pixa/TODO.md

Workflow

• branch (from main)
• do the work in Next Step
• move Next Step to the top of Completed Steps
• move the top item of Future Steps into Next Step
• commit (TODO.md changes in the same commit as the work)
• merge to main if the branch is not protected, otherwise open a PR
• push

Status

pre-1.0. No git tags exist. Recent work extracted the internal/magic, internal/allowlist, internal/httpfetcher, and internal/signature packages. The gosec findings from the 2026-07-06 survey are resolved and make check is green on main. The disk cache is now size-bounded with LRU eviction (cache_max_bytes), closing the unbounded disk growth DoS vector.

Next Step

P1: implement blocked networks configuration to extend SSRF protection

Completed Steps

• 2026-08-07 implement cache size management and eviction (closes #51): new cache_max_bytes config key validated by the startup framework (explicit values used exactly with no floor, 0 disables the disk cache entirely, omitted defaults to max(75% of free space on the filesystem containing <state_dir>/cache/, 500 MiB), logged at startup); processed variants are now tracked in the database (a new variant_content table and an LRU timestamp on source_content) so total usage is two SUMs, never a directory scan on the hot path; a background goroutine evicts globally least-recently-used entries (variants and source blobs merged) to the limit, woken by a periodic ticker and by write-pressure notifications from stores; a source blob and ALL of its source_metadata references are deleted in one transaction before the file is unlinked, so multi-referenced blobs are never removed while referenced and rows never point at deleted files; a startup and periodic reconciliation pass adopts untracked variant files, drops rows for missing files, removes unreachable source blobs, and sweeps stale temp files
• 2026-08-07 validate configuration on startup, fail fast on bad config (closes #52): a config value that is set but unparseable or invalid aborts startup naming the key and value (defaults apply only to omitted keys), unknown config keys abort startup, a malformed config file aborts instead of being skipped, and state_dir is verified creatable and writable before the listener binds
• 2026-08-07 manual test pass of the auth and encrypted URL flows against a locally built and running pixad (built from main at 6573b9d, port 18099, local throwaway config); all six checks passed, plus all nine tests in scripts/manual-test.sh (closes #49):
  • visit / and see the login form: HTTP 200, Pixa - Login page with name="key" password form
  • wrong key shows an error: POST / with key=wrong-key returned HTTP 200 login page containing "Invalid signing key"
  • correct signing key shows the generator form: POST / returned HTTP 303 to / with Set-Cookie: pixa_session=...; HttpOnly; Secure; SameSite=Strict; GET / with that cookie rendered Pixa - URL Generator with the /generate form and logout link
  • a generated encrypted URL serves the image: POST /generate (ttl=3600) produced a /v1/e/<token>/img.jpeg URL that returned HTTP 200, Content-Type: image/jpeg, an 800x600 baseline JPEG of 61706 bytes
  • an expired URL (short TTL) returns 410: a ttl=1 URL fetched after 3 s returned HTTP 410 Gone with {"error":"URL has expired","status":410,...}
  • logout redirects back to login: GET /logout returned HTTP 303 to / with Set-Cookie: pixa_session=; Max-Age=0; subsequent GET / rendered the login form again
• 2026-08-07 fix the two remaining gosec findings (G124 in internal/session): session cookies now always carry Secure/HttpOnly/SameSite=Strict on both the set and clear paths; make check green (closes #47)
• 2026-07-07 Adopted scripts-to-rule-them-all: script/ entrypoints, Makefile shims, README Entrypoints section
• 2026-04-07 extract magic byte detection into internal/magic (#42)
• 2026-03-25 extract allowlist package from internal/imgcache (#41)
• 2026-03-25 move schema_migrations table creation into 000.sql (#36)
• 2026-03-20 enforce and document exact-match-only signature verification (#40)
• 2026-03-20 bound imageprocessor.Process input read to prevent unbounded memory use (#37); consolidate appname into an internal/globals constant (#34)
• 2026-03-18 parse version prefix from migration filenames (#33)
• 2026-03-15 QA audit fixes for 1.0/MVP readiness (#25)
• 2026-03-02 split Dockerfile with pre-built golangci-lint stage for faster CI (#23)
• 2026-02-25 repo policy compliance: CI workflow, hash-pinned images, golangci-lint and gosec fixes of that date (#14); arm64 Docker build fix (#16)
• 2026-01-08 WebP and AVIF encoding support via govips (both former P0 image processing items, now done)

Future Steps

• P1: rate limit global concurrent upstream fetches to prevent resource exhaustion
• P1: strip EXIF and other metadata from processed images (privacy)
• P2: security
  • referer blacklist
  • per-IP rate limiting
  • per-origin rate limiting
• P2: HTTP response handling
  • Last-Modified headers
  • Vary header for content negotiation
  • X-Request-ID propagation
• P2: auto format selection (format=auto based on Accept header)
• P2: configuration
  • add all configuration options from README
  • environment variable overrides
  • YAML config file support
• P2: operational
  • optional Sentry error reporting
  • comprehensive request logging
  • Prometheus performance metrics
  • integration tests for the image proxy flow
  • load tests to verify the 1k to 5k req/s target
• P2: documentation
  • configuration options
  • API endpoints
  • deployment guide
  • example nginx or caddy reverse proxy config