SWWAF_BYTES_LIMIT_PER_MINUTE, _PER_HOUR and _PER_DAY (10G, 20G, 50G)
and SWWAF_BYTES_COUNT (both). A request's bytes are counted once its
answer has ended, for a request passed to the app that the rate limits
count; what a WebSocket carries each way, once it closes. Bytes over a
limit ban the client as a broken rate limit does, and cut nothing
short. clients.json keeps the byte buckets, the log line's counts carry
the byte totals, ban notes say what the limit is on, and the limit hits
metric is labelled by kind.
Judgement call: limit_hit names a byte window minute_bytes, hour_bytes
or day_bytes, as counts names the byte totals.
Judgement call: in observe mode, the bytes of a request enforce mode
would have refused are not counted.
Model: opus-5-5
Each request log line now has the fields "Request log" in SPEC.md lists
whose features are built: instance (SWWAF_INSTANCE_NAME), scheme,
request_id (a trusted proxy's X-Request-ID or a new one, sent on to the
app), forwarded_for, client_group, content_type, content_length, the
headers SWWAF_LOG_REQUEST_HEADERS names, has_authorization, has_cookie,
websocket, response_content_type, cache_control, location, counts and
the timings. Authorization, Cookie and Set-Cookie values are never
logged. An entry of SWWAF_LOG_REQUEST_HEADERS that is not a header name,
or is Host or Transfer-Encoding, stops the start.
Deviation: counts has request totals only.
Deviation: SWWAF_INSTANCE_NAME is on request lines only.
Model: opus-5-5
A request over a rate limit is refused with SWWAF_BAN_RESPONSE and bans
the client's netblock: an hour at first, three times the last ban when
broken again within a day of its end, permanent past seven days. The
ban ledger in internal/bans is checked after the static lists and
before the lookup, and the requests it refuses are not counted. A ban
resets the client's counters and carries notes holding the request
that broke the limit, as SPEC.md now says. At most SWWAF_MAX_BANS are
held. SWWAF_BAN_RESPONSE also answers SWWAF_DENY_NETS and the country
lists.
Judgement call: the six ban settings cannot be off.
Judgement call: a permanent ban's ban_expires is "permanent".
Model: opus-5-5
Each client, one IPv4 address or one IPv6 /64, is counted in two buckets
per window, the earlier weighted by how much of it the window covers; at
most 20,000 clients are kept, least recently seen dropped first. A
request over SWWAF_RATE_LIMIT_PER_MINUTE, _HOUR or _DAY (1000, 10000,
50000, or off) gets 429 before reaching the app. Refused requests count,
413s included. A clock set back over a second behind a bucket's start
restarts that window. The log line gains limit_hit and the action
rate_limited.
Deviation from SPEC.md, per the issue: the 20,000 bound and /64 are fixed.
Judgement call: golang-lru/v2 holds the table; httprate does not count refused requests.
Deviation: go.mod and go.sum hand-written; no make target tidies them.
Model: opus-5-5
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