Review of the endpoint found that truncating the report's fields is not enough. It is unauthenticated and reachable without the frontend, so a caller could embed a newline in any field and forge what reads as a second [client-error] record in the shared server log. Every field is now stripped of CR, LF and the other C0 control characters, plus DEL, each replaced by a single space, so one report is always exactly one log record.
Sanitising happens before truncation rather than after. The substitution is 1-for-1, so it cannot change the string's length and clipping the sanitised value still guarantees the stored result never exceeds the limit. An escaping scheme that expanded a control character into several visible ones would need the opposite order to keep that guarantee, so the two are not interchangeable — recorded in a comment next to the code rather than left for someone to rediscover by reversing it.
The check is a numeric code-point comparison rather than a regex over a control-character class. That is not style: the first attempt used one, and the hex escapes were corrupted into raw control bytes on the way into the file. Written this way the source never has to contain an escape sequence or a raw control character at all, and the file is verified free of both.
The review also found the truncation boundary was never exercised — the only test sent 5000 characters against a 500 limit. Tests now cover a string of exactly the limit passing through untouched, one character over truncating, truncation of stack and componentStack rather than message alone, and a report full of newlines producing a single log line.
Verified: 10 integration tests pass, up from 4, and lint reports no new warnings.
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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The frontend's error boundaries need somewhere to report to. A boundary that only shows a customer a message leaves nobody knowing it happened, which is the failure shape this project has designed against three times already.
POST /api/client-errors takes a report, truncates its fields, logs it with a [client-error] prefix and returns 204. No storage: the container log is where this project's operational visibility already lives, and a table with a retention policy and an admin screen is a subsystem larger than the issue.
An unrecognised context is a 400 rather than a log line under a guessed label, following parseItemFilters, which refuses a malformed filter instead of coercing it. Oversized fields go the other way and are truncated rather than refused, because an over-long report is still the only record of the failure.
The endpoint gets its own rate limiter rather than reusing passwordResetRequestLimiter, whose comment already warns that its caller-and-email key collapses every caller into one shared bucket on an endpoint without an email. The new one takes the default key generator, which also avoids the ERR_ERL_KEY_GEN_IPV6 warning the custom key produces.
Verified: 138 integration tests pass, 4 of them new, and 79 unit. The unit count rose by one without a test being written — routesAreWrapped.test.ts runs describe.each over the files in src/routes, so a new route file generates a case. The handler is synchronous and needs no asyncRoute wrapper.
Refs #62
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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