Log out with a form and count logouts instead of timing them (part of #256)

Logging out is now a POST in the CSRF-protected route group, sent by a
form on the generator page, so a link or image on another page of the
same site cannot end every login session. The session manager keeps a
count of logouts instead of the time of the latest one: each session
carries the count at its login and is refused once it has changed. No
clock is compared, so a login after a logout always works.

Model: opus-5-5
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@@ -71,10 +71,10 @@ The state directory (`state_dir`, `/var/lib/pixa` in the container) holds the
database and the disk cache:
- It needs a persistent volume: without one, every restart starts with an empty
cache and forgets the latest logout, so the login sessions that logout ended
work again (see Encrypted URLs). In the container, the startup script gives
the directory to the user pixa runs as (uid 65532) and sets its mode to `750`;
outside it, that user must be able to write the directory.
cache and forgets the count of logouts, so login sessions that a logout ended
can work again (see Encrypted URLs). In the container, the startup script
gives the directory to the user pixa runs as (uid 65532) and sets its mode to
`750`; outside it, that user must be able to write the directory.
- `cache_max_bytes` limits the source and transformed images together. The
database, the metadata files, the `.meta` file beside each transformed image
and files still being written come on top, and eviction runs in the
@@ -189,10 +189,11 @@ path under `/v1/` answers 200, in maintenance mode too.
session it answers 303 to `/`. Answers: 200 with the page showing the URL; 400
with the page naming a field that is not valid; 500 when the URL cannot be
made.
- `GET /logout` — end every login session, in every browser (see Encrypted
URLs), and remove the session cookie. Needs: a login session; without one it
only removes the cookie. Answers: 303 to `/`; 500 when the logout cannot be
saved in the database.
- `POST /logout` — log out with the generator page's Logout button: end every
login session, in every browser (see Encrypted URLs), and remove the session
cookie. Needs: a login session and the generator page's form (below); without
a login session it only removes the cookie. Answers: 303 to `/`; 500 when the
logout cannot be saved in the database.
- `GET` or `HEAD` `/v1/image/<host>/<path>/<size>.<format>`, or
`/v1/image/<host>/<path>/<size>` with no format — an image, fetched, resized
and converted (below). Needs: a signature, unless the host is allowlisted (see
@@ -240,7 +241,7 @@ the request carries the same ID as `request_id`, and so do the lines it logs
when it fetches, converts and serves an image; the fetch sends it to the
upstream host as `X-Request-ID`.
Both `POST` routes accept only a form that pixa's own page served: the page puts
The `POST` routes accept only a form that pixa's own page served: the page puts
a token in the form and sets a cookie to match, and a request without both is
refused with 403, so another site cannot submit the form from a visitor's
browser. The login and generator pages are meant to be opened over HTTPS: while
@@ -361,11 +362,14 @@ nor change what it asks for.
1. Open `/` in a browser over HTTPS (or over plain HTTP while `debug` is on, see
Routes) and log in with the signing key (`signing_key`). The login session
lasts 30 days, or until someone logs out at `/logout`. Every login is made
with the one signing key, so logging out ends every login session, in every
browser: pixa saves the time of the latest logout in its database and refuses
a login session made before it, a copy of the session cookie included, also
after a restart that keeps the state directory (see Deployment).
lasts 30 days, or until someone logs out with the generator page's Logout
button. Every login is made with the one signing key, so logging out ends
every login session, in every browser, a copy of the session cookie included.
pixa keeps a count of logouts in its database: each logout adds one, a login
session carries the count at its login, and a login session whose count is
not the current one is refused, also after a restart that keeps the state
directory (see Deployment). No time is compared, so a login after a logout
works whatever the host's clock says.
2. On the generator page, give the source image's URL, the width and height, the
format, quality and fit, and how long the URL lasts, then submit the form
(`POST /generate`). The format is JPEG XL unless another is chosen; a form