fix: bypass NestJS WsAdapter — manual WebSocket upgrade handling

The NestJS WsAdapter silently swallowed WebSocket connections through
NPM despite 101 responses in the access log. Replaced with manual
ws.Server instances using noServer mode and explicit HTTP upgrade
event handling. Gateways are now plain @Injectable services, not
@WebSocketGateway decorators.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

backend/src/main.ts

@@ -1,13 +1,14 @@
 import { NestFactory } from '@nestjs/core';
 import { ValidationPipe } from '@nestjs/common';
-import { WsAdapter } from '@nestjs/platform-ws';
 import { AppModule } from './app.module';
+import { WebSocketServer } from 'ws';
+import { TerminalGateway } from './terminal/terminal.gateway';
+import { SftpGateway } from './terminal/sftp.gateway';
 
 async function bootstrap() {
   const app = await NestFactory.create(AppModule);
   app.setGlobalPrefix('api');
   app.useGlobalPipes(new ValidationPipe({ whitelist: true, transform: true }));
-  app.useWebSocketAdapter(new WsAdapter(app));
   app.enableCors({
     origin: process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production' ? false : 'http://localhost:3001',
     credentials: true,
@@ -15,10 +16,40 @@ async function bootstrap() {
   await app.listen(3000);
   console.log('Wraith backend running on port 3000');
 
-  // Debug: monitor WebSocket upgrades at the HTTP server level
+  // Manual WebSocket handling — bypasses NestJS WsAdapter entirely
   const server = app.getHttpServer();
-  server.on('upgrade', (req: any, socket: any) => {
-    console.log(`[HTTP-UPGRADE] ${req.method} ${req.url} from ${req.headers.origin || 'unknown'}`);
+  const terminalGateway = app.get(TerminalGateway);
+  const sftpGateway = app.get(SftpGateway);
+
+  const terminalWss = new WebSocketServer({ noServer: true });
+  const sftpWss = new WebSocketServer({ noServer: true });
+
+  terminalWss.on('connection', (ws, req) => {
+    console.log(`[WS] Terminal connection from ${req.url}`);
+    terminalGateway.handleConnection(ws, req);
+  });
+
+  sftpWss.on('connection', (ws, req) => {
+    console.log(`[WS] SFTP connection from ${req.url}`);
+    sftpGateway.handleConnection(ws, req);
+  });
+
+  server.on('upgrade', (req: any, socket: any, head: any) => {
+    const pathname = req.url?.split('?')[0];
+    console.log(`[HTTP-UPGRADE] path=${pathname}`);
+
+    if (pathname === '/api/ws/terminal') {
+      terminalWss.handleUpgrade(req, socket, head, (ws) => {
+        terminalWss.emit('connection', ws, req);
+      });
+    } else if (pathname === '/api/ws/sftp') {
+      sftpWss.handleUpgrade(req, socket, head, (ws) => {
+        sftpWss.emit('connection', ws, req);
+      });
+    } else {
+      console.log(`[HTTP-UPGRADE] Unknown WS path: ${pathname}, destroying socket`);
+      socket.destroy();
+    }
   });
 }
 bootstrap();

backend/src/terminal/sftp.gateway.ts

@@ -1,14 +1,11 @@
-import { WebSocketGateway, WebSocketServer, OnGatewayConnection, OnGatewayDisconnect } from '@nestjs/websockets';
-import { Logger } from '@nestjs/common';
-import { Server } from 'ws';
+import { Injectable, Logger } from '@nestjs/common';
 import { WsAuthGuard } from '../auth/ws-auth.guard';
 import { SshConnectionService } from './ssh-connection.service';
 
 const MAX_EDIT_SIZE = 5 * 1024 * 1024; // 5MB
 
-@WebSocketGateway({ path: '/api/ws/sftp' })
-export class SftpGateway implements OnGatewayConnection, OnGatewayDisconnect {
-  @WebSocketServer() server: Server;
+@Injectable()
+export class SftpGateway {
   private readonly logger = new Logger(SftpGateway.name);
 
   constructor(
@@ -34,8 +31,6 @@ export class SftpGateway implements OnGatewayConnection, OnGatewayDisconnect {
     });
   }
 
-  handleDisconnect() {}
-
   private async handleMessage(client: any, msg: any) {
     const { sessionId } = msg;
     if (!sessionId) {
@@ -103,7 +98,6 @@ export class SftpGateway implements OnGatewayConnection, OnGatewayDisconnect {
         break;
       }
       case 'delete': {
-        // Try unlink (file), fallback to rmdir (directory)
         sftp.unlink(msg.path, (err: any) => {
           if (err) {
             sftp.rmdir(msg.path, (err2: any) => {
@@ -140,7 +134,6 @@ export class SftpGateway implements OnGatewayConnection, OnGatewayDisconnect {
         break;
       }
       case 'download': {
-        // Stream file data to client in chunks
         const readStream = sftp.createReadStream(msg.path);
         sftp.stat(msg.path, (err: any, stats: any) => {
           if (err) return this.send(client, { type: 'error', message: err.message });

backend/src/terminal/terminal.gateway.ts

@@ -1,12 +1,9 @@
-import { WebSocketGateway, WebSocketServer, OnGatewayConnection, OnGatewayDisconnect } from '@nestjs/websockets';
-import { Logger } from '@nestjs/common';
-import { Server } from 'ws';
+import { Injectable, Logger } from '@nestjs/common';
 import { WsAuthGuard } from '../auth/ws-auth.guard';
 import { SshConnectionService } from './ssh-connection.service';
 
-@WebSocketGateway({ path: '/api/ws/terminal' })
-export class TerminalGateway implements OnGatewayConnection, OnGatewayDisconnect {
-  @WebSocketServer() server: Server;
+@Injectable()
+export class TerminalGateway {
   private readonly logger = new Logger(TerminalGateway.name);
   private clientSessions = new Map<any, string[]>(); // ws client → sessionIds
 
@@ -36,12 +33,13 @@ export class TerminalGateway implements OnGatewayConnection, OnGatewayDisconnect
         this.send(client, { type: 'error', message: err.message });
       }
     });
-  }
 
-  handleDisconnect(client: any) {
+    client.on('close', () => {
+      this.logger.log(`[WS] Client disconnected`);
       const sessions = this.clientSessions.get(client) || [];
       sessions.forEach((sid) => this.ssh.disconnect(sid));
       this.clientSessions.delete(client);
+    });
   }
 
   private async handleMessage(client: any, msg: any) {

backend/src/terminal/terminal.module.ts

@@ -9,6 +9,6 @@ import { AuthModule } from '../auth/auth.module';
 @Module({
   imports: [VaultModule, ConnectionsModule, AuthModule],
   providers: [SshConnectionService, TerminalGateway, SftpGateway],
-  exports: [SshConnectionService],
+  exports: [SshConnectionService, TerminalGateway, SftpGateway],
 })
 export class TerminalModule {}