# SCP81 / HTTP OTA live-card findings

Living debug log for the HTTP OTA (RAM over HTTP) work against the live UICC.
Purpose: record **every attempted configuration and its outcome**, so the same
variations are not repeated. Add rows as tests are run; keep the confirmed
rules section current.

Setup: `pysim_otaman_server` with a PC/SC reader, the PWA SCP81 tab (or
`POST /api/scp81/bip`), the card triggered by its SMS-PP push / the Location
status event. Server log at `GET /api/scp81/log`, script state at
`GET /api/scp81/script`, proactive history at `GET /api/proactive-log`.

## RESOLVED 2026-09-16: the card never received the response - BIP TLV bug

**Root cause:** our RECEIVE DATA TERMINAL RESPONSE encoded the channel-data
TLV length as a raw byte (`36 ED ...` for a 237-byte chunk). BER requires the
long form for lengths >127: **`36 81 ED ...`** (the reference terminal traces
use exactly that, e.g. `push_3311_success_req2.pcapng`). The card's BIP layer
silently mis-parsed the malformed TLV, so the TLS record bytes never reached
its TLS stack: no alert, no script processing, and the SD kept resuming its
dialog ("no complete script received") forever. Every delivery <=127 bytes
(handshake records, 204 responses) always worked - which is why the handshake
succeeded and only the large script responses "vanished".

**Fix:** `_handle_bip_command` (cmd 0x42) BER-encodes the channel data length
(`36 81 <len>` above 127); regression test
`test_receive_data_tlv_long_form_length`.

**Result with the live card** (one push, `explore` script, 5/5 commands):

```
#1 80CAFF2100        SW 9000  FF210B 81010D 8202C5D6 83020962   (13 applets,
                              free NV 50646 B, free volatile 2402 B)
#2 80F28002024F0000  SW 9000  ISD A000000003000000 + D276000005AAFFCAFE00
#3 80CA008500        SW 9000  stored HTTP OTA parameters
#4 80F24002024F0000  SW CAFE  127-byte ELF registry page (more available)
#5 80F21002024F0000  SW CAFE  127-byte applications page (more available)
```

Every command returned `X-Admin-Script-Status: ok` on the card's own POST to
the incremented `X-Admin-Next-URI`, on the same keep-alive connection, and the
session ended with 204 + mutual close_notify - exactly the reference flow.
`SW CAFE` marks a truncated 127-byte page: the remaining entries need a
continuation GET STATUS (P2=02 with the last AID as search criterion).

## Live card facts (verified via the reader, 2026-09-16)

- `80CAFF2100` (GET DATA extended card resources) **works**:
  `FF21 0B 81 01 0D 82 02 C5 D6 83 02 09 62` -> 13 applets installed,
  free NV memory `0xC5D6` = 50646 B, free volatile `0x0962` = 2402 B.
- `80CA008500` (GET DATA HTTP administration parameters) **works** and returns
  the SD's stored OTA configuration: `8A 09 "localhost"`, `8B 14 <agent id>`,
  `8C 01 "/"` (stored URI), `85 14 <PSK identity>`, `86 07 00 01 25 03 00 10 00`
  (retry counter 1, timer **10 minutes**), `02 40 01` (KVN/KID), APN-ish
  `C7 04 03 47 50 42`, destination `BE 05 21 5B D5 05 02` = 91.213.5.2.
- `80F28002/80F24002/80F21002 ...4F0000` return `6985` through the reader when
  the ISD is not the current DF; the reference platform sends
  `80F28002024F0000` over HTTP, where the SD executes inside the ISD.
- `SELECT` of the ISD (`00A4040008A000000003000000`) returns `6112`;
  a subsequent GET RESPONSE (`00C0000012`) returns `6D00`.
- BIP device identities: OPEN CHANNEL uses destination `0x82`; SEND/RECEIVE
  DATA carry channel `0x21..0x27` (e.g. `82 02 81 22` = channel 2).
- Subscribed events (`99 03`): `03` location status, `09` data available,
  `0A` channel status.
- A Location status event re-triggers the OTA session only while the last
  session is incomplete; after a clean session end the card waits for a push.
- The SD stores a 10-minute retry timer (`25 03 00 10 00`).

## Confirmed rules (with evidence)

1. **The card needs a clean TLS close, with the close_notify actually
   fetched.** Keep-alive (no close) -> fatal `unexpected_message` after it
   fetched the response. `close_notify` sent *after* the buffer drained is
   never fetched (the card ends the dialog on its own first). Correct order:
   send it while the response still waits, then wait for the drain, then
   close.
2. **The card's abort alert is `fatal unexpected_message`** - decrypted with
   the listener's `keylog` option (see `tools/scp81_decrypt.py`).
3. **A dropped link must be signalled (TS 102 223 7.5.11), and only after the
   buffered data was fetched.** Signalling the drop while bytes are still in
   the BIP buffer makes the card abort the fetch mid-record and end the
   session. Omitting the signal entirely hangs the SD: after a listener
   restart dropped the channel silently, the card ignored pushes and location
   events for minutes; a manual `ENVELOPE (Channel status, B8 02 02 05)`
   immediately made it start a fresh session.
4. **The Next-URI shape matters.** A path-only or absolute Next-URI (`/`,
   `/1`, `http://127.0.0.1:8443/api/scp81`) draws the fatal
   `unexpected_message`; the reference-style relative path **with a query**
   (`/adminserver?PHPSESSID=...&apdu_id=101`) does not.
5. **The reference administration server** (`samples/HTTP_OTA/
   httpota_adminserver_php_v2`) uses: command script
   `AE 80 22 <len> <apdu> 00 00`; response `200` with
   `X-Admin-Protocol`, `X-Admin-Next-URI: /adminserver?PHPSESSID=<id>&apdu_id=<n>`,
   `Content-Type: ...;version=1.0`, **chunked** body (100-byte chunks);
   the card returns the R-APDU as the body of its next POST with
   `X-Admin-Script-Status: ok`; the server ends with `204`.
   Its log proves the card followed the Next-URI three times within 1-2 s per
   step (`Got next request ... Script status is 'ok' - storing R-APDU data`).
6. **`chunked=false` (Content-Length) has never produced an R-APDU.** All
   sessions that ended silently (clean close, no alert, no POST) used
   `Content-Length`. Hypothesis: the card only treats a chunked body as a
   command script; with Content-Length it sees an empty script, executes
   nothing and ends the session gracefully.

## The one fully successful session trace (ground truth)

`traces/HTTPOTA_session_3311_success1.pcap` (2019, **plain HTTP on port 80**,
one TCP connection for the whole session, card `3311` - *not* our UICC):

```
POST /server/adminagent?cmd=1            <- card (trigger URI, with query!)
200 OK + Date/Server + X-Admin-Protocol
     + X-Admin-Next-URI: /Download?req=1 + Content-Length: 11
     + Content-Type: .../card-content-mgt;version=1.0
     body: ae 80 22 05 80 ca 00 85 00 00 00     (script: GET DATA 0085)
POST /Download?req=1                     <- card, SAME connection
  X-Admin-Script-Status: ok
  Content-Type: .../card-content-mgt-response;version=1.0
  Transfer-Encoding: chunked
  body: "8
" af 80 23 02 6a 88 00 00 "0

"   (R-APDU SW 6A88)
200 OK + X-Admin-Next-URI: /Download?req=2 + Content-Length: 14
     body: ae 80 22 08 80 f2 80 02 02 4f 00 00 00 00    (GET STATUS P1=80)
POST /Download?req=2  ->  X-Admin-Script-Status: ok, chunked
     body: "1F
" af 80 23 19 <25-byte R-APDU ... 90 00> 00 00 "0

"
200 OK + /Download?req=3 + 11-byte script
POST /Download?req=3  ->  status ok, R-APDU 23 02 6d 00 (SW 6D00)
204 No Content                          <- session ends
```

Confirmed from it: the card echoes the `X-Admin-Next-URI` (path *and* query)
verbatim; its response POST goes on the **same TCP connection**; its response
is the `AF 80 23 <len> <R-APDU> 00 00` indefinite Response Scripting template
(in a chunked body, with `X-Admin-Script-Status`); the server's script
`AE 80 22 <len> <APDU> 00 00` matches ours byte for byte; the server uses
`Content-Length` (not chunked), no `Connection` header (implicit keep-alive),
and ends with 204.

## Attempt matrix

| # | transport | framing | Next-URI | close | link events | outcome |
|---|-----------|---------|----------|-------|-------------|---------|
| 1 | dump mode only | - | - | - | off | OPEN CHANNEL + ClientHello captured (Phase A) |
| 2 | TLS, 204 only | - | - | yes | off | session completes cleanly, no alert (Phase B, live) |
| 3 | TLS + script | chunked 100 | `/N` | early (raced fetch) | on | fetch truncated (237/399); card re-opened and repeated its POST with `X-Admin-Resume: true` -> breakdown-resume works |
| 4 | TLS + script | chunked 100 / single | `/1`, `/`, absolute | keep-alive | off | full fetch, then fatal `unexpected_message` (Next-URI shape) |
| 5 | TLS + script | single | none (`""`) | keep-alive | off | no alert, no POST, session left open (spec: no Next-URI -> no response) |
| 6 | TLS + script | chunked 100 | reference | close_notify after drain | off | full fetch, alert (notify never fetched) |
| 7 | TLS + script | chunked 100 | reference | close_notify before drain | off | full fetch, alert (head split into its own record) |
| 8 | TLS + script | **single record** | reference | drain + close_notify | off | **no alert**, card CLOSE CHANNELs, no R-APDU (`chunked=false` -> suspected empty script) |
| 9 | TLS + script | single record | reference | keep-alive (no close) | off | fatal `unexpected_message` (close required) |
| 10 | TLS + script | chunked 100 | reference | drain + close_notify | off | full fetch, then alert; later the SD hung until a manual link-dropped event |
| 11 | TLS + script | single record | reference | keep-alive | off | fatal `unexpected_message` after the full fetch (no close) |
| 12 | TLS + script | single record | reference | drain + close_notify | off | **no alert**, card CLOSE CHANNELs, no R-APDU (`Content-Length`) |
| 13 | TLS + script | chunked100 + single | reference | drain + close_notify | off | no alert, no R-APDU |
| 14 | TLS + script | single record | reference | keep-alive | off | alert again |
| 15 | TLS + script | chunked 100 | reference | keep-alive | on | alert (small records, ruled out record size) |
| 16 | TLS + script | single record | reference | keep-alive, no `Connection` header | on | alert |
| 17 | TLS + script (RFM! `00D6` write-probe) | chunked, single | reference | drain + close_notify | on | no alert, no R-APDU; EF.SPN unchanged - **RFM result is void**: the ISD only accepts RAM commands |

All script attempts used the `explore` list, except #8-#17 which used only
`80CAFF2100` (or the RFM probe). #3-#17 ran with the card's PSK identity
`89390…903` (push trigger) or `89701…` (event trigger).

**Status after #17 (superseded by the 2026-09-16 resolution above):** the
failures were caused by the BIP TLV length bug, not by the HTTP/TLS details;
resume mode was a symptom (the working session even started as a resume). The
key working recipe (also now the server default): one keep-alive connection,
Apache-style headers, `Transfer-Encoding: chunked` body with the script in
one TLS record, no Connection header, `X-Admin-Next-URI` with a query whose
command id increments.

**Also confirmed:** a TLS half-close (close_notify then keep reading for the
card's POST which RFC 5246 leaves open in practice) cannot be done with
CPython's `ssl`: `SSLSocket.unwrap()` with a short timeout raises and poisons
the session (tested), so the `half_close` option is a documented no-op.

## RESOLVED 2026-09-16b: SW CAFE continuation pages

**Implemented:** the script responder auto-follows a truncated listing page
(`SW CAFE`, 127 bytes) by inserting a continuation GET STATUS
(`80F2 <P1> 02 <Lc> 4F <len> <last-complete-AID> 00`, next-occurrence mode)
as the next command. The last AID comes from the last complete `E3` entry in
the page (truncated tails and the live `FC`-prefixed junk are skipped).
Logged as `script-page`; a repeated page logs `script-page-stalled` and
stops; max 24 pages; inserted continuations are dropped at session start.

**Live-verified (2026-09-16):** ELF registry: page 1 `SW CAFE` ->
continuation with `D276000005AA060200000000B00000` -> page 2 `SW 9000`
(complete, 2 entries). Applications: page 1 `SW CAFE` -> continuation with
`D276000005AAFFCAFE0010` -> page 2 `SW 9000` (complete, incl.
`D276000005AAFFCAFE0001/0010`, `A0000001515350`, `A000000151535041`).
Full session: 7/7 commands, all `X-Admin-Script-Status: ok`.

## RESOLVED 2026-09-16c: RAM install over SCP81 - BER length in the script template

**Root cause:** `_scp81_command_body` wrote the C-APDU TLV length as a raw
byte (`AE 80 22 F5 <245 bytes> 00 00` for a 245-byte LOAD). BER reads a byte
above 0x7F as a long-form marker, so the card mis-parsed every LOAD >128
bytes; the small INSTALL commands (<128 bytes) executed normally, which made
the install look alive. Symptoms: the card accepted the LOAD responses with
`X-Admin-Script-Status: ok` but sent a degenerate `AF 80` body, no LOAD
R-APDU appeared in the results, and the final INSTALL [for install] answered
`6A88` (module not found) because the package was never loaded.

**Fix:** both the indefinite ("22" TLV) and definite ("AA" outer) template
lengths are BER-encoded (`_ber_len_bytes`); the same rule as the BIP channel
data TLV fix earlier the same day. Tests cover the 245-byte LOAD body, the
short-form case and the definite variant.

## Next tests / work

1. **UI:** group the per-page R-APDUs under their logical command in the
   SCP81 tab (page merging/decoding for ELF and application listings);
   expose the framing options in the tab.
2. **Load/store over SCP81:** implemented - `POST /api/scp81/ram-install`
   takes a `.cap`, expands it with the shared `_cap_apdu_sequence` helper
   (INSTALL [for load] -> 240-byte LOAD blocks -> INSTALL [for install]) and
   queues it as the command script, one C-APDU per POST. Live install test
   pending (needs a push with a suitable applet).

## Tooling

- `tools/scp81_decrypt.py <log.json> <keys.log>` - decrypts the dialog from
  `GET /api/scp81/log` plus the listener's `keylog` file (SSLKEYLOGFILE
  format; PSK-AES128-CBC-SHA256, TLS 1.2 PRF + OpenSSL CLI). Shows each
  record's plaintext and any alert level/description.
- Start the listener with `"keylog": "/tmp/.../scp81.keys"` to collect the
  secrets (contains key material - use a temp path, never commit).