The val.town founder asked us not to promote using their service. This
commit removes every val.town reference from the codebase and rewrites
the exit-node guides to be platform-agnostic.
Changes:
- Renamed assets/exit_node/valtown.ts → assets/exit_node/exit_node.ts.
TypeScript itself is unchanged — same web-standard Request/Response/
fetch API that runs on any serverless runtime.
- Rewrote assets/exit_node/README.md and README.fa.md to recommend
Deno Deploy as the primary host for users who want a free serverless
TS endpoint, with fly.io and your-own-VPS as alternatives. CF Workers
is explicitly called out as not-helpful (CF outbound is still on
CF's flagged IP space).
- Updated all val.town mentions in source comments (src/config.rs,
src/domain_fronter.rs, src/bin/ui.rs) to neutral wording.
- Updated config.exit-node.example.json `_comment` strings and the
example URL.
- Updated main README.md FAQ entries (Persian + English) and
docs/guide.md / docs/guide.fa.md.
- Old changelog files (v1.9.4 / v1.9.5 / v1.9.9) had val.town mentions
retroactively replaced too — same redaction principle.
- Bumped to v1.9.10 with a changelog noting the rename + Telegram
channel brief format from earlier today.
Users who already have an exit node deployed (on whichever host they
picked) don't need to change anything — the wire protocol is identical
and the renamed script is byte-identical to the old one.
Tests: 179 lib + 35 tunnel-node green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two changes addressing user-reported issues today:
1. Exit-node feature ported from upstream masterking32@464a6e1d, with
hardening. Cloudflare-protected sites (chatgpt.com, claude.ai,
grok.com, x.com, openai.com) flag Google datacenter IPs as bots and
return Turnstile / CAPTCHA / 502 challenges. Apps Script's UrlFetchApp
exits from those IPs, so v1.9.3 surfaces these as "Relay error: json:
key must be a string..." with no apps_script-mode workaround.
Now a small TypeScript HTTP endpoint (assets/exit_node/valtown.ts)
deployed on val.town / Deno Deploy sits between Apps Script and the
destination. Chain: client → Apps Script (Google IP) → val.town
(non-Google IP) → destination. Destination sees val.town's IP, no
CF challenge.
Config:
"exit_node": {
"enabled": true,
"relay_url": "https://...web.val.run",
"psk": "<openssl rand -hex 32>",
"mode": "selective",
"hosts": ["chatgpt.com", "claude.ai", "x.com", "grok.com", "openai.com"]
}
Hardening over upstream: PSK fail-closed if still placeholder (fresh
deploy can't be open relay), loop guard (refuses fetch of own host),
explicit 503 on misconfigured. Fallback to direct Apps Script on exit
node failure (CF-affected sites fail, others keep working). Setup
docs in English + Persian at assets/exit_node/README*.md. Example
config at config.exit-node.example.json.
2. Removed the legacy `telegram` job from release.yml. With
TELEGRAM_NOTIFY_ENABLED repo var set to true, every release was
producing two duplicate APK posts on the main Telegram channel: the
old bundled-APK-on-main job AND the newer per-file files-channel
posts (telegram-publish-files.yml). Only the per-file flow is wanted.
Legacy job and its helper telegram_release_notify.py are gone.
Recoverable from git log if anyone needs the bundled pattern back.
169 mhrv-rs lib tests + 33 tunnel-node tests + UI build clean.
therealaleph