Two unrelated-looking problems with the same shape: a dangerous state that
looked fine from the outside.
DEPLOY (server-26#21). The Deploy job failed on fifteen consecutive pushes
between 2026-08-18 and 08-20 and nobody noticed for two days, because the
build job was green and a red run is only visible to someone who opens Gitea.
Production served 08-18 code the whole time -- including the entire frontend
redesign, chunks 2 through 8. Three changes:
* The health check now asserts WHICH build answered, not just that something
did. CI bakes the commit into the image (Dockerfile ARG/ENV GIT_SHA) and
/health reports it, so a deploy that "succeeds" while the previous
container keeps running now fails. Liveness alone could never have caught
this.
* The image pull retries once after a prune. The actual failure was
containerd unable to extract a layer -- "failed to Lchown ... no such file
or directory" -- a corrupted entry in the snapshot store, which a prune
clears. A second failure after pruning is a real problem (check the VM's
disk) and still stops the deploy.
* A notify-failure job POSTs to DEPLOY_ALERT_WEBHOOK when anything in the
workflow fails. Unset means skip quietly, not fail.
CORS (server-26#20). allow_origins=["*"] with allow_credentials=True is not
the permissive-but-harmless setting it reads as. Starlette does not reject the
pair -- it reflects the caller's Origin back and still sends
Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true, so the effective policy is "any
origin, WITH credentials", the opposite of what a wildcard normally means.
Rather than trust every deployment to remember CORS_ORIGINS, the pair is now
unrepresentable: a wildcard forces allow_credentials off and logs an ERROR
naming the variable to set. Correctly configured deployments that name their
origins are unaffected and keep credentialed requests.
Severity honestly: low today. c2-core is bearer-auth, and browsers do not
attach bearer tokens cross-origin the way they attach cookies. This is a
misconfiguration waiting for the day something starts trusting a cookie.
Also adds firebase_admin.auth.UserRecord and the list/update/create/delete_user
names to the conftest stub. routers/users.py annotates with UserRecord at
import time, so without it importing app.main failed at collection -- which is
why nothing had ever tested anything wired at app level, CORS included.
Tests: 5 new in test_cors_policy.py, covering the pure policy function, the
middleware actually mounted on the app (so re-hardcoding allow_credentials=True
fails here), and the presence of the build stamp.
Closeslogan/server-26#20Closeslogan/server-26#21
