Decide request TLS in one place, per request (closes #269)
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Two places decided whether a request was TLS, by two different means,
and they disagreed.

The session cookie's Secure attribute was fixed at startup from
!Config.IsDev(). "dev" is the environment when WEBHOOKER_ENVIRONMENT is
unset, so a deployment terminating TLS at a proxy without also setting
the environment shipped the authentication cookie with no Secure
attribute -- on the same response as a CSRF cookie that had one. It
failed silently: everything kept working, so nothing prompted anyone to
look.

The CSRF middleware's per-request check compared X-Forwarded-Proto with
== "https" exactly, so "HTTPS", "https, http" and "https,https" all took
the plaintext path. Uppercase is legal for a case-insensitive token and
the comma forms are what a proxy chained behind another proxy emits by
appending rather than replacing. On that path gorilla/csrf stops
enforcing the strict Referer check on a site that genuinely is HTTPS.

Both now go through internal/reqtls.IsTLS, which folds case and takes
the leftmost comma-separated element -- the hop nearest the client, and
so the one a cookie's Secure attribute is about. A third package is
needed because internal/middleware already imports internal/session, so
session cannot import middleware back.

Per-request beat a startup warning for the session cookie because it
turned out to need no restructuring: gorilla/sessions gives every
session its own copy of the store's Options and renders the cookie from
that copy, and every session-cookie write here already goes through
Session.Save or Session.Regenerate, both of which hold the request. The
store's template Secure becomes true so that a write path added later
which forgets to track the transport fails visibly instead of silently
dropping Secure.

The flag tracks the transport in both directions rather than latching
on. Secure over plaintext is discarded by the browser without an error,
which would make a plain-HTTP local run impossible to log into -- and
would also void the deletion cookies in Destroy and Regenerate, leaving
a session the user just tried to end still live.

A third site that makes this decision, internal/handlers'
BaseURL construction, assigns the raw header straight into the URL
scheme. It is left alone here and filed separately.
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clawbot
2026-08-24 00:24:44 +00:00
parent 5fda446c71
commit b1c66b8227
10 changed files with 761 additions and 72 deletions

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@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import (
"github.com/gorilla/csrf"
"sneak.berlin/go/webhooker/internal/logfield"
"sneak.berlin/go/webhooker/internal/reqtls"
)
// CSRFToken retrieves the CSRF token from the request context.
@@ -13,13 +14,6 @@ func CSRFToken(r *http.Request) string {
return csrf.Token(r)
}
// isClientTLS reports whether the client-facing connection uses TLS.
// It checks for a direct TLS connection (r.TLS) or a TLS-terminating
// reverse proxy that sets the standard X-Forwarded-Proto header.
func isClientTLS(r *http.Request) bool {
return r.TLS != nil || r.Header.Get("X-Forwarded-Proto") == "https"
}
// CSRF returns middleware that provides CSRF protection using the
// gorilla/csrf library. The middleware uses the session authentication
// key to sign a CSRF cookie and validates a masked token submitted via
@@ -27,9 +21,10 @@ func isClientTLS(r *http.Request) bool {
// POST/PUT/PATCH/DELETE requests. Requests with an invalid or missing
// token receive a 403 Forbidden response.
//
// The middleware detects the client-facing transport protocol per-request
// using r.TLS and the X-Forwarded-Proto header. This allows correct
// behavior in all deployment scenarios:
// The middleware detects the client-facing transport protocol
// per-request via reqtls.IsTLS, the single TLS predicate the session
// cookie also uses. This allows correct behavior in all deployment
// scenarios:
//
// - Direct HTTPS: strict Referer/Origin checks, Secure cookies.
// - Behind a TLS-terminating reverse proxy: strict checks (the
@@ -83,7 +78,7 @@ func (m *Middleware) CSRF() func(http.Handler) http.Handler {
httpCSRF := httpProtect(next)
return http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
if isClientTLS(r) {
if reqtls.IsTLS(r) {
// Client is on TLS (directly or via reverse proxy).
// Use Secure cookies and strict Origin/Referer checks.
tlsCSRF.ServeHTTP(w, r)