cmd/derper: permit port 80 in ACE targets

Updates tailscale/corp#32168
Updates tailscale/corp#32226

Change-Id: Iddc017b060c76e6eab8f6d0c989a775bcaae3518
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
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Brad Fitzpatrick 2025-09-17 12:49:00 -07:00 committed by Brad Fitzpatrick
parent bb38bf7414
commit 73c371f784

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@ -35,8 +35,35 @@ func serveConnect(s *derp.Server, w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
if err != nil {
return err
}
if port != "443" {
return fmt.Errorf("only port 443 is allowed")
if port != "443" && port != "80" {
// There are only two types of CONNECT requests the client makes
// via ACE: requests for /key (port 443) and requests to upgrade
// to the bidirectional ts2021 Noise protocol.
//
// The ts2021 layer can bootstrap over port 80 (http) or port
// 443 (https).
//
// Without ACE, we prefer port 80 to avoid unnecessary double
// encryption. But enough places require TLS+port 443 that we do
// support that double encryption path as a fallback.
//
// But ACE adds its own TLS layer (ACE is always CONNECT over
// https). If we don't permit port 80 here as a target, we'd
// have three layers of encryption (TLS + TLS + Noise) which is
// even more silly than two.
//
// So we permit port 80 such that we can only have two layers of
// encryption, varying by the request type:
//
// 1. TLS from client to ACE proxy (CONNECT)
// 2a. TLS from ACE proxy to https://controlplane.tailscale.com/key (port 443)
// 2b. ts2021 Noise from ACE proxy to http://controlplane.tailscale.com/ts2021 (port 80)
//
// But nothing's stopping the client from doing its ts2021
// upgrade over https anyway and having three layers of
// encryption. But we can at least permit the client to do a
// "CONNECT controlplane.tailscale.com:80 HTTP/1.1" if it wants.
return fmt.Errorf("only ports 443 and 80 are allowed")
}
// TODO(bradfitz): make policy configurable from flags and/or come
// from local tailscaled nodeAttrs