
  • Cancellation: removed the TCP warm-up; cancellation is checked before warm-up and before each HTTPS sample.

cargo test --locked --bin opennow-core network:: — 5/5 passed.

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Verified the remaining connection-reuse limitation against the actual core binary built at de3ccd2, using its JSON protocol and two bounded loopback HTTP/1.1 origins. Each response waits 10 ms before answering HEAD.

Origin behavior HEAD requests including warm-up TCP connections Reported pingMs
Keep-alive 4 1 11
Connection: close after every response 4 4 11

The second case still produces a numeric sample even though no measured request reuses the warm-up connection. accept_keep_alive_sample accepts the first sample unconditionally, so subsequent equally expensive reconnects become the baseline. This proves missing reuse detection, not a particular TLS inflation amount; the controlled origin was HTTP, not live GFN HTTPS. The latency heuristic alone does not establish an HTTPS RTT excluding handshakes. Keeping this validation item open alongside proxy routing. Current-head qt-ci and CodeQL required new fork approval after the push; both approvals have now been submitted.

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Current-head native CI exposed a portability defect in my added stalled-response fixture: the macOS and Windows accepted sockets retained nonblocking mode, so read_to_end() returned WouldBlock before the timeout scenario was exercised. Linux passed. Pushed 6f45abb to explicitly make that accepted fixture socket blocking before applying its existing read deadline. No production code or timeout/assertion was weakened. All seven focused network tests and formatting pass locally; cross-platform CI still needs to rerun. The separate proxy and connection-reuse limitations remain open.

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Published 491017fb to replace timing-based reuse inference with transport metadata. A timed response counts only when reqwest's HttpInfo local/remote TCP endpoints match the preceding successful response. Warm-up and the first response on a changed connection are excluded; missing metadata and transport failures clear the reuse state. The existing bounded retry remains, and the new direct hyper-util dependency exposes the already-enabled connection metadata type without changing proxy features.

Two regressions failed before the fix. With a 10 ms response delay, the actual core JSON CLI now reports:

  • Persistent connection: 11 ms, four HEAD requests on one TCP connection.
  • Connection closed after every response: pingMs: null, seven excluded connections.
  • Warm-up connection closes, then reuse succeeds: 11 ms, request counts [1, 4]; the new connection's first response is excluded.

All 12 focused network tests and the full core suite pass, with 866 passed and 4 ignored. Formatting and strict all-target Clippy pass; parent independently reran the 12 focused tests. Fresh CI/review is pending.

The existing proxy review thread stays open. Routing policy is unchanged, and real VPN/provider acceptance remains unverified. This identifies the client-visible TCP connection, not a proxy's hidden upstream connection. Rustls/CONNECT/SOCKS metadata propagation was checked in dependency source; runtime regressions use HTTP loopback, not authenticated live proxies.

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Region ping shows local tunnel latency instead of region RTT behind VPN/transparent proxy

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