diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 76825c76d..30148c7ce 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,16 @@ of current runtime behavior, see [`docs/CURRENT-STATE.md`](docs/CURRENT-STATE.md
## [Unreleased]
+### Fixed
+
+- The Overpass proxy now rotates to the next mirror on any non-2xx upstream
+ response, not only on 5xx. `overpass-api.de` and its `lz4` alias answer 406 to
+ the proxy's User-Agent while two of the configured mirrors answer 200 to the
+ identical request, so the fan-out stopped at the first refusal with healthy
+ mirrors untried. The refusal was also cached to memory and disk and served as
+ data — boundary-class queries hold a month-long TTL — which affected every
+ Overpass-backed feature: road geometry, annotation outlines and place lookup.
+
## [0.1.1] — 2026-09-01 — Installation and live-data fixes
### Changed
diff --git a/docs/CURRENT-STATE.md b/docs/CURRENT-STATE.md
index f86f627aa..b07da999a 100644
--- a/docs/CURRENT-STATE.md
+++ b/docs/CURRENT-STATE.md
@@ -2006,6 +2006,12 @@ silently demoting every later lookup for the session.
- **Track trails**: server accumulates per-MMSI ring buffers (`/api/ais-live/track?mmsi=`, Float32+Uint32, 64 samples, 30s/25m thinning); aircraft backfill proxies `/api/opensky-track` (OAuth, own credit bucket) and `/api/adsblol/trace` (tar1090 readsb, ~24h history, ODbL — credit adsb.lol).
- Shared `src/data/pickRegistry.js` stops the two flight layers' click handlers from fighting over the camera.
+### Overpass proxy mirror rotation (September 2026)
+
+- `/api/overpass` fans out across four public mirrors. `overpassPayloadIsData()` is the single predicate deciding what counts as an answer, and it governs BOTH what enters the cache and when a stale entry may stand in, so the two cannot drift apart. Only a 2xx that is neither rate-limited nor a body-level runtime error is data.
+- The rotation used to trigger on 5xx alone, so a 4xx ended the fan-out and was returned, cached to memory AND disk, and served to the client as data. Measured against the live mirrors: `overpass-api.de` and `lz4.overpass-api.de` answer **406** to the proxy's `User-Agent` while `overpass.kumi.systems` and `overpass.private.coffee` answer **200** to the byte-identical request — so every Overpass-backed feature failed on an Apache error page with two healthy mirrors untried, and four of twenty-three cached entries on the machine this was found on held that error page. Boundary-class queries carry a month-long TTL, so one refusal outlived its outage by weeks.
+- A refusal every mirror agrees on is still reported with the first mirror's status and body, so a genuinely malformed query says what upstream said — but only after every mirror has had the chance to answer it. `fetchOverpassPayload` takes injectable endpoints and fetch so the rotation is tested without a live mirror (`src/overpassProxy.test.mjs`).
+
### Share-link v2 layer state (August 2026)
- Generated share links use a deterministic v2 hash. Existing camera, visual,
diff --git a/src/overpassProxy.test.mjs b/src/overpassProxy.test.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e4357d4b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/overpassProxy.test.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,123 @@
+// OVERPASS PROXY — which upstream answers count as an answer.
+//
+// The proxy fans out across four public mirrors. What decides whether a mirror
+// has answered is one predicate, and it is used TWICE: once to decide what
+// enters the cache, and once to decide when a stale entry may stand in. When
+// those two drifted, a refusal was written to memory and disk AND served as
+// data — and boundary-class queries hold a month-long TTL, so a single refusal
+// outlived the outage that caused it by weeks.
+//
+// The refusal was real and measured: overpass-api.de and its lz4 alias answer
+// 406 to this proxy's User-Agent, while kumi.systems and private.coffee answer
+// 200 to the identical request. Only 5xx rotated mirrors, so the fan-out
+// stopped at the first refusal with two healthy mirrors untried, and four of
+// twenty-three cached entries on this machine held an Apache error page.
+//
+// Run with: npm test
+import { test } from 'node:test';
+import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
+import { fetchOverpassPayload, overpassPayloadIsData } from '../vite.config.js';
+
+const ENDPOINTS = ['https://a.example/api', 'https://b.example/api', 'https://c.example/api'];
+
+/** Answer each endpoint from a map of url → {status, body}; record the order. */
+function mirrors(byUrl) {
+ const tried = [];
+ const fetchImpl = async (url) => {
+ tried.push(url);
+ const answer = byUrl[url];
+ if (answer instanceof Error) throw answer;
+ return { status: answer.status, headers: { get: () => answer.contentType || 'application/json' } };
+ };
+ return { fetchImpl, tried, readBody: async (_, __) => byUrl[tried[tried.length - 1]]?.body ?? '' };
+}
+
+const run = (byUrl) => {
+ const m = mirrors(byUrl);
+ return fetchOverpassPayload('data=x', 1e6, {
+ endpoints: ENDPOINTS,
+ fetchImpl: m.fetchImpl,
+ readBody: m.readBody,
+ simplify: (body) => body,
+ }).then((payload) => ({ payload, tried: m.tried }), (error) => ({ error, tried: m.tried }));
+};
+
+const DATA = { status: 200, body: '{"elements":[]}' };
+
+// ── The predicate ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+test('only a 2xx that is neither rate-limited nor a runtime error is data', () => {
+ assert.equal(overpassPayloadIsData({ status: 200 }), true);
+ assert.equal(overpassPayloadIsData({ status: 204 }), true);
+
+ // The measured refusal, and its neighbours. `< 500` admitted every one.
+ for (const status of [400, 403, 406, 410, 429]) {
+ assert.equal(overpassPayloadIsData({ status }), false, `${status} is not data`);
+ }
+ assert.equal(overpassPayloadIsData({ status: 502 }), false);
+ // A 200 can still not be data: Overpass reports runtime failures in the body.
+ assert.equal(overpassPayloadIsData({ status: 200, runtimeError: true }), false);
+ assert.equal(overpassPayloadIsData({ status: 200, rateLimited: true }), false);
+ assert.equal(overpassPayloadIsData({}), false);
+ assert.equal(overpassPayloadIsData(null), false);
+});
+
+// ── The fan-out ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+test('a refusal moves to the next mirror instead of ending the fan-out', async () => {
+ // The exact shape measured against the live mirrors.
+ const { payload, tried } = await run({
+ [ENDPOINTS[0]]: { status: 406, contentType: 'text/html', body: '
406' },
+ [ENDPOINTS[1]]: DATA,
+ [ENDPOINTS[2]]: DATA,
+ });
+
+ assert.equal(payload.status, 200);
+ assert.equal(payload.endpoint, ENDPOINTS[1]);
+ assert.deepEqual(tried, ENDPOINTS.slice(0, 2), 'the healthy mirror must be reached, and no further');
+});
+
+test('the first mirror to answer wins, and the rest are left alone', async () => {
+ const { payload, tried } = await run({
+ [ENDPOINTS[0]]: DATA, [ENDPOINTS[1]]: DATA, [ENDPOINTS[2]]: DATA,
+ });
+
+ assert.equal(payload.endpoint, ENDPOINTS[0]);
+ assert.deepEqual(tried, [ENDPOINTS[0]]);
+});
+
+test('a refusal every mirror agrees on is reported, not swallowed', async () => {
+ // A genuinely bad query must still say what upstream said — but only after
+ // every mirror has had its chance to answer it.
+ const refusal = { status: 400, body: 'line 1: parse error' };
+ const { payload, tried } = await run({
+ [ENDPOINTS[0]]: refusal, [ENDPOINTS[1]]: refusal, [ENDPOINTS[2]]: refusal,
+ });
+
+ assert.equal(payload.status, 400);
+ assert.equal(payload.endpoint, ENDPOINTS[0], 'the FIRST refusal is the one reported');
+ assert.deepEqual(tried, ENDPOINTS);
+ assert.equal(overpassPayloadIsData(payload), false, 'so it is neither cached nor served as data');
+});
+
+test('a mirror that throws is no different from one that refuses', async () => {
+ const { payload, tried } = await run({
+ [ENDPOINTS[0]]: new Error('ECONNRESET'),
+ [ENDPOINTS[1]]: { status: 503, body: 'busy' },
+ [ENDPOINTS[2]]: DATA,
+ });
+
+ assert.equal(payload.endpoint, ENDPOINTS[2]);
+ assert.deepEqual(tried, ENDPOINTS);
+});
+
+test('when every mirror is unreachable the caller gets a throw, not a payload', async () => {
+ const { error, payload } = await run({
+ [ENDPOINTS[0]]: new Error('ECONNRESET'),
+ [ENDPOINTS[1]]: new Error('ETIMEDOUT'),
+ [ENDPOINTS[2]]: new Error('ENOTFOUND'),
+ });
+
+ assert.equal(payload, undefined);
+ assert.match(error.message, /ENOTFOUND/);
+});
diff --git a/vite.config.js b/vite.config.js
index 6edefe8e7..fbe27782b 100644
--- a/vite.config.js
+++ b/vite.config.js
@@ -2558,16 +2558,39 @@ function sendOverpassResponse(res, payload, cacheStatus = 'MISS') {
* @param {number} [maxResponseBytes] Endpoint-specific response cap.
* @returns {Promise<{status:number,body:string,contentType:string,endpoint:string,rateLimited:boolean}>}
*/
-async function fetchOverpassPayload(body, maxResponseBytes = OVERPASS_MAX_RESPONSE_BYTES) {
+/**
+ * True only for an upstream response that is actually Overpass data.
+ *
+ * The proxy caches on this and serves stale on its negation, so the two
+ * decisions cannot drift apart: a payload that is not data must never be
+ * written to the cache and must always be eligible for a stale replacement.
+ * @param {{status: number, rateLimited?: boolean, runtimeError?: boolean}} payload
+ * @returns {boolean}
+ */
+export function overpassPayloadIsData(payload) {
+ const status = Number(payload?.status);
+ return Number.isFinite(status)
+ && status >= 200 && status < 300
+ && !payload.rateLimited
+ && !payload.runtimeError;
+}
+
+export async function fetchOverpassPayload(body, maxResponseBytes = OVERPASS_MAX_RESPONSE_BYTES, {
+ endpoints = OVERPASS_UPSTREAMS,
+ fetchImpl = fetch,
+ readBody = readResponseTextCapped,
+ simplify = simplifyOverpassPayloadBody,
+} = {}) {
let lastError = null;
let lastRateLimitPayload = null;
+ let lastRefusalPayload = null;
- for (const endpoint of OVERPASS_UPSTREAMS) {
+ for (const endpoint of endpoints) {
const controller = new AbortController();
const timeoutId = setTimeout(() => controller.abort(), OVERPASS_TIMEOUT_MS);
try {
- const upstream = await fetch(endpoint, {
+ const upstream = await fetchImpl(endpoint, {
method: 'POST',
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
@@ -2577,7 +2600,7 @@ async function fetchOverpassPayload(body, maxResponseBytes = OVERPASS_MAX_RESPON
signal: controller.signal,
});
- const responseBody = await readResponseTextCapped(upstream, maxResponseBytes);
+ const responseBody = await readBody(upstream, maxResponseBytes);
const contentType = upstream.headers.get('content-type') || 'application/json';
const status = upstream.status;
const rateLimited = status === 429 || overpassLooksRateLimited(responseBody);
@@ -2601,14 +2624,23 @@ async function fetchOverpassPayload(body, maxResponseBytes = OVERPASS_MAX_RESPON
lastError = new Error(`Overpass runtime error (${endpoint})`);
continue;
}
- if (status >= 500) {
+ // Anything but 2xx is this mirror declining, not an answer. Only 5xx used
+ // to rotate, so a 4xx ended the fan-out and was returned — and cached —
+ // as data: overpass-api.de and its lz4 alias answer 406 to this proxy's
+ // User-Agent while kumi.systems and private.coffee answer 200 to the very
+ // same request, so every Overpass-backed layer failed on an Apache error
+ // page with two healthy mirrors untried. The first refusal is kept so a
+ // genuinely bad query still reports what upstream said, but only after
+ // every mirror has had the chance to answer it.
+ if (status < 200 || status >= 300) {
+ if (!lastRefusalPayload) lastRefusalPayload = payload;
lastError = new Error(`Overpass upstream returned ${status} (${endpoint})`);
continue;
}
// Success: decimate giant boundary geometry before it reaches the cache,
// the disk, or the client (what makes the 32 MB read cap safe to hold).
- payload.body = simplifyOverpassPayloadBody(payload.body);
+ payload.body = simplify(payload.body);
return payload;
} catch (error) {
lastError = error;
@@ -2618,6 +2650,7 @@ async function fetchOverpassPayload(body, maxResponseBytes = OVERPASS_MAX_RESPON
}
if (lastRateLimitPayload) return lastRateLimitPayload;
+ if (lastRefusalPayload) return lastRefusalPayload;
throw lastError || new Error('All Overpass upstreams failed');
}
@@ -2710,7 +2743,11 @@ function overpassProxy() {
_overpassConcurrent += 1;
const requestPromise = fetchOverpassPayload(safeBody)
.then((payload) => {
- if (payload.status < 500 && !payload.rateLimited && !payload.runtimeError) {
+ // Only a 2xx is data. `< 500` cached every 4xx, so one mirror's
+ // refusal was written to memory AND disk — and boundary-class
+ // queries hold a month-long TTL, so a single 406 outlived the
+ // outage that caused it.
+ if (overpassPayloadIsData(payload)) {
const entry = { ...payload, cachedAt: Date.now() };
_overpassCache.set(cacheKey, entry);
trimOverpassCache();
@@ -2728,7 +2765,7 @@ function overpassProxy() {
// Degraded upstream (rate-limited on every mirror / 5xx / runtime
// error): last-good roads beat an empty layer — serve stale from
// memory or disk at ANY age before surfacing the failure.
- if (payload.rateLimited || payload.runtimeError || payload.status >= 500) {
+ if (!overpassPayloadIsData(payload)) {
const stale = _overpassCache.get(cacheKey) || await readOverpassDisk(cacheKey, Infinity);
if (stale) {
sendOverpassResponse(res, stale, 'STALE');