Will Norris 3ec5be3f51 all: remove AUTHORS file and references to it
This file was never truly necessary and has never actually been used in
the history of Tailscale's open source releases.

A Brief History of AUTHORS files
---

The AUTHORS file was a pattern developed at Google, originally for
Chromium, then adopted by Go and a bunch of other projects. The problem
was that Chromium originally had a copyright line only recognizing
Google as the copyright holder. Because Google (and most open source
projects) do not require copyright assignemnt for contributions, each
contributor maintains their copyright. Some large corporate contributors
then tried to add their own name to the copyright line in the LICENSE
file or in file headers. This quickly becomes unwieldy, and puts a
tremendous burden on anyone building on top of Chromium, since the
license requires that they keep all copyright lines intact.

The compromise was to create an AUTHORS file that would list all of the
copyright holders. The LICENSE file and source file headers would then
include that list by reference, listing the copyright holder as "The
Chromium Authors".

This also become cumbersome to simply keep the file up to date with a
high rate of new contributors. Plus it's not always obvious who the
copyright holder is. Sometimes it is the individual making the
contribution, but many times it may be their employer. There is no way
for the proejct maintainer to know.

Eventually, Google changed their policy to no longer recommend trying to
keep the AUTHORS file up to date proactively, and instead to only add to
it when requested: https://opensource.google/docs/releasing/authors.
They are also clear that:

> Adding contributors to the AUTHORS file is entirely within the
> project's discretion and has no implications for copyright ownership.

It was primarily added to appease a small number of large contributors
that insisted that they be recognized as copyright holders (which was
entirely their right to do). But it's not truly necessary, and not even
the most accurate way of identifying contributors and/or copyright
holders.

In practice, we've never added anyone to our AUTHORS file. It only lists
Tailscale, so it's not really serving any purpose. It also causes
confusion because Tailscalars put the "Tailscale Inc & AUTHORS" header
in other open source repos which don't actually have an AUTHORS file, so
it's ambiguous what that means.

Instead, we just acknowledge that the contributors to Tailscale (whoever
they are) are copyright holders for their individual contributions. We
also have the benefit of using the DCO (developercertificate.org) which
provides some additional certification of their right to make the
contribution.

The source file changes were purely mechanical with:

    git ls-files | xargs sed -i -e 's/\(Tailscale Inc &\) AUTHORS/\1 contributors/g'

Updates #cleanup

Change-Id: Ia101a4a3005adb9118051b3416f5a64a4a45987d
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
2026-01-23 15:49:45 -08:00

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// Copyright (c) Tailscale Inc & contributors
// SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
package captivedetection
import (
"cmp"
"fmt"
"io"
"net/http"
"net/url"
"slices"
"go4.org/mem"
"tailscale.com/net/dnsfallback"
"tailscale.com/tailcfg"
"tailscale.com/types/logger"
)
// EndpointProvider is an enum that represents the source of an Endpoint.
type EndpointProvider int
const (
// DERPMapPreferred is used for an endpoint that is a DERP node contained in the current preferred DERP region,
// as provided by the DERPMap.
DERPMapPreferred EndpointProvider = iota
// DERPMapOther is used for an endpoint that is a DERP node, but not contained in the current preferred DERP region.
DERPMapOther
// Tailscale is used for endpoints that are the Tailscale coordination server or admin console.
Tailscale
)
func (p EndpointProvider) String() string {
switch p {
case DERPMapPreferred:
return "DERPMapPreferred"
case Tailscale:
return "Tailscale"
case DERPMapOther:
return "DERPMapOther"
default:
return fmt.Sprintf("EndpointProvider(%d)", p)
}
}
// Endpoint represents a URL that can be used to detect a captive portal, along with the expected
// result of the HTTP request.
type Endpoint struct {
// URL is the URL that we make an HTTP request to as part of the captive portal detection process.
URL *url.URL
// StatusCode is the expected HTTP status code that we expect to see in the response.
StatusCode int
// ExpectedContent is a string that we expect to see contained in the response body. If this is non-empty,
// we will check that the response body contains this string. If it is empty, we will not check the response body
// and only check the status code.
ExpectedContent string
// SupportsTailscaleChallenge is true if the endpoint will return the sent value of the X-Tailscale-Challenge
// HTTP header in its HTTP response.
SupportsTailscaleChallenge bool
// Provider is the source of the endpoint. This is used to prioritize certain endpoints over others
// (for example, a DERP node in the preferred region should always be used first).
Provider EndpointProvider
}
func (e Endpoint) String() string {
return fmt.Sprintf("Endpoint{URL=%q, StatusCode=%d, ExpectedContent=%q, SupportsTailscaleChallenge=%v, Provider=%s}", e.URL, e.StatusCode, e.ExpectedContent, e.SupportsTailscaleChallenge, e.Provider.String())
}
func (e Endpoint) Equal(other Endpoint) bool {
return e.URL.String() == other.URL.String() &&
e.StatusCode == other.StatusCode &&
e.ExpectedContent == other.ExpectedContent &&
e.SupportsTailscaleChallenge == other.SupportsTailscaleChallenge &&
e.Provider == other.Provider
}
// availableEndpoints returns a set of Endpoints which can be used for captive portal detection by performing
// one or more HTTP requests and looking at the response. The returned Endpoints are ordered by preference,
// with the most preferred Endpoint being the first in the slice.
func availableEndpoints(derpMap *tailcfg.DERPMap, preferredDERPRegionID int, logf logger.Logf, goos string) []Endpoint {
endpoints := []Endpoint{}
if derpMap == nil || len(derpMap.Regions) == 0 {
// When the client first starts, we don't have a DERPMap in LocalBackend yet. In this case,
// we use the static DERPMap from dnsfallback.
logf("captivedetection: current DERPMap is empty, using map from dnsfallback")
derpMap = dnsfallback.GetDERPMap()
}
// Use the DERP IPs as captive portal detection endpoints. Using IPs is better than hostnames
// because they do not depend on DNS resolution.
for _, region := range derpMap.Regions {
if region.Avoid || region.NoMeasureNoHome {
continue
}
for _, node := range region.Nodes {
if node.IPv4 == "" || !node.CanPort80 {
continue
}
str := "http://" + node.IPv4 + "/generate_204"
u, err := url.Parse(str)
if err != nil {
logf("captivedetection: failed to parse DERP node URL %q: %v", str, err)
continue
}
p := DERPMapOther
if region.RegionID == preferredDERPRegionID {
p = DERPMapPreferred
}
e := Endpoint{u, http.StatusNoContent, "", true, p}
endpoints = append(endpoints, e)
}
}
// Let's also try the default Tailscale coordination server and admin console.
// These are likely to be blocked on some networks.
appendTailscaleEndpoint := func(urlString string) {
u, err := url.Parse(urlString)
if err != nil {
logf("captivedetection: failed to parse Tailscale URL %q: %v", urlString, err)
return
}
endpoints = append(endpoints, Endpoint{u, http.StatusNoContent, "", false, Tailscale})
}
appendTailscaleEndpoint("http://controlplane.tailscale.com/generate_204")
appendTailscaleEndpoint("http://login.tailscale.com/generate_204")
// Sort the endpoints by provider so that we can prioritize DERP nodes in the preferred region, followed by
// any other DERP server elsewhere, then followed by Tailscale endpoints.
slices.SortFunc(endpoints, func(x, y Endpoint) int {
return cmp.Compare(x.Provider, y.Provider)
})
return endpoints
}
// responseLooksLikeCaptive checks if the given HTTP response matches the expected response for the Endpoint.
func (e Endpoint) responseLooksLikeCaptive(r *http.Response, logf logger.Logf) bool {
defer r.Body.Close()
// Check the status code first.
if r.StatusCode != e.StatusCode {
logf("[v1] unexpected status code in captive portal response: want=%d, got=%d", e.StatusCode, r.StatusCode)
return true
}
// If the endpoint supports the Tailscale challenge header, check that the response contains the expected header.
if e.SupportsTailscaleChallenge {
expectedResponse := "response ts_" + e.URL.Host
hasResponse := r.Header.Get("X-Tailscale-Response") == expectedResponse
if !hasResponse {
// The response did not contain the expected X-Tailscale-Response header, which means we are most likely
// behind a captive portal (somebody is tampering with the response headers).
logf("captive portal check response did not contain expected X-Tailscale-Response header: want=%q, got=%q", expectedResponse, r.Header.Get("X-Tailscale-Response"))
return true
}
}
// If we don't have an expected content string, we don't need to check the response body.
if e.ExpectedContent == "" {
return false
}
// Read the response body and check if it contains the expected content.
b, err := io.ReadAll(io.LimitReader(r.Body, 4096))
if err != nil {
logf("reading captive portal check response body failed: %v", err)
return false
}
hasExpectedContent := mem.Contains(mem.B(b), mem.S(e.ExpectedContent))
if !hasExpectedContent {
// The response body did not contain the expected content, that means we are most likely behind a captive portal.
logf("[v1] captive portal check response body did not contain expected content: want=%q", e.ExpectedContent)
return true
}
// If we got here, the response looks good.
return false
}