Lower the default request and byte limits (closes #193)
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New defaults, as sneak approved: 120 requests a minute, 1,500 an hour and 6,000 a day; bytes off a minute, 50G an hour and 100G a day. The README, `SPEC.md`, `docs/settings.md` and `docs/gitea.md` give the new figures and reasoning, and point Actions runners and shared addresses at `SWWAF_RATE_LIMIT_EXEMPT_NETS`. The README examples now hold against the new defaults.

An Actions runner that is not exempted makes more requests an hour than the new limit and will be banned.

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@@ -99,19 +99,22 @@ chooses between the two (see "The image's command" below).
## Request rate limits, per client
- `SWWAF_RATE_LIMIT_PER_MINUTE` (default `500`, about 8 a second): the most
requests a client may make in a minute. A count or `off`. The default catches,
within seconds, a client firing requests as fast as it can. It leaves room for
a fleet of about 20 agents at its busiest, about 120 requests a minute. It
also leaves room for a few quick first visits to gitea with an empty cache,
about 40 files each.
- `SWWAF_RATE_LIMIT_PER_HOUR` (default `20000`, about 5.5 a second): the most
requests a client may make in an hour. A count or `off`. The default leaves
room for an automation fleet at work. It catches a client that keeps up more
than about 5.5 a second for an hour.
- `SWWAF_RATE_LIMIT_PER_DAY` (default `300000`, about 3.5 a second): the most
requests a client may make in a day. A count or `off`. The default catches a
scraper that keeps up 4 a second around the clock.
- `SWWAF_RATE_LIMIT_PER_MINUTE` (default `120`, 2 a second): the most requests a
client may make in a minute. A count or `off`. The default leaves room for a
person opening two gitea pages at once with an empty cache, up to 60 files
each.
- `SWWAF_RATE_LIMIT_PER_HOUR` (default `1500`): the most requests a client may
make in an hour. A count or `off`. It is the main limit against scrapers. A
person reading code in gitea for an hour, a page every 20 seconds, makes
about 900. A scraper making one request every 2 seconds makes 1,800 an hour,
more than the limit.
- `SWWAF_RATE_LIMIT_PER_DAY` (default `6000`): the most requests a client may
make in a day. A count or `off`. The default is four hours at the hour limit.
A scraper making one request every 10 seconds makes 8,640 a day, more than the
limit.
- An Actions runner asks gitea for work all day and can pass the limits. Put the
runners' addresses in `SWWAF_RATE_LIMIT_EXEMPT_NETS`. Do the same for a
network where many people share one address, such as an office.
- Counting cannot catch a client that stays under all three limits (see "Request
rate limits, per client" in [`SPEC.md`](../SPEC.md)).
- `SWWAF_RATE_LIMIT_EXEMPT_PATHS` (default empty): path prefixes exempt from
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## Byte limits, per client
- `SWWAF_BYTES_LIMIT_PER_MINUTE` (default `4G`), `SWWAF_BYTES_LIMIT_PER_HOUR`
(default `20G`) and `SWWAF_BYTES_LIMIT_PER_DAY` (default `200G`): the most
- `SWWAF_BYTES_LIMIT_PER_MINUTE` (default `off`), `SWWAF_BYTES_LIMIT_PER_HOUR`
(default `50G`) and `SWWAF_BYTES_LIMIT_PER_DAY` (default `100G`): the most
bytes counted for a client in each window. A size or `off`.
- `SWWAF_BYTES_COUNT` (default `both`): which body bytes the byte limits count:
`response`, `request` or `both`.