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fix(sdk): httpRespond.redirect() takes a path, and an @HttpRoute output that fails its schema answers 500 - #1056
httpRespond.redirect(location) took any string, but HttpRedirectSchema required location: z.string().url(). An @HttpRoute value counted as a response only when it passed httpOutputSchema; anything else was sent as JSON. So httpRespond.redirect('/board') answered 200 with {"kind":"redirect","status":302,"location":"/board"} as its body.
HttpRedirectSchema.location takes an absolute URL or a reference relative to the request (/board, ?page=2), which RFC 9110 section 10.2.2 allows. It refuses an empty location, whitespace and control characters: a \r\n in a location would otherwise split the header.
In the http:route flow, a value that passes httpOutputSchema is a response, as before, with the schema's defaults: { kind: 'redirect', location: '/board' } is a 302, as a statusless redirect to an absolute URL was in 1.11.0. A value with a response kind (redirect, json, text, html, binary, image, stream, sse, jsonrpc, problem, empty, web-response) and a status field that fails the schema is a broken response. Every httpRespond helper that can fail sets status. A broken response fails the request through FlowControl.fail with InvalidHttpRouteResponseError, which names the route and the problem. The flow logs it at error level, so it shows on the fetch adapter too, which doesn't log flow failures. The client gets 500 Internal Server Error and never the output. Any other object is still sent as JSON: one with no kind, another kind, no status (such as { kind: 'text', text: 'hello' }), or next / consumed.
The Express writer called res.redirect(location), which always answers 302. Express 4 also reads the location back as the request's Referer, which the relaxed rule would have turned into an open redirect. It now sets Location itself and sends the output's status, as the fetch adapter and the relay do. So a 301/303/307/308 redirect answers the same on every adapter.
A header carries ASCII only: Node's setHeader throws ERR_INVALID_CHAR on /board/東京, and Web Headers throws too. The Express writer, the fetch renderer and the relay's redirect() all write Location through one helper, toLocationHeader() in libs/sdk/src/utils (not exported). It encodes as Express's res.location() (encodeurl) does: characters a URL does not carry are percent-encoded as UTF-8. Those are characters outside ASCII, ", <, >, `, {, }, a % that starts no %XX escape, and any whitespace or control character in an output that skipped the schema. It keeps URL separators and %XX escapes, and turns a lone surrogate into U+FFFD, since encodeURI() throws on one. It also encodes a trailing %4, which encodeurl's pattern misses. Built-in redirects use 302 and absolute URLs, so they don't change.
User-facing change
What changed:httpRespond.redirect() takes a path. An invalid httpRespond-kind output from an @HttpRoute fails with 500 and a logged error. A redirect's status is kept on Express.
Before → after:
return httpRespond.redirect('/board'): 200, application/json body {"kind":"redirect",...} → 302, Location: /board.
return { ...httpRespond.json(body), status: 301 }: 200 with the output as JSON → 500 Internal Server Error, and an error log HTTP route GET /path returned an invalid "json" response: status: ....
return { ...httpRespond.redirect(url), status: 301 } on the Express host: 302 → 301 (the fetch adapter already answered 301).
return httpRespond.redirect('https://desk.example/board/東京'): Express sent it encoded, and the fetch adapter failed on the header → every adapter sends Location: https://desk.example/board/%E6%9D%B1%E4%BA%AC, as Express did. A stray % (/items/100%) is sent as %25 on every adapter, which Express already did and the fetch adapter didn't.
New export InvalidHttpRouteResponseError (code INVALID_HTTP_ROUTE_RESPONSE).
frontmcp.dev pages affected (if known):reference/sdk/http-route (the Caveats entry on relative redirects can go; the return-value table gains the invalid-output row).
return-value table: an invalid httpRespond output → 500, logged;
httpRespond.redirect() takes an absolute URL or a relative reference. Characters a URL does not carry are sent percent-encoded as Express encodes them (outside ASCII, ", <, >, `, {, }, a stray %), and the rest as given. A browser takes //other.example off-site;
which objects count as responses: a value valid for its response kind, with the kind's defaults (a redirect without status is a 302); an invalid one with a status fails with 500.
Tests
http-route/__tests__/http-route.flow.spec.ts, on both the Express and the web-fetch adapter:
httpRespond.redirect('/board') answers 302 with Location: /board, and an absolute URL still redirects.
A 301 redirect output answers 301.
A redirect whose location carries \r\n Set-Cookie, and a JSON output with a 301 status, both answer 500 with no Location and no Set-Cookie. The body never contains the output, and the scope logger's error names the route.
An object with kind: 'card', and one with kind: 'text' and no status, are still sent as JSON.
httpRespond.redirect('back') sends Location: back with a Referer header present, never the referrer.
{ kind: 'redirect', location: '/board' } with no status answers 302 with Location: /board.
httpRespond.redirect('/board/東京?city=Zürich') sends Location: /board/%E6%9D%B1%E4%BA%AC?city=Z%C3%BCrich. Without the encoding, Express throws ERR_INVALID_CHAR and the fetch adapter's Headers throws.
Without the fix, the relative redirect, the 301 and both invalid-output cases fail on both adapters.
common/schemas/__tests__/http-output.schema.spec.ts: the locations the schema takes and refuses, and the 302 default.
utils/__tests__/http-location.utils.spec.ts:
kept as they are: paths, relative references with a query and a fragment, absolute URLs, and existing %XX escapes;
UTF-8 percent-encoding, a character outside the BMP included;
whitespace, \r\n and DEL encoded;
", <, >, `, { and } encoded, as Express encodes them;
a % that starts no escape, at the end, before a non-hex character, before one hex digit, or before a non-ASCII character, encoded as %25;
a lone surrogate sent as %EF%BF%BD.
transport/relay/__tests__/relay-http.spec.ts: the relay's redirect('/board/東京') sends the encoded location.
demo-e2e-web-host: a public /home route redirects to /board (302, Location: /board) on the real server.
demo-e2e-bundle-size: sdk-root-exports.json gains InvalidHttpRouteResponseError. The location check adds 9 bytes to the browser bundle of create() + WebMcpPlugin (budget 1,290,033 → 1,290,042) and 15 bytes to the Vite initial chunk (762,815 → 762,830). Both were measured locally, and the numbers match CI. The Location encoder adds 194 bytes more to create() + WebMcpPlugin (1,290,042 → 1,290,236). create() + one tool (1,283,054 of 1,283,161) and the Vite initial chunk (762,830) stay within their budgets.
Ran: nx test sdk for src/http-route, src/common, src/server, src/auth, src/transport, src/errors and src/utils (243 suites, 3283 tests; the OAuth flows' absolute redirects are unchanged; after the encodeurl alignment, src/utils, src/http-route, src/transport, src/server and src/common/schemas again: 109 suites, 1670 tests), demo-e2e-bundle-size (63 tests) and demo-e2e-web-host (8 tests), tsc --noEmit on libs/sdk/tsconfig.lib.json and tsconfig.spec.json (no errors in the changed files).
The SDK accepts validated relative redirect locations and normalizes route outputs by response kind. Invalid response-shaped outputs fail with a logged 500. Redirect responses set Location and the configured status. Tests, a web-host redirect route, export fixtures, bundle budgets, and route guidance are updated.
Redirect locations can be absolute URLs or references resolvable relative to localhost. Validation rejects empty values, whitespace, and control characters. Tests cover accepted and rejected values and the default redirect status.
HttpRouteFlow validates recognized response kinds and returns ordinary objects as JSON. Invalid response-shaped values produce a logged, route-specific error and a 500. Tests cover redirect and object responses across adapters.
Redirect locations are normalized before they are written to response headers. Tests cover percent-encoding behavior, and route guidance documents redirect rules and invalid response behavior.
Web-host redirect example apps/e2e/demo-e2e-web-host/src/apps/board/board.routes.ts, apps/e2e/demo-e2e-web-host/src/apps/board/index.ts, apps/e2e/demo-e2e-web-host/e2e/web-host.e2e.spec.ts, apps/e2e/demo-e2e-bundle-size/e2e/fixtures/sdk-root-exports.json, apps/e2e/demo-e2e-bundle-size/e2e/browser-bundle-size.e2e.spec.ts
The demo registers a public /home route that redirects to /board. Its E2E test checks the 302 status and Location header. The SDK export fixture adds InvalidHttpRouteResponseError, and the bundle-size budgets increase.
sequenceDiagram
participant RouteHandler as HttpRoute.handle()
participant HttpRouteFlow
participant ServerValidation as server.validation
participant HTTPClient
RouteHandler->>HttpRouteFlow: Return httpRespond.redirect(location)
HttpRouteFlow->>HttpRouteFlow: Validate and normalize response
HttpRouteFlow->>ServerValidation: Pass parsed redirect output
ServerValidation->>HTTPClient: Set Location and end with configured status
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Redirects containing a bare percent sign may lead to a 400 at the destination. This is a narrow, fixable regression; the previous Unicode redirect failure is addressed.
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What and why
Fixes #1053. Stacked on #1055 (#1052).
httpRespond.redirect(location)took any string, butHttpRedirectSchemarequiredlocation: z.string().url(). An@HttpRoutevalue counted as a response only when it passedhttpOutputSchema; anything else was sent as JSON. SohttpRespond.redirect('/board')answered200with{"kind":"redirect","status":302,"location":"/board"}as its body.HttpRedirectSchema.locationtakes an absolute URL or a reference relative to the request (/board,?page=2), which RFC 9110 section 10.2.2 allows. It refuses an empty location, whitespace and control characters: a\r\nin a location would otherwise split the header.http:routeflow, a value that passeshttpOutputSchemais a response, as before, with the schema's defaults:{ kind: 'redirect', location: '/board' }is a302, as a statusless redirect to an absolute URL was in 1.11.0. A value with a responsekind(redirect,json,text,html,binary,image,stream,sse,jsonrpc,problem,empty,web-response) and astatusfield that fails the schema is a broken response. EveryhttpRespondhelper that can fail setsstatus. A broken response fails the request throughFlowControl.failwithInvalidHttpRouteResponseError, which names the route and the problem. The flow logs it at error level, so it shows on the fetch adapter too, which doesn't log flow failures. The client gets500 Internal Server Errorand never the output. Any other object is still sent as JSON: one with nokind, anotherkind, nostatus(such as{ kind: 'text', text: 'hello' }), ornext/consumed.res.redirect(location), which always answers302. Express 4 also reads the locationbackas the request'sReferer, which the relaxed rule would have turned into an open redirect. It now setsLocationitself and sends the output's status, as the fetch adapter and the relay do. So a301/303/307/308redirect answers the same on every adapter.setHeaderthrowsERR_INVALID_CHARon/board/東京, and WebHeadersthrows too. The Express writer, the fetch renderer and the relay'sredirect()all writeLocationthrough one helper,toLocationHeader()inlibs/sdk/src/utils(not exported). It encodes as Express'sres.location()(encodeurl) does: characters a URL does not carry are percent-encoded as UTF-8. Those are characters outside ASCII,",<,>,`,{,}, a%that starts no%XXescape, and any whitespace or control character in an output that skipped the schema. It keeps URL separators and%XXescapes, and turns a lone surrogate into U+FFFD, sinceencodeURI()throws on one. It also encodes a trailing%4, whichencodeurl's pattern misses. Built-in redirects use302and absolute URLs, so they don't change.User-facing change
httpRespond.redirect()takes a path. An invalidhttpRespond-kind output from an@HttpRoutefails with500and a logged error. A redirect's status is kept on Express.return httpRespond.redirect('/board'):200,application/jsonbody{"kind":"redirect",...}→302,Location: /board.return { ...httpRespond.json(body), status: 301 }:200with the output as JSON →500 Internal Server Error, and an error logHTTP route GET /path returned an invalid "json" response: status: ....return { ...httpRespond.redirect(url), status: 301 }on the Express host:302→301(the fetch adapter already answered301).return httpRespond.redirect('https://desk.example/board/東京'): Express sent it encoded, and the fetch adapter failed on the header → every adapter sendsLocation: https://desk.example/board/%E6%9D%B1%E4%BA%AC, as Express did. A stray%(/items/100%) is sent as%25on every adapter, which Express already did and the fetch adapter didn't.InvalidHttpRouteResponseError(codeINVALID_HTTP_ROUTE_RESPONSE).reference/sdk/http-route(the Caveats entry on relative redirects can go; the return-value table gains the invalid-output row).frontmcp-development/references/create-http-route.md:httpRespondoutput →500, logged;httpRespond.redirect()takes an absolute URL or a relative reference. Characters a URL does not carry are sent percent-encoded as Express encodes them (outside ASCII,",<,>,`,{,}, a stray%), and the rest as given. A browser takes//other.exampleoff-site;kind, with the kind's defaults (a redirect withoutstatusis a302); an invalid one with astatusfails with500.Tests
http-route/__tests__/http-route.flow.spec.ts, on both the Express and the web-fetch adapter:httpRespond.redirect('/board')answers302withLocation: /board, and an absolute URL still redirects.301redirect output answers301.\r\n Set-Cookie, and a JSON output with a301status, both answer500with noLocationand noSet-Cookie. The body never contains the output, and the scope logger'serrornames the route.kind: 'card', and one withkind: 'text'and nostatus, are still sent as JSON.httpRespond.redirect('back')sendsLocation: backwith aRefererheader present, never the referrer.{ kind: 'redirect', location: '/board' }with nostatusanswers302withLocation: /board.httpRespond.redirect('/board/東京?city=Zürich')sendsLocation: /board/%E6%9D%B1%E4%BA%AC?city=Z%C3%BCrich. Without the encoding, Express throwsERR_INVALID_CHARand the fetch adapter'sHeadersthrows.301and both invalid-output cases fail on both adapters.common/schemas/__tests__/http-output.schema.spec.ts: the locations the schema takes and refuses, and the302default.utils/__tests__/http-location.utils.spec.ts:%XXescapes;\r\nand DEL encoded;",<,>,`,{and}encoded, as Express encodes them;%that starts no escape, at the end, before a non-hex character, before one hex digit, or before a non-ASCII character, encoded as%25;%EF%BF%BD.transport/relay/__tests__/relay-http.spec.ts: the relay'sredirect('/board/東京')sends the encoded location.demo-e2e-web-host: a public/homeroute redirects to/board(302,Location: /board) on the real server.demo-e2e-bundle-size:sdk-root-exports.jsongainsInvalidHttpRouteResponseError. The location check adds 9 bytes to the browser bundle ofcreate()+WebMcpPlugin(budget 1,290,033 → 1,290,042) and 15 bytes to the Vite initial chunk (762,815 → 762,830). Both were measured locally, and the numbers match CI. TheLocationencoder adds 194 bytes more tocreate()+WebMcpPlugin(1,290,042 → 1,290,236).create()+ one tool (1,283,054 of 1,283,161) and the Vite initial chunk (762,830) stay within their budgets.nx test sdkforsrc/http-route,src/common,src/server,src/auth,src/transport,src/errorsandsrc/utils(243 suites, 3283 tests; the OAuth flows' absolute redirects are unchanged; after theencodeurlalignment,src/utils,src/http-route,src/transport,src/serverandsrc/common/schemasagain: 109 suites, 1670 tests),demo-e2e-bundle-size(63 tests) anddemo-e2e-web-host(8 tests),tsc --noEmitonlibs/sdk/tsconfig.lib.jsonandtsconfig.spec.json(no errors in the changed files).