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PMM-15186

Problem
The PR addresses four interconnected issues with pmm-admin and pmm-agent communicating over HTTPS:

Global transport mutation — Both CLIs reconfigured http.DefaultTransport in place, causing TLS settings to leak between unrelated HTTP clients.
Opaque error messages — Certificate verification failures and authentication errors surfaced as raw cryptographic errors without mentioning the --server-insecure-tls flag.
Regressions from initial fixes — The first attempt left pmm-agent still mutating the global transport, narrowed authentication hints too far, corrupted server messages, and leaked hints into JSON output.
Credential leakage — Invalid PMM Server URLs could echo plaintext passwords in logs, and nginx-error handling had no buffer bounds.
Solution Summary

The fix introduces isolated transport handling through a shared utils/apitransport package that clones transports before modification rather than mutating the global one. apitransport.SetAuth also centralizes the service_token/API-key-vs-basic-auth selection that pmm-admin and pmm-agent each reimplemented separately.

New utils/servererror utilities provide TLS certificate detection with helpful hints (WrapTLSError), distinguish authentication failures from permission errors (AuthHint), bound nginx response parsing to 64 KiB (NginxConsumer), assemble the shared consumer map both CLIs install on their transports (Consumers), and combine the TLS/nginx hint-wrapping sequence both CLIs needed (Explain) — replacing what had been several separate, drifting implementations of the same logic.

The api-tests integration-test harness, which still mutated the global transport and read nginx error bodies unboundedly, was also migrated onto apitransport/servererror, closing the one call site the original fix missed.

Error formatting preserves internal gRPC codes for diagnostic purposes while keeping JSON output unchanged. Credential redaction now covers edge cases where URLs lack // separators or contain slashes within passwords, and reuses utils/dsnutils.RedactDSN for the well-formed case instead of reimplementing it.

Testing
Comprehensive unit tests span transport isolation, URL validation, flag precedence, credential redaction (including passwords containing a slash), TLS mismatches, and nginx error handling. All builds, linting (including reviewdog/golangci-lint feedback), and race-condition tests pass.

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❌ Patch coverage is 82.75862% with 15 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.
✅ Project coverage is 46.08%. Comparing base (31318c7) to head (364bd4f).
⚠️ Report is 159 commits behind head on main.

Files with missing lines Patch % Lines
admin/commands/base/setup.go 82.60% 7 Missing and 1 partial ⚠️
agent/commands/clients.go 0.00% 4 Missing ⚠️
admin/agentlocal/agentlocal.go 0.00% 1 Missing ⚠️
admin/cli/cli.go 88.88% 1 Missing ⚠️
agent/commands/setup.go 91.66% 1 Missing ⚠️
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Walkthrough

The PR centralizes TLS, authentication, nginx, URL, and transport handling. It validates server URLs, preserves gRPC codes for formatting, isolates client transports, and integrates diagnostics into admin CLI operations and agent registration.

Changes

Server error and transport handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared TLS and server error utilities
utils/servererror/*
Adds certificate detection, TLS guidance, authentication hints, and bounded nginx response parsing.
Command error model and formatting
admin/commands/base.go, admin/commands/servererror.go, admin/commands/*test.go
Stores optional gRPC codes internally and formats authentication guidance without changing JSON output.
Shared API transport configuration
utils/apitransport/*, admin/agentlocal/*, agent/commands/clients.go
Clones API transports, applies TLS settings, disables HTTP/2 on clones, and preserves global transport state.
Admin client URL and TLS setup
admin/commands/base/*
Validates, normalizes, and redacts server URLs. It preserves TLS parameters and delegates transport configuration.
Admin CLI error integration
admin/cli/*
Adds non-JSON TLS and nginx diagnostics while preserving JSON errors.
Agent registration error integration
agent/commands/setup*
Formats registration TLS, authentication, conflict, and nginx errors through shared utilities.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant AdminCLI
  participant AdminClient
  participant PMMServer
  participant servererror
  AdminCLI->>AdminClient: execute agent update
  AdminClient->>PMMServer: send HTTPS request
  PMMServer-->>AdminClient: return certificate or API error
  AdminClient->>servererror: classify or wrap error
  servererror-->>AdminCLI: return formatted diagnostic
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Inline comments:
In `@admin/commands/servererror_test.go`:
- Around line 76-105: Update the gRPC code assignments in the “with gRPC code”
and “internal error mapped to 401” subtests to use the existing named constants
grpcUnauthenticated and grpcInternal from TestServerErrorMessage instead of
inline numeric comments; keep the expected assertions unchanged and avoid inline
comments.

In `@agent/commands/setup.go`:
- Around line 159-160: Update the nginxError detection in the surrounding
error-handling flow to use errors.As so wrapped nginxError values are
recognized. Remove the direct type assertion and its inline nolint directive,
while preserving the existing message update for matching errors.
- Around line 146-155: Update the errors.AsType[*mservice.RegisterNodeDefault]
handling to guard all e.Payload accesses with a nil check. Keep message
assignment, conflict text, and servererror.AuthHint processing inside the guard,
while preserving the existing behavior when Payload is present.
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agent/commands/setup_test.go (1)

122-129: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add coverage for a wrapped servererror.NginxError.

The implementation matches servererror.NginxError through errors.AsType, but this test passes the error without a wrapper. Add a %w wrapper and assert that servererror.NginxHint is still appended. This prevents a direct type-assertion regression from passing the test.

Proposed test adjustment
+import "fmt"

-		msg := registerErrorMessage(servererror.NginxError("502 Bad Gateway"), "pmm-server", false)
+		msg := registerErrorMessage(
+			fmt.Errorf("request failed: %w", servererror.NginxError("502 Bad Gateway")),
+			"pmm-server",
+			false,
+		)
-		assert.Equal(t, "response from nginx: 502 Bad Gateway\n"+servererror.NginxHint, msg)
+		assert.Contains(t, msg, servererror.NginxHint)
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In `@agent/commands/setup_test.go` around lines 122 - 129, Update the “nginx
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In `@admin/commands/base/setup.go`:
- Around line 98-104: Redact credentials from the server URL before either
invalid-URL log in the setup flow, including both the local pmm-agent status
path and the globalFlags.ServerURL path. Preserve the validation errors while
logging only a sanitized endpoint (or omit the URL), and add a regression test
covering a URL with userinfo such as embedded credentials.

In `@utils/servererror/servererror.go`:
- Around line 153-158: The NginxConsumer function currently ignores io.ReadAll
failures and accepts unbounded response bodies. Limit reads to the configured
maximum, detect and reject bodies exceeding that limit, and return read failures
with contextual error information instead of calling NginxError on incomplete
data; add tests covering both read errors and over-limit responses.

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In `@agent/commands/setup_test.go`:
- Around line 122-129: Update the “nginx response” test around
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Comment thread admin/commands/base/setup.go Outdated
Comment thread utils/servererror/servererror.go
credentialPattern excluded '/' from both capture groups, so a
username or password containing a literal slash (e.g.
"admin:pass/word@host") slipped past both the url.Redacted() pass and
the regex fallback and was logged in cleartext via logrus.Fatalf.

The password half of the pattern now allows '/', while a negative
first-character check keeps a "scheme://" prefix from being
misread as "scheme:" + userinfo.
JiriCtvrtka and others added 9 commits August 21, 2026 10:43
setServerTransport (agent/commands/clients.go) and SetupClients
(admin/commands/base/setup.go) each reimplemented the same
service_token/api_key-vs-basic-auth rule; a future change to it had
to be applied in both CLIs. apitransport already owns this
transport's other shared setup, so the rule now lives there too.
setServerTransport and SetupClients each built their own copy of the
JSON/HTML/Text/Default consumer map, differing only by pmm-admin's
extra "application/zip" entry. servererror already owns NginxConsumer;
it now owns assembling the map around it too, with an extra param for
a caller-specific addition.
explainTransportError (admin/cli/cli.go) and registerErrorMessage
(agent/commands/setup.go) each independently reimplemented "append
NginxHint on a NginxError, otherwise run WrapTLSError" - the same
sequence, just wired to a different return shape in each CLI. It now
lives once in servererror, alongside the hints it decorates errors
with.

registerErrorMessage's own trailing NginxError check is dropped:
Explain already covers it before the RegisterNodeDefault-specific
formatting runs, so keeping it would have appended NginxHint twice.
api-tests/init.go still mutated http.DefaultTransport in place and
read an unbounded nginx-response body while discarding any read
error - the same pattern this ticket (PMM-15186) fixed at pmm-admin's
and pmm-agent's four call sites, just left over in the test harness
that wasn't part of that list.

Transport now builds on apitransport.Configure/SetAuth and
servererror.Consumers, which clone the transport before touching it
and bound the nginx body they read. The local NginxError type is
replaced by servererror.NginxError.
redactedServerURL reimplemented the exact url.Parse + Redacted() pass
utils/dsnutils.RedactDSN already provides, in a different package.
The two could drift silently; redactedServerURL now calls RedactDSN
and applies its own credentialPattern fallback on top of that.
- godot: three doc-comment sentences started with a lowercase
  identifier (dsnutils.RedactDSN, host, extra); reworded/capitalized
  each so the sentence starts with a capital letter.
- modernize (mapsloop): replace the manual m[k]=v copy loop in
  Consumers with maps.Copy.
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