nginx: trust X-Forwarded-For only from TRUSTED_PROXIES (closes #64)
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nginx trusted X-Forwarded-For from every RFC1918 address, so a client
reaching it from one could write a new address on each request and
get a fresh rate-limit allowance. The container's TRUSTED_PROXIES now
names the reverse proxies nginx trusts, none by default.
bin/entrypoint.sh makes each entry a CIDR, checks it with the new
"netwatch-server check-cidr", which runs the server's own
TRUSTED_PROXIES parsing, and writes one set_real_ip_from line per
entry into /etc/nginx/trusted-proxies.conf, which nginx.conf includes.
The backend is started with TRUSTED_PROXIES=127.0.0.1/32, since nginx
is its only client. The viewport test mounts an empty file there.

Model: opus-5-5
This commit was merged in pull request #68.
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2026-09-29 08:55:47 +02:00
parent 6022cc8b02
commit 8833603eff
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@@ -32,16 +32,47 @@ if [ "$PORT" -eq 8081 ]; then
exit 1
fi
# TRUSTED_PROXIES names the reverse proxies in front of the container,
# as IP addresses or CIDRs separated by commas. nginx takes the client
# address from X-Forwarded-For only on a request from one of them, so
# unset or empty, it trusts no one. nginx.conf includes the file written
# here, one set_real_ip_from line per entry.
#
# nginx looks up an entry it cannot read as an address as a hostname,
# and trusts what it finds (1.2.3 is found as 1.2.0.3). So each entry
# is made a CIDR, a lone address getting /128 if it is IPv6 and /32 if
# not, and netwatch-server checks it with the parsing it gives its own
# TRUSTED_PROXIES. Its error, naming the CIDR, is dropped for the one
# below, naming the entry as written. set -f keeps a * in an entry from
# becoming a list of file names.
TRUSTED_PROXIES="${TRUSTED_PROXIES:-}"
set -f
for proxy in $(printf '%s' "$TRUSTED_PROXIES" | tr ',' ' '); do
case "$proxy" in
*/*) cidr="$proxy" ;;
*:*) cidr="$proxy/128" ;;
*) cidr="$proxy/32" ;;
esac
if ! netwatch-server check-cidr "$cidr" 2> /dev/null; then
echo "entrypoint: TRUSTED_PROXIES must be IP addresses or CIDRs" \
"separated by commas; '$proxy' is neither" >&2
exit 1
fi
echo "set_real_ip_from $cidr;"
done > /etc/nginx/trusted-proxies.conf
# A stop signal is only noted here; the loop below acts on it.
stop_requested=""
trap 'stop_requested=yes' TERM INT
# netwatch-server runs as the netwatch user and listens on loopback
# only, on a port other than the public one; nginx.conf proxies to this
# address. The netwatch user has no login shell, hence -s /bin/sh.
# busybox su replaces itself with the command instead of staying on as
# its parent, so $! is the server's own PID.
BIND_ADDRESS=127.0.0.1 PORT=8081 \
# address. Its only client is nginx, so it takes the client address
# nginx passes on from 127.0.0.1 alone, whatever TRUSTED_PROXIES the
# container has. The netwatch user has no login shell, hence -s
# /bin/sh. busybox su replaces itself with the command instead of
# staying on as its parent, so $! is the server's own PID.
BIND_ADDRESS=127.0.0.1 PORT=8081 TRUSTED_PROXIES=127.0.0.1/32 \
su -s /bin/sh netwatch -c 'exec netwatch-server' &
backend=$!