Two related issues from the Kimi-401 user report:
1. Backend (NodeStreamingChatHelper): a primary AUTH_ERROR (e.g. Kimi 401
with an invalid API key) returned immediately without trying the
fallback chain — a fallback provider with a different, valid key
never got a chance. Even with DashScope correctly configured as the
fallback, the user chat dead-ended on a 401.
The original assumption ("auth never self-heals so do not retry")
holds for the primary same-model retry loop but is wrong for the
fallback chain — different providers have different keys. Apply the
same break-into-fallback policy that BILLING and MODEL_NOT_FOUND
already use. recordPrimary(false) is preserved so the cooldown
counter still accumulates.
2. Frontend (chatError.ts + i18n): the error-text matching for
/认证|auth|unauthorized|401/i was so broad it matched the substring
"auth" inside URLs like https://api.kimi.com/.../auth, classifying
any model 401 as user "session expired" and rendering the misleading
"页面将自动跳转到登录页" copy. (The redirect itself only fires from
/api/v1/auth/* axios paths and SSE-connection 401s, not from this
payload-text path — but the copy alone is the worst kind of false
alarm.)
Add a new ChatErrorCategory provider_auth_error and split the
pattern matching: narrow auth_expired (HTTP 401 / 登录已过期 /
session expired / 凭证失效) is matched FIRST, then the broad
401-ish pattern routes to provider_auth_error. BACKEND_ERROR_TYPE_MAP
for AUTH_ERROR is also remapped, since structured backend payloads
currently always come from LLM providers — never from our own
/api/v1/auth path.
Tests
- NodeStreamingChatHelperFailoverTest (5 cases): primary 401 →
fallback succeeds; chain skips auth-failing fallback to next healthy
one; whole-chain failure surfaces last AUTH_ERROR (no silent drop);
BILLING regression unchanged; primary-success path does not touch
chain
- Browser preview verified: new i18n keys resolve in en-US, classifier
correctly routes "[错误] 401 from kimi.com" → provider_auth_error
while "[错误] HTTP 401 from /api/v1/auth/ping" stays auth_expired
- 186 tests pass (was 181 + 5 new); vue-tsc clean
Do-not-touch list: handleAuthFailure() in useStream/api/index.ts (real
session-expiry path) is unmodified — only the misclassification
upstream is fixed. auth_expired i18n copy is unchanged.
