servewaf answers rproxy's question about each request and takes its report (closes #170)
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`smallwebwaf servewaf` runs today's checks on the visitor's request each
question carries, answers rproxy, and passes nothing to an app. rproxy reports
every request servewaf answered. A report counts an allowed request's bytes and
writes servewaf's second log line. The table holds a copy of what a report
needs, never the request, so a report cannot reach a request being handled.

Judgement call: a question's body is read before any check; over 64 KiB gets 400.
Judgement call: a report's bytes and durations have ceilings, so they cannot overflow.
Judgement call: a `close` disposition for SWWAF_BAN_RESPONSE=close.

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The endpoints under `/_smallwebwaf/`, what each takes and what each answers.
"Admin endpoints" in [`SPEC.md`](../SPEC.md) says which checks they go through
and how their tokens work.
and how their tokens work. `smallwebwaf servewaf` answers them at its own
address, without those checks (see "`servewaf`" in [`SPEC.md`](../SPEC.md)).
- `GET /_smallwebwaf/healthz`: `200` and `ok`, to anyone.
- `GET /_smallwebwaf/metrics`: the metrics, for `SWWAF_METRICS_TOKEN` (see
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- `instance`: `SWWAF_INSTANCE_NAME`. `time`: when the alert was raised. `event`:
one of the events above.
- `host`: the site of the request that raised the alert. Only `servewaf` sends
this field, since it serves many sites, and not for `source_failure`,
`file_error` and `summary`.
- `client`: the address whose request raised the alert. Empty for
`source_failure`, `file_error` and `summary`.
- `netblock`: empty for `source_failure`, `file_error` and `summary`; otherwise
@@ -110,7 +113,7 @@ Slack and ntfy get a message with a title and a text. The title is the instance
and the event, such as `fsn1app1/gitea: ban`. The text is the `reason`, then one
line for each of these that the alert has:
- the client, the netblock and the country;
- the host, the client, the netblock and the country;
- the file, the source, the error and the mode from `detail`;
- the suppressed repeats, if any.
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[`SPEC.md`](../SPEC.md) describes the endpoint. Prometheus keeps the `instance`
label as `exported_instance` unless the scrape sets `honor_labels: true`.
`smallwebwaf servewaf` counts a denied request at its decision. It counts an
allowed request when its report comes, with the status, bytes and times the
report gives. These are not counted:
- a report itself;
- an allowed request whose report never comes;
- a question refused with `400`;
- a question whose body stopped arriving.
## Traffic
- `smallwebwaf_requests_total`, `smallwebwaf_request_bytes_total` and
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connection;
- `duration_upstream_first_byte`: until the first byte of the answer;
- `duration_upstream_total`: until the end of the answer.
## `servewaf`'s lines
`smallwebwaf servewaf` writes two lines for each question it answers, joined by
`request_id`. The field `servewaf_line` says which of the two a line is:
- `decision`: the line it writes once it has answered the question;
- `report`: the line it writes when `rproxy`'s report comes, with everything
known. The repetition is intended.
A request to its own endpoints writes one line, without `servewaf_line`. A
report writes no line but the `report` line of the request it names.
These questions write no line:
- a question refused with `400` (see "The question" under "`servewaf`" in
[`SPEC.md`](../SPEC.md));
- a question whose body stopped arriving, which gets no answer.
### The `decision` line
It has the fields above, with these meanings where they differ:
- `client_ip`: `X-Smallwebwaf-Client`.
- `peer_ip`: `X-Smallwebwaf-Peer`.
- `host`: the site the visitor asked for.
- `protocol`: the question's own, `HTTP/1.1`.
- `content_length`: `X-Smallwebwaf-Content-Length`.
- `request_id`: the question's `X-Request-ID`.
- `status`: what `servewaf` answered: `200` for `allow`, the status of `deny`,
or `0` for `close`, as the visitor is then sent nothing.
- `request_bytes`: how much of the question's body the Core Rule Set read.
- `response_bytes`: the body of `servewaf`'s answer.
- `action`: `forward` for `allow`, and `admin` for the `404` for a path under
`/_smallwebwaf/`.
- `aborted`: true when `rproxy` went away before the answer.
- `duration_total`: from the question's headers being read to the line.
The line leaves out `upstream_status`, `websocket` and the
`duration_upstream_...` fields, since `servewaf` passes nothing to the app.
The bytes of an allowed request are counted when its report comes. So `counts`
holds the client's bytes without this request's.
### The `report` line
It has every field of the `decision` line, and `time` stays when the request
arrived. These fields say what the report says:
- `status`: what the visitor got, `0` if nothing;
- `request_bytes` and `response_bytes`: the body bytes each way, with what a
WebSocket carried each way;
- `duration_total`: from the request's headers being read by `rproxy` to the end
of the answer;
- `duration_upstream_total`: from the hand-over to the app to the end of the
answer, for an allowed request.
For an allowed request, the report's counting also changes these fields:
- `counts`: the byte totals now include this request's;
- `limit_hit`, `offence` and `ban_expires`: set when the report's bytes broke a
byte limit.
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in [`SPEC.md`](../SPEC.md). That section gives the conventions, the settings
that take `off`, the `_FILE` form, and what each group does and why.
## `servewaf`
`smallwebwaf servewaf` uses every setting here but these, which it ignores:
- `SWWAF_UPSTREAM_URL` and `SWWAF_TRUSTED_PROXIES`;
- the five timeouts under "Size and time limits";
- `SWWAF_CLIENT_REQUEST_HEADER_MAX_BYTES`, `SWWAF_REQUEST_MAX_BYTES` and
`SWWAF_RESPONSE_MAX_BYTES`.
An invalid value of one of these still stops the start, and the line of settings
at start still shows them.
`SWWAF_ADD_LOOKUP_HEADERS` puts the headers on the answer to `rproxy`, not on a
request to an app. `SWWAF_WAF_BODY_LIMIT` has an effect up to 64 KiB less one
byte, whatever its value. A question carries no more of a body than 64 KiB (see
"`servewaf`" in [`SPEC.md`](../SPEC.md)).
## Forms of values
- A duration is Go's syntax, with `d` for days: `90s`, `15m`, `24h`, `7d`. Zero
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- at most 100,000 DNS blocklist verdicts and 100,000 AbuseIPDB scores are kept;
- at most 1,000 DNS blocklist queries are under way at once;
- at most 20,000 anomaly counters are kept;
- each alert destination's queue holds at most 1,000 alerts.
- each alert destination's queue holds at most 1,000 alerts;
- `servewaf` holds at most 10,000 answered requests awaiting their reports.