The Custom box validated for a vless:// prefix and rejected anything
else, so a provider's subscription URL — the thing most people are
handed — got "paste a vless:// URL first" with no hint that the
Subscription card two sections down was what it wanted. Now an
http(s):// paste in that box is detected and routed to the subscription
importer, the placeholder says both are accepted, and the dropdown
option reads "Custom — vless:// or subscription URL".
Also renames the three bundled entries' status from "coming-soon" to
"awaiting-key-issuer". The exits exist and are running xray; what is
missing is a way to hand a client credentials without shipping a shared
secret. DESIGN.md now records why that list stays empty, since this is
the second time the shortcut looked attractive: a vless:// URL is the
credential, so writing one into the tarball (immutable, mirrored) or
onto a public Sia object (mutable but world-readable) are the same
category of mistake. Per-session minting is the fix, because then no
shared credential exists to leak.
Parser verified against plain-text, standard-base64 and url-safe
unpadded-base64 subscription bodies; an HTML error page correctly
yields zero entries instead of a JSON parse crash.
Every commercial VPN client stores its server catalog as a JSON on the
backend and lets the panel pick from a dropdown; this pulls that shape
into the extension.
- server-list.json: baked-in default the tarball ships with. Three
Silent Mode slots (sm-1..sm-3), status "coming-soon" until the VLESS
URLs land — the toggle stays disabled for any entry whose status is
not "ready", so a placeholder cannot be selected by accident.
- Gateway overlay: index.js fetches
https://navigate.st/api/vpn/servers on activation (with a 6-hour TTL
and a "refresh" button in the panel) and merges by id — remote wins,
new remote entries append. Cached to per-addon storage so an offline
boot still has the last-good catalog.
- turnOn now accepts { serverId } or { vless }. Server id is resolved
through the catalog inside the addon; the panel only sees a public
view (label, flag, country, ready/coming-soon), never the raw URL.
- Panel: dropdown of servers + a "Custom vless://" option that reveals
the paste box. Selection persists per-machine, refresh button forces
a re-fetch, disabled toggle explains why in the hint area.
No behavioural change for anyone with a saved vless:// paste — that
path is now "Custom" in the dropdown and still works identically.
