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closes #15426

Part of #15360. This PR does not close #15360 or #14594.

Replaces #15445, which carried nine commits, most of them from lower slices that have since merged. The content here is rebuilt on a fresh branch from main, and the CodeRabbit comments from #15445 are fixed.

Implementation Details

Docs only (slice 4d). Documents the native app readiness check delivered by #15431 (FIDO2 endpoint, cache, rate limits, audit) and #15433 (Config API wrapper).

  • Adds docs/janssen-server/fido/native-app-readiness.md, a user guide for the check that compares an RP's deployed assetlinks.json and apple-app-site-association files with its configured native app entries.
  • Adds a "Native App Readiness" entry to the FIDO nav in mkdocs.yml.
  • Adds a "Native app readiness" section and a link to the guide in docs/janssen-server/fido/fido2-server-properties-config.md. The guide links to that section.
  • The autogenerated fido2-properties.md is not edited.

Changes since #15445, from its review and from #15433:

  • nativeReadinessEnabled is required to run the check; nativeReadinessAllowExternalFetch is needed only to check the deployed files. The guide no longer says both must be true.
  • The 10-second limit is described as the HTTP fetch deadline. The name lookup happens before it starts and is bounded only by the server's DNS resolver.
  • The requester in the audit is the caller the Config API identifies by introspecting the token (user inum, else user name, else client id). The User-inum header was removed in feat(jans-config-api): fido2 plugin wrapper for the native app readiness endpoint (slice 4c of 4) #15433, so the guide no longer mentions it.

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  • Relevant documentation has been updated if any (i.e. user guides, installation and configuration guides, technical design docs etc)

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  • I confirm that there is no impact on the docs due to the code changes in this PR.

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  • Documentation
    • Added guidance for checking whether configured Android and iOS apps have matching public passkey association files.
    • Documented enablement requirements, request and response behavior, check statuses, and the read-only nature of the checks.
    • Explained external-fetch restrictions, caching, timeouts, response-size limits, rate limits, and authentication considerations.
    • Added the guide to the FIDO2 / Passkeys documentation navigation.

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The PR adds documentation for native app readiness checks, including configuration, request routes, result behavior, fetch restrictions, caching, rate limits, and audit fields. It also adds the guide to FIDO2 / Passkeys navigation.

Changes: Native App Readiness

Layer / File(s) Summary
Enablement and routes
docs/janssen-server/fido/native-app-readiness.md, docs/janssen-server/fido/fido2-server-properties-config.md, mkdocs.yml
The guide and properties page describe enablement defaults and request routes. FIDO2 / Passkeys navigation links to the guide.
Results and platform checks
docs/janssen-server/fido/native-app-readiness.md
The guide documents response fields, result statuses, platform checks, and configuration-only results.
Fetch controls and audit
docs/janssen-server/fido/native-app-readiness.md, docs/janssen-server/fido/fido2-server-properties-config.md
The documentation describes fetch restrictions, caching, rate limits, and audit fields.

Priority: Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Other

Possibly related PRs

Suggested reviewers: yuriyz

Merge Risk: Low · up to 1451c

Operators may misinterpret readiness responses and audit results, but the issues are limited to documentation and are straightforward to correct.

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Title check Passed The title clearly identifies the documentation change and the native app readiness user guide. It is concise and specific.
Linked Issues check Passed Active issue #15426 requires the user guide, FIDO2 navigation entry, and properties-page link. The supplied PR evidence shows all three changes. The guide covers the required check IDs and result mean…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The supplied change summary shows only the new readiness guide, the FIDO2 navigation entry, and documentation changes in fido2-server-properties-config.md. These changes support issue #15426. No cod…
Description check Passed The pull request description follows the required template. It includes the preparation checklist, target issue, implementation details, testing and documentation status, and explains that static anal…
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Active issue #15426 requires the user guide, FIDO2 navigation entry, and properties-page link. The supplied PR evidence shows all three changes. The guide covers the required check IDs and result meanings, Apple CDN caching, CMS-signed AASA limits, enablement, both routes, SSRF controls, caching, rechecks, rate limits, audit fields, and exclusion of file contents. The guide describes the shipped distinction between nativeReadinessEnabled and nativeReadinessAllowExternalFetch. The PR reports a successful mkdocs build. Closed issue #15360 supplies context only.

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Review comments at @docs/janssen-server/fido/fido2-server-properties-config.md:
- Line 235: Qualify the fetch timeout statement to clarify that the 10-second
limit begins after DNS resolution and does not bound DNS lookup time; keep the
existing size and timeout limits otherwise unchanged.
- Around line 234-236: Update the documentation bullet for
nativeReadinessMaxResponseBytes and nativeReadinessTimeoutMs to state their
defaults of 128 KiB and 3 seconds, while preserving the existing fixed upper
limits and zero-or-less fallback behavior.

Review comments at @docs/janssen-server/fido/native-app-readiness.md:
- Around line 188-189: Update the cache behavior documentation to state that
changes to an RP’s app entries do not invalidate cached results, so the endpoint
may return checks based on the previous configuration while the cache is valid.
Advise operators to use recheck after changing app entries.
- Line 141: Update the `content.android.relation` table entry to state that each
configured fingerprint must appear in a statement containing the required
`delegate_permission/common.get_login_creds` relation; a relation in a separate
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Minor · Correct the response-status table conditions. · native-app-readiness.md:73-79

docs/janssen-server/fido/native-app-readiness.md:73-79
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Correct the response-status table conditions.

When native readiness is disabled, NativeReadinessService.check returns the disabled result before it checks the RP ID. An unknown RP ID therefore returns the existing 200 result. When readiness is enabled, an unknown RP ID returns 404.

The direct FIDO2 controller also maps unexpected exceptions to ErrorResponseFactory.unknownError(...), which produces a 500 response. The 500 case is not limited to the Config API route.

Suggested fix
 | `200` | The result below. |
 | `400` | The body is not a JSON object. |
-| `404` | No relying party is configured with that id. Nothing was fetched. |
+| `404` | Readiness is enabled, and no relying party is configured with that id. Nothing was fetched. |
 | `429` | A [rate limit](#caching-and-rate-limits) refused the check. The `Retry-After` header gives the wait in seconds. Nothing was fetched. |
-| `500` | The Config API route only: the FIDO2 server could not be reached or answered something else. |
+| `500` | An unexpected error occurred. The direct FIDO2 route can return this response when its controller encounters an unexpected error. The Config API route can also return it when the FIDO2 server is unreachable or returns an unexpected status. |
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Review comment at @docs/janssen-server/fido/native-app-readiness.md around lines
73 - 79:
Update the response-status table for `NativeReadinessService.check`: clarify
that an unknown RP ID returns 404 only when readiness is enabled. Revise the 500
entry to cover unexpected errors from both the direct FIDO2 route and the Config
API route.
Minor · Describe warn as inconclusive. · native-app-readiness.md:106-110

docs/janssen-server/fido/native-app-readiness.md:106-110
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Describe warn as inconclusive.

When external fetching is disabled for configured apps, NativeReadinessService emits fetch.skipped with WARN and states that the deployed files were not checked. Operators cannot infer that the file works from this warning; its readiness is unknown.

Suggested fix
-| `warn` | Worth a look, but the file can still work. |
+| `warn` | Worth a look. The file may work, but the check does not establish that it works. |
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Review comment at @docs/janssen-server/fido/native-app-readiness.md around lines
106 - 110:
Update the `warn` definition in the status table to describe readiness as
inconclusive: when `NativeReadinessService` emits `fetch.skipped` because
external fetching is disabled, the deployed file was not checked, so the warning
must not imply that it works.
Minor · Document fixed reason classifications. · native-app-readiness.md:112-127

docs/janssen-server/fido/native-app-readiness.md:112-127
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Document fixed reason classifications.

The guide omits reachable fixed reasons. ReachabilityChecker can emit redirect target could not be determined, DNS, TLS, content-type, and request failures. ContentChecker can emit fixed JSON classifications. Update the reason contract and redirect list without documenting fetched content or parser exception text.

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-The `reason` names only configured values (a package name, a fingerprint, `TeamID.BundleID`), HTTP status
-codes and counts. **The result never contains the content of a fetched file**, a redirect target, a resolved
-address or a parser error message.
+The `reason` can contain configured values (a package name, a fingerprint, `TeamID.BundleID`), HTTP status
+codes, counts, and fixed diagnostic classifications such as `host name could not be resolved`, `TLS
+connection failed`, `no Content-Type header`, `Content-Type is not application/json`, `request failed`,
+`not valid JSON`, `not a JSON array of statements`, and `not a JSON object`. **The result never contains
+the content of a fetched file**, a redirect target, a resolved address or a parser error message.
...
-Says whether the redirect goes to a path on the same host, to `www.` plus the same name, or to a different host.
+Reports whether the redirect goes to a path on the same host, to `www.` plus the same name, to a different
+host, or has `redirect target could not be determined`.
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112 - 127:
Update the reason contract in the readiness guide to include fixed diagnostic
classifications emitted by ReachabilityChecker and ContentChecker, including
DNS, TLS, content-type, request, and JSON classifications, without documenting
fetched file content or parser exception text. Expand the reachability.redirect
description to include the fixed classification used when the redirect target
cannot be determined.
Minor · Correct the no-app PASS/WARN statement for the case where… · native-app-readiness.md:114-150

docs/janssen-server/fido/native-app-readiness.md:114-150
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Correct the no-app PASS/WARN statement for the case where neither platform has apps.

The sentence "A platform with no configured apps is not fetched. Its list holds one pass saying so." is true only when the other platform has apps. When neither platform has apps, the check does not emit a pass. It emits config.android and config.ios as warn. The guide's final paragraph under Checks says the same thing, so the two statements conflict. An operator with an RP that has no native apps can see WARN where the guide says PASS.

Suggested fix
-A platform with no configured apps is not fetched. Its list holds one `pass` saying so.
+A platform with no configured apps is not fetched. When the other platform has apps, its list holds one `pass` saying so. When neither platform has apps, each list holds a `warn` (`config.android` or `config.ios`) instead.
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Review comment at @docs/janssen-server/fido/native-app-readiness.md around lines
114 - 150:
Update the no-app behavior statement in the Checks section to distinguish the
cases: when only one platform has no configured apps, its list contains a
`pass`; when neither platform has apps, each list contains a `warn`
(`config.android` or `config.ios`). Keep it consistent with the final
paragraph’s described behavior.
Minor · Qualify the content.ios.cdn warning. · native-app-readiness.md:152-164

docs/janssen-server/fido/native-app-readiness.md:152-164
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Qualify the content.ios.cdn warning.

The readiness service emits content.ios.cdn only when the Apple fetch returns HTTP 200 with a non-truncated body. Failed, non-200, or truncated fetches do not emit this check, so operators must use the fetch result to diagnose those cases.

Suggested fix
-This is why `content.ios.cdn` is always a `warn`.
+When the Apple association fetch returns HTTP 200 without truncation, the check emits `content.ios.cdn` as a `warn`. Failed, non-200, or truncated fetches do not emit this check.
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Review comment at @docs/janssen-server/fido/native-app-readiness.md around lines
152 - 164:
Update the Apple CDN caching section to qualify the `content.ios.cdn` warning:
state that it is emitted only when the Apple association fetch returns HTTP 200
with a non-truncated body, and clarify that failed, non-200, or truncated
fetches do not emit this check.
Minor · Describe resolvedIpClass as an address or outcome label. · native-app-readiness.md:214-218

docs/janssen-server/fido/native-app-readiness.md:214-218
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Describe resolvedIpClass as an address or outcome label.

NativeReadinessService.ipClass() labels TIMEOUT, TLS_FAILED, and CONNECTION_FAILED as public. Therefore, public does not mean that the fetch reached a public address. Update the description to include fetch outcomes.

Suggested fix
-| `resolvedIpClass` | A coarse label for the address that was reached, never the address itself: `public`, `blocked`, `unresolved`, `unknown`, or `none` when nothing was fetched. |
+| `resolvedIpClass` | A coarse label for the resolved address or fetch outcome, never the address itself: `public`, `blocked`, `unresolved`, `unknown`, or `none` when nothing was fetched. `public` also covers timeout, TLS, and connection failures. |
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Update the `resolvedIpClass` description to clarify that it labels either the
resolved address or fetch outcome, and that `public` also covers timeout, TLS,
and connection failures; retain the existing label definitions.

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Review comments at @docs/janssen-server/fido/native-app-readiness.md:
- Around line 73-79: Update the response-status table for
`NativeReadinessService.check`: clarify that an unknown RP ID returns 404 only
when readiness is enabled. Revise the 500 entry to cover unexpected errors from
both the direct FIDO2 route and the Config API route.
- Around line 106-110: Update the `warn` definition in the status table to
describe readiness as inconclusive: when `NativeReadinessService` emits
`fetch.skipped` because external fetching is disabled, the deployed file was not
checked, so the warning must not imply that it works.
- Around line 112-127: Update the reason contract in the readiness guide to
include fixed diagnostic classifications emitted by ReachabilityChecker and
ContentChecker, including DNS, TLS, content-type, request, and JSON
classifications, without documenting fetched file content or parser exception
text. Expand the reachability.redirect description to include the fixed
classification used when the redirect target cannot be determined.
- Around line 114-150: Update the no-app behavior statement in the Checks
section to distinguish the cases: when only one platform has no configured apps,
its list contains a `pass`; when neither platform has apps, each list contains a
`warn` (`config.android` or `config.ios`). Keep it consistent with the final
paragraph’s described behavior.
- Around line 152-164: Update the Apple CDN caching section to qualify the
`content.ios.cdn` warning: state that it is emitted only when the Apple
association fetch returns HTTP 200 with a non-truncated body, and clarify that
failed, non-200, or truncated fetches do not emit this check.
- Around line 214-218: Update the `resolvedIpClass` description to clarify that
it labels either the resolved address or fetch outcome, and that `public` also
covers timeout, TLS, and connection failures; retain the existing label
definitions.

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