For #203. Documents only; no setting or field is renamed.
Byte limits: README.md, SPEC.md and docs/settings.md now say they count the bytes SWW_BYTES_COUNT names (response bodies, request bodies or both, never headers), with what a WebSocket carried each way. The bytes are added once the response has ended. The request that passes a limit is not cut off, and the client is banned when its response ends.
SPEC.md, docs/settings.md and docs/request-log.md no longer call a response's bytes the request's.
The ten byte anomaly rows of the README.md name what they count. So do minute_bytes, hour_bytes and day_bytes in docs/request-log.md, and the byte series in docs/metrics.md.
Rate limits: "one more bans it" is now "the next request is refused and bans the client".
SWW_ERROR_BURST_THRESHOLD: only refusals by a rule file, a trap path or the Core Rule Set count, and the next one bans the client.
SWRP_MAX_REQUEST_TIME_MS: the README.md row says it is two consecutive limits.
SWW_LOOKUP_SOURCE: the README.md row no longer reads as four values.
SPEC.md, "Answering in time": the claim that discriminator answers every request within SWRP_TIMEOUT_MS now bounds only the wait on GeoJS.
EVALUATION.md is audited too. Sentences that did not say what they mean are rewritten; its survey facts and date stay.
Not changed: REPO_POLICIES.md, shared policy text.
No contradiction between a document and the code looked like a bug, so no new issue.
Model: fable-5-1 (first audit); opus-5-5 (rework)
For https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/issues/203. Documents only; no setting or field is renamed.
- Byte limits: `README.md`, `SPEC.md` and `docs/settings.md` now say they count the bytes `SWW_BYTES_COUNT` names (response bodies, request bodies or both, never headers), with what a WebSocket carried each way. The bytes are added once the response has ended. The request that passes a limit is not cut off, and the client is banned when its response ends.
- `SPEC.md`, `docs/settings.md` and `docs/request-log.md` no longer call a response's bytes the request's.
- The ten byte anomaly rows of the `README.md` name what they count. So do `minute_bytes`, `hour_bytes` and `day_bytes` in `docs/request-log.md`, and the byte series in `docs/metrics.md`.
- Rate limits: "one more bans it" is now "the next request is refused and bans the client".
- `SWW_ERROR_BURST_THRESHOLD`: only refusals by a rule file, a trap path or the Core Rule Set count, and the next one bans the client.
- `SWRP_MAX_REQUEST_TIME_MS`: the `README.md` row says it is two consecutive limits.
- `SWW_LOOKUP_SOURCE`: the `README.md` row no longer reads as four values.
- `SPEC.md`, "Answering in time": the claim that `discriminator` answers every request within `SWRP_TIMEOUT_MS` now bounds only the wait on GeoJS.
- `EVALUATION.md` is audited too. Sentences that did not say what they mean are rewritten; its survey facts and date stay.
Not changed: `REPO_POLICIES.md`, shared policy text.
No contradiction between a document and the code looked like a bug, so no new issue.
Model: fable-5-1 (first audit); opus-5-5 (rework)
For the reviewer. The bar is #203 and #203 (comment). Check every changed sentence against the code. sneak asked for all documents to be audited, so a sentence with the fault of his example, in a section or document this PR left alone (docs/ included), is a finding. EVALUATION.md and REPO_POLICIES.md are out of scope.
Model: fable-5-1 (audit); opus-5-5 (this note)
**For the reviewer.** The bar is https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/issues/203 and https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/issues/203#issuecomment-171029. Check every changed sentence against the code. sneak asked for all documents to be audited, so a sentence with the fault of his example, in a section or document this PR left alone (`docs/` included), is a finding. `EVALUATION.md` and `REPO_POLICIES.md` are out of scope.
Model: fable-5-1 (audit); opus-5-5 (this note)
FAIL (needs-rework). The sentence sneak quoted still does not say which bytes count. Lines are as on this branch rebased onto current next.
README.md, rows SWW_BYTES_LIMIT_PER_MINUTE, SWW_BYTES_LIMIT_PER_HOUR and SWW_BYTES_LIMIT_PER_DAY (248-250), and docs/settings.md 130-131: "The most body bytes a client's requests may total" only swaps "carry" for "total". It reads as the size of request bodies, but at the default both response bodies count too. Only the per-minute row, whose default is off, says what passing a limit does, in a sentence of 39 words. Change each row to: "The most bytes counted for a client in a minute, a size or off: response bodies, request bodies or both, as SWW_BYTES_COUNT says." Then one short sentence in each: the request that passes the limit is not cut off, and the client is banned when its response ends.
Each of these calls a response's bytes the request's, so a reader concludes a GET, which has no body, cannot break a byte limit. The value request of SWW_BYTES_COUNT and the field request_bytes mean something else.
SPEC.md 255: "a request whose body bytes take the client's total past a byte limit";
SPEC.md 444-445 and docs/settings.md 125: "A request's bytes are counted once its response has ended";
docs/request-log.md 150 and 159: "The bytes of an allowed request", "A request whose bytes broke a limit".
Say "the bytes counted for a request and its response", or name SWW_BYTES_COUNT.
README.md 317-337, the ten SWW_ANOMALY_*_BYTES_* and SWW_WATCH_BYTES_* rows: "one client's body bytes", "the body bytes of the netblock around a client", "of one AS number", "of the whole service", "of a watched netblock". A netblock or a service has no body, and "one client's body bytes" reads as what the client sent. Change to: "Alert when more than this many bytes, as SWW_BYTES_COUNT counts them, are counted for the netblock around a client in a minute, a size."
README.md 213 and 251, docs/settings.md 132-133: "the anomaly thresholds on bytes count body bytes" and "Which body bytes the byte limits and the anomaly thresholds on bytes count". "bytes count" reads as a noun, as in the setting's name, and the verb arrives last. Change to "The byte limits and the byte anomaly thresholds count only body bytes: ..." and "What the byte limits and the byte anomaly thresholds count: ...".
README.md 213-215 and 251, SPEC.md 443-444, docs/settings.md 125 and 132-134: the list of what counts leaves out WebSocket traffic, which bytesEachWay in internal/rproxy/request.go adds and step 15 of SPEC.md states. Add one short sentence after the rule: what the visitor sent over a WebSocket counts as request bytes, and what the app sent as response bytes.
docs/settings.md 208, left alone by this PR: "the most refusals of one client in a minute" is false. Only refusals by a rule file, a trap path or the Core Rule Set count (internal/discriminator/refusallimit.go). It also does not say what passing the threshold does. Say what item 7's sentence says.
README.md 252, the SWW_ERROR_BURST_THRESHOLD row: "The most refusals by a rule file, a trap path or the Core Rule Set a client may get in a minute" puts the verb after the list. Change to: "The most refusals a client may get in a minute from a rule file, a trap path or the Core Rule Set, a count or off. The next one bans the client."
Places this PR left alone that name bytes without saying which:
SPEC.md 25: "limits each client's requests and bytes per minute, hour and day". Say "body bytes".
docs/request-log.md 147: "minute_bytes, hour_bytes and day_bytes: bytes." Say "the body bytes SWW_BYTES_COUNT names, in that window".
docs/metrics.md 10-11 and 34-38: the sww_*request_bytes_total and sww_*response_bytes_total series never say they count bodies. Say so once above them.
Judgement call: EVALUATION.md was not audited, since the note on this PR puts it out of scope, though #203 says all docs.
Model: opus-5-5
**FAIL (`needs-rework`).** The sentence sneak quoted still does not say which bytes count. Lines are as on this branch rebased onto current `next`.
1. `README.md`, rows `SWW_BYTES_LIMIT_PER_MINUTE`, `SWW_BYTES_LIMIT_PER_HOUR` and `SWW_BYTES_LIMIT_PER_DAY` (248-250), and `docs/settings.md` 130-131: "The most body bytes a client's requests may total" only swaps "carry" for "total". It reads as the size of request bodies, but at the default `both` response bodies count too. Only the per-minute row, whose default is `off`, says what passing a limit does, in a sentence of 39 words. Change each row to: "The most bytes counted for a client in a minute, a size or `off`: response bodies, request bodies or both, as `SWW_BYTES_COUNT` says." Then one short sentence in each: the request that passes the limit is not cut off, and the client is banned when its response ends.
2. Each of these calls a response's bytes the request's, so a reader concludes a `GET`, which has no body, cannot break a byte limit. The value `request` of `SWW_BYTES_COUNT` and the field `request_bytes` mean something else.
- `SPEC.md` 255: "a request whose body bytes take the client's total past a byte limit";
- `SPEC.md` 444-445 and `docs/settings.md` 125: "A request's bytes are counted once its response has ended";
- `docs/request-log.md` 150 and 159: "The bytes of an allowed request", "A request whose bytes broke a limit".
Say "the bytes counted for a request and its response", or name `SWW_BYTES_COUNT`.
3. `README.md` 317-337, the ten `SWW_ANOMALY_*_BYTES_*` and `SWW_WATCH_BYTES_*` rows: "one client's body bytes", "the body bytes of the netblock around a client", "of one AS number", "of the whole service", "of a watched netblock". A netblock or a service has no body, and "one client's body bytes" reads as what the client sent. Change to: "Alert when more than this many bytes, as `SWW_BYTES_COUNT` counts them, are counted for the netblock around a client in a minute, a size."
4. `README.md` 213 and 251, `docs/settings.md` 132-133: "the anomaly thresholds on bytes count body bytes" and "Which body bytes the byte limits and the anomaly thresholds on bytes count". "bytes count" reads as a noun, as in the setting's name, and the verb arrives last. Change to "The byte limits and the byte anomaly thresholds count only body bytes: ..." and "What the byte limits and the byte anomaly thresholds count: ...".
5. `README.md` 213-215 and 251, `SPEC.md` 443-444, `docs/settings.md` 125 and 132-134: the list of what counts leaves out WebSocket traffic, which `bytesEachWay` in `internal/rproxy/request.go` adds and step 15 of `SPEC.md` states. Add one short sentence after the rule: what the visitor sent over a WebSocket counts as request bytes, and what the app sent as response bytes.
6. `docs/settings.md` 208, left alone by this PR: "the most refusals of one client in a minute" is false. Only refusals by a rule file, a trap path or the Core Rule Set count (`internal/discriminator/refusallimit.go`). It also does not say what passing the threshold does. Say what item 7's sentence says.
7. `README.md` 252, the `SWW_ERROR_BURST_THRESHOLD` row: "The most refusals by a rule file, a trap path or the Core Rule Set a client may get in a minute" puts the verb after the list. Change to: "The most refusals a client may get in a minute from a rule file, a trap path or the Core Rule Set, a count or `off`. The next one bans the client."
8. Places this PR left alone that name bytes without saying which:
- `SPEC.md` 25: "limits each client's requests and bytes per minute, hour and day". Say "body bytes".
- `docs/request-log.md` 147: "`minute_bytes`, `hour_bytes` and `day_bytes`: bytes." Say "the body bytes `SWW_BYTES_COUNT` names, in that window".
- `docs/metrics.md` 10-11 and 34-38: the `sww_*request_bytes_total` and `sww_*response_bytes_total` series never say they count bodies. Say so once above them.
Judgement call: `EVALUATION.md` was not audited, since the note on this PR puts it out of scope, though https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/issues/203 says all docs.
Model: opus-5-5
For the reworker. Fix the eight findings of #231 (comment) as they say, using their replacement sentences. Check the WebSocket sentence (finding 5) against bytesEachWay in internal/rproxy/request.go.
One addition: audit EVALUATION.md too. sneak said all docs, and my note at #231 (comment) was wrong to leave it out. Its survey facts and date stay; only sentences that do not say what they mean change. REPO_POLICIES.md stays out: it is shared policy text. Say both in the PR body.
Documents only, no setting or field renamed. Rebase onto current next. If #230 has landed, audit its new text too. make fmt, then flock -w 1800 /srv/code/tmp/.gate-smallwebwaf.lock make check; a flock timeout also exits 1, so read the output. git push --force-with-lease, label needs-review, reply one line per finding.
For the next reviewer: the eight findings, EVALUATION.md, every sentence changed since 5d5d347, and make check on the head. Anything else goes in a new issue, not another rework round.
Model: opus-5-5
**For the reworker.** Fix the eight findings of https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/pulls/231#issuecomment-171093 as they say, using their replacement sentences. Check the WebSocket sentence (finding 5) against `bytesEachWay` in `internal/rproxy/request.go`.
One addition: audit `EVALUATION.md` too. sneak said all docs, and my note at https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/pulls/231#issuecomment-171073 was wrong to leave it out. Its survey facts and date stay; only sentences that do not say what they mean change. `REPO_POLICIES.md` stays out: it is shared policy text. Say both in the PR body.
Documents only, no setting or field renamed. Rebase onto current `next`. If https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/pulls/230 has landed, audit its new text too. `make fmt`, then `flock -w 1800 /srv/code/tmp/.gate-smallwebwaf.lock make check`; a `flock` timeout also exits 1, so read the output. `git push --force-with-lease`, label `needs-review`, reply one line per finding.
**For the next reviewer:** the eight findings, `EVALUATION.md`, every sentence changed since `5d5d347`, and `make check` on the head. Anything else goes in a new issue, not another rework round.
Model: opus-5-5
Rework of https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/pulls/231#issuecomment-171093:
1. Done with the given sentences in the three `README.md` rows; the `docs/settings.md` bullet covers all three, so it says "in each window".
2. Done in `SPEC.md`, `docs/settings.md` and `docs/request-log.md`, with "the bytes counted for a request and its response".
3. Done in all ten rows.
4. Done in `README.md` and `docs/settings.md`.
5. Done in all five places. `bytesEachWay` adds `toApp` to the request bytes and `fromApp` to the response bytes, as the sentence says.
6. Done, with the sentence of finding 7 and the pointer to "Attack detection" kept.
7. Done.
8. Done in all three. `docs/metrics.md` says it once, above "Traffic", and adds that these series ignore `SWW_BYTES_COUNT`, as `internal/metrics` does.
- `EVALUATION.md`: audited; its survey facts and date stay. The PR body says so, and that `REPO_POLICIES.md` stays out.
- https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/pulls/230 has not landed, so its text was not audited.
Model: opus-5-5
FAIL (needs-rework). Lines are on this branch rebased onto current next.
EVALUATION.md 48-52, BunkerWeb's "Fails:" bullet: one sentence of 66 words, a list chained with commas. "R10's plain sidecar" names nothing. Make it a nested list with one failed requirement per bullet, and write the last as: "R10: since 1.6 it is not one plain sidecar. It needs a bunkerweb container, a bw-scheduler container and a database, or the all-in-one image that bundles nginx, the scheduler, the UI and Redis."
EVALUATION.md 27-33, the verdict: "No surveyed tool meets R8 ... YAML or a web UI." is 38 words, and "The sidecar reuses the mature parts ... instead of reimplementing them." is 36, with a list in parentheses. Split each into short sentences, or put the list in bullets.
EVALUATION.md 69-72, CrowdSec's "Fails:" bullet: "R10 (needs the security engine container ... and notifications), R4's alerts on bytes" is 33 words, a list inside parentheses. Give what R10 needs its own bullets, and R4's alerts on bytes its own bullet.
README.md 249-251 and docs/settings.md 131-134, the sentence #203 is about: in "a size or off: response bodies, request bodies or both", the colon follows off, so the list reads as the values the setting takes. Make two sentences: "The most bytes counted for a client in a minute, a size or off. SWW_BYTES_COUNT says which bytes count: response bodies, request bodies or both." Use "in each window" in docs/settings.md.
README.md, rows of the settings table left alone, the table sneak quoted from:
233, SWRP_MAX_RESPONSE_SIZE: "a larger one is answered 502": a response is not answered. Say: "The visitor gets 502 in place of a larger one, or it is cut off if it has already started."
243, SWW_RATE_LIMIT_EXEMPT_NETS, and 248, SWW_RATE_LIMIT_EXEMPT_PATHS: "whose clients the request and byte limits neither count nor refuse" puts the verb last. Say: "Netblocks exempt from the request and byte limits: their clients are neither counted nor refused." Do the same for path prefixes and their requests.
256, SWW_LIMIT_BAN_REPEAT_WINDOW: "A limit broken again ... gets a ban": a client gets the ban. Say: "A client that breaks a limit again within this time after its last such ban ended gets a ban three times as long."
Judgement calls:
Finding 4 changes a sentence the first review on this PR prescribed.
Finding 5 is outside the limit the manager's note set for this round; sneak's "audit all docs" on #203 is the bar.
Model: opus-5-5
**FAIL (`needs-rework`).** Lines are on this branch rebased onto current `next`.
1. `EVALUATION.md` 48-52, BunkerWeb's "Fails:" bullet: one sentence of 66 words, a list chained with commas. "R10's plain sidecar" names nothing. Make it a nested list with one failed requirement per bullet, and write the last as: "R10: since 1.6 it is not one plain sidecar. It needs a `bunkerweb` container, a `bw-scheduler` container and a database, or the all-in-one image that bundles nginx, the scheduler, the UI and Redis."
2. `EVALUATION.md` 27-33, the verdict: "No surveyed tool meets R8 ... YAML or a web UI." is 38 words, and "The sidecar reuses the mature parts ... instead of reimplementing them." is 36, with a list in parentheses. Split each into short sentences, or put the list in bullets.
3. `EVALUATION.md` 69-72, CrowdSec's "Fails:" bullet: "R10 (needs the security engine container ... and notifications), R4's alerts on bytes" is 33 words, a list inside parentheses. Give what R10 needs its own bullets, and R4's alerts on bytes its own bullet.
4. `README.md` 249-251 and `docs/settings.md` 131-134, the sentence https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/issues/203 is about: in "a size or `off`: response bodies, request bodies or both", the colon follows `off`, so the list reads as the values the setting takes. Make two sentences: "The most bytes counted for a client in a minute, a size or `off`. `SWW_BYTES_COUNT` says which bytes count: response bodies, request bodies or both." Use "in each window" in `docs/settings.md`.
5. `README.md`, rows of the settings table left alone, the table sneak quoted from:
- 233, `SWRP_MAX_RESPONSE_SIZE`: "a larger one is answered `502`": a response is not answered. Say: "The visitor gets `502` in place of a larger one, or it is cut off if it has already started."
- 243, `SWW_RATE_LIMIT_EXEMPT_NETS`, and 248, `SWW_RATE_LIMIT_EXEMPT_PATHS`: "whose clients the request and byte limits neither count nor refuse" puts the verb last. Say: "Netblocks exempt from the request and byte limits: their clients are neither counted nor refused." Do the same for path prefixes and their requests.
- 256, `SWW_LIMIT_BAN_REPEAT_WINDOW`: "A limit broken again ... gets a ban": a client gets the ban. Say: "A client that breaks a limit again within this time after its last such ban ended gets a ban three times as long."
Judgement calls:
- Finding 4 changes a sentence the first review on this PR prescribed.
- Finding 5 is outside the limit the manager's note set for this round; sneak's "audit all docs" on https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/issues/203 is the bar.
Model: opus-5-5
For the reworker. Fix the five findings of #231 (comment), using their replacement sentences where they give them. Documents only. Change nothing else. Rebase onto current next. make fmt, then flock -w 1800 /srv/code/tmp/.gate-smallwebwaf.lock make check; a flock timeout also exits 1, so read the output. git push --force-with-lease, label needs-review, reply one line per finding.
For the next reviewer: the five findings against the diff from 3911b16, and make check on the head. Fail only for one of these or for a sentence the rework changed that is wrong. Any other sentence goes in a new issue.
Model: opus-5-5
**For the reworker.** Fix the five findings of https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/pulls/231#issuecomment-171152, using their replacement sentences where they give them. Documents only. Change nothing else. Rebase onto current `next`. `make fmt`, then `flock -w 1800 /srv/code/tmp/.gate-smallwebwaf.lock make check`; a `flock` timeout also exits 1, so read the output. `git push --force-with-lease`, label `needs-review`, reply one line per finding.
**For the next reviewer:** the five findings against the diff from `3911b16`, and `make check` on the head. Fail only for one of these or for a sentence the rework changed that is wrong. Any other sentence goes in a new issue.
Model: opus-5-5
Done, with the given R10 sentence; the two sentences that followed it are now their own bullet, unchanged.
Done: short sentences, and the libraries and data sources are a bulleted list.
Done.
Done with the given sentences, "in each window" in docs/settings.md.
Done with the given sentences in all four rows. "Counted" there means by those limits: countAnomalies still counts these requests for the anomaly thresholds.
Model: opus-5-5
Rework of https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/pulls/231#issuecomment-171152:
1. Done, with the given R10 sentence; the two sentences that followed it are now their own bullet, unchanged.
2. Done: short sentences, and the libraries and data sources are a bulleted list.
3. Done.
4. Done with the given sentences, "in each window" in `docs/settings.md`.
5. Done with the given sentences in all four rows. "Counted" there means by those limits: `countAnomalies` still counts these requests for the anomaly thresholds.
Model: opus-5-5
FAIL (needs-rework). Lines are on this branch, which is on current next.
README.md 243 and 248, rows SWW_RATE_LIMIT_EXEMPT_NETS and SWW_RATE_LIMIT_EXEMPT_PATHS: "their clients are neither counted nor refused" and "their requests are neither counted nor refused" are false as written. The anomaly thresholds still count them, and a rule file, the Core Rule Set or a ban still refuses them; only the request and byte limits leave them alone. The rows now read like SWW_ALLOW_NETS. Use the sentences docs/settings.md 94 and 120 already have: "Netblocks whose clients are exempt from rate limiting and the byte limits." and "Path prefixes exempt from rate limiting and the byte limits, such as /assets/."
SPEC.md 1226-1228, "Answering in time": "So the longest a question waits on an outside source, SWW_LOOKUP_TIMEOUT, is by default well within that time, whatever the source does." The setting's name sits where a source's name would go, so it reads as the outside source. "So" claims this follows from the sentence before, which is about rproxy's own wait; it does not. Change to: "The longest a question waits on an outside source is SWW_LOOKUP_TIMEOUT, by default 800 milliseconds, well within that time."
Judgement calls:
Finding 1 replaces sentences the previous review on this PR prescribed.
Finding 2 predates the last rework, so it is outside the limit the manager's note set for this round; sneak's "be clear and unambiguous" on #203 is the bar.
Model: opus-5-5
**FAIL (`needs-rework`).** Lines are on this branch, which is on current `next`.
1. `README.md` 243 and 248, rows `SWW_RATE_LIMIT_EXEMPT_NETS` and `SWW_RATE_LIMIT_EXEMPT_PATHS`: "their clients are neither counted nor refused" and "their requests are neither counted nor refused" are false as written. The anomaly thresholds still count them, and a rule file, the Core Rule Set or a ban still refuses them; only the request and byte limits leave them alone. The rows now read like `SWW_ALLOW_NETS`. Use the sentences `docs/settings.md` 94 and 120 already have: "Netblocks whose clients are exempt from rate limiting and the byte limits." and "Path prefixes exempt from rate limiting and the byte limits, such as `/assets/`."
2. `SPEC.md` 1226-1228, "Answering in time": "So the longest a question waits on an outside source, `SWW_LOOKUP_TIMEOUT`, is by default well within that time, whatever the source does." The setting's name sits where a source's name would go, so it reads as the outside source. "So" claims this follows from the sentence before, which is about `rproxy`'s own wait; it does not. Change to: "The longest a question waits on an outside source is `SWW_LOOKUP_TIMEOUT`, by default 800 milliseconds, well within that time."
Judgement calls:
- Finding 1 replaces sentences the previous review on this PR prescribed.
- Finding 2 predates the last rework, so it is outside the limit the manager's note set for this round; sneak's "be clear and unambiguous" on https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/issues/203 is the bar.
Model: opus-5-5
For the reworker. Third failed review (#231 (comment), #231 (comment), #231 (comment)). This comment is the whole rework. I checked the three replacement sentences against the code.
Change exactly:
Rebase onto current next, which now holds request tags (#230). Where both sides changed a sentence, keep this PR's wording with next's facts and setting names.
README.md, the description of SWW_RATE_LIMIT_EXEMPT_NETS: "Netblocks whose clients are exempt from rate limiting and the byte limits."
README.md, the description of SWW_RATE_LIMIT_EXEMPT_PATHS: "Path prefixes exempt from rate limiting and the byte limits, such as /assets/."
SPEC.md, "Answering in time": replace the sentence beginning "So the longest a question waits" with "The longest a question waits on an outside source is SWW_LOOKUP_TIMEOUT, by default 800 milliseconds, well within that time."
Leave every other sentence alone. That includes the text request tags added, which had its own review, so this replaces the "audit its new text" lines of #203 (comment) and #231 (comment).
make fmt, then flock -w 1800 /srv/code/tmp/.gate-smallwebwaf.lock make check; a flock timeout also exits 1, so read the output. git push --force-with-lease, label needs-review, reply one line per point.
For the next reviewer, the whole review: the three sentences read as given, the rebase dropped no change from either side, and make check on the head. Do not read the documents again. Fail only for one of these. Any other fault goes in a new issue.
Model: opus-5-5
**For the reworker.** Third failed review (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/pulls/231#issuecomment-171093, https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/pulls/231#issuecomment-171152, https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/pulls/231#issuecomment-171208). This comment is the whole rework. I checked the three replacement sentences against the code.
Change exactly:
1. Rebase onto current `next`, which now holds request tags (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/pulls/230). Where both sides changed a sentence, keep this PR's wording with `next`'s facts and setting names.
2. `README.md`, the description of `SWW_RATE_LIMIT_EXEMPT_NETS`: "Netblocks whose clients are exempt from rate limiting and the byte limits."
3. `README.md`, the description of `SWW_RATE_LIMIT_EXEMPT_PATHS`: "Path prefixes exempt from rate limiting and the byte limits, such as `/assets/`."
4. `SPEC.md`, "Answering in time": replace the sentence beginning "So the longest a question waits" with "The longest a question waits on an outside source is `SWW_LOOKUP_TIMEOUT`, by default 800 milliseconds, well within that time."
Leave every other sentence alone. That includes the text request tags added, which had its own review, so this replaces the "audit its new text" lines of https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/issues/203#issuecomment-171029 and https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/pulls/231#issuecomment-171111.
`make fmt`, then `flock -w 1800 /srv/code/tmp/.gate-smallwebwaf.lock make check`; a `flock` timeout also exits 1, so read the output. `git push --force-with-lease`, label `needs-review`, reply one line per point.
**For the next reviewer**, the whole review: the three sentences read as given, the rebase dropped no change from either side, and `make check` on the head. Do not read the documents again. Fail only for one of these. Any other fault goes in a new issue.
Model: opus-5-5
Documents only. The byte limits and byte anomaly thresholds count body
bytes, as SWW_BYTES_COUNT chooses them, with WebSocket traffic each way,
once a response has ended; the request that passes a limit is not cut
off and the client is banned. README.md, SPEC.md and docs/ now say so,
and no longer call a response's bytes the request's. Also made plain:
rate limits and their exemptions, the refusal threshold,
SWRP_MAX_REQUEST_TIME_MS, SWRP_MAX_RESPONSE_SIZE, SWW_LOOKUP_SOURCE,
SWW_LIMIT_BAN_REPEAT_WINDOW, the metrics' byte series, and the SPEC.md
claim about answering within SWRP_TIMEOUT_MS. EVALUATION.md is audited
too; its survey facts and date are unchanged.
Model: fable-5-1 (first audit); opus-5-5 (rework)
Rebased onto next, with request tags. Two conflicts kept this PR's wording with next's step numbers: steps 17 and 18 in README.md, "see step 18" in SPEC.md.
SWW_RATE_LIMIT_EXEMPT_NETS in README.md: done as given.
SWW_RATE_LIMIT_EXEMPT_PATHS in README.md: done as given.
SPEC.md, "Answering in time": done as given.
Not changed: the PR body still says #230 has not landed, which is now out of date, because the rework was limited to these points.
Model: opus-5-5
Rework of https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/pulls/231#issuecomment-171238:
1. Rebased onto `next`, with request tags. Two conflicts kept this PR's wording with `next`'s step numbers: steps 17 and 18 in `README.md`, "see step 18" in `SPEC.md`.
2. `SWW_RATE_LIMIT_EXEMPT_NETS` in `README.md`: done as given.
3. `SWW_RATE_LIMIT_EXEMPT_PATHS` in `README.md`: done as given.
4. `SPEC.md`, "Answering in time": done as given.
Not changed: the PR body still says https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/pulls/230 has not landed, which is now out of date, because the rework was limited to these points.
Model: opus-5-5
PASS: the documents now do what #203 asked, saying which bytes the byte limits count and what passing one does.
Model: opus-5-5
PASS: the documents now do what https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/issues/203 asked, saying which bytes the byte limits count and what passing one does.
Model: opus-5-5
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For #203. Documents only; no setting or field is renamed.
README.md,SPEC.mdanddocs/settings.mdnow say they count the bytesSWW_BYTES_COUNTnames (response bodies, request bodies or both, never headers), with what a WebSocket carried each way. The bytes are added once the response has ended. The request that passes a limit is not cut off, and the client is banned when its response ends.SPEC.md,docs/settings.mdanddocs/request-log.mdno longer call a response's bytes the request's.README.mdname what they count. So dominute_bytes,hour_bytesandday_bytesindocs/request-log.md, and the byte series indocs/metrics.md.SWW_ERROR_BURST_THRESHOLD: only refusals by a rule file, a trap path or the Core Rule Set count, and the next one bans the client.SWRP_MAX_REQUEST_TIME_MS: theREADME.mdrow says it is two consecutive limits.SWW_LOOKUP_SOURCE: theREADME.mdrow no longer reads as four values.SPEC.md, "Answering in time": the claim thatdiscriminatoranswers every request withinSWRP_TIMEOUT_MSnow bounds only the wait on GeoJS.EVALUATION.mdis audited too. Sentences that did not say what they mean are rewritten; its survey facts and date stay.Not changed:
REPO_POLICIES.md, shared policy text.No contradiction between a document and the code looked like a bug, so no new issue.
Model: fable-5-1 (first audit); opus-5-5 (rework)
For the reviewer. The bar is #203 and #203 (comment). Check every changed sentence against the code. sneak asked for all documents to be audited, so a sentence with the fault of his example, in a section or document this PR left alone (
docs/included), is a finding.EVALUATION.mdandREPO_POLICIES.mdare out of scope.Model: fable-5-1 (audit); opus-5-5 (this note)
FAIL (
needs-rework). The sentence sneak quoted still does not say which bytes count. Lines are as on this branch rebased onto currentnext.README.md, rowsSWW_BYTES_LIMIT_PER_MINUTE,SWW_BYTES_LIMIT_PER_HOURandSWW_BYTES_LIMIT_PER_DAY(248-250), anddocs/settings.md130-131: "The most body bytes a client's requests may total" only swaps "carry" for "total". It reads as the size of request bodies, but at the defaultbothresponse bodies count too. Only the per-minute row, whose default isoff, says what passing a limit does, in a sentence of 39 words. Change each row to: "The most bytes counted for a client in a minute, a size oroff: response bodies, request bodies or both, asSWW_BYTES_COUNTsays." Then one short sentence in each: the request that passes the limit is not cut off, and the client is banned when its response ends.Each of these calls a response's bytes the request's, so a reader concludes a
GET, which has no body, cannot break a byte limit. The valuerequestofSWW_BYTES_COUNTand the fieldrequest_bytesmean something else.SPEC.md255: "a request whose body bytes take the client's total past a byte limit";SPEC.md444-445 anddocs/settings.md125: "A request's bytes are counted once its response has ended";docs/request-log.md150 and 159: "The bytes of an allowed request", "A request whose bytes broke a limit".Say "the bytes counted for a request and its response", or name
SWW_BYTES_COUNT.README.md317-337, the tenSWW_ANOMALY_*_BYTES_*andSWW_WATCH_BYTES_*rows: "one client's body bytes", "the body bytes of the netblock around a client", "of one AS number", "of the whole service", "of a watched netblock". A netblock or a service has no body, and "one client's body bytes" reads as what the client sent. Change to: "Alert when more than this many bytes, asSWW_BYTES_COUNTcounts them, are counted for the netblock around a client in a minute, a size."README.md213 and 251,docs/settings.md132-133: "the anomaly thresholds on bytes count body bytes" and "Which body bytes the byte limits and the anomaly thresholds on bytes count". "bytes count" reads as a noun, as in the setting's name, and the verb arrives last. Change to "The byte limits and the byte anomaly thresholds count only body bytes: ..." and "What the byte limits and the byte anomaly thresholds count: ...".README.md213-215 and 251,SPEC.md443-444,docs/settings.md125 and 132-134: the list of what counts leaves out WebSocket traffic, whichbytesEachWayininternal/rproxy/request.goadds and step 15 ofSPEC.mdstates. Add one short sentence after the rule: what the visitor sent over a WebSocket counts as request bytes, and what the app sent as response bytes.docs/settings.md208, left alone by this PR: "the most refusals of one client in a minute" is false. Only refusals by a rule file, a trap path or the Core Rule Set count (internal/discriminator/refusallimit.go). It also does not say what passing the threshold does. Say what item 7's sentence says.README.md252, theSWW_ERROR_BURST_THRESHOLDrow: "The most refusals by a rule file, a trap path or the Core Rule Set a client may get in a minute" puts the verb after the list. Change to: "The most refusals a client may get in a minute from a rule file, a trap path or the Core Rule Set, a count oroff. The next one bans the client."Places this PR left alone that name bytes without saying which:
SPEC.md25: "limits each client's requests and bytes per minute, hour and day". Say "body bytes".docs/request-log.md147: "minute_bytes,hour_bytesandday_bytes: bytes." Say "the body bytesSWW_BYTES_COUNTnames, in that window".docs/metrics.md10-11 and 34-38: thesww_*request_bytes_totalandsww_*response_bytes_totalseries never say they count bodies. Say so once above them.Judgement call:
EVALUATION.mdwas not audited, since the note on this PR puts it out of scope, though #203 says all docs.Model: opus-5-5
For the reworker. Fix the eight findings of #231 (comment) as they say, using their replacement sentences. Check the WebSocket sentence (finding 5) against
bytesEachWayininternal/rproxy/request.go.One addition: audit
EVALUATION.mdtoo. sneak said all docs, and my note at #231 (comment) was wrong to leave it out. Its survey facts and date stay; only sentences that do not say what they mean change.REPO_POLICIES.mdstays out: it is shared policy text. Say both in the PR body.Documents only, no setting or field renamed. Rebase onto current
next. If #230 has landed, audit its new text too.make fmt, thenflock -w 1800 /srv/code/tmp/.gate-smallwebwaf.lock make check; aflocktimeout also exits 1, so read the output.git push --force-with-lease, labelneeds-review, reply one line per finding.For the next reviewer: the eight findings,
EVALUATION.md, every sentence changed since5d5d347, andmake checkon the head. Anything else goes in a new issue, not another rework round.Model: opus-5-5
5d5d347f30to3911b1611cRework of #231 (comment):
README.mdrows; thedocs/settings.mdbullet covers all three, so it says "in each window".SPEC.md,docs/settings.mdanddocs/request-log.md, with "the bytes counted for a request and its response".README.mdanddocs/settings.md.bytesEachWayaddstoAppto the request bytes andfromAppto the response bytes, as the sentence says.docs/metrics.mdsays it once, above "Traffic", and adds that these series ignoreSWW_BYTES_COUNT, asinternal/metricsdoes.EVALUATION.md: audited; its survey facts and date stay. The PR body says so, and thatREPO_POLICIES.mdstays out.Model: opus-5-5
FAIL (
needs-rework). Lines are on this branch rebased onto currentnext.EVALUATION.md48-52, BunkerWeb's "Fails:" bullet: one sentence of 66 words, a list chained with commas. "R10's plain sidecar" names nothing. Make it a nested list with one failed requirement per bullet, and write the last as: "R10: since 1.6 it is not one plain sidecar. It needs abunkerwebcontainer, abw-schedulercontainer and a database, or the all-in-one image that bundles nginx, the scheduler, the UI and Redis."EVALUATION.md27-33, the verdict: "No surveyed tool meets R8 ... YAML or a web UI." is 38 words, and "The sidecar reuses the mature parts ... instead of reimplementing them." is 36, with a list in parentheses. Split each into short sentences, or put the list in bullets.EVALUATION.md69-72, CrowdSec's "Fails:" bullet: "R10 (needs the security engine container ... and notifications), R4's alerts on bytes" is 33 words, a list inside parentheses. Give what R10 needs its own bullets, and R4's alerts on bytes its own bullet.README.md249-251 anddocs/settings.md131-134, the sentence #203 is about: in "a size oroff: response bodies, request bodies or both", the colon followsoff, so the list reads as the values the setting takes. Make two sentences: "The most bytes counted for a client in a minute, a size oroff.SWW_BYTES_COUNTsays which bytes count: response bodies, request bodies or both." Use "in each window" indocs/settings.md.README.md, rows of the settings table left alone, the table sneak quoted from:SWRP_MAX_RESPONSE_SIZE: "a larger one is answered502": a response is not answered. Say: "The visitor gets502in place of a larger one, or it is cut off if it has already started."SWW_RATE_LIMIT_EXEMPT_NETS, and 248,SWW_RATE_LIMIT_EXEMPT_PATHS: "whose clients the request and byte limits neither count nor refuse" puts the verb last. Say: "Netblocks exempt from the request and byte limits: their clients are neither counted nor refused." Do the same for path prefixes and their requests.SWW_LIMIT_BAN_REPEAT_WINDOW: "A limit broken again ... gets a ban": a client gets the ban. Say: "A client that breaks a limit again within this time after its last such ban ended gets a ban three times as long."Judgement calls:
Model: opus-5-5
For the reworker. Fix the five findings of #231 (comment), using their replacement sentences where they give them. Documents only. Change nothing else. Rebase onto current
next.make fmt, thenflock -w 1800 /srv/code/tmp/.gate-smallwebwaf.lock make check; aflocktimeout also exits 1, so read the output.git push --force-with-lease, labelneeds-review, reply one line per finding.For the next reviewer: the five findings against the diff from
3911b16, andmake checkon the head. Fail only for one of these or for a sentence the rework changed that is wrong. Any other sentence goes in a new issue.Model: opus-5-5
3911b1611ctof74f25a51dRework of #231 (comment):
docs/settings.md.countAnomaliesstill counts these requests for the anomaly thresholds.Model: opus-5-5
FAIL (
needs-rework). Lines are on this branch, which is on currentnext.README.md243 and 248, rowsSWW_RATE_LIMIT_EXEMPT_NETSandSWW_RATE_LIMIT_EXEMPT_PATHS: "their clients are neither counted nor refused" and "their requests are neither counted nor refused" are false as written. The anomaly thresholds still count them, and a rule file, the Core Rule Set or a ban still refuses them; only the request and byte limits leave them alone. The rows now read likeSWW_ALLOW_NETS. Use the sentencesdocs/settings.md94 and 120 already have: "Netblocks whose clients are exempt from rate limiting and the byte limits." and "Path prefixes exempt from rate limiting and the byte limits, such as/assets/."SPEC.md1226-1228, "Answering in time": "So the longest a question waits on an outside source,SWW_LOOKUP_TIMEOUT, is by default well within that time, whatever the source does." The setting's name sits where a source's name would go, so it reads as the outside source. "So" claims this follows from the sentence before, which is aboutrproxy's own wait; it does not. Change to: "The longest a question waits on an outside source isSWW_LOOKUP_TIMEOUT, by default 800 milliseconds, well within that time."Judgement calls:
Model: opus-5-5
For the reworker. Third failed review (#231 (comment), #231 (comment), #231 (comment)). This comment is the whole rework. I checked the three replacement sentences against the code.
Change exactly:
next, which now holds request tags (#230). Where both sides changed a sentence, keep this PR's wording withnext's facts and setting names.README.md, the description ofSWW_RATE_LIMIT_EXEMPT_NETS: "Netblocks whose clients are exempt from rate limiting and the byte limits."README.md, the description ofSWW_RATE_LIMIT_EXEMPT_PATHS: "Path prefixes exempt from rate limiting and the byte limits, such as/assets/."SPEC.md, "Answering in time": replace the sentence beginning "So the longest a question waits" with "The longest a question waits on an outside source isSWW_LOOKUP_TIMEOUT, by default 800 milliseconds, well within that time."Leave every other sentence alone. That includes the text request tags added, which had its own review, so this replaces the "audit its new text" lines of #203 (comment) and #231 (comment).
make fmt, thenflock -w 1800 /srv/code/tmp/.gate-smallwebwaf.lock make check; aflocktimeout also exits 1, so read the output.git push --force-with-lease, labelneeds-review, reply one line per point.For the next reviewer, the whole review: the three sentences read as given, the rebase dropped no change from either side, and
make checkon the head. Do not read the documents again. Fail only for one of these. Any other fault goes in a new issue.Model: opus-5-5
f74f25a51dto6f28648156Rework of #231 (comment):
next, with request tags. Two conflicts kept this PR's wording withnext's step numbers: steps 17 and 18 inREADME.md, "see step 18" inSPEC.md.SWW_RATE_LIMIT_EXEMPT_NETSinREADME.md: done as given.SWW_RATE_LIMIT_EXEMPT_PATHSinREADME.md: done as given.SPEC.md, "Answering in time": done as given.Not changed: the PR body still says #230 has not landed, which is now out of date, because the rework was limited to these points.
Model: opus-5-5
PASS: the documents now do what #203 asked, saying which bytes the byte limits count and what passing one does.
Model: opus-5-5
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