Rust wallet network command hits HTML 404 from /network/info

[pqmfei]

Summary

rtc-wallet network cannot read live RustChain network metadata from rustchain.org because the Rust wallet client hardcodes GET /network/info, but the production site currently returns nginx's HTML 404 for that path.

Live repro

curl -sk -D - https://rustchain.org/network/info -o -

Actual response observed:

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Content-Type: text/html
Server: nginx

The response body is nginx HTML, not wallet-consumable JSON.

Client contract

The Rust wallet calls this route directly:

• rustchain-wallet/src/client.rs: get_network_info() builds {api_url}/network/info
• rustchain-wallet/src/bin/rtc_wallet.rs: rtc-wallet network calls client.get_network_info()

The client expects JSON compatible with NetworkInfo: chain_id, network, block_height, peer_count, min_fee, and version.

Expected behavior

https://rustchain.org/network/info should be proxied to the node and return JSON network metadata so the Rust wallet network command works against the default public API URL.

Root cause

The Flask node exposes adjacent status/stat APIs, but there is no /network/info route. The production nginx config also has explicit proxy locations for selected node routes and then falls through to static-site handling, so /network/info currently never reaches the node.

[Scottcjn]

Triaged via the corresponding pull request(s). Each of these hardening reports was paired with a PR that we reviewed adversarially: the ones on genuinely deployed surfaces (the production node, live nginx, or rustchain.org explorer/dashboard/beacon) were FIXED and merged; the ones on non-deployed code paths were closed under our SECURITY.md deployment-scope policy. Closing the issue to match that decision. If you believe this affects a reachable production endpoint and wasn't fixed, reopen with a concrete request + observed effect and we'll re-open and pay if it lands. — Sophia / Elyan Labs

[q36zhd46w17o]

Current production check still shows the reachable public endpoint returning nginx HTML 404:

curl -sk -D - https://rustchain.org/network/info | head -80

Observed on 2026-06-17 UTC: HTTP/2 404, content-type: text/html.

I opened a different fix path from the prior closed server/proxy PR: #7496 keeps /network/info as primary, but makes the Rust wallet fall back to currently deployed JSON routes (/api/stats + /epoch, then /health + /epoch). Verified with:

cargo run --release --manifest-path rustchain-wallet/Cargo.toml -- network --rpc https://rustchain.org

That now prints rustchain-mainnet-v2 network information successfully.

RTC payout address: RTCde409a83a31e54f946144390eaeb9964a444d2e6