Harden http.Server: slowloris timeouts and form body limit (closes #92)
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The http.Server now sets ReadHeaderTimeout (10s), which bounds the slow header dribble that ReadTimeout alone does not, and IdleTimeout (120s), which bounds keep-alive reuse. Server construction moved into a small helper so a test can assert the timeouts without binding a listener.

POST / and POST /generate bodies are capped at 1 MiB and an oversized body returns 413.

What a reader would trip over: the CSRF library reads its token from the form and swallows a parse error, so a cap applied only inside it would surface as 403. The body limit therefore parses the form under the cap before the CSRF check; the parsed form is reused afterwards. A test covers an oversized body that carries a valid token.

Judgement call: WriteTimeout stays at 60s; it also bounds how long a large image may take to send over a slow link.

Model: opus-4-8 (implementation, review); fable-5-1 (landing message)
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@@ -9,24 +9,40 @@ import (
// HTTP server configuration constants.
const (
HTTPReadTimeout = 30 * time.Second
HTTPWriteTimeout = 60 * time.Second
HTTPReadTimeout = 30 * time.Second
// HTTPReadHeaderTimeout bounds the request-header read on its own,
// short, so a slowloris client dribbling headers is dropped well
// before it ties up a connection for the whole ReadTimeout window.
HTTPReadHeaderTimeout = 10 * time.Second
HTTPWriteTimeout = 60 * time.Second
// HTTPIdleTimeout bounds how long an idle keep-alive connection is
// held open, so idle connections cannot accumulate without limit on a
// service targeting high concurrency.
HTTPIdleTimeout = 120 * time.Second
HTTPMaxHeaderBytes = 8 << 10 // 8KB
)
func (s *Server) serveUntilShutdown() {
listenAddr := fmt.Sprintf(":%d", s.config.Port)
s.httpServer = &http.Server{
Addr: listenAddr,
ReadTimeout: HTTPReadTimeout,
WriteTimeout: HTTPWriteTimeout,
MaxHeaderBytes: HTTPMaxHeaderBytes,
Handler: s,
// newHTTPServer builds the http.Server with the hardening timeouts and
// limits applied. It is separate from serveUntilShutdown so the
// configuration can be asserted in a test without binding a listener.
func (s *Server) newHTTPServer() *http.Server {
return &http.Server{
Addr: fmt.Sprintf(":%d", s.config.Port),
ReadTimeout: HTTPReadTimeout,
ReadHeaderTimeout: HTTPReadHeaderTimeout,
WriteTimeout: HTTPWriteTimeout,
IdleTimeout: HTTPIdleTimeout,
MaxHeaderBytes: HTTPMaxHeaderBytes,
Handler: s,
}
}
func (s *Server) serveUntilShutdown() {
s.httpServer = s.newHTTPServer()
s.SetupRoutes()
s.log.Info("http begin listen", "listenaddr", listenAddr)
s.log.Info("http begin listen", "listenaddr", s.httpServer.Addr)
err := s.httpServer.ListenAndServe()
if err != nil && !errors.Is(err, http.ErrServerClosed) {