fix(client): redirect home after connection refused

[neon0404]

Resolves #5141

Description:

Lack of the 1002 (Connection Refused) error code handler was causing a retry loop when a player lost connection during the game and reconnected after the server had already terminated the session

• Implemented proper handling of the 1002 (Connection Refused) error code
• The Close button in the Connection Refused modal now redirects to the main page
• Added tests for the new handler and the modal

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Walkthrough

Transport treats WebSocket close code 1002 as a terminal connection refusal. It shows the translated reason once, stops pinging, prevents reconnection, and redirects to / after the alert closes. Tests cover refused and abnormal closures.

Changes

Connection refusal handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Terminal refusal handling src/client/Transport.ts	Transport tracks refused connections, blocks new sockets, stops pinging, shows the translated refusal reason once, and redirects to / after alert dismissal.
Connection refusal tests tests/client/TransportConnectionRefused.test.ts	Tests simulate WebSocket closures and verify alert display, delayed redirect, blocked reconnection, and normal reconnection for close code 1006.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 2e048

The connection-refused flow now stops retries and redirects home, but the new tests use isolated mocks rather than the required full game/session setup, so they may not validate the behavior through the real client flow. Merge should wait for the tests to be rewritten or this exception to be explicitly accepted.

Suggested reviewers: evanpelle

Poem

A socket closes, the refusal is clear
One alert appears, then waits without fear
Close is pressed, and home comes in view
Reconnect stays still as it should do
Abnormal winds still open anew

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 2 functions across 2 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the client fix that redirects users home after a connection refusal.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the 1002 connection-refused fix, home-page redirect, and related tests.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes satisfy issue #5141 by handling the 1002 close, stopping repeated reconnect attempts, and redirecting to the main page after the Connection Refused modal closes.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The production changes and tests are limited to connection-refused handling and the required redirect behavior described in issue #5141.

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Actionable comments posted: 1

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In `@tests/client/TransportConnectionRefused.test.ts`:
- Around line 4-23: Replace the module mocks in
TransportConnectionRefused.test.ts with a setup()-based integration test using
the helper from tests/util/Setup.ts. Create a complete game instance with map
data from tests/testdata/maps/ and exercise the terminal game-session flow
through the core simulation, preserving the transport-connection-refused
behavior without mocking InGameModal, Utils, or ClientEnv.

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• src/client/Transport.ts
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Verdict: Needs changes — 1 high-severity logic issue found; no CLAUDE.md violations.

Findings by severity: High: 1 · Medium: 0 · Low: 0

src/client/Transport.ts

[High] connectionRefused latches on any 1002 close, which can permanently eject a player from a recoverable live game — src/client/Transport.ts:231, :390-392, :457-469

Whats wrong: handleConnectionRefused sets connectionRefused = true on every WebSocket close with code 1002, and the new guard at the top of connectRemote() then permanently refuses to reconnect for the lifetime of the Transport instance (nothing ever resets the flag). The fixs premise — "1002 means the server already terminated the session" — is true for some close reasons but not all. The server also uses 1002 for transient conditions on an already-joined, live game connection:

• src/server/SocketIngress.ts:76 — ws.close(1002, "WS_ERR_UNEXPECTED_RSV_1"), fired from a ws.on("error", ...) handler installed on already-joined/rejoined sockets (a transient frame-corruption error, e.g. caused by a proxy/middlebox mangling a frame).
• src/server/Worker.ts:587 — ws.close(1002, "Unauthorized: user me fetch failed"), fired on a transient upstream API failure during a mid-game rejoin attempt.

Before this PR, ClientGameRunner.onConnectionCheck (src/client/ClientGameRunner.ts:1479-1491) kept calling transport.reconnect() every ~5s of silence regardless of why the connection died, so a transient 1002 like the ones above could self-heal via automatic rejoin (reconnect() -> connect() -> connectRemote() -> rejoinGame()). After this PR, the very first such transient 1002 latches connectionRefused forever, and once the player dismisses the alert they are redirected to /, discarding a live, otherwise-recoverable game session.

Suggested fix: only latch connectionRefused (and redirect home) for close reasons that are genuinely terminal — e.g. "Game not found", "Account Banned", "Lobby full", "Cannot join game", "Trusted account required", "You are not whitelisted", "Unauthorized: invalid token", "Forbidden" — and let transient/infra errors (WS_ERR_UNEXPECTED_RSV_1, "Unauthorized: user me fetch failed") continue to fall through to the existing reconnect path instead of being treated as final.

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No other issues found. CLAUDE.md compliance looks correct: the error_modal.connection_refused translation key already exists in resources/lang/en.json (unchanged by this diff, already used pre-PR), and the new test file tests/client/TransportConnectionRefused.test.ts covers the new handler and modal behavior.