Enforce the body size limit before CSRF parses the form (closes #90)
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CSRF ran before MaxBodySize, so the CSRF middleware parsed the form body
before any cap applied and an oversized request was read in full before
being rejected. MaxBodySize is now the first middleware in all four route
groups that parse forms, ahead of CSRF and RequireAuth.

An oversize request therefore gets 413 without the handler running and
without state changing, including the password-change route.

Note the ordering trade: an unauthenticated client now receives 413 rather
than an auth redirect on /user/{username}/password.
This commit was merged in pull request #91.
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2026-08-11 14:37:38 +02:00
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commit d51cd0fd29
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@@ -963,9 +963,17 @@ Applied to all routes in this order:
8. **Sentry** — Error reporting to Sentry (if `SENTRY_DSN` is set;
configured with `Repanic: true` so panics still reach Recoverer)
Additionally, form endpoints (`/pages`, `/sources`, `/source/*`) apply a
**MaxBodySize** middleware that limits POST/PUT/PATCH request bodies to
1 MB using `http.MaxBytesReader`, preventing oversized form submissions.
Additionally, form endpoints (`/pages`, `/user/*`, `/sources`,
`/source/*`) apply a **MaxBodySize** middleware that limits
POST/PUT/PATCH request bodies to 1 MB. It is registered ahead of the
CSRF middleware in every one of those route groups, because
gorilla/csrf parses the form; if the cap were installed after it, form
parsing would run under net/http's 10 MB default and the 1 MB limit
would never apply. A request that declares a `Content-Length` over the
limit is answered with `413 Request Entity Too Large` before any other
middleware or handler runs; a chunked request, or one that lies about
its length, is hard-capped by `http.MaxBytesReader` and fails
downstream at form-parse time.
### Authentication
@@ -987,7 +995,8 @@ Additionally, form endpoints (`/pages`, `/sources`, `/source/*`) apply a
- Production security headers on all responses: HSTS, X-Content-Type-Options
(`nosniff`), X-Frame-Options (`DENY`), Content-Security-Policy, Referrer-Policy,
and Permissions-Policy
- Request body size limits (1 MB) on all form POST endpoints
- Request body size limits (1 MB) on all form POST endpoints, enforced
by middleware that runs before CSRF parses the form
- **CSRF protection** via [gorilla/csrf](https://github.com/gorilla/csrf)
on all state-changing forms (cookie-based double-submit tokens with
HMAC authentication). Applied to `/pages`, `/sources`, `/source`, and