A KVM tab: paste an address, get the device's own page

Ham Lab proxies each KVM from its own origin, which is what makes the simple version
possible. A KVM that speaks only plain HTTP would otherwise be blocked outright as mixed
content in a TLS console; served from here it loads, it is behind this login rather than a
second one, and the iframe is same-origin.

Nothing in it knows anything about any particular device. The prefix /kvm/<id>/ is only the
entry point — a device UI asks for its assets by absolute path, which no prefix can rewrite
away, so any request Ham Lab does not serve itself is routed back to whichever KVM the
asking page belongs to, worked out from the Referer and from a cookie when there is no
Referer, as on a WebSocket upgrade. Ham Lab's own routes always match first, so a device can
never shadow the console, and the fallback is gated on a live session.

The list is hub-side on purpose: a KVM earns its keep when the machine is down, which is
when that machine's own Ham Lab cannot answer.

On the keyboard, a page cannot forward keys into an iframe and does not need to — one with
focus receives them directly. Fullscreen plus navigator.keyboard.lock() is what takes
Escape, Tab and Ctrl-W back from the browser; that is Chromium-only and the tab says so
rather than pretending otherwise.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
Mitchell-Johnson
2026-09-24 16:39:27 -07:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5
parent e6625a540c
commit fd88c4ff78
7 changed files with 495 additions and 5 deletions
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@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ type Server struct {
storage *storage.Manager
space *space.Manager
update updateState
kvms kvmProxies
fsLocal files.FS
fsSudo files.FS // nil without passwordless sudo
nodes *nodes.Manager
@@ -284,7 +285,20 @@ func New(cfg *config.Config, sessions *auth.Sessions, mgr *term.Manager, col *me
m.HandleFunc("PUT /api/prefs/sampler", s.auth(s.putSampler))
m.HandleFunc("GET /api/prefs/history", s.auth(s.getHistoryWindow))
m.HandleFunc("PUT /api/prefs/history", s.auth(s.putHistoryWindow))
m.HandleFunc("/api/", func(w http.ResponseWriter, _ *http.Request) { jsonErr(w, 404, "not found") })
m.HandleFunc("GET /api/kvms", s.auth(s.listKVMs))
m.HandleFunc("POST /api/kvms", s.auth(s.addKVM))
m.HandleFunc("DELETE /api/kvms/{id}", s.auth(s.removeKVM))
m.HandleFunc("/kvm/{id}/{rest...}", s.auth(s.serveKVM))
m.HandleFunc("/kvm/{id}", s.auth(s.serveKVM))
// A path Ham Lab does not serve may still belong to a KVM's page, which asks for its
// own assets by absolute path. Ham Lab's own routes matched first, so this can only
// catch what would otherwise have been a 404.
m.HandleFunc("/api/", s.auth(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
if s.kvmFallback(w, r) {
return
}
jsonErr(w, 404, "not found")
}))
m.HandleFunc("/", s.static)
s.mux = m
return s
@@ -355,6 +369,17 @@ func (s *Server) setCookie(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, tok string, m
})
}
// signedIn reports whether a request carries a live browser session, without the
// side effects of the auth middleware.
func (s *Server) signedIn(r *http.Request) bool {
c, err := r.Cookie(cookieName)
if err != nil {
return false
}
_, ok := s.sessions.Lookup(c.Value, clientKey(r))
return ok
}
// auth accepts the browser session cookie or a bearer API token issued to a hub.
func (s *Server) auth(next http.HandlerFunc) http.HandlerFunc {
return func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
@@ -2445,6 +2470,12 @@ func (s *Server) static(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
return
}
}
// A path with no file of ours behind it may belong to a KVM's page, which asks for its
// own assets by absolute path. Checked here rather than in the router because this
// handler is the catch-all — and gated on a session, since this handler is public.
if s.signedIn(r) && s.kvmFallback(w, r) {
return
}
// SPA fallback
w.Header().Set("Cache-Control", "no-cache")
http.ServeFileFS(w, r, s.ui, "index.html")