Every caller guessed what went wrong from what(): "Timeout" meant busy,
"401" meant auth, and warmup was code -28 or one of six substrings. A
non-JSON HTTP 500 lost its body, so "Work queue depth exceeded" read as a
bare "HTTP 500", and libcurl reports connect- and reply-phase timeouts
with the same code.
New header-only src/rpc/rpc_failure.h:
- RpcFailureKind (NotListening, ConnectTimeout, ReplyTimeout, QueueFull,
ShuttingDown, Unhandled, Auth, Warmup, AppError, Aborted, Other) and a
pure classifyRpcFailure(curl code, request-sent, HTTP status, JSON-RPC
code, plain-text body)
- formatHttpError keeps a short, printable plain-text body
- RpcError (moved here) stays "the daemon answered with a JSON-RPC
error". The new RpcTransportError means "no JSON-RPC answer": curl
failures and HTTP-layer refusals (401, 503, queue full, unhandled).
Keeping them separate matters: callers catch RpcError to mean "the
daemon said no" (chat identity's no-mnemonic fallback, seed export),
so a timeout must not be one. They now treat a queue-full 500 as
transient rather than as "no".
RPCClient:
- performCall tells the two timeouts apart with CURLINFO_REQUEST_SIZE
(0 = never reached the daemon; reset on every transfer, checked on
libcurl 7.81), and callRaw now shares performCall and the HTTP-failure
path.
- connect() decides warmup by the -28 code only, so a plain-text body
saying "Loading" can't pass for warmup, and records
getLastConnectFailureKind().
- "Connection failed" names the kind and is logged once, then every
100th repeat (one incident logged it 60k times).
- secret-bearing calls never echo a response body.
tryConnect's "401"/"Timeout" checks now use the kind, and
CoreRefreshResult carries blockchainErrKind/balanceErrKind for the busy
handling to come.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>