@torrent-tv/proxy 2.88.4 → 2.88.5

package/research/priority-map-is-the-truth-2026-09-12.md

@@ -1,225 +1,225 @@
-# The priority map is the only statement of what is wanted
-
-Measurements and decisions behind the work listed in the roadmap as "the
-priority map is the only source of truth about what is wanted". Written
-2026-09-12, extended as the steps land.
-
-Everything below is tagged by where it comes from: READ (from the source),
-MEASURED (a number produced here), DECIDED (agreed with the user), or REFUSED
-(considered and not built, with the reason).
-
-## Why 2.83.1 stopped playback — READ
-
-The map is built by `PriorityOrchestrator.publishFor`, and its only input is the
-live SESSIONS (`hls-session-manager.js` hands it `sessionGroups`). A session
-exists once a file has been chosen and its playback plan built. The torrent,
-however, is added on `POST /api/sources/:key/warm`, while the person is still
-reading the list of episodes.
-
-So there is an interval in which the map cannot say anything at all, and in it
-"the map wants nothing" is indistinguishable from "there is nobody to ask yet".
-The field record of 2026-09-11 lies entirely inside that interval: added
-20:57:17, first peer 20:57:18, out of the swarm 20:57:21 with 741 connections
-let go.
-
-## The same fault with the opposite sign — READ
-
-When the last viewer of a file leaves, `publishFor` deletes that file's map from
-its own memory and publishes NOTHING:
-
-```js
-for (const key of [...this.#maps.keys()]) {
-  if (!byFile.has(key)) { this.#maps.delete(key); this.#last.delete(key); }
-}
-```
-
-`applyPriorityMap` withdraws a file's claimants only when it is CALLED, so the
-demand register keeps that file's zones for the life of the torrent — nothing
-else removes them but `forgetTorrent`, which runs when the torrent is removed
-altogether.
-
-Both ends are therefore broken: today the map can say neither "wanted" nor "not
-wanted". That is what has to be fixed before the register can be believed by
-anybody.
-
-## The register alone cannot be asked — READ
-
-A read states a claim only while it is STOPPED on a missing piece
-(`piece-reader.js:765`, `Urgency.BLOCKED`) and withdraws it when the read ends
-(`:1052`). So an empty register routinely means "at this instant everybody has
-what they need", not "nobody wants this". A swarm rule built on the register
-alone would release and rejoin repeatedly. The stable statement is the map,
-which holds while people are there.
-
-## No viewer-to-torrent link is needed — DECIDED
-
-A session carries `sourceKey`, and the map is addressed by source and file. So
-"is anybody here for this source" is already answered by any file of it having a
-non-empty map. A second holder of that same relation would be the two-owners
-fault this work removes, in a new place.
-
-## What is in a torrent, as one statement — MEASURED
-
-`services/torrent/Contents.js`, validated against the survey collection in
-`Dropbox/trn` on 2026-09-12 (137 files, 134 parsed):
-
-| | |
-|---|---|
-| torrents parsed | 134 |
-| of them with more than one picture | 44 |
-| items (pictures with what belongs to them) | 1357 |
-| files paired to a picture | 421 |
-| files paired to more than one picture | 0 |
-| largest torrent | 265 pictures |
-| items whose grouping differs from the per-picture call it replaces | 0 |
-
-The last row is what says this is a move rather than a change: every one of the
-1357 groupings agrees with `matchSidecarFiles` asked the old way, one picture at
-a time.
-
-The largest figure matters to the step that follows: a pack of 265 pictures is
-why the edges are claimed one item at a time rather than for the whole list —
-two pieces outstanding at a time, and the order is what bounds the cost.
-
-## Telling an episode from an extra — REFUSED
-
-Proposed, measured, and not built.
-
-**Words.** `sample|trailer|extras?|bonus|preview|teaser|making|interview|
-deleted|featurette` as whole tokens against every video path of the 134
-torrents: **four matches, all four false**. Three are the word "making" inside
-ordinary episode titles ("Making cash with her pussy", "Perfect pleasure making
-pussy") and their sizes are 0.84 to 2.35 of their torrent's median, i.e. they
-are the content. Not one real `Sample/` file exists in the collection, so the
-rule cannot even be validated here — that is a property of this collection, not
-a claim that extras do not exist.
-
-**Size.** The ratio of each video to the median of the videos in its own torrent
-runs continuously from 0.0000 to 1.0 with no gap anywhere: 53 videos sit under a
-quarter of their median, and they are short clips that ARE what the torrent is
-for (`REX1080_<name> - 720P_4000K_….mp4`, 6-23 MB, in collections of them). Two
-shapes are genuinely not content — `preview1..5.mp4` in one torrent, and
-`VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB` plus `VTS_01_0.VOB`, which are a DVD's menu and a
-structure question rather than a size one.
-
-So there is nothing here to derive a threshold from, and an invented one would
-decide the order in which a stranger's bandwidth is spent. Every picture is an
-item. The survey script is `scratchpad`-only and is reproduced by walking the
-collection with `parse-torrent` and the two functions named above.
-
-## Two classifications of one torrent, and they have already diverged — MEASURED
-
-The browser classifies the file list itself (`public/domain/torrent-parser.js`,
-`VIDEO_EXTENSIONS`, `classifyMediaFiles`, `orderForDisplay`) and the proxy does
-it again (`services/torrent/files.js`). Compared 2026-09-12: the browser offers
-`.dat` as video and the proxy does not count it, every other extension agreeing.
-On such a torrent the person is offered a file the proxy does not consider a
-picture, and `countVideoFiles` answers 0 — which also changes the one-picture
-relaxation in the pairing.
-
-One fact, one owner: the proxy owns the composition and the file-list route
-returns it. The cost is one round trip for a `.torrent` the browser parsed
-locally; the proxy holds those same bytes from registration, so it can answer
-without the swarm.
-
-## What the pool asks now, and the two things it no longer counts — DECIDED
-
-One question: **is anything wanted of this torrent**, answered from the register
-(`isWanted`). It is true from the moment a torrent is opened, because a torrent
-with no file list yet cannot be stated about and is being fetched precisely
-because somebody asked for it; and it becomes false exactly when the last
-viewer leaves, because that is when the map is published with nothing in it.
-
-Two facts decide the swarm, and they are separated from the doing
-(`swarmDecisionFor`) because this is the rule that has failed twice in the
-field:
-
-| wanted | ever wanted | swarm | idle clock |
-|---|---|---|---|
-| yes | — | take | stopped |
-| no | yes | let go | running |
-| no | no | leave alone | running |
-
-The last row is the 2.83.1 failure as a rule rather than as a mechanism: a
-torrent nobody has ever wanted is one being OPENED, and taking its swarm away
-there destroys the connections it will need a minute later.
-
-**Leaving on `done` was considered and NOT built.** A complete torrent can want
-nothing from a swarm, and the field case of 596 connections was exactly that.
-But a piece can be lost after the fact — the disk tier discards pieces under
-its own cap — and rejoining would then need a trigger nothing states today, so
-the failure mode is a read that waits for ever. The complete-file case is
-already answered from two directions: the upload policy refuses to seed when
-nothing anybody asked for is missing, and `keepWholeFiles` destroys a torrent
-whose every file has been written out whole.
-
-**What is accepted as narrowed, and stated so it is not discovered as a
-surprise.** A read that is flowing states nothing — it is reading bytes that
-are present — so a torrent is no longer held by the mere existence of a read.
-Three cases were checked: a `/stream` read belongs to a session whose map is
-live; the subtitle walk reads only what is downloaded; the background fill of a
-sidecar is covered by that file's ends. What is left is the disk cap evicting a
-torrent whose read is in flight during a moment when nothing is stated for it.
-The eviction order is the mitigation rather than a guard: candidates are sorted
-by when they were last WANTED, so a torrent an encoder is reading sorts last
-among them.
-
-**A torrent is on the idle clock from the moment it exists.** Until now the only
-thing that ever started that clock was a reader letting go, so a file list
-fetched and never played was held for the life of the process.
-
-## What the review of this work caught — READ
-
-Two defects, both found by reading the finished code rather than by a test, and
-both fixed with a check apiece.
-
-1. **A warm-up could take the urgency away from a plan somebody was waiting
-   for.** The two ends of a file are stated by whoever asks for them, and there
-   are two such callers: the playback plan, which a person is watching a loading
-   screen for, and the warm-up, which by its whole purpose nobody is waiting
-   for. The warm-up fires off the files beside the picture without awaiting
-   them, so it can arrive second — and it restated the same claimants at its own
-   lower level. The statement is raise-only now; the one caller entitled to put
-   them back down is the read that has just finished, which says so.
-2. **A departure could be noticed by nobody.** The background fill states a
-   claim of its own per file and withdraws it once nothing else wants that file
-   — but the withdrawal happened inside a pass that nothing acted on, so a
-   torrent everybody had left could be held "wanted" by the fill's own claim at
-   the moment of the departure and then never re-examined: in its swarm, with no
-   idle clock running. The pass acts on what it just said now.
-
-## Where the shared statement lives — DECIDED, then REVERSED the same day
-
-It was first published as a package, `@torrent-tv/torrent-contents`, so that
-both runtimes could read the same three files: the proxy states what to fetch
-from them, and the browser showed the list of episodes the instant a `.torrent`
-was dropped, before a proxy had been chosen.
-
-**Withdrawn within the hour, on the user's question: is the package better than
-moving it all to the proxy, when the torrent has to go there after the choice
-anyway.** It is not. The package bought one property — the instant list — with
-three permanent costs: a third artifact to version and publish, two copies at
-runtime that drift by version (a test was written for that drift, which is an
-admission the risk is real), and three wiring points that break the page at load
-with no error anybody sees (a second test was written for those).
-
-The answer is the route that already lists a source's files. For a magnet
-nothing changes at all — that is the path it has always taken — and the dropped
-`.torrent` now takes the same one. What leaves the browser with it is not only
-the classification but the whole notion of deciding anything from a name; what
-stays is what only the browser can see (the trackers and the web seeds in the
-file it holds) and how a name is SHOWN.
-
-**The cost is answered by connecting earlier, which is the user's own point.**
-Everything a viewer does needs a proxy, and choosing one and connecting to it
-used to begin only after a file had been picked. It begins when the page loads
-now, silently and with its failure swallowed, and `#acquireTransport` is
-joinable — so whatever the viewer does next joins that attempt instead of
-starting a second. Verified in a browser 2026-09-12: the page opens, the connect
-runs on its own (`public-only connect failed …; trying local path` on a dev
-server with no proxies registered), nothing is shown for it, and the page's own
-adapter turns the proxy's answer into the three lists with the order preserved,
-the torrent's own numbers kept and the release's repeated part taken off the
-names.
-
-`@torrent-tv/torrent-contents@1.0.0` is deprecated on npm with the reason.
+# The priority map is the only statement of what is wanted
+
+Measurements and decisions behind the work listed in the roadmap as "the
+priority map is the only source of truth about what is wanted". Written
+2026-09-12, extended as the steps land.
+
+Everything below is tagged by where it comes from: READ (from the source),
+MEASURED (a number produced here), DECIDED (agreed with the user), or REFUSED
+(considered and not built, with the reason).
+
+## Why 2.83.1 stopped playback — READ
+
+The map is built by `PriorityOrchestrator.publishFor`, and its only input is the
+live SESSIONS (`hls-session-manager.js` hands it `sessionGroups`). A session
+exists once a file has been chosen and its playback plan built. The torrent,
+however, is added on `POST /api/sources/:key/warm`, while the person is still
+reading the list of episodes.
+
+So there is an interval in which the map cannot say anything at all, and in it
+"the map wants nothing" is indistinguishable from "there is nobody to ask yet".
+The field record of 2026-09-11 lies entirely inside that interval: added
+20:57:17, first peer 20:57:18, out of the swarm 20:57:21 with 741 connections
+let go.
+
+## The same fault with the opposite sign — READ
+
+When the last viewer of a file leaves, `publishFor` deletes that file's map from
+its own memory and publishes NOTHING:
+
+```js
+for (const key of [...this.#maps.keys()]) {
+  if (!byFile.has(key)) { this.#maps.delete(key); this.#last.delete(key); }
+}
+```
+
+`applyPriorityMap` withdraws a file's claimants only when it is CALLED, so the
+demand register keeps that file's zones for the life of the torrent — nothing
+else removes them but `forgetTorrent`, which runs when the torrent is removed
+altogether.
+
+Both ends are therefore broken: today the map can say neither "wanted" nor "not
+wanted". That is what has to be fixed before the register can be believed by
+anybody.
+
+## The register alone cannot be asked — READ
+
+A read states a claim only while it is STOPPED on a missing piece
+(`piece-reader.js:765`, `Urgency.BLOCKED`) and withdraws it when the read ends
+(`:1052`). So an empty register routinely means "at this instant everybody has
+what they need", not "nobody wants this". A swarm rule built on the register
+alone would release and rejoin repeatedly. The stable statement is the map,
+which holds while people are there.
+
+## No viewer-to-torrent link is needed — DECIDED
+
+A session carries `sourceKey`, and the map is addressed by source and file. So
+"is anybody here for this source" is already answered by any file of it having a
+non-empty map. A second holder of that same relation would be the two-owners
+fault this work removes, in a new place.
+
+## What is in a torrent, as one statement — MEASURED
+
+`services/torrent/Contents.js`, validated against the survey collection in
+`Dropbox/trn` on 2026-09-12 (137 files, 134 parsed):
+
+| | |
+|---|---|
+| torrents parsed | 134 |
+| of them with more than one picture | 44 |
+| items (pictures with what belongs to them) | 1357 |
+| files paired to a picture | 421 |
+| files paired to more than one picture | 0 |
+| largest torrent | 265 pictures |
+| items whose grouping differs from the per-picture call it replaces | 0 |
+
+The last row is what says this is a move rather than a change: every one of the
+1357 groupings agrees with `matchSidecarFiles` asked the old way, one picture at
+a time.
+
+The largest figure matters to the step that follows: a pack of 265 pictures is
+why the edges are claimed one item at a time rather than for the whole list —
+two pieces outstanding at a time, and the order is what bounds the cost.
+
+## Telling an episode from an extra — REFUSED
+
+Proposed, measured, and not built.
+
+**Words.** `sample|trailer|extras?|bonus|preview|teaser|making|interview|
+deleted|featurette` as whole tokens against every video path of the 134
+torrents: **four matches, all four false**. Three are the word "making" inside
+ordinary episode titles ("Making cash with her pussy", "Perfect pleasure making
+pussy") and their sizes are 0.84 to 2.35 of their torrent's median, i.e. they
+are the content. Not one real `Sample/` file exists in the collection, so the
+rule cannot even be validated here — that is a property of this collection, not
+a claim that extras do not exist.
+
+**Size.** The ratio of each video to the median of the videos in its own torrent
+runs continuously from 0.0000 to 1.0 with no gap anywhere: 53 videos sit under a
+quarter of their median, and they are short clips that ARE what the torrent is
+for (`REX1080_<name> - 720P_4000K_….mp4`, 6-23 MB, in collections of them). Two
+shapes are genuinely not content — `preview1..5.mp4` in one torrent, and
+`VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB` plus `VTS_01_0.VOB`, which are a DVD's menu and a
+structure question rather than a size one.
+
+So there is nothing here to derive a threshold from, and an invented one would
+decide the order in which a stranger's bandwidth is spent. Every picture is an
+item. The survey script is `scratchpad`-only and is reproduced by walking the
+collection with `parse-torrent` and the two functions named above.
+
+## Two classifications of one torrent, and they have already diverged — MEASURED
+
+The browser classifies the file list itself (`public/domain/torrent-parser.js`,
+`VIDEO_EXTENSIONS`, `classifyMediaFiles`, `orderForDisplay`) and the proxy does
+it again (`services/torrent/files.js`). Compared 2026-09-12: the browser offers
+`.dat` as video and the proxy does not count it, every other extension agreeing.
+On such a torrent the person is offered a file the proxy does not consider a
+picture, and `countVideoFiles` answers 0 — which also changes the one-picture
+relaxation in the pairing.
+
+One fact, one owner: the proxy owns the composition and the file-list route
+returns it. The cost is one round trip for a `.torrent` the browser parsed
+locally; the proxy holds those same bytes from registration, so it can answer
+without the swarm.
+
+## What the pool asks now, and the two things it no longer counts — DECIDED
+
+One question: **is anything wanted of this torrent**, answered from the register
+(`isWanted`). It is true from the moment a torrent is opened, because a torrent
+with no file list yet cannot be stated about and is being fetched precisely
+because somebody asked for it; and it becomes false exactly when the last
+viewer leaves, because that is when the map is published with nothing in it.
+
+Two facts decide the swarm, and they are separated from the doing
+(`swarmDecisionFor`) because this is the rule that has failed twice in the
+field:
+
+| wanted | ever wanted | swarm | idle clock |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| yes | — | take | stopped |
+| no | yes | let go | running |
+| no | no | leave alone | running |
+
+The last row is the 2.83.1 failure as a rule rather than as a mechanism: a
+torrent nobody has ever wanted is one being OPENED, and taking its swarm away
+there destroys the connections it will need a minute later.
+
+**Leaving on `done` was considered and NOT built.** A complete torrent can want
+nothing from a swarm, and the field case of 596 connections was exactly that.
+But a piece can be lost after the fact — the disk tier discards pieces under
+its own cap — and rejoining would then need a trigger nothing states today, so
+the failure mode is a read that waits for ever. The complete-file case is
+already answered from two directions: the upload policy refuses to seed when
+nothing anybody asked for is missing, and `keepWholeFiles` destroys a torrent
+whose every file has been written out whole.
+
+**What is accepted as narrowed, and stated so it is not discovered as a
+surprise.** A read that is flowing states nothing — it is reading bytes that
+are present — so a torrent is no longer held by the mere existence of a read.
+Three cases were checked: a `/stream` read belongs to a session whose map is
+live; the subtitle walk reads only what is downloaded; the background fill of a
+sidecar is covered by that file's ends. What is left is the disk cap evicting a
+torrent whose read is in flight during a moment when nothing is stated for it.
+The eviction order is the mitigation rather than a guard: candidates are sorted
+by when they were last WANTED, so a torrent an encoder is reading sorts last
+among them.
+
+**A torrent is on the idle clock from the moment it exists.** Until now the only
+thing that ever started that clock was a reader letting go, so a file list
+fetched and never played was held for the life of the process.
+
+## What the review of this work caught — READ
+
+Two defects, both found by reading the finished code rather than by a test, and
+both fixed with a check apiece.
+
+1. **A warm-up could take the urgency away from a plan somebody was waiting
+   for.** The two ends of a file are stated by whoever asks for them, and there
+   are two such callers: the playback plan, which a person is watching a loading
+   screen for, and the warm-up, which by its whole purpose nobody is waiting
+   for. The warm-up fires off the files beside the picture without awaiting
+   them, so it can arrive second — and it restated the same claimants at its own
+   lower level. The statement is raise-only now; the one caller entitled to put
+   them back down is the read that has just finished, which says so.
+2. **A departure could be noticed by nobody.** The background fill states a
+   claim of its own per file and withdraws it once nothing else wants that file
+   — but the withdrawal happened inside a pass that nothing acted on, so a
+   torrent everybody had left could be held "wanted" by the fill's own claim at
+   the moment of the departure and then never re-examined: in its swarm, with no
+   idle clock running. The pass acts on what it just said now.
+
+## Where the shared statement lives — DECIDED, then REVERSED the same day
+
+It was first published as a package, `@torrent-tv/torrent-contents`, so that
+both runtimes could read the same three files: the proxy states what to fetch
+from them, and the browser showed the list of episodes the instant a `.torrent`
+was dropped, before a proxy had been chosen.
+
+**Withdrawn within the hour, on the user's question: is the package better than
+moving it all to the proxy, when the torrent has to go there after the choice
+anyway.** It is not. The package bought one property — the instant list — with
+three permanent costs: a third artifact to version and publish, two copies at
+runtime that drift by version (a test was written for that drift, which is an
+admission the risk is real), and three wiring points that break the page at load
+with no error anybody sees (a second test was written for those).
+
+The answer is the route that already lists a source's files. For a magnet
+nothing changes at all — that is the path it has always taken — and the dropped
+`.torrent` now takes the same one. What leaves the browser with it is not only
+the classification but the whole notion of deciding anything from a name; what
+stays is what only the browser can see (the trackers and the web seeds in the
+file it holds) and how a name is SHOWN.
+
+**The cost is answered by connecting earlier, which is the user's own point.**
+Everything a viewer does needs a proxy, and choosing one and connecting to it
+used to begin only after a file had been picked. It begins when the page loads
+now, silently and with its failure swallowed, and `#acquireTransport` is
+joinable — so whatever the viewer does next joins that attempt instead of
+starting a second. Verified in a browser 2026-09-12: the page opens, the connect
+runs on its own (`public-only connect failed …; trying local path` on a dev
+server with no proxies registered), nothing is shown for it, and the page's own
+adapter turns the proxy's answer into the three lists with the order preserved,
+the torrent's own numbers kept and the release's repeated part taken off the
+names.
+
+`@torrent-tv/torrent-contents@1.0.0` is deprecated on npm with the reason.

package/routes/api/client-logs/post.js

@@ -1,86 +1,86 @@
-/**
- * @file Take the browser's own log and keep it beside the proxy's.
- *
- * The page has always forwarded its console somewhere; until now that was the
- * SERVER's standard output on the droplet, which every release destroys. Both
- * halves of a failure are needed to explain one — what the proxy did and what
- * the page saw — and on 2026-09-13 an investigation ran on half of them for
- * exactly that reason.
- *
- * Here the two land in one directory, on the host's durable disk, in files
- * named so they join without guessing.
- *
- * The server's route stays and is not replaced: a page that has no proxy yet,
- * or whose connection to one just failed, still has something to say, and those
- * are the moments that matter most.
- */
-
-const MAX_LINES = 50;
-const MAX_MSG_LEN = 2000;
-const MAX_TAG_LEN = 40;
-const MAX_SID_LEN = 16;
-const MAX_NAME_LEN = 200;
-
-/**
- * @param {unknown} value
- * @param {number} maxLen
- * @returns {string}
- */
-function safeString(value, maxLen) {
-  return (typeof value === "string" ? value : "").slice(0, maxLen);
-}
-
-/**
- * Replace every control character with a space.
- *
- * These lines are written by a stranger's browser into a file a person will
- * later read in a terminal: a newline would forge a log entry and an escape
- * sequence would drive the terminal.
- *
- * @param {string} value
- * @returns {string}
- */
-function sanitizeLine(value) {
-  let out = "";
-  for (const character of value) {
-    const code = character.codePointAt(0) ?? 0;
-    out += code < 0x20 || code === 0x7f ? " " : character;
-  }
-  return out;
-}
-
-/**
- * `POST /api/client-logs`
- *
- * Body: `{ sessionId, startedAt, torrentName, infoHash, tag, signalSessionId,
- * lines: [{ level, ts, msg }] }`.
- *
- * @param {import("fastify").FastifyRequest} req
- * @param {import("fastify").FastifyReply} reply
- * @param {{ clientLogs: { write: (session: object, lines: string[]) => void } | null }} deps
- * @returns {Promise<unknown>}
- */
-export async function handleApiClientLogsPost(req, reply, { clientLogs }) {
-  const body = req.body && typeof req.body === "object" && !Array.isArray(req.body) ? req.body : {};
-  const session = {
-    sessionId: safeString(body.sessionId, MAX_SID_LEN) || "unknown",
-    startedAt: safeString(body.startedAt, 30),
-    torrentName: sanitizeLine(safeString(body.torrentName, MAX_NAME_LEN)),
-    infoHash: safeString(body.infoHash, 40)
-  };
-  const tag = sanitizeLine(safeString(body.tag, MAX_TAG_LEN)) || "Unknown/Unknown";
-  const rows = Array.isArray(body.lines) ? body.lines.slice(0, MAX_LINES) : [];
-
-  const lines = rows.map((row) => {
-    const entry = row && typeof row === "object" ? row : {};
-    const level = safeString(entry.level, 8) || "log";
-    const at = sanitizeLine(safeString(entry.ts, 16));
-    const message = sanitizeLine(safeString(entry.msg, MAX_MSG_LEN));
-    return `[${tag}] ${at} ${level}: ${message}`;
-  });
-
-  if (lines.length > 0) {
-    clientLogs?.write(session, lines);
-  }
-  return reply.code(204).send();
-}
+/**
+ * @file Take the browser's own log and keep it beside the proxy's.
+ *
+ * The page has always forwarded its console somewhere; until now that was the
+ * SERVER's standard output on the droplet, which every release destroys. Both
+ * halves of a failure are needed to explain one — what the proxy did and what
+ * the page saw — and on 2026-09-13 an investigation ran on half of them for
+ * exactly that reason.
+ *
+ * Here the two land in one directory, on the host's durable disk, in files
+ * named so they join without guessing.
+ *
+ * The server's route stays and is not replaced: a page that has no proxy yet,
+ * or whose connection to one just failed, still has something to say, and those
+ * are the moments that matter most.
+ */
+
+const MAX_LINES = 50;
+const MAX_MSG_LEN = 2000;
+const MAX_TAG_LEN = 40;
+const MAX_SID_LEN = 16;
+const MAX_NAME_LEN = 200;
+
+/**
+ * @param {unknown} value
+ * @param {number} maxLen
+ * @returns {string}
+ */
+function safeString(value, maxLen) {
+  return (typeof value === "string" ? value : "").slice(0, maxLen);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Replace every control character with a space.
+ *
+ * These lines are written by a stranger's browser into a file a person will
+ * later read in a terminal: a newline would forge a log entry and an escape
+ * sequence would drive the terminal.
+ *
+ * @param {string} value
+ * @returns {string}
+ */
+function sanitizeLine(value) {
+  let out = "";
+  for (const character of value) {
+    const code = character.codePointAt(0) ?? 0;
+    out += code < 0x20 || code === 0x7f ? " " : character;
+  }
+  return out;
+}
+
+/**
+ * `POST /api/client-logs`
+ *
+ * Body: `{ sessionId, startedAt, torrentName, infoHash, tag, signalSessionId,
+ * lines: [{ level, ts, msg }] }`.
+ *
+ * @param {import("fastify").FastifyRequest} req
+ * @param {import("fastify").FastifyReply} reply
+ * @param {{ clientLogs: { write: (session: object, lines: string[]) => void } | null }} deps
+ * @returns {Promise<unknown>}
+ */
+export async function handleApiClientLogsPost(req, reply, { clientLogs }) {
+  const body = req.body && typeof req.body === "object" && !Array.isArray(req.body) ? req.body : {};
+  const session = {
+    sessionId: safeString(body.sessionId, MAX_SID_LEN) || "unknown",
+    startedAt: safeString(body.startedAt, 30),
+    torrentName: sanitizeLine(safeString(body.torrentName, MAX_NAME_LEN)),
+    infoHash: safeString(body.infoHash, 40)
+  };
+  const tag = sanitizeLine(safeString(body.tag, MAX_TAG_LEN)) || "Unknown/Unknown";
+  const rows = Array.isArray(body.lines) ? body.lines.slice(0, MAX_LINES) : [];
+
+  const lines = rows.map((row) => {
+    const entry = row && typeof row === "object" ? row : {};
+    const level = safeString(entry.level, 8) || "log";
+    const at = sanitizeLine(safeString(entry.ts, 16));
+    const message = sanitizeLine(safeString(entry.msg, MAX_MSG_LEN));
+    return `[${tag}] ${at} ${level}: ${message}`;
+  });
+
+  if (lines.length > 0) {
+    clientLogs?.write(session, lines);
+  }
+  return reply.code(204).send();
+}