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funman300 fb38ee6087 fifa17: claim five routes whose handlers were already unreachable
Read the client's COMPLETE UTAS route surface out of CardsDLL's .rdata in the
running process (new tools/url_template_probe.py) and probed every one against
staging, where the Python upstream is deliberately dead so anything the Rust host
does not own answers 502 instead of being silently proxied.

That found five routes whose handlers already existed and were dead code because
`classify` never produced their Route -- the same defect as `season/list` and
`watchList`, whose fix comments are still in the file. This is the third and
fourth time:

  captcha        -> handle_static_ack, which already returns the oracle's exact
                    {encodedImg,sequence,sizeBeforeEncode}
  tfa            -> handle_static_ack, {}
  livemessage    -> handle_static_ack, {}
  activeMessage  -> handle_static_ack, {}
  tournament/user-> FeatureOffEmpty, {} == the oracle with FUT_MODES off
                    (tools/utas_server.py:1504); the client builds this literal
                    at CardsDLL 0x18021e540 and the bare `tournament` arm never
                    matched it

Route's own doc comment already claimed the first four as "Rust-owned
UNCONDITIONAL", so the documentation was wrong rather than the intent. All five
are byte-identical to the oracle, so claiming them is parity, not new behaviour.
Invisible in production because the upstream answers there.

Two tests pin the vocabularies so a handler cannot go unreachable a fifth time;
both are mutation-checked (removing the captcha arm fails the first).

Also documents the surface in docs/CLIENT_ROUTE_SURFACE.md, including the trap
that bit me repeatedly: an .rdata literal is a FRAGMENT, not a callable path.
`clientdata`, `purchasegroup`, `sbs/challenges`, `squadBuildingSets`, `club/items`
and `item` all looked unserved and are not. Only `squad/mode` is genuinely
unserved, and correctly so -- it is Draft-only, which is out of scope.

L5 finding: there is NO consumable-apply route anywhere in the binary. The only
owned-item mutations the client can express are PUT item (move/pile), DELETE
item/<id> and POST delete/item (quick sell), and PUT squad. So applying a
consumable is not a dedicated endpoint; L5/L6 must be pursued by capturing the
PUT item payload, not by implementing a route that does not exist.

Host 123 lib + 45 host_test, fmt and clippy clean. tournament/user, livemessage
and activeMessage verified 200 on staging (were 502).
2026-08-21 23:28:29 +00:00

4.9 KiB

The client's complete UTAS route surface

Read out of the running client's own .rdata on 2026-08-21 (pid 6580) with fifa17-recon/tools/url_template_probe.py, then each route probed against staging. This bounds the server: FIFA 17 cannot ask for a route that is not in this list.

Staging's Python upstream is deliberately dead, so a 502 there means the Rust host does not own the route — which makes the coverage column a measurement rather than an audit of the source.

Route templates in CardsDLL

%s is the sku segment, built from game/%s (0x18021fac8) → game/fifa17.

ut/auth                        ut/delete/auth
ut/%s/user                     ut/delete/%s/user          ut/%s/user/list
ut/%s/club                     ut/%s/clubUser
ut/%s/item                     ut/%s/item/resource        ut/delete/%s/item
ut/%s/defid
ut/%s/squad                    ut/delete/%s/squad         ut/%s/squad/mode
ut/%s/purchased                ut/%s/store                ut/v2/%s/store
ut/%s/trade                    ut/delete/%s/trade
ut/%s/tradePile                ut/%s/watchList            ut/delete/%s/watchList
ut/%s/auctionhouse             ut/%s/marketdata
ut/%s/match                    ut/%s/sbs
ut/%s/season                   ut/%s/season/user          ut/%s/season/%%s/user
ut/%s/season/%%s/reset         ut/%s/season/friendly
ut/%s/tournament               ut/%s/tournament/user      ut/delete/%s/tournament/user
ut/%s/champion                 ut/%s/draft/mode
ut/%s/leaderboards             ut/%s/leaderboards/options
ut/%s/activeMessage            ut/%s/livemessage
ut/%s/clientdata               ut/%s/phishing             ut/%s/captcha    ut/%s/tfa

Suffixes appended to the above, not standalone routes: /consumables/%s, /items, /purchasegroup, /squadBuildingSets, /challenge/%d/squad, /choices/manager, /purchase/mode/%d/draft, /transfermarket?type=%s&start=%d&num=%d.

THE TRAP when reading this list

A literal in .rdata is a fragment, not necessarily a callable path. Probing fragments bare manufactures fake gaps. Every one of these looked unserved and was not:

looked missing actually
clientdata real route is clientdata/<key>; served (clientdata/userHubData → 200)
purchasegroup a suffix of store; store/purchasegroup/all is served
sbs/challenges not a route; the real ones are sbs/sets, sbs/setId/<n>/challenges, sbs/challenge/<n> — all served
squadBuildingSets not a route in the oracle either
club/items items/... literals are ART ASSET paths, not UTAS
item only ever PUT (move/pile) and DELETE (quick-sell)

Check a candidate gap against tools/utas_server.py's regex table before believing it.

Genuinely unserved, and why that is correct

  • squad/mode — bare form is never used. The oracle only has Draft sub-paths (squad/mode/draft/state, squad/mode/<n>/draft/choices/*). Draft is out of scope, so this correctly stays on Python.

Fixed by this measurement

Four handlers existed and were unreachable because classify never produced their route, so every request fell through to Python. This is a recurring defect class in openfut-utas-hostseason/list and watchList were the first two, and their fix comments are still in the file:

route handler was
captcha handle_static_ack, returns the oracle's exact {encodedImg,sequence,sizeBeforeEncode} fell to Python
tfa / livemessage / activeMessage handle_static_ack, {} fell to Python
tournament/user FeatureOffEmpty, {} — the oracle's answer with FUT_MODES off fell to Python

Route's own doc comment already claimed the first four as "Rust-owned UNCONDITIONAL", so the documentation had been wrong rather than the intent. All five are byte-identical to the oracle, so claiming them is parity, not new behaviour. Invisible in production (the upstream answers); a 502 on staging.

Two regression tests now pin the vocabularies — every_static_ack_tail_is_actually_routed and the_disabled_mode_reads_are_all_claimed — so a handler cannot go unreachable a fifth time.

No consumable apply endpoint exists

Support level L5 for consumables was open, with an inherited note saying there is "no training/position/chemistry/manager-league endpoint at all". The route table confirms it from the binary: there is no apply/training/position/ chemistry route anywhere in CardsDLL. The only owned-item mutations the client can express are:

PUT    ut/%s/item          move / pile
DELETE ut/%s/item/<id>     quick sell
POST   ut/delete/%s/item   bulk quick sell
PUT    ut/%s/squad         squad write

So applying a consumable is not a dedicated server route. If it reaches the server at all it must ride PUT ut/%s/item, and L5/L6 should be pursued by capturing that PUT's payload while applying a card — not by looking for an endpoint that does not exist.