Every setting of waf and rproxy is read through viper, in place of the
os.LookupEnv function Main passed down. NewViper turns AutomaticEnv and
AllowEmptyEnv on, so a setting that is set but empty reads as set. A
setting may also be given as a file, the _FILE form, which rproxy's
settings now have too; rproxy still writes nothing to disk.
The settings are renamed: waf's take the prefix SWW_WAF_, rproxy's take
SWW_RPROXY_, and the shared SWW_COMMAND keeps SWW_. The Core Rule Set's
settings take SWW_WAF_CORE_RULE_SET_ rather than SWW_WAF_WAF_.
Model: deepseek-v4-pro (first version); opus-5-5 (rework)
Every cache of answers from an outside service has its own file in `SWW_CACHE_DIR` (default `/var/cache/sww`): `lookups.json` (GeoJS), `lists.json` (lists fetched by URL, CrowdSec's decisions included), `dnsbl.json`, `abuseipdb-scores.json` and `routewatch.json` (at most 100,000 answers, each kept an hour). `reputation.json` is gone; the AbuseIPDB checks spent today stay in `SWW_STATE_DIR` as `abuseipdb-checks-spent.json`, since losing them would spend the daily budget twice.
A cache file never stops the start: one that does not parse is set aside as `<name>.bad` with a `file_error` alert. An unwritable `SWW_CACHE_DIR` stops the start. The `run` script creates the cache directory and gives it to `sww`. The cache directory needs no volume and can be left out of backups.
Model: opus-5-5
The command is now `sww waf`, and the package is `internal/waf`. Types,
functions, files, tests, comments, docs, the Dockerfile, the runit
script, `script/`, compose examples, the log field `waf_line` and the
`X-From-Waf` test header follow. No behaviour changes, and no setting
changes name: rproxy already finds the waf through `SWRP_WAF_BACKEND`.
Done with one `sed -i` (Discriminator and DISCRIMINATOR to WAF,
discriminator to waf) over the files `git grep -i discriminator`
listed, as sneak allowed for this rename, then `git mv` for the
package and files. By hand afterwards: the header's spelling, which
the linter requires, and the padding after `waf` in `sww`'s usage
text.
Model: opus-5-5
The first half of the naming audit: names now say what they are. `internal/waf` is `internal/coreruleset`. Log fields, the action `blocked_by_core_rule_set`, the metric and the alert event say Core Rule Set. Timings end `_ms`. Percentages say of what, as `rate_limit_percent` and `bytes_limit_percent`. Setting names follow in #234.
Judgement call: `blocked_by_core_rule_set`, not the audit's `core_rule_set_blocked`, to match `blocked_by_block_rule`.
Trips a reader: an existing state file holding `waf_blocked` or the anomaly scope `watch` stops the start and must be removed. `SWW_ALERT_EVENTS` listing `waf_block` must list `core_rule_set_match`.
Model: opus-5-5
The request log's `action` values now say what they mean, as sneak named them: `request_header_too_large`, `client_is_rate_limited`, `blocked_by_block_rule` and `client_denied`, with no aliases. `banned` splits into `temporarily_banned` and `permanently_banned`, by whether the ban runs out. When a permanent ban also covers a client, that ban is the one reported.
Trips a reader: a request over a rate limit stays `client_is_rate_limited` even when the ban it makes is permanent.
Disclosure: the offence key `rule_blocked` is renamed in `clients.json` too, so an existing file holding it stops the start and must be removed. Its `version` stays 1.
Model: opus-5-5
sneak asked for every document to be audited for sentences that do not say what they mean. The byte limits now say which bytes count (response bodies, request bodies or both, as `SWW_BYTES_COUNT` says, WebSocket traffic included) and what passing one does. Other unclear or false sentences in `README.md`, `SPEC.md`, `EVALUATION.md` and `docs/` are rewritten.
Documents only. `REPO_POLICIES.md` is shared policy text and stayed out.
Model: fable-5-1 (first audit); opus-5-5 (rework)
`smallwebwaf` with no command now prints the commands and exits with status 2.
The image runs rproxy, or servewaf with SMALLWEBWAF_COMMAND=servewaf. The
passing-on code, its settings and its log fields and metric go. internal/proxy
keeps the checks, answers, reports and own endpoints; its tests run through the
real rproxy. The documents describe the pair.
Judgement call: clients.json keeps token_refused, since state files refuse unknown fields.
Deviation: script/gitea-requests sets SWWAF_LOG_REQUEST_HEADERS, to label requests.
Partially verified: make example-app and make gitea-requests never built the image, as Ubuntu's snapshot service answered 5xx.
Model: opus-5-5
SPEC.md is the only place that says how smallwebwaf behaves and why; docs/ holds lists linking to it; the README is short and links to both. Passed independent review in round 8.
Model: fable-5-1 (writing); opus-5-5 (review, merge)
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