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SWW_APPS: an app's Core Rule Set fixes apply only to the hostnames that serve it (closes #220)
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gitea's fixes (its parameters, its cookies and gitea.conf) now apply
only to a hostname SWW_APPS lists gitea for, or to every hostname while
it is unset. Each app's fixes are one .conf file, whose first rule skips
the rest unless Inspect sets tx.app_<name>, and one entry in apps.

A hostname in SWW_APPS that is not a DNS name, such as *.example.com,
stops the start. Unset, SWW_APPS is logged at start as null; set
empty, as "".

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@@ -280,6 +280,7 @@ Every setting the code reads, with its default:
| `SWW_WAF_EXEMPT_PATHS` | empty | Path prefixes the Core Rule Set does not inspect. |
| `SWW_WAF_BODY_LIMIT` | `off` | How much of a request body the Core Rule Set reads, a size up to `64K`; `off` reads none. |
| `SWW_CORE_RULE_SET_EXCLUSIONS_FILE` | unset | A file of Core Rule Set exclusions, as Coraza directives, that switch rules off for some fields or paths only. |
| `SWW_APPS` | unset | The apps each hostname serves, such as `git.example.com:gitea;cloud.example.com:gitea`; only those apps' fixes apply there. Unset, every app's fixes apply to every hostname. |
| `SWW_BLOCKLIST_URLS` | empty | Blocklists to fetch, text files of addresses and netblocks one to a line, such as `https://www.spamhaus.org/drop/drop.txt`. |
| `SWW_BLOCKLIST_REFRESH` | `24h` | How long after a list was last tried it is fetched again, `1h` or more. |
| `SWW_BLOCKLIST_ACTION` | `deny` | What a client on a blocklist gets: `deny`, `limit:<percent>` of every limit, or `log`. |
@@ -581,11 +582,15 @@ client's limits by tag. See "Request tags" in [`SPEC.md`](SPEC.md).
headers of every request, and no body unless `SWW_WAF_BODY_LIMIT` is set. In
front of a code forge, bodies carry what people write and publish, which the
rules take for attacks.
- `smallwebwaf` changes the Core Rule Set in eight ways so that it lets ordinary
- `smallwebwaf` changes the Core Rule Set in six ways so that it lets ordinary
requests to a code forge through, such as git over HTTP and sign-in through
Git Credential Manager. On gitea's own paths, its searches, file names and
branch names get through too. No setting undoes the changes; "Attack
detection" in [`SPEC.md`](SPEC.md) lists them.
Git Credential Manager. No setting undoes the changes; "Attack detection" in
[`SPEC.md`](SPEC.md) lists them.
- Each supported app also has its own fixes, which let its ordinary requests
through. gitea's let its searches, file names and branch names through.
`SWW_APPS` names the apps each hostname serves. A hostname gets only its own
apps' fixes, and a hostname it does not list gets none. Unset, every app's
fixes apply to every hostname.
- `SWW_CORE_RULE_SET_EXCLUSIONS_FILE` switches single rules off for an app's own
fields or paths.
- Rule files are plain text, one rule to a line, edited by hand and read again