Revert "Let a browser send the device fingerprint header it is offered"

This reverts commit fef1337b2b.
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Nariman Jelveh
2026-08-20 17:10:55 -07:00
parent 76bd05f228
commit 66410d7f1f
2 changed files with 0 additions and 29 deletions
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@@ -272,29 +272,6 @@ describe('PuterServer host header validation', () => {
);
});
it('lets a cross-origin preflight ask for the device fingerprint header', async () => {
// `fingerprint.ts` reads the device fingerprint off
// `x-puter-device-fingerprint` for authenticated requests with no body
// to carry it. That channel only exists if the preflight admits the
// header: a browser abandons the request otherwise, and the call never
// leaves it.
const res = await request(
'/healthcheck',
{
host: `api.puter.localhost:${port}`,
origin: 'http://puter.localhost',
'access-control-request-method': 'GET',
'access-control-request-headers':
'authorization,x-puter-device-fingerprint',
},
'OPTIONS',
);
expect(res.status).toBe(200);
expect(
String(res.headers['access-control-allow-headers']).toLowerCase(),
).toContain('x-puter-device-fingerprint');
});
it('still short-circuits OPTIONS preflight off the dav subdomain', async () => {
const res = await request(
'/some-path',
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@@ -685,12 +685,6 @@ export class PuterServer {
'X-Expected-Entity-Length',
'DAV',
'stripe-signature',
// The GUI's fallback channel for the device fingerprint on
// authenticated requests that have no body to carry it (see
// core/http/middleware/fingerprint.ts). Without it here the
// preflight refuses the header and the request never leaves the
// browser.
'x-puter-device-fingerprint',
].join(', ');
// What a browser DAV client is allowed to read back off a response.