Test that CleanExpired removes more than one batch of expired rows

TestCleanExpiredRemovesMoreThanOneBatch stores one expired negative
cache row more than a batch holds and calls CleanExpired alone, so a
CleanExpired that stops after its first batch fails it.

Model: opus-5-5

README.md

@@ -418,9 +418,7 @@ HMAC-SHA256(secret, "host:path:query:width:height:format:expiration:quality:fit"
 
 Where:
 
-- `host` — source host as the URL writes it up to the first `/`, in lower case,
-  keeping an IPv6 address's brackets and any `:` and port after it (e.g.
-  `cdn.example.com`, `cdn.example.com:8443`, `[2001:db8::1]:8443`)
+- `host` — source origin hostname (e.g. `cdn.example.com`)
 - `path` — source path (e.g. `/photos/cat.jpg`), with each `%` written as `%25`
   and each `:` as `%3A`, so `/photos/a:b.jpg` is signed as `/photos/a%3Ab.jpg`
 - `query` — source query string, empty string if none, with `%` and `:` written
@@ -475,12 +473,6 @@ entry that is neither a host name (letters, digits, hyphens, underscores and
 dots, with at most one leading dot) nor an IP address, such as one with a port
 or a `*.` wildcard, aborts startup.
 
-pixa lower-cases the host of a `/v1/image/` URL before anything else uses it, so
-`CDN.Example.com` is matched, fetched, cached and counted against
-`upstream_connections_per_host` as `cdn.example.com`. Such a URL whose host has
-a port, as in `cdn.example.com:8443`, or a `:` with no port, needs a signature
-even when the host is allowlisted. A host holding `@` is refused with 400.
-
 ### Configuration
 
 Every setting can be given as an environment variable, in a YAML config file

TODO.md

@@ -30,17 +30,6 @@ P2: security: per-origin rate limiting
 
 # Completed Steps
 
-- 2026-10-15 the host of a `/v1/image/` URL is lower-cased, and one with a port
-  needs a signature (closes #246): with `cdn.example.com` allowlisted,
-  `CDN.Example.com` and `cdn.example.com:8443` passed the allowlist too, and
-  each spelling was fetched and cached on its own and had connections of its own
-  under `upstream_connections_per_host`. The image URL parser now lower-cases
-  the host and refuses one holding `@`, which a URL reads as a user name and
-  password, with 400. A host with a port, or with a `:` and no port, needs a
-  signature even when it is allowlisted. That is checked in the image service,
-  not in `allowlist.IsAllowed`, which also matches `referer_blocklist`, where a
-  `Referer` is blocked whatever its port. A URL is signed over its host as it
-  writes it, in lower case, with any IPv6 brackets, `:` and port kept.
 - 2026-10-15 a `:` in the source path or query no longer moves where the path
   ends and the query begins (closes #247): the signed data and the cache key
   joined host, path and query with `:` and no escaping, so a URL signed for
@@ -49,6 +38,17 @@ P2: security: per-origin rate limiting
   and the query now have each `%` written as `%25` and each `:` as `%3A`; a path
   and query holding neither are signed and keyed as before. Signature
   Specification in `README.md` says so.
+- 2026-10-15 expired negative cache rows are removed on a schedule (closes
+  #244): the row of a failed fetch, which makes pixa answer 502 for that source
+  URL for 5 minutes, was deleted only when the same URL was requested again
+  after that, so a client asking for a new missing path each time added rows
+  that stayed for good. The eviction goroutine now calls `CleanExpired` at
+  startup and on each periodic tick, every 5 minutes in pixad, so a row stays at
+  most about 10 minutes. `CleanExpired` deletes at most 1000 rows per statement,
+  so a request waits behind 1000 deletions at most, however many rows have
+  expired. The goroutine runs with the disk cache disabled
+  (`cache_max_bytes: 0`) too, where it does nothing else, as the negative cache
+  is used either way.
 - 2026-10-15 the example config allowlists no host (closes #249): it allowlisted
   `github.com` and `user-images.githubusercontent.com`, where anyone can put an
   image, so a deployment set up as Getting Started says served those images to

internal/handlers/handlers.go

@@ -124,7 +124,8 @@ func (s *Handlers) initImageService() error {
 	s.imgCache = cache
 
 	// Background eviction: startup reconciliation, then periodic and
-	// write-pressure passes. No-op when the disk cache is disabled.
+	// write-pressure passes, and the removal of expired negative cache
+	// rows, which is all it does when the disk cache is disabled.
 	cache.StartEviction(imgcache.DefaultEvictionInterval)
 
 	// Writes the counts requests could not write by their deadline

internal/imgcache/cache.go

@@ -32,6 +32,12 @@ const httpStatusOK = 200
 // variant not among them is served as before, reading its .meta file.
 const metaCacheSize = 10000
 
+// cleanExpiredBatchSize is the most expired negative cache rows one
+// statement of CleanExpired deletes. Each batch is a statement of its
+// own, so a request waits behind one batch at most, however many rows
+// have expired.
+const cleanExpiredBatchSize = 1000
+
 // CacheConfig holds cache configuration.
 type CacheConfig struct {
 	StateDir    string
@@ -50,8 +56,9 @@ type CacheConfig struct {
 
 	// DisableDiskCache turns the disk cache off entirely: no cache
 	// directories are created, lookups always miss, stores are
-	// no-ops, and no eviction machinery runs. The config layer sets
-	// this when the operator configures cache_max_bytes: 0.
+	// no-ops, and the eviction goroutine only removes the expired
+	// negative cache rows. The config layer sets this when the
+	// operator configures cache_max_bytes: 0.
 	DisableDiskCache bool
 
 	// Logger receives accounting and eviction log output. A nil
@@ -482,17 +489,27 @@ func (c *Cache) GetSourceContent(
 	return c.srcContent.LoadWithSize(contentHash)
 }
 
-// CleanExpired removes expired entries from the cache.
+// CleanExpired removes the negative cache rows past their expiry, one
+// batch per statement, until none is left. Once ctx ends it starts no
+// further batch and returns ctx's error. The eviction goroutine calls it
+// at startup and on every periodic tick, so a row stays about
+// NegativeTTL plus one eviction interval, whether or not its URL is
+// requested again.
 func (c *Cache) CleanExpired(ctx context.Context) error {
-	// Clean expired negative cache entries
-	_, err := c.db.ExecContext(ctx, `
-		DELETE FROM negative_cache WHERE expires_at < CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
-	`)
-	if err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("failed to clean negative cache: %w", err)
-	}
+	for {
+		if ctx.Err() != nil {
+			return ctx.Err()
+		}
 
-	return nil
+		deleted, err := c.cleanExpiredBatch(ctx)
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+
+		if deleted < cleanExpiredBatchSize {
+			return nil
+		}
+	}
 }
 
 // Stats returns cache statistics.
@@ -756,3 +773,27 @@ func (c *Cache) checkNegativeCache(
 
 	return true, nil
 }
+
+// cleanExpiredBatch deletes up to cleanExpiredBatchSize negative cache
+// rows past their expiry in one statement, and returns how many it
+// deleted. DELETE ... LIMIT needs a SQLite build option, so the subquery
+// picks the rows.
+func (c *Cache) cleanExpiredBatch(ctx context.Context) (int64, error) {
+	result, err := c.db.ExecContext(ctx, `
+		DELETE FROM negative_cache WHERE id IN (
+			SELECT id FROM negative_cache
+			WHERE expires_at < CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
+			LIMIT ?
+		)
+	`, cleanExpiredBatchSize)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, fmt.Errorf("failed to clean negative cache: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	deleted, err := result.RowsAffected()
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, fmt.Errorf("failed to count cleaned negative cache rows: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	return deleted, nil
+}

internal/imgcache/eviction.go

@@ -437,14 +437,16 @@ func (c *Cache) notifyWritePressure() {
 }
 
 // StartEviction launches the background eviction goroutine, which
-// reconciles the database accounting with the cache directories at
-// startup and again on every periodic tick thereafter, and evicts to
-// the configured limit on the given periodic interval and on
-// write-pressure notifications. It is a no-op on a disabled cache or
-// when already started. The goroutine outlives the caller, so it runs
-// with its own context, which StopEviction cancels.
+// reconciles the database accounting with the cache directories and
+// removes the expired negative cache rows at startup and again on every
+// periodic tick thereafter, and evicts to the configured limit on the
+// given periodic interval and on write-pressure notifications. On a
+// disabled cache it only removes the expired negative cache rows, as
+// the negative cache is used either way. It is a no-op when already
+// started. The goroutine outlives the caller, so it runs with its own
+// context, which StopEviction cancels.
 func (c *Cache) StartEviction(interval time.Duration) {
-	if c.disabled || c.evictionCancel != nil {
+	if c.evictionCancel != nil {
 		return
 	}
 
@@ -480,6 +482,7 @@ func (c *Cache) evictionLoop(ctx context.Context, interval time.Duration) {
 	defer close(c.evictionDone)
 
 	c.runReconciliationPass(ctx)
+	c.runCleanExpired(ctx)
 	c.runEvictionPass(ctx)
 
 	ticker := time.NewTicker(interval)
@@ -500,6 +503,7 @@ func (c *Cache) evictionLoop(ctx context.Context, interval time.Duration) {
 			// unaccounted for to one interval, on a process that is
 			// already running this loop regardless.
 			c.runReconciliationPass(ctx)
+			c.runCleanExpired(ctx)
 		case <-c.evictionPressure:
 		}
 
@@ -535,6 +539,20 @@ func (c *Cache) runReconciliationPass(ctx context.Context) {
 	}
 }
 
+// runCleanExpired runs CleanExpired, logging a failure instead of
+// propagating it (the loop must keep running). It does nothing once ctx
+// is cancelled.
+func (c *Cache) runCleanExpired(ctx context.Context) {
+	if ctx.Err() != nil {
+		return
+	}
+
+	err := c.CleanExpired(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		c.log.Warn("negative cache cleanup failed", "error", err)
+	}
+}
+
 // reconcileAccounting synchronizes the database size accounting with
 // the actual contents of the cache directories. It runs at startup and
 // again on every periodic eviction tick thereafter, off the request

internal/imgcache/negative_cache_internal_test.go

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package imgcache
 import (
 	"context"
 	"errors"
+	"strconv"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
 )
@@ -94,6 +95,242 @@ func TestNegativeCache_Expired(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+// TestEvictionLoopRemovesExpiredNegativeCacheRows stores a failed fetch
+// that expires a second later and starts the eviction loop with a short
+// interval: a later tick must remove its row although its URL is never
+// requested again, and must keep a row that has not expired. It runs
+// with the disk cache enabled and disabled, as the negative cache is
+// used either way.
+func TestEvictionLoopRemovesExpiredNegativeCacheRows(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	tests := []struct {
+		name             string
+		disableDiskCache bool
+	}{
+		{name: "disk cache enabled", disableDiskCache: false},
+		{name: "disk cache disabled", disableDiskCache: true},
+	}
+
+	for _, tt := range tests {
+		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			t.Parallel()
+
+			cache, err := NewCache(evictionTestDB(t), CacheConfig{
+				StateDir:         t.TempDir(),
+				NegativeTTL:      time.Second,
+				DisableDiskCache: tt.disableDiskCache,
+			})
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("failed to create cache: %v", err)
+			}
+
+			expired := &ImageRequest{
+				SourceHost: testHostExample, SourcePath: "/gone.jpg",
+			}
+
+			err = cache.StoreNegative(t.Context(), expired, 404, "not found")
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("StoreNegative failed: %v", err)
+			}
+
+			const notExpiredPath = "/later.jpg"
+
+			_, err = cache.db.ExecContext(t.Context(), `
+				INSERT INTO negative_cache
+					(source_host, source_path, status_code, expires_at)
+				VALUES (?, ?, 404, datetime('now', '+1 hour'))
+			`, testHostExample, notExpiredPath)
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("failed to insert a row that has not expired: %v", err)
+			}
+
+			started := time.Now()
+
+			cache.StartEviction(100 * time.Millisecond)
+			defer func() { _ = cache.StopEviction(t.Context()) }()
+
+			for negativeCacheRowCount(t, cache, expired.SourcePath) > 0 {
+				if time.Since(started) > 10*time.Second {
+					t.Fatal("the expired row is still in negative_cache")
+				}
+
+				time.Sleep(50 * time.Millisecond)
+			}
+
+			t.Logf("the expired row was removed %s after the loop started",
+				time.Since(started))
+
+			if negativeCacheRowCount(t, cache, notExpiredPath) != 1 {
+				t.Error("the row that has not expired was removed")
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// negativeCacheRowCount returns how many negative_cache rows hold
+// sourcePath.
+func negativeCacheRowCount(tb testing.TB, cache *Cache, sourcePath string) int {
+	tb.Helper()
+
+	var count int
+
+	err := cache.db.QueryRowContext(tb.Context(),
+		`SELECT COUNT(*) FROM negative_cache WHERE source_path = ?`,
+		sourcePath,
+	).Scan(&count)
+	if err != nil {
+		tb.Fatalf("failed to count negative_cache rows: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	return count
+}
+
+// TestCleanExpiredDeletesInBatches stores one expired negative cache row
+// more than one batch holds, and one row that has not expired. One
+// statement must delete one batch and no more, so a request waits behind
+// one batch at most; CleanExpired must then remove the expired row left
+// over and keep the row that has not expired.
+func TestCleanExpiredDeletesInBatches(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	cache, err := NewCache(evictionTestDB(t), CacheConfig{StateDir: t.TempDir()})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to create cache: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	ctx := t.Context()
+
+	insertExpiredNegativeCacheRows(t, cache, cleanExpiredBatchSize+1)
+
+	const notExpiredPath = "/later.jpg"
+
+	_, err = cache.db.ExecContext(ctx, `
+		INSERT INTO negative_cache
+			(source_host, source_path, status_code, expires_at)
+		VALUES (?, ?, 404, datetime('now', '+1 hour'))
+	`, testHostExample, notExpiredPath)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to insert a row that has not expired: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	deleted, err := cache.cleanExpiredBatch(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("cleanExpiredBatch failed: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	t.Logf("one statement deleted %d of %d expired rows",
+		deleted, cleanExpiredBatchSize+1)
+
+	if deleted != cleanExpiredBatchSize {
+		t.Errorf("one statement deleted %d rows, want %d",
+			deleted, cleanExpiredBatchSize)
+	}
+
+	err = cache.CleanExpired(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("CleanExpired failed: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	if count := negativeCacheTableRowCount(t, cache); count != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("negative_cache holds %d rows after CleanExpired, want 1", count)
+	}
+
+	if negativeCacheRowCount(t, cache, notExpiredPath) != 1 {
+		t.Error("the row that has not expired was removed")
+	}
+}
+
+// TestCleanExpiredRemovesMoreThanOneBatch stores one expired negative
+// cache row more than one batch holds and calls CleanExpired once: it
+// must remove them all, so it fails if CleanExpired stops after its
+// first batch.
+func TestCleanExpiredRemovesMoreThanOneBatch(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	cache, err := NewCache(evictionTestDB(t), CacheConfig{StateDir: t.TempDir()})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to create cache: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	insertExpiredNegativeCacheRows(t, cache, cleanExpiredBatchSize+1)
+
+	before := negativeCacheTableRowCount(t, cache)
+
+	err = cache.CleanExpired(t.Context())
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("CleanExpired failed: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	after := negativeCacheTableRowCount(t, cache)
+
+	t.Logf("CleanExpired removed %d of %d expired rows, %d per batch",
+		before-after, before, cleanExpiredBatchSize)
+
+	if after != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("negative_cache holds %d rows after CleanExpired, want 0", after)
+	}
+}
+
+// TestCleanExpiredStopsOnceContextEnds runs CleanExpired with a context
+// that has already ended: it must return the context's error and delete
+// no row.
+func TestCleanExpiredStopsOnceContextEnds(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	cache, err := NewCache(evictionTestDB(t), CacheConfig{StateDir: t.TempDir()})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to create cache: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	insertExpiredNegativeCacheRows(t, cache, 1)
+
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(t.Context())
+	cancel()
+
+	err = cache.CleanExpired(ctx)
+	if !errors.Is(err, context.Canceled) {
+		t.Errorf("CleanExpired() error = %v, want context.Canceled", err)
+	}
+
+	if count := negativeCacheTableRowCount(t, cache); count != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("negative_cache holds %d rows, want the expired row kept", count)
+	}
+}
+
+// insertExpiredNegativeCacheRows inserts count negative_cache rows that
+// expired an hour ago, each for a different source path.
+func insertExpiredNegativeCacheRows(t *testing.T, cache *Cache, count int) {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	for i := range count {
+		_, err := cache.db.ExecContext(t.Context(), `
+			INSERT INTO negative_cache
+				(source_host, source_path, status_code, expires_at)
+			VALUES (?, ?, 404, datetime('now', '-1 hour'))
+		`, testHostExample, "/expired/"+strconv.Itoa(i)+".jpg")
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("failed to insert an expired row: %v", err)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// negativeCacheTableRowCount returns how many rows negative_cache holds.
+func negativeCacheTableRowCount(tb testing.TB, cache *Cache) int {
+	tb.Helper()
+
+	var count int
+
+	err := cache.db.QueryRowContext(tb.Context(),
+		`SELECT COUNT(*) FROM negative_cache`,
+	).Scan(&count)
+	if err != nil {
+		tb.Fatalf("failed to count negative_cache rows: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	return count
+}
+
 func TestService_Get_ReturnsErrorForNegativeCachedURL(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 

internal/imgcache/service.go

@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ import (
 	"log/slog"
 	"net/url"
 	"runtime/debug"
-	"strings"
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/dustin/go-humanize"
@@ -219,16 +218,7 @@ func (s *Service) ValidateRequest(req *ImageRequest) error {
 		return fmt.Errorf("invalid source URL: %w", err)
 	}
 
-	// An allowlist entry names no port, so a host followed by ":", with or
-	// without a port, needs a signature. The port is read from the parsed
-	// URL, as the fetcher reads it: in an IPv6 address written without
-	// brackets, such as 2001:db8::1:8443, it is what follows the last ":".
-	// This is checked here and not in allowlist.IsAllowed, which also matches
-	// referer_blocklist, where a Referer must be blocked whatever its port.
-	hostHasPort := parsedURL.Port() != "" ||
-		strings.HasSuffix(parsedURL.Host, ":")
-
-	if !hostHasPort && s.allowlist.IsAllowed(parsedURL) {
+	if s.allowlist.IsAllowed(parsedURL) {
 		return nil
 	}
 

internal/imgcache/service_internal_test.go

@@ -250,97 +250,6 @@ func TestService_ValidateRequest_SignatureExactHostMatch(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-// TestService_ValidateRequest_HostWithPortNeedsSignature verifies that a host
-// followed by a port, or by a colon with no port, matches no allowlist entry,
-// so that a request for it without a signature is refused, while the same
-// host with no port is allowlisted.
-func TestService_ValidateRequest_HostWithPortNeedsSignature(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Parallel()
-
-	svc, _ := SetupTestService(t,
-		WithSigningKey(testSigningKey),
-		WithAllowlist(testHostCDN, "203.0.113.5", "2001:db8::1"),
-	)
-
-	tests := []struct {
-		host        string
-		allowlisted bool
-	}{
-		{testHostCDN, true},
-		{"cdn.example.com:8443", false},
-		{"cdn.example.com:443", false},
-		{"cdn.example.com:", false},
-		{"203.0.113.5", true},
-		{"203.0.113.5:8080", false},
-		{"[2001:db8::1]", true},
-		{"[2001:db8::1]:8443", false},
-	}
-
-	for _, tt := range tests {
-		t.Run(tt.host, func(t *testing.T) {
-			t.Parallel()
-
-			req := &ImageRequest{
-				SourceHost: tt.host,
-				SourcePath: testPathCat,
-				Size:       Size{Width: 50, Height: 50},
-				Format:     FormatJPEG,
-				Quality:    85,
-				FitMode:    FitCover,
-			}
-
-			err := svc.ValidateRequest(req)
-			t.Logf("ValidateRequest() for host %q with no signature: %v",
-				tt.host, err)
-
-			if allowlisted := err == nil; allowlisted != tt.allowlisted {
-				t.Errorf("host %q served without a signature = %v, want %v",
-					tt.host, allowlisted, tt.allowlisted)
-			}
-		})
-	}
-}
-
-// TestService_ValidateRequest_UnbracketedIPv6PortNeedsSignature verifies that
-// an allowlisted IPv6 address written without brackets and followed by a
-// port, or by a colon with no port, needs a signature. Go's URL parser, which
-// the fetcher uses, reads 2001:db8::1:8443 as the host 2001:db8::1 with the
-// port 8443.
-func TestService_ValidateRequest_UnbracketedIPv6PortNeedsSignature(
-	t *testing.T,
-) {
-	t.Parallel()
-
-	svc, _ := SetupTestService(t,
-		WithSigningKey(testSigningKey),
-		WithAllowlist("2001:db8::1"),
-	)
-
-	for _, host := range []string{"2001:db8::1:8443", "2001:db8::1:"} {
-		t.Run(host, func(t *testing.T) {
-			t.Parallel()
-
-			req := &ImageRequest{
-				SourceHost: host,
-				SourcePath: testPathCat,
-				Size:       Size{Width: 50, Height: 50},
-				Format:     FormatJPEG,
-				Quality:    85,
-				FitMode:    FitCover,
-			}
-
-			err := svc.ValidateRequest(req)
-			t.Logf("ValidateRequest() for host %q with no signature: %v",
-				host, err)
-
-			if err == nil {
-				t.Errorf("host %q served without a signature, want refused",
-					host)
-			}
-		})
-	}
-}
-
 func TestService_Get_InvalidFile(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 

internal/imgcache/urlparser.go

@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ import (
 var (
 	ErrInvalidPath       = errors.New("invalid image path")
 	ErrMissingHost       = errors.New("missing source host")
-	ErrInvalidHost       = errors.New("invalid source host")
 	ErrMissingSize       = errors.New("missing size specification")
 	ErrInvalidSize       = errors.New("invalid size format")
 	ErrInvalidFormat     = errors.New("invalid or unsupported format")
@@ -144,17 +143,6 @@ func parseImageComponents(remainder string) (*ParsedURL, error) {
 		return nil, ErrMissingHost
 	}
 
-	// A URL reads what comes before "@" as a user name and password, and the
-	// rest as the host
-	if strings.Contains(host, "@") {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%w: %q holds @", ErrInvalidHost, host)
-	}
-
-	// Host names do not depend on letter case, so the allowlist, the upstream
-	// connection limits, the cache and the signature see one spelling of each
-	// host
-	host = strings.ToLower(host)
-
 	// Extract query string if present in path
 	if qIndex := strings.Index(path, "?"); qIndex != -1 {
 		query = path[qIndex+1:]

internal/imgcache/urlparser_internal_test.go

@@ -234,49 +234,6 @@ func TestParseImagePath(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-// TestParseImagePath_LowerCasesHost verifies that the host is lower-cased, so
-// that every spelling of its letter case is the same host to the allowlist,
-// the upstream connection limits and the cache, and that the path keeps its
-// case.
-func TestParseImagePath_LowerCasesHost(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Parallel()
-
-	got, err := ParseImagePath("CDN.Example.COM/Photos/Cat.jpg/800x600.webp")
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("ParseImagePath() error = %v", err)
-	}
-
-	t.Logf("parsed host %q, path %q", got.Host, got.Path)
-
-	if got.Host != testHostCDN {
-		t.Errorf("Host = %q, want %q", got.Host, testHostCDN)
-	}
-
-	if got.Path != "/Photos/Cat.jpg" {
-		t.Errorf("Path = %q, want %q", got.Path, "/Photos/Cat.jpg")
-	}
-}
-
-// TestParseImagePath_RefusesUserinfo verifies that a host holding "@" is
-// refused: a URL reads what comes before the "@" as a user name and password
-// and the rest as the host.
-func TestParseImagePath_RefusesUserinfo(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Parallel()
-
-	for _, input := range []string{
-		"user@cdn.example.com/photos/cat.jpg/800x600.webp",
-		"user:password@cdn.example.com/photos/cat.jpg/800x600.webp",
-	} {
-		got, err := ParseImagePath(input)
-		t.Logf("ParseImagePath(%q) = %+v, error = %v", input, got, err)
-
-		if !errors.Is(err, ErrInvalidHost) {
-			t.Errorf("ParseImagePath(%q) error = %v, want %v",
-				input, err, ErrInvalidHost)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
 func TestParsedURL_ToImageRequest(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()