Security, performance and dead-code audit

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Requested by beingsuz · project thread

Before:

• A depot manifest could chain symlinks (a -> ., then a/l -> ..) so that later file writes landed outside the install root.
• Decompression and several network reads were bounded only by format ceilings, or not at all. A zip entry was inflated whole into memory, up to the 4 GiB it could claim.
• A claimed chunk size could make resume allocate up to 4 GiB.
• GMA extraction failed for addons whose content ends past 64 MiB.
• A CM request Steam never answered hung the install forever.
• Legacy Workshop items with an http:// link could not be downloaded at all.

After:

• No write follows a symlink below the install root, and symlink targets are collapsed lexically.
• Chunk, manifest and zip decoding are bounded by the declared size. Zip entries go to the sink in 64 KiB pieces.
• CM directory, WebSocket upgrade and chunked HTTP reads are capped.
• One TLS config is shared, so CDN reconnects can resume TLS sessions.
• Chunk hashing and writes no longer run on tokio worker threads.
• Every CM request fails after 60 seconds without an answer.
• Legacy Workshop links are fetched over https and must match the item's declared size.
• A manifest must name the depot that was asked for.

How: one commit per concern.

• New: SafePath::resolve_without_links, tapline_fs::remove_symlink and tapline_zip::decode_into.
• PathError::ThroughSymlink is a new variant.

Behaviour changes:

• An update whose manifest lists files under a symlinked directory now fails instead of writing through the link.
• http:// URLs are refused; previously they dialled TLS on port 80.

SECURITY.md is corrected. It no longer claims plain-HTTP lancache support, and it states that manifest signatures are not verified. Verifying them needs Valve's signing key, which isn't public. Manifests are only fetched over TLS.

Verified locally:

• cargo fmt --all --check
• cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings is clean.
• cargo test --workspace: 600 passed, 0 failed.

Not verified: live Steam/CDN, and a real legacy Workshop download.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved protection against unsafe paths, malformed token-store entries, oversized downloads, and invalid archive data.
  • Added limits for oversized server responses and WebSocket headers, and rejected URLs containing whitespace or control characters. Selected session operations now time out after 60 seconds.
  • File installation and chunk processing are more resilient to symlinks and I/O errors. Legacy Workshop HTTP links are now upgraded to HTTPS.
• New Features
  • Added an option to remove a path only when it is a symlink, leaving regular files untouched.
  • Archive entries can now be extracted incrementally, reducing the need to hold entire entries in memory.
• Documentation
  • Clarified download security checks and TLS requirements.

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Walkthrough

This pull request adds symlink-aware installation paths, size limits for archive and network processing, and streaming ZIP extraction. It also updates session request handling, TLS and WebSocket transport, token-store validation, and Workshop URL handling.

Changes

Symlink-safe installation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Symlink-aware path operations crates/tapline-fs/src/file.rs, crates/tapline-fs/src/lib.rs, crates/tapline-fs/src/path.rs	The filesystem crate adds symlink removal and path resolution that rejects intermediate symlinks. Symlink targets are collapsed, with tests covering these behaviors.
Installation path integration crates/tapline/src/session.rs	Workshop and depot paths use no-follow resolution. Installation removes destination symlinks before creating files or directories.

Bounded archive and streamed data processing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Archive and chunk validation crates/tapline-cdn/src/lib.rs, crates/tapline-chunk/src/lib.rs, crates/tapline-gmad/src/lib.rs, crates/tapline-manifest/src/container.rs, crates/tapline/src/validate.rs	Chunk and archive processing adds size and file-length checks. Manifest-container deflate output uses the entry’s declared uncompressed size.
Streaming ZIP extraction crates/tapline-zip/src/lib.rs, crates/tapline-pipe/src/lib.rs	ZIP decoding emits data through a callback in bounded pieces. Selective extraction writes nonempty decoded pieces to the sink. Tests cover chunked output, oversized output, and truncated streams.
Network response bounds crates/tapline-rt-tokio/src/directory.rs, crates/tapline-rt-tokio/src/http.rs, crates/tapline-rt-tokio/src/tls.rs, SECURITY.md	Directory, HTTP chunked, and WebSocket upgrade response reads have limits. URL parsing rejects HTTP, whitespace, and control characters. Security reporting guidance describes the documented transport and verification checks.

Session and transport behavior

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Session frame waits crates/tapline-net/src/session.rs	Job and logon waits retain at most 256 unrelated frames and restore retained frames when a matching response arrives.
Timed requests and chunk work crates/tapline/src/session.rs, crates/tapline-rt-tokio/src/sink.rs	Selected requests use a 60-second timeout. Chunk resume checks, decoding, and writes run on the blocking pool. FileSink adds a blocking write method.
TLS and WebSocket transport crates/tapline-rt-tokio/src/tls.rs, crates/tapline-rt-tokio/src/ws.rs	TLS configuration is cached and shared. WebSocket frame headers and masked payloads are combined into one buffer and written together.
Workshop URL handling crates/tapline/src/workshop.rs	Workshop classification converts legacy HTTP URLs to HTTPS and leaves other URL forms unchanged.

Authentication storage

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Token-store input and file contents crates/tapline-auth/src/store.rs	Token-store reads zeroize file contents after parsing or permission-check failure. Writes reject tab, newline, or carriage-return characters in either field.
Authentication discovery and comparison notes crates/tapline-auth/src/local.rs, crates/tapline-auth/src/sddl.rs	Comments describe Windows home-directory lookup and distinguish plain SID comparison from alias-aware comparison.

Supporting code updates

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Comment and unused-code cleanup crates/tapline-ffi/src/lib.rs, crates/tapline-pics/src/app.rs, crates/tapline/tests/streamed.rs	FFI comments were reworded. The PICS app and streaming test remove unused code and imports.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SelectiveExtraction
  participant decode_into
  participant Sink
  SelectiveExtraction->>decode_into: Decode archive entry with emission callback
  decode_into->>Sink: Emit each nonempty decoded piece
  Sink-->>SelectiveExtraction: Complete entry

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 73e3a

Extracting a malformed or truncated archive can leave partially written files in the output directory. Stored entries may also write more bytes than the archive declares. Both issues should be fixed before merging.

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• crates/tapline-chunk/src/lib.rs
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• crates/tapline-fs/src/lib.rs
• crates/tapline-fs/src/path.rs
• crates/tapline-gmad/src/lib.rs
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• crates/tapline-net/src/session.rs
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