The console pages connect to /novncd/ on the address, scheme and port the
page itself was loaded from; nginx proxies it to novncd, which listens on
the loopback only. There is nothing to configure: the console works on
HTTPS (wss), behind another proxy and on any published port.
Before, the page connected to WS_PUBLIC_HOST/PORT/PATH, port 6080 by
default: straight to novncd, past nginx and without TLS, so an HTTPS panel
and a Docker container published on another port had no console until the
public port was set by hand, and novncd listened on every interface.
Gone: WS_PUBLIC_PORT, WS_PUBLIC_HOST, WS_PUBLIC_PATH and WS_CERT, the
installer's two public console questions and its 6080 firewall rule, the
Docker image's WS_PUBLIC_PORT and its init script lines, the manual
install's firewall rule for 6080 and nginx's unused /websockify location.
WS_HOST defaults to 127.0.0.1. A VM with a QEMU websocket port is still
reached on that port of the panel's host name (left for a separate
decision).
The xterm console never connected: socketiod expected a different token
format, its worker had no compute credentials, one global console was
shared by every client and its output broadcast to all of them, and the
Docker image did not run socketiod at all.
- console/tokens.py: one authorize() for noVNC and socketiod; the signed
token is the only credential, checked at connect time.
- socketiod: one pty worker per client (consolecallback with the
instance id), one session per VM, a session cap, input and resize
checked; the parent never opens libvirt. The engine.io same-origin
check is on.
- consolecallback: opens the console with the compute's credentials and
exits with a message when it cannot.
- Docker runs socketiod as a runit service; nginx proxies /socket.io/
with Host and the scheme for the origin check. Supervisor and systemd
start it as well; WEBVIRTCLOUD_SERIAL_CONSOLE=1 enables it.
- Tests: token and session unit tests, socketiod as a process, and a
live test that reads SeaBIOS from a wvc-test VM on the TCP and SSH
hosts.
Static URLs carry no version, but nginx served them with expires max, so
after an update or a theme change browsers kept the old CSS and JS. They
now revalidate each load (304 when unchanged). CI checks the header, the
304 and that a changed file is sent again.
- Comment out the nginx /socket.io/ location: a firewall on 6081 does not
protect a console that nginx proxies on 80/443.
- Default SOCKETIO_HOST to 127.0.0.1.
- README: short enable steps and the changes existing installs need.
- test_socketiod_disabled writes its settings module to a temporary
directory instead of the source tree.
- Add local ports and env var fallback for CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS in settings.py.template
- Configure SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER for reverse proxy / HTTPS environments
- Update Nginx proxy headers to use $http_host and $scheme to prevent port mismatch
