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Native bridges (Bedrock Invoke and Converse, Claude on Vertex AI, Anthropic direct, Vertex Gemini) dropped every image, audio and file part of a chat request before it reached the upstream. The call returned 200 and the model answered without the image. That holds for /v1/chat/completions, /v1/messages and /v1/responses, streaming or not, since the latter two go through the chat intermediate form.

This re-applies #1307 (reverted in #1310) and changes one thing in it: a media URL the upstream cannot read itself is now downloaded by the gateway and sent inline, instead of being refused.

What #1307 brings back: the shared aisix_gateway::content_part reader and per-bridge translation. Inline data (data: URLs, input_audio, file.file_data) becomes each upstream's own media block. A part the upstream cannot take is a 400 that names messages[i].content[j], and never gets dropped. The system-only refusal that #1311 moved ahead of rail selection is kept.

URL handling now works like this:

  • Anthropic direct with an https:// URL, and Vertex Gemini with https:// / gs:// plus a known media type, still pass the URL through as a reference (source.type: url / fileData.fileUri).
  • Everything else that is http(s) gets downloaded: Bedrock (both rails), Claude on Vertex, http:// toward Anthropic or Gemini, and an https:// URL Gemini can't type. The bytes go out as base64 (Anthropic shape, Gemini inlineData) or raw bytes (Converse).
  • Any other scheme (e.g. gs:// toward Bedrock) is still a 400.

The download is default-deny for anything that isn't publicly routable: loopback, RFC 1918, CGNAT, link-local (incl. 169.254.169.254), 192.0.0.0/24, documentation/benchmark ranges, multicast/reserved, IPv6 unique-local/link-local/site-local, 168.63.129.16, and NAT64/6to4/IPv4-mapped forms of those. The check lives in the download client's DNS resolver. If any address in the answer is non-public, the whole answer is refused. The connection goes only to the addresses that were checked, so a rebinding name can't swap them, for http and https alike, with Host/SNI unchanged. An address literal is checked before the request. Redirects are followed by hand, up to 10, and each hop is checked the same way. Proxies from the environment are not used for this client, because a proxy would resolve the name past the check. Caller headers are never forwarded. The client keeps the upstream trust roots (upstream.tls.ca_file), but it never presents the upstream mTLS client certificate to a caller-chosen host.

Limits: each URL is capped at max_bytes. Content-Length is checked first, then the body is counted while streaming. Downloads share the request's own end-to-end upstream timeout budget, the non-streaming one on a streaming dispatch. The time they take is charged to the upstream call that follows. A timeout or transport failure is retried, with a short backoff, up to 3 attempts in total within that budget. An HTTP error status is not retried. All downloads of one request also count, together with its inbound body, against the existing proxy.request_body_limit_bytes. Once the total would pass that limit, the request fails with the same 413 (request_too_large, in the caller's envelope) that an oversized inbound body gets. With the default 0 there is no total cap, the same as for inbound bodies. URLs in one request are fetched concurrently (up to 8), and a repeated URL is fetched once. There is no cross-request cache. The body is read into one buffer and encoded once, and its last use takes the buffer instead of copying it.

The media type comes from the caller's explicit format / mime_type if set. Otherwise it comes from the response Content-Type (unless that is application/octet-stream or binary/*), then the URL extension, then magic bytes. If none of those works, the request is a 400.

A failed download is a 400 in the entry's own error shape, naming the part and the reason. For a blocked address, the message points the operator at upstream.media_fetch.allowed_hosts. Query strings and fragments are stripped from every URL echoed in an error. That now also covers the #1307 refusal messages.

New startup config (defaults shown), annotated in config.example.yaml / config.managed.yaml and in config.reference.json:

upstream:
  media_fetch:
    enabled: true          # false: URL parts toward upstreams that can't read URLs are a 400, as in #1307
    allowed_hosts: []      # "host" (any port) or "host:port"; IPv6 with port as "[addr]:port"
    max_bytes: 52428800    # 50 MiB per URL

There is deliberately no switch that turns the address check off; allowed_hosts is the escape hatch. An allow-listed host is still resolved once and pinned. A bad allowed_hosts entry fails boot. The list also works as AISIX_UPSTREAM__MEDIA_FETCH__ALLOWED_HOSTS (comma-separated).

Behaviour change on upgrade: requests with image/audio/file parts toward these providers now carry the media upstream, where it used to be silently dropped. A request whose media the upstream can't take (e.g. audio to Claude), or whose URL can't be downloaded, now gets a 400 instead of a blind 200. Nothing has to be edited. Operators who serve media from internal hosts need to list them in allowed_hosts.

Upgrade note for proxied egress: the download never goes through HTTP_PROXY / HTTPS_PROXY / ALL_PROXY, because a proxy would resolve the host past the address check. If a deployment's only internet egress is such a forward proxy, it cannot download media URLs. URL parts toward upstreams that cannot read the URL themselves now fail with a 400 instead of being silently dropped. Inline parts (base64, data: URIs) are unaffected, and so are URLs the upstream reads itself (Anthropic https://, Gemini https:// / gs:// with a known type).

With a request body limit set, a request that used to pass because its media was dropped can now get a 413 once the downloaded bytes are counted.

Out of scope: the request-time token estimator still estimates remote URLs without downloading them. Prompt-cache marker work is separate.

Tests: tests/e2e/src/cases/chat-media-parts-native-providers-e2e.test.ts is restored from #1307 (it fails on main, where the parts are dropped) and extended with a local media server on loopback. It covers download per fetching family (Bedrock Converse on all three entries, the Bedrock Claude Invoke and ConverseStream rails, Claude on Vertex, Anthropic and Gemini over http://), type from magic bytes, dedupe, and default-deny across all five families. The same server via 127.0.0.1 is refused while localhost:<port> is allow-listed, with no request reaching it. It also covers a redirect to a private address refused and to an allowed one followed, too large, 404 not retried with the signed query not echoed, a non-http scheme, and enabled: false. Unit tests in media_fetch cover the address classification, allowlist parsing, the resolver-level refusal, the cap, hop-by-hop redirects and sniffing.

The chart side of the new config block is api7/api7-helm-chart#409, held for the release that ships this.

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…ridges

Re-applies #1307 (reverted in #1310) on top of current main, keeping
the system-only refusal that #1311 hoisted ahead of rail selection.
… inline

Where the target upstream cannot reference a media URL itself (Bedrock
Invoke and Converse, Claude on Vertex AI, http:// toward Anthropic or
Gemini, or an https:// URL Gemini cannot type), the gateway now downloads
it and sends the bytes inline instead of refusing the part.

The download only reaches publicly routable addresses: every address the
name resolves to is checked and the connection is pinned to them, the
same for each manually followed redirect hop (at most 10). New startup
block upstream.media_fetch { enabled, allowed_hosts, max_bytes }.
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The gateway now parses media content parts, optionally downloads eligible URLs, and translates supported media into provider-specific requests for Anthropic, Bedrock, and Vertex. The changes add configuration, startup initialization, and unit and end-to-end coverage.

Changes: Native media handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Parse and validate content parts
crates/aisix-gateway/src/content_part.rs, crates/aisix-gateway/src/lib.rs, crates/aisix-gateway/src/chat.rs, crates/aisix-gateway/Cargo.toml, crates/aisix-proxy/src/responses_bridge.rs
Adds shared parsing and translation for text, image, audio, and file parts, with MIME inference, indexed errors, URI redaction, and tool-result validation.
Configure and fetch media URLs
crates/aisix-core/src/config.rs, config.example.yaml, config.managed.yaml, config.reference.json, crates/aisix-gateway/src/media_fetch.rs, crates/aisix-gateway/src/upstream_http.rs, crates/aisix-server/src/main.rs
Adds upstream.media_fetch, startup initialization, validated URL downloads, allowlisting, retries, redirect checks, size limits, MIME detection, deduplication, and deadline charging.
Translate Anthropic requests
crates/aisix-provider-anthropic/src/wire.rs, crates/aisix-provider-anthropic/src/bridge.rs
Anthropic translation supports typed user media and fetched URLs, and rejects unsupported content and non-text tool results in streaming and non-streaming paths.
Translate Bedrock requests
crates/aisix-provider-bedrock/src/bridge.rs, crates/aisix-provider-bedrock/Cargo.toml
Bedrock Converse and Anthropic Invoke paths translate supported media. Converse creates typed media blocks, validates tool results, and adds text to document-only turns.
Translate Vertex requests
crates/aisix-provider-vertex/src/bridge.rs
Gemini requests translate media to inline data or supported file references. Claude-on-Vertex requests use media-aware Anthropic translation and apply URL rules.
End-to-end provider coverage
tests/e2e/src/cases/chat-media-parts-native-providers-e2e.test.ts
Tests cover provider-specific media translation, streaming, URL fetching, redirects, size limits, MIME handling, deduplication, error handling, SSRF protections, and disabled fetching.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant Gateway
  participant MediaFetcher
  participant ProviderBridge
  participant Upstream
  Client->>Gateway: Send chat request with media parts
  Gateway->>MediaFetcher: Fetch eligible media URLs
  MediaFetcher-->>Gateway: Return fetched media payloads
  Gateway->>ProviderBridge: Pass request and fetched media
  ProviderBridge->>Upstream: Send translated provider request
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Media downloads have no per-request total cap, so one caller can exhaust memory. Streaming requests with media can run well past their configured timeout. Operators who set upstream tls.verify=false also lose certificate checks on caller-chosen media URLs. Resolve these before merging, or explicitly accept them.

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Security Check Error Category 1 — CRITICAL. crates/aisix-gateway/src/content_part.rs:302-312 implements display_uri by removing only query and fragment data. It preserves URL userinfo. A URL such as `https://user:pass… Redact URL userinfo before any error or log uses. Parse the URL, clear its username and password, remove query and fragment, then truncate the sanitized value. Use the sanitized helper for all media rejection and download-failure paths. Add…
E2e Test Quality Review Warning Major E2E coverage gap remains. The suite sends streaming requests for Anthropic, Vertex Gemini, Vertex Claude, and Bedrock Claude, but lines 539-577 use a JSON mock instead of valid SSE or Bedrock ev… Add valid Anthropic SSE, Vertex SSE, and Bedrock Converse event-stream fixtures. Assert the client response status and streamed output. Verify media translation on streaming paths for direct Anthropic, Vertex Gemini, Vertex Claude, Bedrock …
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Category 1 — CRITICAL. crates/aisix-gateway/src/content_part.rs:302-312 implements display_uri by removing only query and fragment data. It preserves URL userinfo. A URL such as https://user:password@example.com/image.png can therefore expose password in provider 400 responses and in the warning at crates/aisix-gateway/src/media_fetch.rs:306-310. The changed media-fetch failure path calls display_uri again at media_fetch.rs:532-562. URL parsing accepts this URI form, so the exposure is introduced by this pull request. The existing test covers query redaction only (content_part.rs:456-459). Category 2 — No issues found in the changed code. Category 3 — No issues found in the changed code. Category 4 — No issues found in the changed code. Category 5 — No issues found. The changed caller-selected client maps verify: false to danger_accept_invalid_certs(true) and does not attach the upstream client identity. Category 6 — No issues found in the changed code. Category 7 — No issues found in the changed code.

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Redact URL userinfo before any error or log uses. Parse the URL, clear its username and password, remove query and fragment, then truncate the sanitized value. Use the sanitized helper for all media rejection and download-failure paths. Add unit and end-to-end tests for basic-auth and percent-encoded userinfo, and verify that credentials are absent from both responses and logs.

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Major E2E coverage gap remains. The suite sends streaming requests for Anthropic, Vertex Gemini, Vertex Claude, and Bedrock Claude, but lines 539-577 use a JSON mock instead of valid SSE or Bedrock event-stream responses. Those tests ignore the client response and only inspect that a request reached the upstream. They do not verify status or streamed output. The streaming implementation has separate provider paths (Anthropic bridge lines 453-539, Vertex Gemini lines 1716-1785, Bedrock Converse lines 1216-1291). The suite also covers only Bedrock image and PDF downloads. It has no downloaded audio or video case for Bedrock, although the translator supports audio and video blocks (bridge lines 1506-1543).

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Add valid Anthropic SSE, Vertex SSE, and Bedrock Converse event-stream fixtures. Assert the client response status and streamed output. Verify media translation on streaming paths for direct Anthropic, Vertex Gemini, Vertex Claude, Bedrock Nova, and Bedrock Claude. Add Bedrock E2E cases for downloaded audio and video, including unsupported or invalid media responses and assertions that the upstream receives no request.

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…ent the upstream client certificate

- Downloads run under the end-to-end budget (the non-streaming one on a
  streaming dispatch) and the time they take is charged to the upstream
  call that follows.
- The download client keeps the upstream trust roots but never the
  upstream mTLS client identity, which only operator-chosen peers see.
- Every part naming a downloaded URL can take it, so a part that did not
  need the download cannot use up the one that did; system turns are
  scanned too, since the Anthropic translation carries a late system
  turn as a user turn.
- Retries back off briefly, and an unresolvable host is not retried.

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inbound body gets, in the caller's error envelope. With the default 0
there is no total cap, as for inbound bodies.
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