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fix(captive-portal): route by Host header and serve the portal only on the AP - #560
The captive portal used to decide what to redirect from a fixed list of probe paths, sent every unknown request to the portal page, and answered HTTP and
DNS on every interface. Now it checks the Host header, and only clients on the setup AP can reach it.
On the setup AP:
A request whose Host is a name, not an IP, gets the captive redirect on every route, including /api/* and /ws. Wildcard DNS sends all names to the
hub, so this covers connectivity probes, browsing elsewhere and DNS rebinding.
Known probe paths sent straight to the AP IP still redirect.
Other unknown paths get a plain 404 instead of the portal page.
From the hub's home network, the portal can't be reached. Its HTTP API and /ws are the local protocol, which has no compatibility rules, so nothing on
the LAN should come to depend on them.
ESP-IDF's HTTP server always listens on every interface and has no bind address. The portal's open_fn therefore closes any connection whose local
address isn't the AP IP. This also covers IPv4-mapped IPv6, since httpd listens on a dual-stack socket.
The wildcard DNS server is bound to the AP address instead of INADDR_ANY, so it no longer answers queries sent to the hub's LAN address.
Changes
Drop the per-path probe routes. The probe URLs are documented in a table that RFC8908::HandleMiss uses.
Wrap every portal route in a template that checks the Host header.
/ws refuses a handshake for another host before httpd answers it. This needs CONFIG_HTTPD_WS_PRE_HANDSHAKE_CB_SUPPORT, now in sdkconfig.defaults.
A plain GET /ws without upgrade headers gets HandleMiss instead of a failed frame read.
Serve the RFC 8908 API at /captiveportal/api as well as /captive-portal/api.
Answer HEAD 404s without a body.
Remove the 404 error handler, which could never run because the /* wildcard matches every URI.
DNSServer::start takes a bind address. The portal passes the AP IP.
The portal's open_fn refuses connections that didn't come in over the AP.
Upgrade note for developers
An existing build directory keeps its sdkconfig, so it doesn't pick up the new option and the build stops at an #error that says so. Delete build/<board>/sdkconfig before building. CI builds from scratch and isn't affected.
Test plan
Phone joins the AP: the captive sheet opens on Android and iOS
Windows/macOS join the AP: the OS shows its sign-in prompt
On the AP, http://4.3.2.1/ loads the portal and http://4.3.2.1/nope returns 404
On the AP, http://example.com/ and http://example.com/api/board redirect to the portal
On the AP, /captive-portal/api and /captiveportal/api return captive JSON
curl -I http://4.3.2.1/nope returns a 404 without a body
On the LAN, http://<lan-ip>/ and ws://<lan-ip>/ws are refused, and the hub logs "Refusing a connection"
On the LAN, nslookup example.com <lan-ip> gets no answer
With the hub on WiFi and the portal still open, AP clients keep working
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New Features
Captive-portal requests are routed based on the requested host, and the portal and DNS services are available only over the setup network.
An additional captive-portal API address is supported.
Bug Fixes
Requests for arbitrary websites are handled with a connectivity redirect, while unknown hub pages return a not-found response.
The home-network address no longer serves the setup portal.
Requests addressed to another host (connectivity probes, pages on
hijacked names) now get the captive redirect from every portal route,
via a Host check wrapped around registerHandler. Misses addressed to
the hub itself get a 404 instead of a redirect to the index, except
for known probe paths, which still redirect.
- Drop the per-path probe routes; document the probe URLs in a table
used by RFC8908::HandleMiss
- Reject /api/* and /ws for other hosts (/ws before the handshake,
needs CONFIG_HTTPD_WS_PRE_HANDSHAKE_CB_SUPPORT)
- Answer a plain GET /ws with HandleMiss instead of dropping it
- Serve /captive-portal/api also as /captiveportal/api
- Remove the unreachable 404 error handler
The portal server also answers on the hub's LAN address, where a Host
name is normal (the DHCP hostname in the router's DNS). Redirecting
those to the AP address broke LAN access by name. Captive behaviour now
requires the connection's local address to be the AP IP.
- Rename IsForeignHost to IsCaptured: a Host name and an AP connection
- HandleMiss redirects only for AP connections; the RFC 8908 API
answers 404 on the LAN
- Send HEAD 404s without a body
- Fail with a clear #error when a stale sdkconfig lacks
CONFIG_HTTPD_WS_PRE_HANDSHAKE_CB_SUPPORT
The wildcard DNS responder bound INADDR_ANY, so while the portal ran
alongside a WiFi connection it also answered every query on the hub's
LAN address with the AP IP. Bind it to the AP address instead; lwIP then
drops queries sent to any other address.
The portal's HTTP API and /ws are the local protocol, which has no
compatibility rules, so nothing on the LAN should reach them. httpd
always listens on every interface and has no bind address, so the
portal's open_fn now closes any connection whose local address is not
the AP IP.
With the whole server AP-only, the per-request AP checks in rfc8908 go
away again: IsCaptured is back to IsForeignHost, and the RFC 8908 API no
longer needs a LAN 404.
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Walkthrough
The captive portal now binds HTTP and DNS to the setup network. It routes requests based on Host values and paths, including connectivity probes, unknown paths, and WebSocket handshakes. The captive API is registered at two paths.
Changes: Captive portal routing
Layer / File(s)
Summary
RFC 8908 host and miss routing components/rfc8908/*
Host classification and probe matching determine whether a missed request redirects or receives a 404. The captive API is registered at /captive-portal/api and /captiveportal/api.
Setup-network connection and DNS scope components/captive_portal/include/captiveportal/Manager.h, components/captive_portal/src/captiveportal/Manager.cpp, components/captive_portal/src/captiveportal/CaptivePortalInstance.cpp, components/dns_server/...
Portal startup obtains the AP interface name. The HTTP server binds to that interface, and the DNS server binds to the AP interface and IPv4 address.
Registered handlers check for a foreign Host before calling the route handler. Static-file misses and non-WebSocket requests to /ws use RFC 8908 handling. The WebSocket pre-handshake callback redirects and rejects foreign-Host requests. The release note describes the routing and setup-network behavior.
sequenceDiagram
participant Client
participant HttpUtils
participant RFC8908
participant RouteHandler
Client->>HttpUtils: Send HTTP request
HttpUtils->>RFC8908: Check request Host
alt Host is foreign
RFC8908-->>Client: Emit captive redirect
else Host is not foreign
HttpUtils->>RouteHandler: Invoke registered handler
end
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Possibly related PRs
OpenShock/Firmware#551: Splits captive-portal API, static-file, WebSocket, and HTTP helper code that this PR updates.
OpenShock/Firmware#552: Changes static-file miss handling, which this PR routes through RFC8908::HandleMiss.
OpenShock/Firmware#556: Adds the HTTP session-open callback that is retained alongside the AP-interface binding in this PR.
Merge Risk: Low · up to 406f6
The portal is mergeable with awareness that foreign-Host requests using unmatched methods can receive an error instead of a redirect. This narrow routing limitation remains open; persistent AP startup failure is not established.
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Minor · Redirect foreign-Host requests that use other methods. · RFC8908Handler.cpp:114-120
components/rfc8908/src/RFC8908Handler.cpp:114-120 Minor · Functional Correctness · Low value
Redirect foreign-Host requests that use other methods.
A request with a foreign Host and a method other than GET or HEAD gets httpd's default 405 response. The /* catch-all registers only GET and HEAD, so the Host check never runs. Register an HTTPD_405_METHOD_NOT_ALLOWED error handler that calls RFC8908::EmitRedirect for foreign hosts and sends the default 405 otherwise. Register it where the removed 404 handler was.
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Review comment at @components/rfc8908/src/RFC8908Handler.cpp around lines 114 -
120:
Update the HTTP server error-handler registration so
HTTPD_405_METHOD_NOT_ALLOWED requests reach an RFC8908 handler: redirect
requests with a foreign Host using RFC8908::EmitRedirect, and preserve the
default 405 response for other hosts. Register it in the location where the 404
handler was removed, without changing the GET/HEAD catch-all behavior in
RFC8908::HandleMiss.
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Review comments at
@components/captive_portal/src/captiveportal/CaptivePortalInstance.cpp:
- Line 67: Update arrivedOnAp to determine the connection’s actual ingress
interface and accept it only when it arrived on the AP interface; the current
local-address comparison is insufficient. Establish and use the
platform-supported socket or network-stack mechanism for identifying ingress,
rather than substituting peer-address or subnet checks, and preserve the
existing rejection behavior for non-AP connections.
Review comments at
@components/captive_portal/src/captiveportal/StaticFileServer.cpp:
- Line 217: Update StaticFileServer::missingAssetsHandler to detect probe paths
and return the existing probe redirect behavior, such as RFC8908::HandleMiss,
before serving the help page; keep the help-page response for other
missing-asset requests.
Review comments at @components/dns_server/src/DNSServer.cpp:
- Line 78: Update DNSServer::start to bind the DNS socket to the AP network
interface, not just bindAddr. Confirm and use the netif-scoped bind mechanism
supported by the project’s pinned ESP-IDF lwIP version, preserving the AP
address binding; do not rely on a start-time comparison with the station
address.
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Review comments at @components/rfc8908/src/RFC8908Handler.cpp:
- Around line 114-120: Update the HTTP server error-handler registration so
HTTPD_405_METHOD_NOT_ALLOWED requests reach an RFC8908 handler: redirect
requests with a foreign Host using RFC8908::EmitRedirect, and preserve the
default 405 response for other hosts. Register it in the location where the 404
handler was removed, without changing the GET/HEAD catch-all behavior in
RFC8908::HandleMiss.
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🟡 Changes recommended
Destination-address checks do not restrict ingress interfaces, allowing LAN clients to access the setup API, /ws, and DNS server without joining the setup network.
This PR changes captive-portal routing to use the Host header and adds address-based restrictions intended to limit HTTP and DNS access to the setup network.
Changes:
Add Host checks to portal routes and WebSocket handshakes.
Redirect connectivity probes, return 404s for other missing paths, and add a captive API alias.
Restrict HTTP connections and DNS binding to the AP address.
File
Description
sdkconfig.defaults
Enable WebSocket pre-handshake callbacks.
components/rfc8908/src/RFC8908Handler.cpp
Implement Host checks, probe matching, 404 responses, and the API alias.
… interface
Checking or binding the AP address does not restrict where a packet came
from: lwIP accepts a packet for any local address on any interface, so a
LAN client that routes the AP address via the hub's STA address could
still reach the portal API, /ws and the wildcard DNS server.
Bind both to the AP netif with SO_BINDTODEVICE (httpd_config_t::if_name
for httpd), which lwIP matches against the ingress interface. This
replaces the getsockname check in open_fn. The AP netif name is read
once when the portal first starts; without it the portal does not start.
With no assets, every GET got the 200 help page, so a probe sent to the
AP address passed the connectivity check and the OS never opened the
portal to show it. Redirect known probe paths first, as HandleMiss does.
…559
- IsProbePath: std::ranges::any_of instead of a hand-written search loop
- Interface names: std::string_view size and copy instead of strlen
twice and memcpy
- SendNotFound HEAD: a constexpr response instead of building a
std::string at runtime, with asserts tying it to the GET response
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🟡 Changes recommended
The AP interface name is read before initialization and permanently cached, risking HTTP binding to the LAN instead of the setup AP and stale bindings after AP restarts.
lwIP only adds the AP netif in esp_wifi's default WIFI_EVENT_AP_START handler and removes it again when the AP stops. Reading its name before enabling AP mode could return the STA's name and bind the portal to the LAN, and caching it went stale once the AP restarted with a new netif number. Wait for the AP to start and read the name on every start.
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Summary
The captive portal used to decide what to redirect from a fixed list of probe paths, sent every unknown request to the portal page, and answered HTTP and
DNS on every interface. Now it checks the Host header, and only clients on the setup AP can reach it.
On the setup AP:
/api/*and/ws. Wildcard DNS sends all names to thehub, so this covers connectivity probes, browsing elsewhere and DNS rebinding.
From the hub's home network, the portal can't be reached. Its HTTP API and
/wsare the local protocol, which has no compatibility rules, so nothing onthe LAN should come to depend on them.
open_fntherefore closes any connection whose localaddress isn't the AP IP. This also covers IPv4-mapped IPv6, since httpd listens on a dual-stack socket.
INADDR_ANY, so it no longer answers queries sent to the hub's LAN address.Changes
RFC8908::HandleMissuses./wsrefuses a handshake for another host before httpd answers it. This needsCONFIG_HTTPD_WS_PRE_HANDSHAKE_CB_SUPPORT, now insdkconfig.defaults.GET /wswithout upgrade headers getsHandleMissinstead of a failed frame read./captiveportal/apias well as/captive-portal/api./*wildcard matches every URI.DNSServer::starttakes a bind address. The portal passes the AP IP.open_fnrefuses connections that didn't come in over the AP.Upgrade note for developers
An existing build directory keeps its sdkconfig, so it doesn't pick up the new option and the build stops at an
#errorthat says so. Deletebuild/<board>/sdkconfigbefore building. CI builds from scratch and isn't affected.Test plan
http://4.3.2.1/loads the portal andhttp://4.3.2.1/nopereturns 404http://example.com/andhttp://example.com/api/boardredirect to the portal/captive-portal/apiand/captiveportal/apireturn captive JSONcurl -I http://4.3.2.1/nopereturns a 404 without a bodyhttp://<lan-ip>/andws://<lan-ip>/wsare refused, and the hub logs "Refusing a connection"nslookup example.com <lan-ip>gets no answerSummary by CodeRabbit