Core Rule Set: gitea's ordinary requests pass by default (closes #198)
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The eighth change, internal/waf/gitea.conf, has some fields skip the
rules that refused ordinary gitea requests there, on gitea's paths only:
searches, file names and branch names. Referer skips 944130 too. A
registry's layer reuse skips 932260 on from, the seventh change.

The new setting SWWAF_CORE_RULE_SET_EXCLUSIONS_FILE loads an operator's
own exclusions before the Core Rule Set's rules. The start stops, in
every mode, on a set file that cannot be read or does not parse, names
smallwebwaf's own ids, or holds a directive such as SecRuleRemoveById.

A test sends the recorded gitea requests at the defaults, none refused,
and three attacks, all refused.

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@@ -191,6 +191,15 @@ chooses between the two (see "The image's command" below).
the Core Rule Set reads, a size of at most `64K`. A question carries no more
of a body than 64 KiB, and the Core Rule Set reads at most 64 KiB less one
byte of it, whatever the value (see "The answer" in [`SPEC.md`](../SPEC.md)).
- `SWWAF_CORE_RULE_SET_EXCLUSIONS_FILE` (default unset): a file of Core Rule Set
exclusions, written as Coraza directives. It is loaded before the Core Rule
Set's rules, so it holds only `SecAction` and `SecRule` lines that exclude
with `ctl:ruleRemoveTargetById` or `ctl:ruleRemoveById`. A file that cannot be
read or does not parse stops the start, whatever `SWWAF_WAF_MODE` is. So does
a file that names a number from 900000 to 900999 outside a comment, alone or
in a range. So does a directive that removes or changes rules as the file
loads, such as `SecRuleRemoveById`, since none of the Core Rule Set's rules is
loaded yet. It has no `_FILE` form.
- `SWWAF_ERROR_BURST_THRESHOLD` (default `30`): the most refusals of one client
in a minute (see "Attack detection" in `SPEC.md`). A count or `off`.