dsh-lan-gateway

dsh-lan-gateway

LAN / remote access gateway for the DeepSeek Harness Web UI — a complete, token-gated solution:

• 0.0.0.0 binding — reach the Web GUI from any device on your LAN (or via Tailscale, etc.)
• crypto.randomUUID polyfill — the browser only exposes this API in secure contexts (HTTPS / localhost); plain-HTTP LAN access would otherwise crash the client-side RPC layer. The polyfill is mounted in the browser bundle (and as a host-side tap as fallback).
• Token gate — every request must present an access token (cookie / ?token= / X-DSH-Token / login form): a 401 login page for browsers, WebSocket handshakes are destroyed without a valid token. Since v3 loopback is no longer short-circuited (the local user used to be the only one who could not reach the login form); the WebSocket handshake alone stays loopback-exempt.
• Privileged-fence exemption — one-line patch so the host's privileged-method fence keeps working over LAN access.
• Settings persistence — forces the settings scope to host mode so General settings (language, appearance, …) are read/written even when reached via a LAN IP.
• Idempotent installer + upgrade recovery — install.sh (apply / --check / --restart / --uninstall) and reapply-lan-patches.sh to restore the node_modules patches after every dsh upgrade.

⚠️ Trusted networks only. Binding to 0.0.0.0 lets any device that can reach the port drive the agent (execute commands). The token gate keeps unauthorized devices out, but tokens travel in plain HTTP — add an HTTPS reverse proxy if you need protection from sniffing. Do not expose this to the public internet.

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Install (tarball, 3 steps)

On the target machine (must have run @deepseek-ai/dsh web at least once):

scp dsh-lan-gateway-install.tar.gz user@target:~/
cd ~ && tar xzf dsh-lan-gateway-install.tar.gz
cd dsh-lan-gateway-install && bash install.sh --restart

During install a random access token is generated once and shown once (saved to ~/.dsh/lan-access-token, chmod 600). After restart, visiting http://<target-ip>:3080 or http://127.0.0.1:3080 shows the token login page (v3: loopback is no longer exempt — seeing the login page means the service is healthy; HTTP 401 is expected).

Install (npm)

dsh plugin --profile web add dsh-lan-gateway
# then apply the privileged-fence / settings / webserver patches via the bundled installer:
bash ~/.dsh/plugins/dsh-lan-gateway/install.sh --restart

Access token

• Token file: ~/.dsh/lan-access-token (single line, chmod 600). Changes take effect immediately — the file is read on every request, no restart needed.
• Same rules for loopback and LAN (v3): without credentials both show the login page. Only the WebSocket handshake remains loopback-exempt.
• Access, any of:
  • Browser: first visit shows the login page — paste the token (sets a 30-day HttpOnly cookie)
  • curl -H "X-DSH-Token: <token>" http://<ip>:3080/api/<method> (API channel only — the root / accepts ?token= or the cookie, not this header)
  • http://<ip>:3080/?token=<token> (auto-sets the cookie)
  • WebSocket connections inherit the cookie automatically
• Login form posts to POST /__lan_auth (valid token → 302 to /?token= → host browserAuth exchange + Set-Cookie).
• v3 index-401 fallback: when the gate lets a request through but host browserAuth rejects it (expired cookie, rotated cookie-signing secret, stale cookie from another origin), the plain-text English 401 on / is replaced by the same login page — the user always has a way back in.
• Delete the token file to disable the gate (fail-safe); regenerate by deleting the file and re-running bash install.sh.

Commands

What it installs

reapply-lan-patches.sh is copied to ~/.dsh/ — after a dsh upgrade or reinstall (layers 5–7 get overwritten), run:

bash ~/.dsh/reapply-lan-patches.sh --restart

Verify

curl -i http://127.0.0.1:3080/                         # 401 + text/html login page (v3)
curl -i http://<ip>:3080/                              # 401 + login page (no token)
curl -i "http://<ip>:3080/?token=<token>"              # 303 + Set-Cookie
curl -H "X-DSH-Token: <token>" -X POST http://<ip>:3080/api/<method>   # not 401/403 (API only)

In the browser console: crypto.randomUUID() returns a valid v4 UUID.

Unit tests

node --test packages/dsh-lan-access/tests/token-gate.test.mjs

16 cases: loopback/non-loopback, the three token channels, form submission, and the index-401 fallback.

Troubleshooting

• "web profile not initialized": run dsh web once, then re-run bash install.sh.
• Privileged-fence sed failure ("code structure changed"): dsh version too new — adapt the interception logic near PRIVILEGED_METHODS in dsh-client-connection/lib/index.js.
• Token-gate patch failure ("anchor not found"): dsh-host-webserver internals changed — adapt the anchors in patch-webserver.mjs.
• Forgot the token: cat ~/.dsh/lan-access-token, or delete the file and re-run bash install.sh.
• Disable the token gate: rm ~/.dsh/lan-access-token; remove the patch fully with node ~/.dsh/plugins/dsh-lan-gateway/patch-webserver.mjs <webserver lib> --revert.
• LAN still 403 after install: check ~/.dsh/cordis.patch.yml webserver entry took effect (ss -ltnp | grep 3080 should show 0.0.0.0:3080, not 127.0.0.1:3080).

Compatibility

Patches target the current @deepseek-ai/dsh rc line (anchor-based, verified against dsh 0.1.0-rc.x). Upgrades that change dsh-client-connection / dsh-client-ui-settings / dsh-host-webserver internals may require anchor updates — the installer detects and reports this instead of silently corrupting files.

Security model

• No built-in keys. The token is generated at install time and stored in your home directory (600).
• Loopback is not exempt since v3 for HTTP requests (it still is for WebSocket handshakes) — the local session pastes the token once and keeps a 30-day cookie.
• Constant-time token comparison (SHA-256 + timingSafeEqual), HttpOnly + SameSite=Strict cookie, 30-day expiry.
• The token gate is authorization, not encryption — plain-HTTP LAN traffic can be sniffed. Use an HTTPS reverse proxy (Caddy/nginx) in front for untrusted networks.

License

MIT. Chinese documentation: README.zh.md

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Part of dsh-plugins — a small monorepo of DSH plugins: dsh-lan-gateway, dsh-vision-tool, dsh-mobile-ui.