The Test button asked the scanner on file, which makes it useless at
the moment it is most needed: the first attempt, before anything has
been saved. It now tries what is typed, falling back to the stored
address when the field is empty so the button still answers on a screen
nobody has touched. Nothing is written either way — testing is not
saving.
The address travels as a request field and is applied to the request's
own ScanningConfig, which is scoped so the screen and the scanner it
resolves share one. A preview address beats even a managed one, and is
set in exactly one place.
Quarantine now carries a count in the sidebar, like Comments — in amber
rather than the usual colour, because the others count work waiting and
this one counts something that went wrong. Shown only to whoever holds
the permission to act on it.
Both checked in a browser: an address typed and not saved came back
"No answer from tcp://escrito-a-mano.invalid:3310", the stored one
untouched, and the badge renders amber with the real count.
It sat above the form, which read as a box about the screen rather than
about the field. It belongs under "Scanner address" and above Save,
where it is plainly the answer to "is this address right?".
The box is now shown only where there is something to test — an
installation that connects its own scanner. On a hosted one the endpoint
answers 403, and a button that leads to a refusal is worse than no
button. That is a separate prop from `managed`, which covers two
different reasons the address is not editable: a scanner named in the
environment still has a connection worth testing.
"New scan" sits beside Quarantine as the screen's one action, in the
primary colour, on every tab. The "Files already here" box it replaces
is gone: it held an action under a Save button, a counter that the
Activity tab now shows live, and a field that belongs with the other
settings, which is where it is now.
The button says why when it cannot be pressed — scanning is off, every
file has already been checked, or a scan is already running — rather
than sitting grey with no explanation. It refuses a second scan while
one is working through the queue, which is a thing somebody would
otherwise do by clicking twice.
Starting one lands on the Activity tab. A button whose screen looks
unchanged afterwards reads as a button that did nothing, and this one
has somewhere worth looking.
Checked against a real ClamAV: 42 files queued, 31 came back clean, the
rest were the ones whose bytes are missing. The button then disabled
itself, because there was nothing left to scan.
A backfill runs for minutes or hours inside a queue worker, where none
of it is visible. The third tab polls every four seconds and says what
is happening: whether anything is running, how many uploads are held,
how deep the queue is, how many files were checked in the last hour,
and the last twenty verdicts with what each one was. When nothing is
running, that same list is the record of the last run, which is what
somebody opening the tab after the fact came for.
Two things the live screen found that the tests had not:
**A backfill read as "nothing is being scanned."** Re-scanning a file
that already went out unchecked deliberately leaves it available, so it
is never "pending" — and the screen counted only pending files. It
counts the scans queue too, and the two are shown separately, because
"an upload nobody can download yet" and "work the scanner has not
reached" are different facts.
**A file whose bytes are missing was recorded as "the scanner could not
be reached."** Wrong on screen, and worse than wrong in behaviour: that
is the one reason the hourly sweep re-queues, so every orphaned row
would have been rescanned every hour forever. It has its own reason
now, and goes through the same policy as a file the scanner could not
open.
Both tabs also gained the header shortcut to Quarantine, and Quarantine
one back to the settings, each shown only to somebody the destination
will actually let in.
"Scan existing files" sat disabled on an installation with a library of
144 of them, and the hourly backfill would have found none either. Both
looked for `scan_note = 'before_scanning'`, and no file on any upgraded
installation carries it: the migration gives `scan_status` its default
and writes no note, and the v1 import inserts rows the same way. The
feature was inert on exactly the libraries it exists for.
A file with no reason beside its "not scanned" is now what it plainly
is — one nothing has ever looked at — through File::neverScanned(),
which the backfill, the counts and the badge all ask. Reported as
"Uploaded before virus scanning was switched on" rather than as a bare
"Not scanned", which is the one badge somebody would have had to come
and ask about.
Found on the real screen, not by a test. The tests now cover the shape
an upgrade actually produces.
The dashboard's System card now says so when no scanner is configured
at all, not only when a configured one is failing: "Anything uploaded
here — by staff, by clients, or through an upload link — is passed on
unchecked", with a link to set it up.
Said only where somebody can act on it. Connecting a scanner is a new
capability, scanning.connect, community only — on a hosted installation
the scanner is infrastructure the platform runs, so its address is not a
tenant's to set and its absence is not a tenant's to fix. The two
policies stay on both editions, because what to do with a file nobody
could scan is a decision about somebody's own files. An edition
difference through the registry, never an edition check.
Also: PROJECTSEND_SCANNER_DEFAULT_ADDRESS, seeded into the settings on
first boot by the command that already does this for two-factor
enforcement. It is the opposite of PROJECTSEND_SCANNER_ADDRESS — a
starting value rather than a policy, so a Docker install that brings up
the optional scanner container arrives configured while the address and
the switch stay on the settings screen. Both are seeded together or
neither: an address with scanning off would look configured and check
nothing.
Nothing changes for an existing installation on upgrade: scanning stays
off, existing files are marked "never scanned", and the scanner
container is still opt-in.
The Test button did nothing visible. The page read `scanner_test_result`
off the shared props, and HandleInertiaRequests shares `success` and
`error` and nothing else — so the answer was set on the session and
never arrived. It is read in the controller and handed over as a prop
now, the way the CAPTCHA screen does it.
The screen is two tabs, Scanner and Options, following the scheduler's
`?tab=` links. Scanner holds the connection and the Test button; Options
holds the policies and the backfill. Both end with their Save, and
nothing sits below it — before this, "Files already here" and its button
were stranded under the Save button of a form they had nothing to do
with.
Verified by clicking the real button in a browser against a real ClamAV:
"Working. ClamAV 1.5.4 detected the test file as Eicar-Test-Signature."
Settings → Virus scanning: switch it on, point it at a ClamAV daemon,
choose the two policies, and see how many files are waiting, in
quarantine, or were let through unscanned. Switching it on with no
address is refused rather than saved and left inert.
The Test button is three answers, not one. Unreachable is obvious.
Reachable but detecting nothing is the failure that looks like success
— empty or broken virus definitions — so the test sends the EICAR
string and reports "it found the test file", never "it did not
complain". The string is assembled at runtime so no checkout contains
it: antivirus software on a developer's machine quarantines files that
do.
"Scan existing files" queues the library that predates scanning,
through the hourly command so no request is held open, paced by a
setting so it does not starve today's uploads.
Where the environment names a scanner, the connection and the on/off
switch leave the screen and scanning cannot be turned off — the same
managed shape the CAPTCHA screen has. The two policies stay editable,
because what to do with a file nobody could scan is a decision about
somebody's own files.
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