When `ValidateToken` keeps a token because the external auth validation
endpoint was rate-limited (a `403` with rate-limit headers or a `429`),
it returns `valid=true` without provider confirmation. Previously this
happened silently, so operators couldn't tell a provider-confirmed token
from one kept optimistically during a rate limit.
This adds a `Logger` to `externalauth.Config` and emits a `Warn` (with
`provider_id`, `provider_type`, `status_code`, and `reason`) on those
rate-limit branches. It also adds a
`coderd_oauth2_external_requests_rate_limited_total{name, source,
status_code}` counter, incremented in the instrumented round tripper
whenever a provider returns a rate-limited response. The rate-limit
detection is the shared `xhttp.IsRateLimited` (in `coderd/util/xhttp`),
used by both the tripper and `ValidateToken` so the metric and the
validation decision share one definition; no extra wiring is needed
since `ValidateToken` already routes through the instrumented client
with `source="ValidateToken"`.
One deliberate behavioral change rides along: rate-limit detection now
also recognizes the unprefixed `RateLimit-Remaining` header (GitLab, and
the IETF draft rate-limit headers), so a `403` with
`RateLimit-Remaining: 0` is treated as optimistically valid where it was
previously treated as revoked. All other valid/invalid decisions are
unchanged. `TestValidateToken` asserts the warning's fields on the
rate-limited cases and no warning for revocations, `401`, and confirmed
responses; `promoauth` and `xhttp` tests cover the detector and the new
counter.
<details>
<summary>Manual testing</summary>
The signals fire on the external-auth status check (`GET
/api/v2/external-auth/{id}`), which calls `ValidateToken`. To force a
rate-limited response, point a provider's `validate_url` at a mock that
returns the rate-limit shape:
1. Run a mock returning `429` on one path and `403` +
`X-RateLimit-Remaining: 0` on another.
2. Start `coder server` with `--prometheus-enable` and external auth
providers whose `validate_url` point at those mock paths (e.g.
`CODER_EXTERNAL_AUTH_0_VALIDATE_URL=http://127.0.0.1:5599/429`).
3. Create a stored link, either complete the OAuth flow, or insert a row
into `external_auth_links` with a future `oauth_expiry` (token contents
are irrelevant; the mock rejects regardless).
4. `curl` the status endpoint with a session token, then check:
- coderd logs for the `Warn` (`reason=status_code` for `429`,
`reason=rate_limit_headers` for `403`),
- the metrics endpoint for
`coderd_oauth2_external_requests_rate_limited_total{...,status_code="429"|"403"}`.
Notes: `scripts/testidp -429` only rate-limits `/oauth2/userinfo`, not
the `/external-auth-validate/...` path, so it does not exercise this;
use a mock `validate_url`. The default Prometheus port `2112` may
already be taken on dogfood workspaces, set `CODER_PROMETHEUS_ADDRESS`
to a free port.
</details>
🤖 Generated with the help of Coder Agents on behalf of @jscottmiller.
ValidateToken treated all 403 responses as "token invalid," including
GitHub rate limits. isFailedRefresh included 403 in the status code
fallthrough, destroying tokens on rate-limited refresh attempts.
Split the combined 401/403 check in ValidateToken into a switch on
status code. On 403, inspect X-RateLimit-Remaining and Retry-After
headers; if either indicates a rate limit, return optimistically valid.
Handle 429 the same way. Plain 403 without rate-limit headers preserves
the existing invalid-token behavior.
Add incorrect_client_credentials and invalid_client to isFailedRefresh
error code switch. Remove 403 from the status code fallthrough since no
known provider returns 403 from the token endpoint.
- Adds `_API_BASE_URL` to `CODER_EXTERNAL_AUTH_CONFIG_`
- Extracts and refactors existing GitHub PR sync logic to new packages
`coderd/gitsync` and `coderd/externalauth/gitprovider`
- Associated wiring and tests
Created using Opus 4.6
**Breaking Change:** Existing oauth apps might now use PKCE. If an
unknown IdP type was being used, and it does not support PKCE, it will
break.
To fix, set the PKCE methods on the external auth to `none`
```
export CODER_EXTERNAL_AUTH_1_PKCE_METHODS=none
```
* chore: dynamically determine gitlab external auth defaults
Static defaults work for github cloud, but not self hosted.
Self hosted setups will now have sane defaults if omitted.
J. Scott Miller