Serve an event's full stored body over HTTP (closes #157)
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The 8 KB render cap from #135 left storage untouched but no route served
the rest, so a body over the cap was reachable only with filesystem
access to the SQLite files — in a product whose purpose is storing
webhooks so they can be inspected.

GET /source/{sourceID}/logs/{eventID}/body serves the whole body to the
webhook's owner, as application/octet-stream with an attachment
disposition and nosniff. Those are a security control, not formatting:
the bytes come from the public receiver and are handed back inside the
operator's authenticated origin, and the existing CSP would not stop a
stored HTML payload executing there. The truncation marker links to it
only when a body was actually cut.

Accepted deviation, documented rather than glossed: #157's definition of
done asks the route to stream from the row. It buffers whole instead,
because database/sql exposes no incremental handle on a SQLite BLOB and
substr range reads re-materialise the entire column per call — an
earlier revision chunked at 64 KiB and was 11-15x slower for a worse
bound. Three independent reviewers confirmed no streaming path exists.

Independently reviewed three times. Two earlier revisions each asserted
a memory bound the code did not have; the final reviewer measured
2.057x at the ingest cap and pinned the two overlapping allocations from
source — the driver's column buffer and database/sql's convertAssign
clone — confirming the stated "roughly two bodies, and 2x is a floor
not a ceiling" is now accurate, since SQLite's own materialisation sits
outside the Go heap.
This commit was merged in pull request #167.
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commit 41ff16a817
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package handlers
import (
"database/sql"
"errors"
"net/http"
"strconv"
"github.com/go-chi/chi"
"github.com/google/uuid"
"gorm.io/gorm"
"sneak.berlin/go/webhooker/internal/database"
)
// eventBodyQuery reads one event's stored body as bytes. The cast
// to blob is what makes the driver hand back the stored bytes
// rather than a string conversion, so Content-Length taken from
// the result matches what goes on the wire. The soft-delete
// predicate is spelled out because Raw bypasses GORM's default
// scope, and it is what stops a reaped event still being
// downloadable.
const eventBodyQuery = "SELECT cast(body as blob) " +
"FROM events WHERE id = ? AND webhook_id = ? AND deleted_at IS NULL"
// HandleEventBodyDownload serves one event's stored body in
// full, which the event log page cannot: it caps each rendered
// body at maxRenderedBodyBytes.
//
// The bytes are attacker-supplied — anyone who can reach the
// public receiver chooses them — and this route hands them back
// inside the operator's own authenticated origin, so the
// response is deliberately not renderable. Content-Disposition
// makes the browser download rather than display it, and the
// octet-stream type plus nosniff stop it being interpreted as
// HTML or script. Without those a stored payload would execute
// as the logged-in operator. The application's CSP does not
// help here: script-src allows 'unsafe-inline' from 'self', so
// a document served from this origin could run its own inline
// script.
func (h *Handlers) HandleEventBodyDownload() http.HandlerFunc {
return func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
webhook, ok := h.ownedWebhook(w, r)
if !ok {
return
}
// Parsing the id before use serves two purposes: a
// malformed id can never reach the SQL or the response
// header, and the canonical form below is drawn from
// uuid's own fixed alphabet rather than from the
// request, so the Content-Disposition value cannot be
// steered by a client.
eventID, err := uuid.Parse(chi.URLParam(r, "eventID"))
if err != nil {
http.NotFound(w, r)
return
}
h.serveEventBody(w, r, webhook, eventID.String())
}
}
// serveEventBody writes the named event's stored body to w.
//
// The event must belong to webhook, which is what keeps this
// route from reading any event in the system by id alone. Two
// things enforce that and they are not equally strong. The
// operative one is that events live in a per-webhook SQLite
// file, so a sibling webhook's event is not in the database
// being queried at all. The webhook_id predicate on the query
// below is the second guard, and it is currently redundant
// against that isolation; it is there so the scoping survives
// any future change that puts more than one webhook's events in
// one file.
//
// The body is read in one query and held whole in memory while
// it is written. That costs roughly two body-sized allocations
// per concurrent download, not one: the driver's column buffer
// and the copy database/sql makes in convertAssign when a
// []byte column is scanned into a *[]byte are live at the same
// time. Measured allocation is ~2x the body plus ~45 KB, so at
// the 1 MB ingest cap a download costs ~2 MB of Go heap. On
// top of that, SQLite's own materialisation of the column
// value sits in the driver's allocator outside the Go heap, so
// process peak is higher again: 2x is a floor, not a ceiling.
// There is no cheaper bound available — database/sql exposes
// no incremental handle on a SQLite BLOB, and reading byte
// ranges with substr does not avoid the cost either, because
// SQLite materialises the whole column value to evaluate each
// substr call. Range reads only pay for that materialisation
// once per range.
//
// One consequence is worth keeping in view: the read finishes
// before the client is written to, so no read lock is held for
// the length of a slow download. These per-webhook databases
// run in SQLite's default journal mode rather than WAL, so a
// lock held that long would block the receiver from recording
// new events.
func (h *Handlers) serveEventBody(
w http.ResponseWriter,
r *http.Request,
webhook database.Webhook,
eventID string,
) {
if !h.dbMgr.DBExists(webhook.ID) {
http.NotFound(w, r)
return
}
webhookDB, err := h.dbMgr.GetDB(webhook.ID)
if err != nil {
h.serverError(w, "failed to get webhook database", err)
return
}
body, found, err := eventBody(webhookDB, webhook.ID, eventID)
if err != nil {
h.serverError(w, "failed to read event body", err)
return
}
// A miss is a 404 whether the event belongs to another
// webhook or does not exist at all, so the response does
// not report which. Reading the body before any header is
// written is also what keeps an event reaped mid-request
// from producing a torn response: either the read finds the
// row and the whole body is served, or it does not and the
// response is a clean 404.
if !found {
http.NotFound(w, r)
return
}
setEventBodyHeaders(w, eventID, int64(len(body)))
_, err = w.Write(body)
if err != nil {
// The status and Content-Length are already committed,
// so the client sees a short download. There is no way
// to report a 500 from here; the log is the record.
h.log.Error(
"failed to write event body",
"webhook_id", webhook.ID,
"event_id", eventID,
"error", err,
)
}
}
// eventBody returns an event's stored body and whether the event
// exists within the webhook.
func eventBody(
webhookDB *gorm.DB,
webhookID, eventID string,
) ([]byte, bool, error) {
var body []byte
err := webhookDB.Raw(
eventBodyQuery, eventID, webhookID,
).Row().Scan(&body)
if errors.Is(err, sql.ErrNoRows) {
return nil, false, nil
}
if err != nil {
return nil, false, err
}
return body, true, nil
}
// setEventBodyHeaders applies the response headers that make
// this route safe to hand attacker-supplied bytes through. See
// HandleEventBodyDownload for why they are a security control
// and not a formatting choice.
//
// nosniff is also set by the global SecurityHeaders middleware.
// It is repeated here so the guarantee belongs to the route
// that needs it rather than to a middleware someone could
// reorder or scope away.
func setEventBodyHeaders(
w http.ResponseWriter,
eventID string,
size int64,
) {
w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/octet-stream")
w.Header().Set("X-Content-Type-Options", "nosniff")
w.Header().Set(
"Content-Disposition",
`attachment; filename="webhooker-event-`+eventID+`.bin"`,
)
w.Header().Set("Content-Length", strconv.FormatInt(size, 10))
}

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package handlers_test
import (
"context"
"net/http"
"net/http/httptest"
"net/url"
"strconv"
"strings"
"testing"
"github.com/go-chi/chi"
"github.com/google/uuid"
"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
"gorm.io/gorm/clause"
"sneak.berlin/go/webhooker/internal/database"
"sneak.berlin/go/webhooker/internal/handlers"
"sneak.berlin/go/webhooker/internal/session"
)
// paramEventID is the chi URL parameter the body download
// handler reads.
const paramEventID = "eventID"
// otherTestUserID owns webhooks the session user must not be
// able to read.
const otherTestUserID = "other-user-id"
// seedWebhookFor inserts a webhook owned by the given user.
func seedWebhookFor(
t *testing.T,
db *database.Database,
userID string,
) *database.Webhook {
t.Helper()
wh := &database.Webhook{
UserID: userID,
Name: "wh-" + userID,
}
require.NoError(
t,
db.DB().Omit(clause.Associations).Create(wh).Error,
)
return wh
}
// fetchEventBody runs the real download handler as the test user
// for the given source and event ids.
func fetchEventBody(
t *testing.T,
h *handlers.Handlers,
sess *session.Session,
sourceID, eventID string,
) *httptest.ResponseRecorder {
t.Helper()
// The path is escaped and the raw id goes in the route
// context, which is what chi hands a handler: the param is
// already percent-decoded by the time it is read.
req := httptest.NewRequestWithContext(
context.Background(),
http.MethodGet,
"/source/"+url.PathEscape(sourceID)+
"/logs/"+url.PathEscape(eventID)+"/body",
nil,
)
for _, c := range authenticatedCookies(
t, sess, deleteTestUserID, deleteTestUsername,
) {
req.AddCookie(c)
}
rctx := chi.NewRouteContext()
rctx.URLParams.Add(paramSourceID, sourceID)
rctx.URLParams.Add(paramEventID, eventID)
req = req.WithContext(
context.WithValue(
req.Context(), chi.RouteCtxKey, rctx,
),
)
w := httptest.NewRecorder()
h.HandleEventBodyDownload().ServeHTTP(w, req)
return w
}
// TestHandleEventBodyDownload_ServesOversizeBodyInFull is the
// capability the render cap took away: a body far above what the
// event log page will show comes back whole and byte-identical,
// with the headers that keep it from being rendered.
func TestHandleEventBodyDownload_ServesOversizeBodyInFull(
t *testing.T,
) {
t.Parallel()
var (
h *handlers.Handlers
sess *session.Session
db *database.Database
dbMgr *database.WebhookDBManager
)
app := newTestApp(t, &h, &sess, &db, &dbMgr)
app.RequireStart()
t.Cleanup(app.RequireStop)
// Far above the render cap, with multibyte runes and a
// distinctive tail, so a body that the log page can only
// show a slice of comes back whole and in order.
const sentinel = "TAIL-SENTINEL-1f4a9c"
stored := strings.Repeat("A", 200*1024) +
strings.Repeat(snowman, 1000) + sentinel
wh := seedWebhook(t, db)
evt := seedEventWithBody(t, dbMgr, wh.ID, stored)
w := fetchEventBody(t, h, sess, wh.ID, evt.ID)
require.Equal(t, http.StatusOK, w.Code)
assert.Greater(t, len(stored), bodyCap)
assert.Equal(t, stored, w.Body.String())
assert.Equal(
t, strconv.Itoa(len(stored)),
w.Header().Get("Content-Length"),
)
}
// TestHandleEventBodyDownload_BodiesRoundTripByteIdentical
// covers the sizes and byte values a stored body can actually
// take: empty, one byte, either side of the render cap, and
// bytes that are not text at all. Content-Length has to equal
// the bytes written in every case, since it is derived from the
// same read that produces them.
func TestHandleEventBodyDownload_BodiesRoundTripByteIdentical(
t *testing.T,
) {
t.Parallel()
// A NUL, invalid UTF-8 and a multibyte rune, so nothing on
// the path can be treating the body as text.
binary := "\x00\x01\xff\xfe" + snowman + "\x00tail"
cases := map[string]string{
"empty": "",
"single byte": "x",
"one below cap": strings.Repeat("b", bodyCap-1),
"exactly cap": strings.Repeat("c", bodyCap),
"one above cap": strings.Repeat("d", bodyCap+1),
"binary": binary,
}
for name, stored := range cases {
t.Run(name, func(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
var (
h *handlers.Handlers
sess *session.Session
db *database.Database
dbMgr *database.WebhookDBManager
)
app := newTestApp(t, &h, &sess, &db, &dbMgr)
app.RequireStart()
t.Cleanup(app.RequireStop)
wh := seedWebhook(t, db)
evt := seedEventWithBody(t, dbMgr, wh.ID, stored)
w := fetchEventBody(t, h, sess, wh.ID, evt.ID)
require.Equal(t, http.StatusOK, w.Code)
assert.Equal(t, stored, w.Body.String())
assert.Equal(
t, strconv.Itoa(len(stored)),
w.Header().Get("Content-Length"),
)
assert.Equal(
t, len(stored), w.Body.Len(),
"Content-Length must equal bytes written",
)
})
}
}
// TestHandleEventBodyDownload_HeadersAreNotRenderable pins the
// response headers that stop attacker-supplied bytes executing
// in the operator's own origin. They are a security control, not
// presentation.
func TestHandleEventBodyDownload_HeadersAreNotRenderable(
t *testing.T,
) {
t.Parallel()
var (
h *handlers.Handlers
sess *session.Session
db *database.Database
dbMgr *database.WebhookDBManager
)
app := newTestApp(t, &h, &sess, &db, &dbMgr)
app.RequireStart()
t.Cleanup(app.RequireStop)
wh := seedWebhook(t, db)
evt := seedEventWithBody(t, dbMgr, wh.ID, `{"small":true}`)
w := fetchEventBody(t, h, sess, wh.ID, evt.ID)
require.Equal(t, http.StatusOK, w.Code)
assert.Equal(
t, "application/octet-stream",
w.Header().Get("Content-Type"),
)
assert.Equal(
t, "nosniff",
w.Header().Get("X-Content-Type-Options"),
)
disposition := w.Header().Get("Content-Disposition")
assert.Equal(
t,
`attachment; filename="webhooker-event-`+evt.ID+`.bin"`,
disposition,
)
}
// TestHandleEventBodyDownload_ScriptBodyStaysInert proves a
// stored HTML payload is handed back as an attachment of opaque
// bytes rather than as anything a browser will execute. The
// bytes themselves are unaltered: this route reports what was
// delivered.
func TestHandleEventBodyDownload_ScriptBodyStaysInert(
t *testing.T,
) {
t.Parallel()
var (
h *handlers.Handlers
sess *session.Session
db *database.Database
dbMgr *database.WebhookDBManager
)
app := newTestApp(t, &h, &sess, &db, &dbMgr)
app.RequireStart()
t.Cleanup(app.RequireStop)
const payload = `<html><script>alert(document.cookie)` +
`</script></html>`
wh := seedWebhook(t, db)
evt := seedEventWithBody(t, dbMgr, wh.ID, payload)
w := fetchEventBody(t, h, sess, wh.ID, evt.ID)
require.Equal(t, http.StatusOK, w.Code)
assert.Equal(t, payload, w.Body.String())
contentType := w.Header().Get("Content-Type")
assert.Equal(t, "application/octet-stream", contentType)
assert.NotContains(t, contentType, "html")
assert.NotContains(t, contentType, "xml")
assert.NotContains(t, contentType, "javascript")
assert.Contains(
t, w.Header().Get("Content-Disposition"), "attachment",
)
assert.Equal(
t, "nosniff",
w.Header().Get("X-Content-Type-Options"),
)
}
// TestHandleEventBodyDownload_OtherUsersEvent404s is the
// authorization test the definition of done asks for: an event
// stored under a webhook the session user does not own is not
// readable, and the miss does not distinguish itself from a
// nonexistent one.
func TestHandleEventBodyDownload_OtherUsersEvent404s(
t *testing.T,
) {
t.Parallel()
var (
h *handlers.Handlers
sess *session.Session
db *database.Database
dbMgr *database.WebhookDBManager
)
app := newTestApp(t, &h, &sess, &db, &dbMgr)
app.RequireStart()
t.Cleanup(app.RequireStop)
const theirPayload = "OTHER-USERS-PAYLOAD-8b1d"
theirs := seedWebhookFor(t, db, otherTestUserID)
evt := seedEventWithBody(t, dbMgr, theirs.ID, theirPayload)
w := fetchEventBody(t, h, sess, theirs.ID, evt.ID)
assert.Equal(t, http.StatusNotFound, w.Code)
assert.NotContains(t, w.Body.String(), theirPayload)
}
// TestHandleEventBodyDownload_EventOfAnotherWebhook404s pins
// that holding a valid event id is not enough: the event has to
// belong to the webhook in the path. Both webhooks here are the
// session user's and both have event databases, so the
// ownership check cannot be what produces the 404.
//
// What does produce it is the per-webhook database file rather
// than the webhook_id predicate on the query — removing that
// predicate leaves this test green, because the sibling's event
// is in a different file. The test is kept as the behavioural
// guard the route owes; see serveEventBody for which mechanism
// is load-bearing.
func TestHandleEventBodyDownload_EventOfAnotherWebhook404s(
t *testing.T,
) {
t.Parallel()
var (
h *handlers.Handlers
sess *session.Session
db *database.Database
dbMgr *database.WebhookDBManager
)
app := newTestApp(t, &h, &sess, &db, &dbMgr)
app.RequireStart()
t.Cleanup(app.RequireStop)
const other = "BELONGS-TO-THE-OTHER-WEBHOOK-3c7e"
mine := seedWebhook(t, db)
seedEventWithBody(t, dbMgr, mine.ID, `{"mine":true}`)
sibling := seedWebhook(t, db)
evt := seedEventWithBody(t, dbMgr, sibling.ID, other)
w := fetchEventBody(t, h, sess, mine.ID, evt.ID)
assert.Equal(t, http.StatusNotFound, w.Code)
assert.NotContains(t, w.Body.String(), other)
}
// TestHandleEventBodyDownload_UnknownEvent404s covers the plain
// miss, including an id that is not a uuid at all and so never
// reaches the query or the response header.
func TestHandleEventBodyDownload_UnknownEvent404s(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
var (
h *handlers.Handlers
sess *session.Session
db *database.Database
dbMgr *database.WebhookDBManager
)
app := newTestApp(t, &h, &sess, &db, &dbMgr)
app.RequireStart()
t.Cleanup(app.RequireStop)
wh := seedWebhook(t, db)
seedEventWithBody(t, dbMgr, wh.ID, `{"mine":true}`)
for _, id := range []string{
uuid.New().String(),
`../../etc/passwd`,
"not-a-uuid",
`x"; rm -rf /`,
} {
w := fetchEventBody(t, h, sess, wh.ID, id)
assert.Equal(
t, http.StatusNotFound, w.Code,
"event id %q", id,
)
assert.Empty(
t, w.Header().Get("Content-Disposition"),
"event id %q must not reach a header", id,
)
}
}
// TestHandleEventBodyDownload_ReapedEvent404s pins what happens
// when the retention reaper takes an event out from under this
// route. The body is read in one query before any header is
// written, so a reaped event cannot produce a partial download:
// it is a clean 404 with no Content-Length and no
// Content-Disposition. Both removals the codebase performs are
// covered — the reaper hard-deletes, and a soft-deleted row is
// excluded by the query's own deleted_at predicate rather than
// by GORM's default scope, which Raw bypasses.
func TestHandleEventBodyDownload_ReapedEvent404s(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
for name, hard := range map[string]bool{
"soft deleted": false,
"hard deleted": true,
} {
t.Run(name, func(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
var (
h *handlers.Handlers
sess *session.Session
db *database.Database
dbMgr *database.WebhookDBManager
)
app := newTestApp(t, &h, &sess, &db, &dbMgr)
app.RequireStart()
t.Cleanup(app.RequireStop)
const payload = "REAPED-PAYLOAD-4d2a"
wh := seedWebhook(t, db)
evt := seedEventWithBody(t, dbMgr, wh.ID, payload)
webhookDB, err := dbMgr.GetDB(wh.ID)
require.NoError(t, err)
del := webhookDB
if hard {
del = del.Unscoped()
}
require.NoError(
t,
del.Delete(&database.Event{}, "id = ?", evt.ID).
Error,
)
w := fetchEventBody(t, h, sess, wh.ID, evt.ID)
assert.Equal(t, http.StatusNotFound, w.Code)
assert.NotContains(t, w.Body.String(), payload)
assert.Empty(t, w.Header().Get("Content-Length"))
assert.Empty(
t, w.Header().Get("Content-Disposition"),
)
})
}
}
// TestHandleSourceLogs_TruncationMarkerLinksToDownload proves
// the page tells the reader where the rest of the body is, and
// only when there is a rest to fetch.
func TestHandleSourceLogs_TruncationMarkerLinksToDownload(
t *testing.T,
) {
t.Parallel()
var (
h *handlers.Handlers
sess *session.Session
db *database.Database
dbMgr *database.WebhookDBManager
)
app := newTestApp(t, &h, &sess, &db, &dbMgr)
app.RequireStart()
t.Cleanup(app.RequireStop)
big := seedWebhook(t, db)
bigEvt := seedEventWithBody(
t, dbMgr, big.ID, strings.Repeat("A", 4*bodyCap),
)
page := renderSourceLogsPage(t, h, sess, big.ID)
assert.Contains(
t, page,
"/source/"+big.ID+"/logs/"+bigEvt.ID+"/body",
)
small := seedWebhook(t, db)
smallEvt := seedEventWithBody(
t, dbMgr, small.ID, `{"kept":"whole"}`,
)
page = renderSourceLogsPage(t, h, sess, small.ID)
assert.NotContains(
t, page,
"/source/"+small.ID+"/logs/"+smallEvt.ID+"/body",
)
}

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@@ -25,13 +25,14 @@ const bodyCap = handlers.MaxRenderedBodyBytesForTest
const snowman = "☃"
// seedEventWithBody records one event with the given body in the
// webhook's own database.
// webhook's own database and returns it, so a caller that needs
// the generated event id can have it.
func seedEventWithBody(
t *testing.T,
dbMgr *database.WebhookDBManager,
webhookID string,
body string,
) {
) *database.Event {
t.Helper()
webhookDB, err := dbMgr.GetDB(webhookID)
@@ -47,6 +48,8 @@ func seedEventWithBody(
require.NoError(t, webhookDB.Omit(
clause.Associations,
).Create(event).Error)
return event
}
// seedAndProject stores one body and returns the projection the

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@@ -713,29 +713,55 @@ func (h *Handlers) evictArchiveWriterIfUnused(webhookID string) {
h.evictArchiveWriter(webhookID)
}
// ownedWebhook resolves the request's sourceID parameter to a
// webhook the session's user owns.
//
// Ownership and existence are decided by one query, so a
// webhook belonging to another user is indistinguishable from
// one that does not exist: both are a 404, and neither confirms
// the id. Callers that reach further into a webhook's data —
// the event log page and the event body download — share this
// one check rather than restating it, so the download cannot
// come to authorize differently from the page that links to it.
//
// It reports false once it has written the response, which is a
// redirect to the login page for an unauthenticated request and
// a 404 otherwise. The caller returns without writing more.
func (h *Handlers) ownedWebhook(
w http.ResponseWriter,
r *http.Request,
) (database.Webhook, bool) {
var webhook database.Webhook
userID, ok := h.getUserID(r)
if !ok {
http.Redirect(
w, r, "/pages/login", http.StatusSeeOther,
)
return database.Webhook{}, false
}
sourceID := chi.URLParam(r, "sourceID")
err := h.db.DB().Where(
"id = ? AND user_id = ?", sourceID, userID,
).First(&webhook).Error
if err != nil {
http.NotFound(w, r)
return database.Webhook{}, false
}
return webhook, true
}
// HandleSourceLogs shows the request/response logs for a
// webhook.
func (h *Handlers) HandleSourceLogs() http.HandlerFunc {
return func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
userID, ok := h.getUserID(r)
webhook, ok := h.ownedWebhook(w, r)
if !ok {
http.Redirect(
w, r, "/pages/login", http.StatusSeeOther,
)
return
}
sourceID := chi.URLParam(r, "sourceID")
var webhook database.Webhook
err := h.db.DB().Where(
"id = ? AND user_id = ?", sourceID, userID,
).First(&webhook).Error
if err != nil {
http.NotFound(w, r)
return
}