[KrishnanPrash]

Overview

The SGLang sidecar returns 400 for every image, video, and audio request, because the SGLang runtime.v1 GenerateRequest had no media fields. SGLang 0.5.23 adds the image_data, video_data, and audio_data fields, and lists in GetServerInfo grpc_features the media kinds that the model can read. The sidecar now forwards each media URL to its field and refuses each media kind that the server does not list.

curl -s localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{
  "model": "Qwen/Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct", "max_tokens": 64,
  "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": [
    {"type": "image_url", "image_url": {"url": "data:image/jpeg;base64,<JPEG>"}},
    {"type": "text", "text": "Describe this image in one sentence."}]}]}'

Key Changes

About 140 lines of core logic.

• lib/sidecar/sglang/src/protocol.rs: puts each image_url, video_url, and audio_url item in the field for its kind, in request order. It accepts only http://, https://, and data: sources, because SGLang reads file:// from its own disk. It refuses inputs that SGLang would drop, such as mm_processor_kwargs.
• lib/sidecar/sglang/src/client.rs, engine.rs: read grpc_features at startup and refuse each unlisted media kind. Otherwise an older server drops unknown fields, a processor drops media with no placeholder, and the model answers without the media.
• lib/sidecar/sglang/proto/sglang.proto: the 0.5.23 contract, the same bytes as in chore(sglang): bump SGLang to 0.5.23 #17653.

Validation

SGLang 0.5.23 from PyPI, main with #17653, RTX 6000 Ada.

Case	Before	Now
Image URL or base64, Qwen3-VL-2B	400	200, correct answer
Video URL, Qwen3-VL-2B	400	200, correct answer
Audio URL (wav, mp3) or base64, Qwen2-Audio-7B	400	200, correct transcript
Native SGLang EPD (encoder-only plus language-only), image and video	400	200, correct answer
Media kind the model cannot read, or file:// URL	400	400, per-kind message
Text, tests/serve/test_sidecar.py (4 SGLang configs)	pass	pass

request_tests.rs covers the mapping and each refusal, and proto_contract.rs covers the wire tags.

Issues and Ongoing Work

• Closes DIS-2967
• Depends on chore(sglang): bump SGLang to 0.5.23 #17653 (SGLang 0.5.23 bump). Merge chore(sglang): bump SGLang to 0.5.23 #17653 first. After it merges, this PR is rebased to drop the empty media fields that chore(sglang): bump SGLang to 0.5.23 #17653 sets in protocol.rs.
• Disaggregated serving with media has no live test.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added support for image, video, and audio inputs when the SGLang server advertises the corresponding capabilities.
  • Media can be provided using HTTP, HTTPS, or data URLs. Requests using unsupported media types or formats are rejected with an error.
• Documentation
  • Updated SGLang support information; disaggregated serving remains untested.
  • Added a warning that SGLang may fetch media URLs from any host, including localhost, and recommends restricting allowed media domains.

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Findings

Apply an SSRF policy to SGLang URL passthrough.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @lib/sidecar/sglang/src/protocol.rs:
- Around line 238-242: Update the URL passthrough in media_source so every
forwarded HTTP(S) URL, including video and audio, is subject to an enforced
destination policy; otherwise reject network URLs unless SGLang has an enforced
allowed-domain policy configured. Ensure redirect destinations are revalidated,
and do not rely on the separate MM-routing image-header fetch policy.

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• docs/fern/pages/developer-guide/knowledge-base/modular-components/backends/sglang/sidecar.md
• lib/sidecar/sglang/README.md
• lib/sidecar/sglang/proto/README.md
• lib/sidecar/sglang/proto/sglang.proto
• lib/sidecar/sglang/src/client.rs
• lib/sidecar/sglang/src/engine.rs
• lib/sidecar/sglang/src/protocol.rs
• lib/sidecar/sglang/src/protocol/request_tests.rs
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Walkthrough

The SGLang sidecar now maps HTTP(S) and data-URL image, video, and audio inputs into native gRPC fields. It detects modality support from grpc_features, rejects unsupported media and payload forms, and updates the protocol contract and documentation.

Changes

SGLang media input

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Media fields and capability discovery lib/sidecar/sglang/proto/sglang.proto, lib/sidecar/sglang/proto/README.md, lib/sidecar/sglang/src/client.rs, lib/sidecar/sglang/tests/proto_contract.rs	GenerateRequest adds repeated image, video, and audio fields at tags 19–21. The client derives per-modality support from grpc_features. Tests cover feature parsing and protobuf field tags.
Media mapping and request validation lib/sidecar/sglang/src/protocol.rs, lib/sidecar/sglang/src/protocol/request_tests.rs	Request construction maps HTTP, HTTPS, and data URLs to modality fields. Validation rejects unsupported media sources, media kinds, and payload forms. Tests cover mapping, refusal cases, and support checks.
Engine capability checks and documentation lib/sidecar/sglang/src/engine.rs, lib/sidecar/sglang/README.md, docs/fern/pages/developer-guide/knowledge-base/modular-components/backends/sglang/sidecar.md	The engine stores discovered media support and checks it before sending a generation request. The documentation describes media support, feature gating, and SGLang URL-fetch restrictions.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 84eea

Image, video and audio URLs from clients are now forwarded to SGLang, which by default fetches them from any host, including internal addresses. Deployments should enforce a destination policy or require --allowed-media-domains before enabling media input.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 27.27% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: forwarding image, video, and audio inputs to SGLang.
Description check		The description includes the required Overview, Key Changes, Validation, and Issues and Ongoing Work sections. It explains the implementation, testing, dependency, issue, and known limitation. The opt…
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Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Resolution

Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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docs changes LGTM