# [BUG] Pagination Follows Wrong URL Scheme on HTTPS Instances Behind Reverse Proxy

## Summary
When a paperless-ngx instance is served behind a TLS-terminating reverse proxy that does not forward the `X-Forwarded-Proto: https` header, the API returns pagination `next` URLs with an `http://` scheme. `HttpSession.get_all_pages` and `get_all_pages_paged` follow these URLs verbatim, causing the reverse proxy to reject subsequent page requests with a 400 error: "The plain HTTP request was sent to HTTPS port".

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## Environment
- **Version / Release:** all current versions
- **Python Version:** 3.11+
- **Paperless-ngx Version:** any
- **Platform / OS:** any
- **Other relevant context:** Affects setups where the reverse proxy (e.g. nginx) terminates TLS but does not pass `X-Forwarded-Proto: https` to the Django backend. Single-page responses are unaffected.

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## Steps to Reproduce
1. Configure a paperless-ngx instance behind a TLS-terminating reverse proxy **without** `X-Forwarded-Proto: https` forwarding.
2. Create a `PaperlessClient` (or `SyncPaperlessClient`) with an `https://` base URL.
3. Call any `list()` method on a resource that has more than one page of results (e.g. `client.documents.list()`).
4. Observe that the second (and subsequent) page requests fail.

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## Expected Behavior
All pagination requests use the same scheme as the configured `base_url`. If the client was initialised with `https://`, every page request — including those following `next` URLs from the API response — must also use `https://`.

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## Actual Behavior
The `next` URL returned by the API contains `http://`. `get_all_pages` and `get_all_pages_paged` follow this URL without normalising the scheme. The reverse proxy rejects the plain-HTTP request on its HTTPS port with:

```
400 Bad Request: The plain HTTP request was sent to HTTPS port.
```

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## Impact
- **Severity:** `High`
- **Affected Users / Systems:** Any user whose paperless-ngx instance is behind a TLS-terminating reverse proxy without `X-Forwarded-Proto` forwarding. All multi-page `list()` calls fail completely for these users.

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## Acceptance Criteria
- [ ] `get_all_pages` normalises the scheme of every `next` URL to match the scheme of `self._base_url` before issuing the request.
- [ ] `get_all_pages_paged` applies the same normalisation.
- [ ] Single-page responses (no `next` URL) are unaffected.
- [ ] A `base_url` with `http://` and a `next` URL with `https://` is also normalised correctly (symmetric fix).
- [ ] Unit tests cover: same scheme (no change), http→https normalisation, and https→http normalisation.
- [ ] No existing tests are broken.

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## Additional Notes
- Root cause is in `src/easypaperless/_internal/http.py` in both `get_all_pages` and `get_all_pages_paged`.
- The fix normalises the scheme using `urllib.parse.urlparse` / `ParseResult._replace` before each follow-up page request.
- This bug was first observed in a downstream MCP server that uses easypaperless as its HTTP layer.

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## QA

**Tested by:** QA Engineer
**Date:** 2026-03-17
**Commit:** 8709da3 (changes unstaged — tested from working tree)

### Test Results

| # | Test Case | Expected | Actual | Status |
|---|-----------|----------|--------|--------|
| 1 | AC1: `get_all_pages` normalises scheme of every `next` URL to match `base_url` | `next` URLs rewritten to `https://` before request when client uses `https://` | `_normalise_next_url` called at top of every loop iteration in `get_all_pages` | ✅ Pass |
| 2 | AC2: `get_all_pages_paged` applies the same normalisation | Same as AC1 for the paged variant | `_normalise_next_url` called at top of every loop iteration in `get_all_pages_paged` | ✅ Pass |
| 3 | AC3: Single-page responses (no `next` URL) are unaffected | Loop body never entered; no scheme normalisation attempted | `while next_url:` guard prevents normalisation when `next` is `None` | ✅ Pass |
| 4 | AC4: Symmetric fix — `http://` base_url + `https://` next URL normalised correctly | Scheme replaced with `http://` | `test_get_all_pages_normalises_https_next_to_http` confirms replacement for `get_all_pages` | ✅ Pass |
| 5 | AC5: Unit tests cover same scheme (no change) | URL returned unchanged | `test_get_all_pages_same_scheme_unchanged` passes | ✅ Pass |
| 5 | AC5: Unit tests cover http→https normalisation | Scheme replaced with `https://` | `test_get_all_pages_normalises_http_next_to_https` and `test_get_all_pages_paged_normalises_http_next_to_https` pass | ✅ Pass |
| 6 | AC5: Unit tests cover https→http normalisation | Scheme replaced with `http://` | `test_get_all_pages_normalises_https_next_to_http` passes | ✅ Pass |
| 7 | AC6: No existing tests broken | All 585 tests pass | 585 passed, 0 failed | ✅ Pass |
| 8 | Edge: Query parameters preserved after scheme normalisation | `?page=2&ordering=name&tag__id__in=1,2` intact | `ParseResult._replace(scheme=...)` preserves all other URL components | ✅ Pass |
| 9 | Edge: Port number in `next` URL preserved after normalisation | `http://host:8080/api/...` → `https://host:8080/api/...` | Port survives `_replace` | ✅ Pass |
| 10 | Edge: Port number in `base_url` does not affect scheme extraction | Scheme extracted correctly from `https://host:443/api` | `urlparse(...).scheme` returns `"https"` | ✅ Pass |
| 11 | Static analysis: ruff lint + format | No issues | Clean | ✅ Pass |
| 12 | Static analysis: mypy (strict) | No issues | No issues found in `http.py` | ✅ Pass |
| 13 | Coverage gap: `get_all_pages_paged` — same-scheme and https→http cases not explicitly tested | Tested implicitly via existing multi-page tests | Implementation shares `_normalise_next_url` helper, so correctness is proven by shared unit; gap is test coverage only | ⚠️ Low |

### Bugs Found

No bugs found. One minor test-coverage observation:

#### OBS-001 — `get_all_pages_paged` Missing same-scheme and https→http Test Cases [Severity: Low]
**Observation:**
Tests for `get_all_pages_paged` cover only the http→https normalisation path. The same-scheme no-op and https→http cases are tested for `get_all_pages` only. Both methods share the same `_normalise_next_url` helper, so correctness is guaranteed, but explicit coverage for `get_all_pages_paged` is missing.

**Severity:** Low — not a defect; shared helper logic is already proven correct.
**Notes:** Could be addressed in a follow-up without blocking this fix.

### Automated Tests
- Suite: `pytest tests/` — **585 passed, 0 failed** (46 deselected — integration tests requiring live instance)
- New tests added: 4 (`test_get_all_pages_normalises_http_next_to_https`, `test_get_all_pages_same_scheme_unchanged`, `test_get_all_pages_normalises_https_next_to_http`, `test_get_all_pages_paged_normalises_http_next_to_https`)

### Summary
- ACs tested: 6/6
- ACs passing: 6/6
- Bugs found: 0 (Critical: 0, High: 0, Medium: 0, Low: 0)
- Observations: 1 (test coverage gap for `get_all_pages_paged`, Low severity, not blocking)
- Recommendation: ✅ Ready to merge
