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The fix for lost messages lives in RocketChat/Rocket.Chat#41989, and this PR bounds and deduplicates the fetch that happens when a file is opened.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Media downloads now try another endpoint only when the current endpoint is unsupported; other failures are reported immediately with the original cause preserved.
    • Downloads return content from the first endpoint that responds successfully, and legacy endpoint requests avoid remote media lookup.
  • Improvements
    • Media downloads use a timeout shorter than the federation request limit.
    • Request timeout errors include the timeout duration. Federation errors retain recognized error codes for clearer failure details.

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packages/federation-sdk/src/services/federation-request.service.spec.ts (1)

7-7: LGTM!

Also applies to: 259-288

packages/federation-sdk/src/services/media.service.ts (1)

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Walkthrough

The media service applies a bounded timeout to remote media downloads and falls back to another endpoint only for recognized unknown-endpoint errors. Federation request errors expose parsed error codes. The shared federation request timeout is exported.

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Media download timeout and fallback

Layer / File(s) Summary
Transport timeout constant
packages/core/src/utils/fetch.ts, packages/core/src/index.ts
Defines and exports FEDERATION_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS as 20,000 ms. The request timeout uses the constant.
Federation error details
packages/federation-sdk/src/services/federation-request.service.ts, packages/federation-sdk/src/services/federation-request.service.spec.ts
Adds an optional errcode property to federation request errors when the response contains a string error code. Failed requests read the response body as a buffer and decode it as text. Tests cover parsed error codes and buffer-read failures.
Download timeout and endpoint fallback
packages/federation-sdk/src/services/media.service.ts, packages/federation-sdk/src/services/media.service.spec.ts
Adds a download timeout below the federation request timeout and sets timeout_ms on all three endpoint requests. The two legacy endpoints set allow_remote=false. Only recognized unknown-endpoint errors trigger fallback; other errors retain the original error as the cause. Tests cover request parameters, stopping conditions, fallback, returned content, and error classification.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested labels: type: bug

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to b9ce1

The reported test issue is fixed, and the remaining staging concerns are not introduced by this PR. No identified issue blocks merging after normal checks.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to b9ce1

The change stops retrying real media failures and asks legacy endpoints not to fetch from another server. No increased authority or new attack path was established. However, the timeout is not an absolute download deadline, and external callers and deployment limits remain unverified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — A caller-selected remote server can control response status, content and timing for these outbound operations. Resource effects occur in the process hosting the SDK; shared error-body decoding also reaches other signed federation requests. The inspected changes do not establish new credential authority or a wider target set, but deployment-wide and tenant-level exposure cannot be determined from this source scope.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Response decoding retains a 50 MiB body limit. Both the previous text reader and the new buffer reader consume the same bounded body reader, including non-text responses. Multipart redirects use separate requests without Matrix authorization and retain an existing redirect-depth limit.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — The 18-second query parameter depends on the origin honoring it. The local 20-second socket inactivity timeout does not guarantee completion within 20 seconds when a peer keeps sending data. Fallback attempts and redirects lack a shared deadline, and separate invocations are independent. These pre-existing containment limits are not evidence of a newly introduced vulnerability.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — If the download API requires a strict end-to-end resource budget, define an absolute deadline and propagate cancellation through discovery, endpoint attempts, body reads and redirects. This would be additional hardening, not a remedy for an established PR-introduced finding.
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✅ Project coverage is 53.65%. Comparing base (58f112b) to head (b9ce195).

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In `@packages/federation-sdk/src/services/media.service.spec.ts`:
- Around line 58-59: Update the asynchronous rejection assertions in the
relevant test to await each downloadPromise.rejects matcher, including both
toBeInstanceOf and toMatchObject, so the test waits for matcher completion.

In `@packages/federation-sdk/src/services/staging-area.service.ts`:
- Around line 108-116: The staging loop around getLeastDepthEventForRoom
increments an event’s persisted got retry count before attemptedInThisPass
detects it was already selected, charging two retries for one processing
attempt. Change the selection/processing flow so duplicate events are identified
before incrementing got, or increment got only immediately before actual
processing; preserve retry limits and add a regression test covering repository
return-before-increment behavior.
- Around line 28-29: Validate FEDERATION_EVENT_RETRY_BASE_DELAY_MS and
FEDERATION_EVENT_RETRY_MAX_DELAY_MS at startup using the same strict
non-negative-integer validation approach as MAX_EVENT_RETRY, rejecting
malformed, fractional, negative, or partially parsed values before
retryDelayForAttempt can use them. Preserve the existing defaults for unset
variables and ensure both retry delays passed to sleep are non-negative.
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I looked at how synapse handles this and it is completely different.

since events can indeed come even before an upload starts, they fetch the upload when a client actually tries to see the actual upload, instead of fetching it in the exact moment the server receives the event.

I wonder how har would it be for us to do the same. hammering other servers with retries for something that is correctly not available yet doesn't seem to be a good solution, specially knowing it even contributes to rate limit.

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@cardoso cardoso changed the title fix: back off and preserve status when remote media download fails fix: wait for remote media that is still being uploaded Sep 2, 2026

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@cardoso cardoso changed the title fix: wait for remote media that is still being uploaded fix: make remote media downloads wait once and stop falling back on real errors Sep 30, 2026

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