""" Browsing is never subject to a transfer slot — and is not unbounded either. **Operator decision, 2026-09-08:** a member must be able to browse a group that is at capacity exactly as they browse an idle one. Not the poster grid, not the covers, not opening a photo or a PDF to look at it. §3.4 of ~/next/improve-downloads.md satisfies that structurally: a transfer is what the transfers widget shows, and nothing else takes a slot. But "not leased" cannot mean "unbounded". With MNP 3.0 making leases compulsory, a client that simply omits `tr` would otherwise transfer outside every cap, and the caps would be decoration — the leaseless branch left reachable is finding C6's lesson (a transport that accepted a bare token) one feature later. So a leaseless read is bounded by a small count of *files in flight*, not by bytes: a RAW photo out of a camera is 60–80 MB and is browsing, a 40 MB archive is a download, and no size threshold separates them. What separates them is which function asked. """ from meshbay_node.transfers import ( LEASELESS_IDLE_SECS, MAX_LEASELESS_IN_FLIGHT, LeaselessReads, ) def test_a_viewer_looking_at_one_file_is_never_refused(): reads = LeaselessReads() for chunk in range(20): assert reads.admit("photo-1", now=float(chunk)) is True def test_a_second_file_is_allowed_so_prefetching_stays_possible(): """One is what a viewer needs; two is so the photo viewer can fetch the next one while showing this one.""" reads = LeaselessReads() assert reads.admit("photo-1", now=0.0) is True assert reads.admit("photo-2", now=0.0) is True def test_a_third_file_is_refused(): reads = LeaselessReads() reads.admit("a", now=0.0) reads.admit("b", now=0.0) assert reads.admit("c", now=0.0) is False def test_a_file_already_being_read_is_never_cut_off(): """Even once the limit is reached. Refusing a chunk halfway through a photo because the count moved would be worse than never having admitted it — the viewer would show half an image and no error anyone can act on.""" reads = LeaselessReads() reads.admit("a", now=0.0) reads.admit("b", now=0.0) assert reads.admit("c", now=0.0) is False assert reads.admit("a", now=1.0) is True def test_finishing_one_frees_it_at_once(): """The last chunk is the only "close" a leaseless read has. Waiting for the idle timeout instead would mean somebody who looked at two photos cannot look at a third for a minute.""" reads = LeaselessReads() reads.admit("a", now=0.0) reads.admit("b", now=0.0) reads.finish("a") assert reads.admit("c", now=0.0) is True def test_a_viewer_closed_mid_file_does_not_hold_its_place_for_ever(): """It stops asking and says nothing — there is no message for "I closed the tab". Without the idle expiry the session would carry two dead entries and refuse every later preview, which is the bound turning into a bug.""" reads = LeaselessReads() reads.admit("a", now=0.0) reads.admit("b", now=0.0) assert reads.admit("c", now=1.0) is False assert reads.admit("c", now=LEASELESS_IDLE_SECS + 2) is True def test_the_bound_is_two(): """Stated here so that changing it is a decision rather than a typo: it is the number §3.4.1 argues for, and the argument is about viewers, not about tuning.""" assert MAX_LEASELESS_IN_FLIGHT == 2