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fix(web): reopening Connections picks up new network addresses - #15840

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Fixes #15751

Settings → Connections kept the endpoint list it loaded first. An address that appeared later (for example Tailscale connecting after the app started) never showed up until the renderer reloaded. Tracing the scenario end to end turned up two causes, one in the renderer and one in the desktop main process.

Renderer. createDesktopNetworkAccessStateAtom put Atom.keepAlive on the Atom.swr wrapper. SWR only checks staleTime when the wrapper is built, and keeping the wrapper alive meant it was never rebuilt, so revalidateOnMount only applied to the first load in a session. keepAlive now sits on the source atom instead. Leaving Connections releases the wrapper (it is the atom's only consumer, and the route really unmounts) but keeps the loaded snapshot. Reopening shows that snapshot straight away, with no loading flash, and refreshes it in the background once it is older than 30 s. A reopen within 30 s doesn't refetch, and refreshDesktopNetworkAccessState() still reaches the source.

Desktop. Interface addresses are re-read on every call, so the Tailscale IP endpoint was fresh once the renderer asked again. The MagicDNS name for the Tailscale HTTPS endpoint, however, comes from tailscale status, cached for 60 s so macOS doesn't keep re-showing its "Other apps" permission prompt (#2745). A status read taken before Tailscale connected stayed cached, so reopening showed the Tailscale IP but no Tailscale HTTPS endpoint or Serve toggle. The cache is now invalidated when the host's Tailscale IPv4 addresses change (Tailscale connecting or disconnecting). In steady state the CLI still runs at most once per TTL.

Before / after

Reproduced in a real browser against vp run dev with a stubbed window.desktopBridge. The stub's getAdvertisedEndpoints returns only the LAN endpoint at first. Then "Tailscale connects" (it starts returning a Tailscale IP endpoint too), I leave Connections, wait 31 s, reopen and expand the endpoint list.

Before (upstream atom): 1 bridge read, still LAN only After: 2 bridge reads, Tailscale IP listed
before after

The stub only exercises the renderer half. The desktop cache fix is covered by the desktop test below.

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  • apps/web/src/state/desktopNetworkAccess.test.ts (6 passed):
    • remount after the stale period refetches and the snapshot shows the new endpoint;
    • remount within the period doesn't refetch;
    • explicit refresh reaches the bridge.
      The stale-remount cases fail on the old atom composition.
  • apps/desktop/src/backend/DesktopServerExposure.test.ts (11 passed): a new test where Tailscale comes up between two reads within the cache TTL now gets the Tailscale HTTPS endpoint, and failed before the fix. The existing local-only test (never runs the CLI) still passes.
  • Web and desktop typecheck clean; lint/fmt clean for the touched files.
  • Not run: the real Electron app with a live Tailscale connect.

Known gaps, out of scope: LAN endpoints are still fixed at launch, so a LAN IP change mid-session stays stale. An address appearing while the page stays open needs a reopen; live interface watching would be a separate change.

Model/harness: Claude Opus 5.5 / Claude Code.

Move keepAlive from the SWR wrapper to the source atom so the wrapper remounts when Connections reopens and revalidates a stale snapshot, while the previous snapshot still renders immediately. Fixes pingdotgg#15751.
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Verdict: Approved at a119582

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a focused bug fix that refreshes stale Connections data after network changes while preserving cached snapshots and normal cache limits. Production changes are small and covered by targeted tests, with no default, schema, infrastructure, or static-analysis suppression changes.

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The desktop endpoint provider now invalidates cached Tailscale status when network interfaces change. The frontend keeps its loaded endpoint snapshot alive while allowing stale snapshots to revalidate.

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Desktop network access

Layer / File(s) Summary
Tailscale status refresh
apps/desktop/src/backend/DesktopServerExposure.ts, apps/desktop/src/backend/DesktopServerExposure.test.ts
The provider derives a key from non-internal Tailscale IPv4 addresses and invalidates cached Magic DNS status when the key changes. A test checks that changed interfaces trigger a status reread and unchanged interfaces use the cached status.
Snapshot lifetime and stale revalidation
apps/web/src/state/desktopNetworkAccess.ts, apps/web/src/state/desktopNetworkAccess.test.ts
The atom keeps its loaded snapshot alive before applying SWR. Tests cover revalidation after 30,001 ms, snapshot reuse after 10,000 ms, and explicit refresh.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

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The change refreshes connection information without changing network-access permissions or automatically enabling network exposure. No security regression was identified in the reviewed paths, but overlapping reads, interrupted refreshes, and recovery after refresh failures remain incompletely verified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The reviewed change affects endpoint metadata for the local desktop service and its renderer. It can reveal newly connected private-network addresses through existing getters, but the changed path does not itself create listener reachability or enable Tailscale Serve.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • observed — The inspected inputs remain operating-system interface data and local Tailscale status. Status refresh uses fixed status --json arguments; the new address key controls cache invalidation rather than command construction. This does not establish a new caller-controlled command-execution path.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Connections subscribes to the desktop snapshot only when the desktop bridge exists and the existing local-backend management permission gate permits it. Serve setup sends an enabled flag and validated port, not an advertised hostname or URL. Endpoint metadata therefore does not select the target of that privileged mutation.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The desktop cache retains its 60-second TTL and converts status-read errors to absent DNS metadata. Existing status and HTTPS probe operations have timeouts. These bound ordinary read failures, but do not resolve the unverified concurrent-invalidation and refresh-recovery semantics.
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue #15751 requires Connections to show current addresses after reopening with a stale snapshot. desktopNetworkAccess.ts now keeps the source snapshot alive and allows the SWR wrapper to unmount. …
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The renderer changes and their tests directly implement issue #15751. The desktop cache invalidation and test address the same Tailscale connection scenario for the MagicDNS endpoint, while retaining …
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apps/web/src/state/desktopNetworkAccess.test.ts (1)

54-95: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert that remount publishes the refreshed endpoint list.

Both mocks return the same fixtures on every call. The snapshot assertion runs immediately after remount, and the later wait checks only loader call counts. The test can pass without checking whether refreshed endpoint addresses reach the observable snapshot. Return a different endpoint list on the second load and assert that registry.get(atom) exposes it.

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Update the remount test to have getAdvertisedEndpoints return a different
endpoint list on its second call, then assert that registry.get(atom) exposes
that refreshed list after revalidation completes. Preserve the existing initial
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Addressed CodeRabbit's nitpick in 4fb6931: the second endpoint read now returns a new Tailscale endpoint and the test asserts it reaches the snapshot. It fails against the old atom composition and passes with this change.

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The 60 s tailscale status cache kept serving a status read before Tailscale
connected, so a refreshed endpoint list showed the new Tailscale IP but not
the Tailscale HTTPS endpoint. Invalidate the cache when the host's Tailscale
interface addresses change; steady state still spawns the CLI at most once
per TTL.
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