feat(auth): name the path that granted access, and stop blaming the caller
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Closes #1. Closes gitea-mcp#58. Closes gitea-mcp#60.

Three small changes to one decision point, kept together because they are the
same surface and the same incident.

1. A JWT IS NEVER A STATIC-TOKEN MISMATCH (gitea-mcp#58)

The fall-through reason was chosen by which comparison ran last, not by what the
caller presented. So a JWT against a server with no JWT auth configured logged:

    reason=static_token_mismatch  token_type=jwt  status=401

The two fields contradict each other, and the sentence reads as "you presented
the wrong token" when the truth is "this server could not have accepted any
token of that kind". The misdirection reached the user — claude.ai surfaces
"Authorization with gitea failed. You can check your credentials and
permissions." — and a debugging session went into re-running the OAuth flow
while the credentials were valid throughout.

Now `jwt_auth_not_configured` for a JWT; `static_token_mismatch` stays, and is
asserted to stay, for an actual static-token mismatch. Fixing the misleading
case must not delete the accurate one.

Note this is now the ONLY way to reach that branch with a JWT: since v0.6.0 a
validator that merely could not reach its issuer is non-nil and answers
ErrUnavailable -> 503. A nil validator means the server was never given an
issuer.

2. SUCCESS IS LOGGED, WITH THE PATH THAT GRANTED IT (gitea-mcp#60)

The middleware logged only on rejection. After re-authing a connector there was
no way to tell whether a request used the static token or a JWT, only inference
from which failures were absent. A log that proves a request failed, and nothing
about how the successful ones succeeded, cannot answer the question anyone
actually has during an auth incident.

    INFO mcp auth accepted auth_path=jwt caller=alice token_fp=... remote=...
    INFO mcp auth accepted auth_path=static token_fp=... remote=...

Same disclosure rules as deny: a fingerprint, never the credential. The JWT
subject is included because distinguishing WHO is the point of that path;
`caller` is omitted rather than empty for the static path, which has no identity
to report.

3. JWKS REFRESH INTERVAL IS CONFIGURABLE (#1)

It was hardcoded at 1h, so an issuer rotating its signing key could leave every
consumer rejecting valid JWTs for up to an hour. WithRefreshInterval, defaulting
to 1h so nothing changes for existing callers.

Variadic, per #1's own preferred option — a new positional parameter would force
a coordinated bump across every consumer. Deliberately NOT read from the
environment inside the library: a shared lib calling os.Getenv is a hidden
dependency that surprises its consumers. Config ownership stays at the edge.

The effective value is logged when an issuer resolves, which is #1's second
acceptance criterion and the thing an operator needs during a key-rotation
incident. The test asserts the configured value reaches the registration site
via that line — a silently-ignored option being the failure mode worth pinning.
Whether jwx then honours it is jwx's to test.

One of my own assertions was wrong and the test caught it: tokenType() says
"opaque", not "static", for a non-JWT credential. Corrected to the existing
vocabulary rather than changing the vocabulary to match a new test.

Verified: golangci-lint 0 issues; go vet clean; go test -race -count=1 ok.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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package auth
import (
"bytes"
"encoding/json"
"log/slog"
"net/http"
"net/http/httptest"
"strings"
"testing"
"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
)
// captureLogs swaps the default logger for one writing JSON to a buffer, and
// returns a decoder for the lines it collected. Matches the existing pattern in
// TestBearerMiddleware_AuditLogsRejection.
func captureLogs(t *testing.T) func() []map[string]any {
t.Helper()
var buf bytes.Buffer
prev := slog.Default()
slog.SetDefault(slog.New(slog.NewJSONHandler(&buf, &slog.HandlerOptions{Level: slog.LevelInfo})))
t.Cleanup(func() { slog.SetDefault(prev) })
return func() []map[string]any {
var out []map[string]any
for _, line := range strings.Split(strings.TrimSpace(buf.String()), "\n") {
if line == "" {
continue
}
var m map[string]any
require.NoError(t, json.Unmarshal([]byte(line), &m))
out = append(out, m)
}
return out
}
}
func call(h http.Handler, authz string) *httptest.ResponseRecorder {
req := httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodGet, "/mcp", nil)
if authz != "" {
req.Header.Set("Authorization", authz)
}
rec := httptest.NewRecorder()
h.ServeHTTP(rec, req)
return rec
}
// A well-formed JWT looks like this to tokenType(): three dotted segments. The
// content does not matter — nothing parses it on the paths under test.
const jwtShaped = "eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJhbGljZSJ9.c2ln"
// gitea-mcp#58: a JWT must never be rejected with a STATIC-token reason.
//
// The log said:
//
// reason=static_token_mismatch token_type=jwt status=401
//
// which reads as "the caller presented the wrong token" when the truth was "this
// server has no JWT auth configured, so a correct token had no chance". The
// fields contradict each other and the misdirection reached the user: claude.ai
// surfaced "Authorization with gitea failed. You can check your credentials and
// permissions." The credentials were valid; a session went into re-running the
// OAuth flow before anyone read the server log.
func TestBearerMiddleware_JWTAgainstStaticOnlyServer_IsNotAStaticMismatch(t *testing.T) {
logs := captureLogs(t)
h := BearerMiddleware("the-static-token", nil, "gitea", "",
http.HandlerFunc(func(http.ResponseWriter, *http.Request) { t.Fatal("must not reach next") }))
rec := call(h, "Bearer "+jwtShaped)
require.Equal(t, http.StatusUnauthorized, rec.Code)
lines := logs()
require.Len(t, lines, 1)
require.Equal(t, "jwt", lines[0]["token_type"])
require.NotEqual(t, "static_token_mismatch", lines[0]["reason"],
"a JWT path must never report a static-token failure")
require.Equal(t, "jwt_auth_not_configured", lines[0]["reason"])
}
// The other half of the same claim: static_token_mismatch must still be reported
// for an actual static-token mismatch. Fixing the misleading case must not
// remove the accurate one.
func TestBearerMiddleware_WrongOpaqueToken_IsStillAStaticMismatch(t *testing.T) {
logs := captureLogs(t)
h := BearerMiddleware("the-static-token", nil, "gitea", "",
http.HandlerFunc(func(http.ResponseWriter, *http.Request) { t.Fatal("must not reach next") }))
rec := call(h, "Bearer definitely-not-it")
require.Equal(t, http.StatusUnauthorized, rec.Code)
lines := logs()
require.Len(t, lines, 1)
// "opaque" is tokenType()'s existing word for a non-JWT credential; the
// point is only that it is NOT "jwt".
require.Equal(t, "opaque", lines[0]["token_type"])
require.Equal(t, "static_token_mismatch", lines[0]["reason"])
}
// gitea-mcp#60: the auth path is silent on success.
//
// After re-authing the claude.ai connector there was no way to tell from the
// logs whether a request had used the static token or a JWT — only inference.
// A middleware that logs solely on rejection can prove a request failed and
// nothing about how the ones that worked, worked.
func TestBearerMiddleware_LogsTheAcceptedPath(t *testing.T) {
t.Run("static", func(t *testing.T) {
logs := captureLogs(t)
reached := false
h := BearerMiddleware("the-static-token", nil, "gitea", "",
http.HandlerFunc(func(http.ResponseWriter, *http.Request) { reached = true }))
require.Equal(t, http.StatusOK, call(h, "Bearer the-static-token").Code)
require.True(t, reached)
lines := logs()
require.Len(t, lines, 1, "a successful auth must leave exactly one line")
require.Equal(t, "mcp auth accepted", lines[0]["msg"])
require.Equal(t, "static", lines[0]["auth_path"])
require.NotEmpty(t, lines[0]["token_fp"])
require.NotContains(t, lines[0], "token", "the raw token must never be logged")
})
t.Run("jwt", func(t *testing.T) {
iss := newTestIssuer(t)
v, err := NewMultiJWTValidator(t.Context(),
[]IssuerConfig{{IssuerURL: iss.url, Audience: "aud"}})
require.NoError(t, err)
logs := captureLogs(t)
h := BearerMiddleware("the-static-token", v, "gitea", "",
http.HandlerFunc(func(http.ResponseWriter, *http.Request) {}))
require.Equal(t, http.StatusOK, call(h, "Bearer "+iss.mint(t, "aud", "alice")).Code)
lines := logs()
require.Len(t, lines, 1)
require.Equal(t, "mcp auth accepted", lines[0]["msg"])
require.Equal(t, "jwt", lines[0]["auth_path"])
require.Equal(t, "alice", lines[0]["caller"],
"the JWT subject is the whole reason to distinguish this path")
})
}
// The fingerprint is what makes a log line correlatable across requests without
// being a credential. It must be stable for one token and different for another,
// and it must never be a prefix of the token itself.
func TestFingerprint_StableAndNotDerivableBackToTheToken(t *testing.T) {
a := fingerprint("token-one")
b := fingerprint("token-two")
require.Equal(t, a, fingerprint("token-one"), "same token, same fingerprint")
require.NotEqual(t, a, b)
require.NotContains(t, "token-one", a)
require.False(t, strings.HasPrefix("token-one", a))
}