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kristianwindandClaude Opus 5 7b1e7ba7c9 fix(push): Apple rejected the notifications; use the site's own URL as VAPID subject
Every Web Push to an iPhone or a Mac was refused, silently as far as the person
waiting for the reminder could tell. The cause was the VAPID "sub" claim: on an
instance with no mail configured it fell back to mailto:verdande@example.invalid,
and Apple answers 403 Forbidden to a mailto whose domain is made up. Verified
against web.push.apple.com on the live subscriptions — that mailto gets a 403, the
instance's https URL a 201.

So the subject is now a real mailto when SMTP.From is a real address, and otherwise
the instance's own https base URL — which is a valid VAPID subject, points at
something that exists, and every push service including Apple accepts.

Two things found alongside it, both fixed:

- A successful push did not clear the failure count. A subscription drops at ten
  failures, and all four live ones sat at nine from this bug — one flaky push from
  being deleted despite working. MarkPushDelivered zeroes the count and moves
  last_used_at on every delivery, so a subscription that recovers is not still
  carrying its old failures toward the cliff.

- A reminder with no project made a notification whose URL was "/projekt/" — a
  dead link. Empty project now points at the app root.

Test: the subject is a real mailto when there is one, and the https URL when there
is not — including for the localhost default, which is not a real address.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-25 08:24:20 +02:00

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package httpapi
import (
"testing"
"github.com/kristianwind/verdande/internal/config"
)
// The VAPID subject has to be one a push service will accept. Apple answers 403 to
// a mailto with a made-up domain, which is what the no-mail fallback used to be, so
// every push to an Apple device was refused. With no real address, the instance's
// own https URL is used instead — valid, real, and accepted.
func TestVAPIDSubject(t *testing.T) {
cases := []struct {
name string
from string
baseURL string
want string
}{
{"a real address is used as-is", "todo@example.dk", "https://verdande.example.dk", "mailto:todo@example.dk"},
{"no mail falls back to the https url", "", "https://verdande.example.dk", "https://verdande.example.dk"},
{"the localhost default is not a real address", "verdande@localhost", "https://verdande.example.dk", "https://verdande.example.dk"},
{"a plain http dev url still serves as a subject", "", "http://localhost:8080", "http://localhost:8080"},
}
for _, tc := range cases {
t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
s := &Server{cfg: &config.Config{BaseURL: tc.baseURL, SMTP: config.SMTP{From: tc.from}}}
if got := s.vapidSubject(); got != tc.want {
t.Errorf("vapidSubject() = %q, want %q", got, tc.want)
}
})
}
}