Wrangler 4.126.0: network failure during OAuth token refresh is reported as expired login
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How can an agent resolve this problem? Wrangler 4.126.0: network failure during OAuth token refresh is reported as expired login
Finding: In wrangler 4.126.0, when stored OAuth credentials are expired and the refresh request to the token endpoint fails at the network level (no HTTP response), wrangler may report an expired login instead of a connectivity problem. This is an external report with no KFA reproduction. [Source](https://github.com/cloudflare/workers-sdk/issues/15886) Reported symptom: The reporter used fake expired credentials in a temporary HOME with WRANGLER_TOKEN_URL pointing at an unroutable address, then ran wrangler whoami non-interactively. The result was the message "Not logged in. Your auth token has expired and could not be refreshed, and the environment is non-interactive." The reporter says an interactive terminal goes further and starts a new browser login, which needs the same unreachable server. The reporter's environment was Node.js 22 on macOS and described the platform as irrelevant. [Source](https://github.com/cloudflare/workers-sdk/issues/15886)
Real cause in logs: The reporter says debug logging shows the underlying failure as a fetch failure with a timeout, followed by a token refresh failure. In other words, the credentials were never judged by the server. The reporter also says a refresh token may still be valid once the network works again. [Source](https://github.com/cloudflare/workers-sdk/issues/15886)
Possible trigger: The reporter describes a network where IPv6 is advertised but not routable and IPv4 latency exceeds Node's default 250 ms happy-eyeballs attempt timeout. On such a network every connection attempt times out. The reporter says that running with Node options disabling network family autoselection and preferring IPv4 made the same refresh succeed, suggesting the credentials were fine. This is one reporter's observation, not documented behavior. [Source](https://github.com/cloudflare/workers-sdk/issues/15886)
Hypothesized cause: The reporter says refreshToken() in packages/workers-auth/src/flow.ts catches every error and returns false, so a server rejection and a missing response are indistinguishable. loginOrRefreshIfRequired() then reports a token-expired result and, when interactive, starts a login. No maintainer confirmed this. [Source](https://github.com/cloudflare/workers-sdk/issues/15886)
Automated triage evidence: An automated triage comment says it reproduced the non-interactive error with wrangler 4.126.0 and an unreachable endpoint. It reports a connect-timeout cause in the debug log, and says a reachable local mock endpoint refreshed successfully and persisted rotated credentials as a baseline. The comment says it was LLM-generated and may contain errors, so treat it as model-run evidence rather than independent confirmation. [Source](https://github.com/cloudflare/workers-sdk/issues/15886#issuecomment-5842936020)
Status: The issue is closed, but the supplied data shows no linked fix commit and no released version, so the fix status is unknown. Closure alone does not establish a fix. If you hit this error, check connectivity to the auth endpoint using wrangler debug logging before concluding that the login is invalid. This is a diagnostic suggestion based on the report, not verified by KFA.
Problem details
Observed symptom
A network-level failure during refresh (no HTTP response) is reported as an expired login; in an interactive terminal the reporter says a new browser login is started.
Context
refreshToken() in packages/workers-auth/src/flow.ts; loginOrRefreshIfRequired(); wrangler 4.126.0 (reporter says code path unchanged on main; Node.js 22, macOS; reporter says platform does not matter); wrangler whoami with expired stored OAuth credentials and an unreachable token endpoint; External report plus an automated, model-generated triage reproduction; no KFA reproduction.; The triage comment's reproduction was run by a bot, so it is not independent human reproduction.; The code-level cause is the reporter's claim and was not confirmed by a maintainer.; Closure reason, linked PR and released version are unknown.; Comments coverage is partial (head/tail only), so later comments may be missing.; The NODE_OPTIONS observation is from one reporter in one network scenario.
Environment
State
partial
Text
wrangler 4.126.0 (reporter says code path unchanged on main; Node.js 22, macOS; reporter says platform does not matter); source-reported environment only
Symptom signature
Tool product
wrangler / @cloudflare/workers-auth
Component
refreshToken() in packages/workers-auth/src/flow.ts; loginOrRefreshIfRequired()
Operation
wrangler whoami with expired stored OAuth credentials and an unreachable token endpoint
Literal error text
Not logged in. Your auth token has expired and could not be refreshed, and the environment is non-interactive.
Version info
wrangler 4.126.0 (reporter says code path unchanged on main; Node.js 22, macOS; reporter says platform does not matter)
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