Bound username length at creation (closes #184)

A login stores the username in the session cookie, which cannot carry
a value past about 4096 bytes, so a username of about 2 KB or more
could never log in and the login answered 500.

Usernames are now limited to 1024 bytes, about half of what the cookie
can carry. The User model rejects a longer one with
ErrUsernameTooLong, and a check constraint on the users table rejects
it for any path that bypasses the model. The comment on
MaxUsernameBytes gives the arithmetic.

Model: opus-5-5

.dockerignore

@@ -3,8 +3,10 @@
 # stage of the Dockerfile.
 .git/
 bin/
-# Extracted from 3p/ by `make assets` inside the build; a host copy is not
+# Third-party browser assets are fetched and hash-verified inside the build by
-# needed. The tarball in 3p/ must stay in the context.
+# script/fetch-assets. Excluding any host copy keeps a developer's working tree
+# from supplying the bytes that get shipped. The script and its
+# static/vendor.sha256 manifest stay in the context.
 static/js/alpine.min.js
 *.md
 LICENSE

.gitignore

@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ temp/
 # CI cache barrier, written into the build context by the check workflow
 .ci-fingerprint
 
-# Alpine.js, extracted by `make assets` from its tarball in 3p/, which is
+# Third-party browser assets, fetched and hash-verified by
-# what is committed.
+# script/fetch-assets against static/vendor.sha256. Not committed:
-/static/js/alpine.min.js
+# REPO_POLICIES.md forbids minified bundles in version control.
+/static/js/alpine.min.js 

Dockerfile

@@ -51,8 +51,15 @@ RUN go mod download
 # the lint stage above.
 COPY . .
 
-# Run tests and build. Both first run `make assets`, which extracts Alpine.js
+# Fetch the third-party browser assets the UI serves. They are not committed
-# from its tarball in 3p/.
+# (REPO_POLICIES.md forbids minified bundles in version control) and
+# .dockerignore keeps any host copy out of the build context, so this step is
+# the only way they enter the image. Each download is checked against a
+# hardcoded sha256 and the build fails on mismatch; make test re-checks the
+# hashes against the bytes go:embed actually put in the binary.
+RUN script/fetch-assets
+
+# Run tests and build
 RUN make test
 
 # Version stamped into the binary. .dockerignore excludes .git/, so
@@ -60,8 +67,8 @@ RUN make test
 # host and passes it in. The default is what a bare `docker build .`
 # with no --build-arg gets, and it names no tag the tree may not be at.
 #
-# Declared here, below the test step, so a changed version does not
+# Declared here, below the test and asset steps, so a changed version
-# invalidate its cached layer.
+# does not invalidate their cached layers.
 ARG VERSION=unknown
 
 RUN make build VERSION="$VERSION"

Makefile

@@ -27,13 +27,10 @@ bootstrap:
 setup:
 	@script/setup
 
-# Alpine.js is committed as its npm package tarball in 3p/. This extracts
-# the browser build from it to where go:embed reads it; the extracted file
-# is not committed.
 assets:
-	tar -xzOf 3p/alpinejs-3.14.9.tgz package/dist/cdn.min.js >static/js/alpine.min.js
+	@script/fetch-assets
 
-test: assets
+test:
 	@script/test
 
 lint:
@@ -45,16 +42,16 @@ fmt:
 fmt-check:
 	@script/fmt-check
 
-check: assets
+check:
 	@script/check
 
-build: assets
+build:
 	go build -ldflags '$(strip -X main.version=$(VERSION) $(GO_LDFLAGS))' -o bin/webhooker ./cmd/webhooker
 
 run: build
 	./bin/webhooker
 
-dev: assets
+dev:
 	go run ./cmd/webhooker
 
 deps:

README.md

@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ before deploying one.
 - Go 1.26.1+ (the version in `go.mod`)
 - Docker (for linting, for the test stage of the CI gate, and for
   containerized deployment)
+- `curl`, used by `script/fetch-assets` to download the third-party
+  browser assets, which are not committed (`make bootstrap` installs
+  it if missing)
 
 golangci-lint is not a prerequisite and must not be installed on the
 host: `script/bootstrap` does not install it, and `make lint` runs the
@@ -33,7 +36,9 @@ digest-pinned linter image via `Dockerfile.lint`.
 git clone https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/webhooker.git
 cd webhooker
 
-# Install the Go toolchain if missing, and the Go dependencies
+# Install Go dependencies and the third-party browser assets.
+# `make deps` alone is not enough: it only runs go mod download/tidy,
+# and the checks below need the fetched assets.
 make bootstrap
 
 # Run all checks (test, lint, format check)
@@ -53,7 +58,7 @@ make docker
 ```bash
 make bootstrap  # Install all dependencies (idempotent)
 make setup      # Bootstrap + install git pre-commit hook
-make assets     # Extract Alpine.js from 3p/ (test, check, build, dev run it)
+make assets     # Fetch + verify third-party browser assets
 make fmt        # Format code (gofmt + goimports)
 make fmt-check  # Fail if gofmt would change anything (writes nothing)
 make lint       # Run golangci-lint in Docker (Dockerfile.lint)
@@ -1247,16 +1252,16 @@ What that means for an operator:
 This repository adheres to the
 [Scripts to Rule Them All](https://github.com/github/scripts-to-rule-them-all)
 standard: normalized scripts in `script/` are the entrypoints for the
-development workflow. Nine of the Makefile's seventeen targets are thin
+development workflow. Ten of the Makefile's seventeen targets are thin
-shims that call them; `assets`, `build`, `run`, `dev`, `deps`, `clean`,
+shims that call them; `build`, `run`, `dev`, `deps`, `clean`, `css` and
-`css` and `version` are inline commands with no script behind them,
+`version` are inline commands with no script behind them, though
-though `build` and `version` both take their value from
+`build` and `version` both take their value from `script/version`.
-`script/version`.
 
-`make test`, `make check`, `make build` and `make dev` each run
+`make check` needs the third-party browser assets in `static/`, which
-`make assets` first, which writes the ignored `static/js/alpine.min.js`
+are not committed, so run `make bootstrap` (or just `make assets`) once
-(see [Third-party browser assets](#third-party-browser-assets)), so
+after cloning. Without them the tests fail with a message naming that
-`make check` works on a fresh clone without a separate setup step.
+remedy. `make check` does not fetch them itself because it must not
+change any files in the repo.
 
 We provide:
 
@@ -1264,6 +1269,8 @@ We provide:
 - `script/setup` — make a fresh clone ready for development
   (bootstrap, then install-precommit)
 - `script/projectname` — output the project name ("webhooker")
+- `script/fetch-assets` — download the third-party browser assets into
+  `static/`, verifying each against its pinned sha256
 - `script/test` — run the test suite
 - `script/lint` — run golangci-lint in Docker (see Linting below)
 - `script/fmt` — format all code (writes)
@@ -1285,26 +1292,24 @@ We provide:
 
 ## Third-party browser assets
 
-The web UI serves one third-party script, Alpine.js. Its npm package tarball
+The web UI serves one third-party script, Alpine.js. It is **not** committed:
-is committed as `3p/alpinejs-3.14.9.tgz`, byte for byte as the npm registry
+a minified bundle in the tree is unreviewable, and `REPO_POLICIES.md` bars
-publishes it. It is a dependency, not this repo's build output, so
+both committed build artifacts and unpinned external references.
-`REPO_POLICIES.md`'s rule against committed build artifacts does not apply.
-The directory is `3p/` rather than `vendor/` because Go treats a root
-`vendor/` directory as its module vendor directory.
 
-`make assets` extracts the browser build, `package/dist/cdn.min.js`, from the
+Instead `script/fetch-assets` downloads it from a pinned URL, checks the
-tarball to `static/js/alpine.min.js`, where `go:embed` picks it up.
+download against a hardcoded sha256, and installs it under `static/`. The
-`make test`, `make check`, `make build` and `make dev` run it first, and the
+sha256 of every installed asset is recorded in `static/vendor.sha256`, and
-Dockerfile builds through them, so no build downloads anything. The extracted
+`static/vendor_test.go` re-hashes the bytes `go:embed` put in the binary
-file is not committed, and `.dockerignore` keeps any host copy out of the
+against that manifest — so the pin is enforced on what actually ships, not
-build context.
+merely written down. Any mismatch fails the build.
 
-To move to a new version: download
+`make bootstrap` runs the fetch for local development, and the Dockerfile
-`https://registry.npmjs.org/alpinejs/-/alpinejs-<version>.tgz`, check it
+runs it in the build stage; `.gitignore` and `.dockerignore` keep the
-against the `dist.integrity` hash listed at
+artifact out of both the repo and the build context.
-`https://registry.npmjs.org/alpinejs/<version>`, replace the tarball in `3p/`
+
-with it, update its file name in the Makefile's `assets` target, and run
+To move to a new version: update the version, URL, and tarball sha256 in
-`make check`.
+`script/fetch-assets` and the asset sha256 in `static/vendor.sha256`, then
+run `make assets && make check`.
 
 ## Rationale
 
@@ -1467,7 +1472,7 @@ A registered user of the webhooker service.
 | Field      | Type     | Description |
 | ---------- | -------- | ----------- |
 | `id`       | UUID     | Primary key |
-| `username` | string   | Unique login name |
+| `username` | string   | Unique login name, at most 1024 bytes so that it fits in the session cookie |
 | `password` | string   | Argon2id hash (never exposed via API) |
 
 **Relations:** Has many Webhooks. Has many APIKeys.
@@ -2407,14 +2412,14 @@ Removing either cap fails 14 subtests.
 
 `internal/middleware/logbound_test.go` and
 `internal/handlers/logbound_test.go` drive 8 KB of client-chosen text
-at each of these — 1 KB at `invalid password`, whose accounts are
+at each of these — just under 1 KB at `invalid password`, whose
-shared with the successful-login line, where a username past 4 KB
+accounts are shared with the successful-login line and so must stay
-overflows the session cookie and answers 500 before that line is
+within the 1024-byte username limit — through both handlers, and
-written — through both handlers, and through seven fills: plain text
+through seven fills: plain text as the baseline, and then the
-as the baseline, and then the quotation mark, backslash, tab, newline,
+quotation mark, backslash, tab, newline, C0 control and astral
-C0 control and astral non-printable, six characters the wider of the
+non-printable, six characters the wider of the two handlers spends
-two handlers spends more on than the client spent sending them. Every
+more on than the client spent sending them. Every case holds each
-case holds each line to the 2,560-byte ceiling. That per-line ceiling
+line to the 2,560-byte ceiling. That per-line ceiling
 is what the figure above states, and every row establishes it.
 
 Three of the sites go further and bound the whole flood's output — the
@@ -2716,7 +2721,7 @@ abuse limit later; they are tracked as future work.
 | ------ | --------------------------- | ----------- |
 | `GET`  | `/`                         | Root redirect, 303 (authenticated → `/sources`, unauthenticated → `/pages/login`) |
 | `GET`  | `/.well-known/healthcheck`  | Health check (JSON: `status`, `now`, `uptimeSeconds`, `uptimeHuman`, `version`, `appname`, `maintenanceMode`) |
-| `GET`, `HEAD` | `/s/*`              | Static file serving (embedded CSS, JS). `GET` and `HEAD` only — `POST`, `PUT`, `PATCH`, `DELETE`, `OPTIONS`, `TRACE` and `CONNECT` are answered `405 Method Not Allowed` with `Allow: GET, HEAD`. Any other method (such as `PROPFIND`) is refused by chi before it reaches this route, and gets `405` without an `Allow` header. Pinned by `TestStaticServesOnlyGetAndHead` |
+| any    | `/s/*`                      | Static file serving (embedded CSS, JS). Mounted for every method, not just `GET`/`HEAD`: chi's `Mount` registers all methods and `http.FileServer` special-cases only `HEAD` (by omitting the body), so a `POST` or `DELETE` to an asset is answered `200` with the file. Pinned by `TestStaticServesEveryMethod` |
 | `POST` | `/webhook/{uuid}`           | Webhook receiver endpoint. `POST` only — every other method is answered `405 Method Not Allowed` with `Allow: POST`. Rate limited (see [Rate Limiting](#rate-limiting)) |
 
 #### Authentication Endpoints
@@ -2783,8 +2788,6 @@ imports. The entry point is `cmd/webhooker/main.go`.
 
 ```
 webhooker/
-├── 3p/
-│   └── alpinejs-3.14.9.tgz    # Alpine.js npm package, extracted by make assets
 ├── cmd/webhooker/
 │   └── main.go               # Entry point: subcommand dispatch; no args locks DATA_DIR and wires fx
 ├── internal/
@@ -2878,12 +2881,13 @@ webhooker/
 │   ├── css/tailwind.css       # Generated stylesheet the pages load
 │   ├── css/style.css          # Older hand-written stylesheet, no longer loaded
 │   ├── js/app.js              # Progressive-enhancement copy-to-clipboard
-│   └── js/alpine.min.js       # Alpine.js, extracted from 3p/ by make assets, not committed
+│   ├── js/alpine.min.js       # Alpine.js, fetched by script/fetch-assets, not committed
+│   └── vendor.sha256          # Pinned hashes the fetched assets are verified against
 ├── templates/                 # Go HTML templates (base, login, sources, etc.)
 ├── script/                    # Scripts to Rule Them All entrypoints
 ├── Dockerfile                 # Three stages: lint, test+build, Alpine runtime
 ├── Dockerfile.lint            # Lint-only image built by script/lint
-├── Makefile                   # 9 of 17 targets shim script/; 8 are inline
+├── Makefile                   # 10 of 17 targets shim script/; 7 are inline
 ├── go.mod / go.sum
 └── .golangci.yml              # Linter configuration
 ```
@@ -3186,14 +3190,14 @@ version is fixed independently of the compiler's:
    `make fmt-check`, then `golangci-lint config verify` and
    `golangci-lint run`, both with `--network=none`.
 2. **Builder stage** (`golang:1.26.1-bookworm`) — depends on the lint
-   stage passing (it copies a file from it), runs `make test` and
+   stage passing (it copies a file from it), runs `script/fetch-assets`
-   `make build` (both extract Alpine.js from `3p/` first), and finally
+   to download and verify the third-party browser assets, then runs
-   rebuilds the binary with `CGO_ENABLED=1` and static linking so it
+   `make test` and `make build`, and finally rebuilds the binary with
-   runs on musl. Both builds go through `make build`, the relink adding
+   `CGO_ENABLED=1` and static linking so it runs on musl. Both builds
-   its `-extldflags` via `GO_LDFLAGS`, so neither can drop the `-X` that
+   go through `make build`, the relink adding its `-extldflags` via
-   stamps the version. The version arrives as the `VERSION` build arg,
+   `GO_LDFLAGS`, so neither can drop the `-X` that stamps the version.
-   since the context has no `.git` (see
+   The version arrives as the `VERSION` build arg, since the context
-   [Version stamping](#version-stamping)).
+   has no `.git` (see [Version stamping](#version-stamping)).
 3. **Runtime stage** (`alpine:3.21`) — copies the static binary,
    creates the `/var/lib/webhooker` directory for all SQLite databases,
    runs as the non-root `webhooker` user (UID 1000), exposes port 8080,

internal/database/model_user.go

@@ -1,13 +1,57 @@
 package database
 
+import (
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+
+	"gorm.io/gorm"
+)
+
+// MaxUsernameBytes is the longest username, in bytes, that a user may
+// have. The same number appears in the check constraint on
+// User.Username, because a struct tag cannot reference a constant.
+//
+// A login stores the username in the session cookie, and both
+// securecookie and browsers refuse a cookie value past about 4096
+// bytes. That value is the session base64-encoded twice, so it holds
+// 4096 × 3/4 × 3/4 = 2304 bytes of session, and the signature,
+// timestamp and the session's other values take about 270 of those: a
+// username longer than about 2030 bytes can never log in. The limit is
+// about half that, so the session can carry more values later without
+// locking out an account whose username is already at the limit.
+const MaxUsernameBytes = 1024
+
+// ErrUsernameTooLong is returned when a user is saved with a username
+// longer than MaxUsernameBytes.
+var ErrUsernameTooLong = errors.New("username is too long")
+
 // User represents a user of the webhooker service
+//
+//nolint:lll // a struct tag cannot wrap
 type User struct {
 	BaseModel
 
-	Username string `gorm:"uniqueIndex;not null" json:"username"`
+	Username string `gorm:"uniqueIndex;not null;check:length(CAST(username AS BLOB)) <= 1024" json:"username"`
-	Password string `gorm:"not null"             json:"-"` // Argon2 hashed
+	Password string `gorm:"not null"                                                          json:"-"` // Argon2 hashed
 
 	// Relations
 	Webhooks []Webhook `json:"webhooks,omitempty"`
 	APIKeys  []APIKey  `json:"apiKeys,omitempty"`
 }
+
+// BeforeSave rejects a username longer than MaxUsernameBytes, so every
+// path that saves a user through GORM gets ErrUsernameTooLong rather
+// than the database's constraint error. The check constraint behind it
+// holds for any path that writes the table without this model.
+func (u *User) BeforeSave(_ *gorm.DB) error {
+	if len(u.Username) > MaxUsernameBytes {
+		return fmt.Errorf(
+			"%w: %d bytes, limit is %d",
+			ErrUsernameTooLong,
+			len(u.Username),
+			MaxUsernameBytes,
+		)
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}

internal/database/model_user_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+package database_test
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/google/uuid"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/webhooker/internal/database"
+)
+
+// usernameAtLimit is exactly MaxUsernameBytes long, built from a
+// two-byte character. A check that counted characters rather than bytes
+// would see half the length and let the one-byte-longer name through.
+func usernameAtLimit() string {
+	return strings.Repeat("é", database.MaxUsernameBytes/2)
+}
+
+func TestUserCreate_RejectsOverlongUsername(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	db := startedTestDB(t)
+
+	err := db.Create(&database.User{
+		Username: usernameAtLimit() + "x",
+		Password: "hash",
+	}).Error
+
+	require.ErrorIs(t, err, database.ErrUsernameTooLong)
+}
+
+func TestUserCreate_AcceptsUsernameAtLimit(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	db := startedTestDB(t)
+
+	require.NoError(t, db.Create(&database.User{
+		Username: usernameAtLimit(),
+		Password: "hash",
+	}).Error)
+}
+
+// TestUsersTable_EnforcesUsernameLimitWithoutTheModel inserts with raw
+// SQL, as a path that bypassed User.BeforeSave would, so only the
+// table's check constraint stands between it and an over-long
+// username. Accepting the name at the limit and refusing the next byte
+// also pins the constraint's number to MaxUsernameBytes.
+func TestUsersTable_EnforcesUsernameLimitWithoutTheModel(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	db := startedTestDB(t)
+
+	insert := "INSERT INTO users (id, username, password) VALUES (?, ?, ?)"
+
+	require.NoError(t, db.Exec(
+		insert, uuid.New().String(), usernameAtLimit(), "hash",
+	).Error)
+
+	err := db.Exec(
+		insert, uuid.New().String(), usernameAtLimit()+"x", "hash",
+	).Error
+	require.Error(t, err)
+	assert.Contains(t, err.Error(), "CHECK constraint failed")
+}

internal/handlers/auth_test.go

@@ -453,3 +453,33 @@ func TestLogin_SuccessCreatesSession(t *testing.T) {
 		"the issued cookie must carry an authenticated session",
 	)
 }
+
+// TestLogin_UsernameAtLimitCanLogIn shows that a username of exactly
+// database.MaxUsernameBytes still fits in the session cookie. Past
+// what the cookie can carry, a correct login answers 500.
+func TestLogin_UsernameAtLimitCanLogIn(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	var (
+		h  *handlers.Handlers
+		db *database.Database
+	)
+
+	app := newTestApp(t, &h, &db)
+	app.RequireStart()
+
+	t.Cleanup(app.RequireStop)
+
+	username := strings.Repeat("a", database.MaxUsernameBytes)
+
+	hash, err := database.HashPassword(operatorPassword)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	require.NoError(t, db.DB().Create(&database.User{
+		Username: username,
+		Password: hash,
+	}).Error)
+
+	w := submitLogin(h, sharedProxyPeer, username, operatorPassword)
+
+	assert.Equal(t, http.StatusSeeOther, w.Code)
+}

internal/handlers/logbound_test.go

@@ -339,11 +339,9 @@ const storedUserPassword = "correct-horse-battery-staple"
 // storedFillBytes is the raw length of the client-chosen value in
 // those accounts' usernames. It is well past the 512-byte field
 // budget, so the line is still truncated, but short enough that the
-// session cookie a successful login writes stays inside
+// whole username, markers and fill name included, stays within
-// securecookie's 4 KB limit: the cookie is written BEFORE the
+// database.MaxUsernameBytes.
-// "user logged in" line, so an 8 KB username answers 500 and never
+const storedFillBytes = 960
-// reaches it.
-const storedFillBytes = 1024
 
 // storedFill builds a username fill of storedFillBytes raw bytes out
 // of repetitions of ch, with both markers at its far end.

internal/server/routes.go

@@ -92,25 +92,11 @@ func (s *Server) setupGlobalMiddleware() {
 func (s *Server) setupRoutes() {
 	s.router.Get("/", s.h.HandleIndex())
 
-	// Static assets answer GET and HEAD only. chi's default 405
+	s.router.Mount(
-	// carries no Allow header, so this group supplies its own.
+		"/s",
-	staticFiles := http.StripPrefix(
+		http.StripPrefix("/s", http.FileServer(http.FS(static.Static))),
-		"/s", http.FileServer(http.FS(static.Static)),
 	)
 
-	s.router.Route("/s", func(r chi.Router) {
-		r.MethodNotAllowed(func(w http.ResponseWriter, _ *http.Request) {
-			w.Header().Set("Allow", "GET, HEAD")
-			http.Error(
-				w,
-				"Method Not Allowed",
-				http.StatusMethodNotAllowed,
-			)
-		})
-		r.Method(http.MethodGet, "/*", staticFiles)
-		r.Method(http.MethodHead, "/*", staticFiles)
-	})
-
 	s.router.Route("/api/v1", func(_ chi.Router) {
 		// API routes will be added here.
 	})

internal/server/routes_test.go

@@ -396,15 +396,13 @@ func (e *testEnv) storedHash(t *testing.T, username string) string {
 
 // --- /s static group ---
 
-// TestStaticServesOnlyGetAndHead pins the methods the static group
+// TestStaticServesEveryMethod pins what the static mount actually
-// answers: GET and HEAD are served the asset, and the other methods
+// answers. chi's Mount registers the handler for all methods and
-// chi routes (POST, PUT, DELETE and the rest) are refused with 405
+// http.FileServer only special-cases HEAD (by suppressing the body),
-// and an Allow header naming those two. A method chi does not route,
+// so a POST or a DELETE to an asset is served the file rather than
-// such as PROPFIND, is refused with 405 by the top-level router
+// refused. The README documents this; the test is what keeps the two
-// before it reaches the static group, so it gets no Allow header.
+// from drifting.
-// The README documents this; the test is what keeps the two from
+func TestStaticServesEveryMethod(t *testing.T) {
-// drifting.
-func TestStaticServesOnlyGetAndHead(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 
 	env := newTestEnv(t)
@@ -419,7 +417,6 @@ func TestStaticServesOnlyGetAndHead(t *testing.T) {
 		http.MethodPost,
 		http.MethodPut,
 		http.MethodDelete,
-		"PROPFIND",
 	} {
 		t.Run(method, func(t *testing.T) {
 			t.Parallel()
@@ -431,38 +428,18 @@ func TestStaticServesOnlyGetAndHead(t *testing.T) {
 			w := httptest.NewRecorder()
 			env.router.ServeHTTP(w, req)
 
-			switch method {
+			assert.Equal(t, http.StatusOK, w.Code,
-			case http.MethodGet:
+				"static mount answers every method")
-				assert.Equal(t, http.StatusOK, w.Code)
+
-				assert.Equal(t, body, w.Body.Bytes(),
+			if method == http.MethodHead {
-					"the asset itself is returned")
-			case http.MethodHead:
-				assert.Equal(t, http.StatusOK, w.Code)
 				assert.Empty(t, w.Body.Bytes(),
 					"HEAD must not carry a body")
-			case "PROPFIND":
+
-				assert.Equal(
+				return
-					t, http.StatusMethodNotAllowed, w.Code,
-				)
-				assert.Empty(t, w.Header().Get("Allow"),
-					"chi refuses a method it does not route "+
-						"before the static group runs")
-				assert.NotContains(
-					t, w.Body.String(), string(body),
-					"a refused method must not get the asset",
-				)
-			default:
-				assert.Equal(
-					t, http.StatusMethodNotAllowed, w.Code,
-				)
-				assert.Equal(
-					t, "GET, HEAD", w.Header().Get("Allow"),
-				)
-				assert.NotContains(
-					t, w.Body.String(), string(body),
-					"a refused method must not get the asset",
-				)
 			}
+
+			assert.Equal(t, body, w.Body.Bytes(),
+				"the asset itself is returned")
 		})
 	}
 }

internal/server/static_assets_test.go

@@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ import (
 
 // TestBaseTemplateScriptsAreServed walks every /s/ script the base
 // template loads on each page and fetches it through the real router.
-// Alpine.js is extracted from its tarball in 3p/ at build time, so the
+// Alpine.js is fetched at build time rather than committed, so nothing
-// file is not in the tree: this is the check that the page still gets
+// in the repo guarantees it is present: this is the check that the page
-// the JavaScript it asks for.
+// still gets the JavaScript it asks for.
 func TestBaseTemplateScriptsAreServed(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 

script/bootstrap

@@ -4,7 +4,9 @@
 # installed tools are skipped. Base tooling comes from nix, apt, brew,
 # or apk (detected in that order); assumes NOTHING is present (not git,
 # make, or go). golangci-lint is deliberately not installed: linting runs
-# only in docker, via script/lint and Dockerfile.lint.
+# only in docker, via script/lint and Dockerfile.lint. Finishes by running
+# script/fetch-assets, which installs the hash-pinned third-party browser
+# assets the repo does not commit.
 set -eu
 
 ROOT="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")/.." && pwd -P)"
@@ -67,6 +69,11 @@ main() {
 
     go mod download
 
+    # Third-party browser assets are not committed; fetch and verify them
+    # so a fresh clone can build and test.
+    if missing curl; then pkg_install curl curl curl curl; fi
+    "$ROOT/script/fetch-assets"
+
     echo "bootstrap complete"
 }
 

script/fetch-assets

@@ -0,0 +1,104 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# script/fetch-assets: download the third-party browser assets the web UI
+# ships and install them under static/. Minified bundles are not committed
+# (REPO_POLICIES.md: no build artifacts in version control), so the build
+# fetches them here. Every download is verified against a hardcoded sha256
+# before it is installed, and any mismatch aborts. Idempotent: an asset
+# already present with its pinned hash is left alone.
+set -eu
+
+ROOT="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")/.." && pwd -P)"
+
+# The sha256 of each installed asset lives in static/vendor.sha256, in
+# sha256sum(1) format, with paths relative to static/. That file is the
+# single source of truth: this script verifies against it, and
+# static/vendor_test.go asserts the bytes embedded into the binary match
+# it, so the hash cannot rot into a value nothing checks.
+MANIFEST="static/vendor.sha256"
+
+# Alpine.js 3.14.9, 2026-08-17. Fetched from registry.npmjs.org, the
+# publisher of record; the jsDelivr and unpkg copies are mirrors of this
+# same tarball. dist/cdn.min.js is the browser build Alpine publishes for
+# a <script> tag.
+ALPINE_VERSION="3.14.9"
+ALPINE_URL="https://registry.npmjs.org/alpinejs/-/alpinejs-${ALPINE_VERSION}.tgz"
+# sha256 of alpinejs-3.14.9.tgz
+ALPINE_TARBALL_SHA256="97dad7c0c81e659cfc8e7700055da9770f8186187cb9a8a76efb57e00d5ce52a"
+ALPINE_MEMBER="package/dist/cdn.min.js"
+ALPINE_DEST="js/alpine.min.js"
+
+sha256_of() {
+    if command -v sha256sum >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+        sha256sum "$1" | cut -d' ' -f1
+    else
+        shasum -a 256 "$1" | cut -d' ' -f1
+    fi
+}
+
+# expected_sha256 <path-relative-to-static>
+expected_sha256() {
+    awk -v want="$1" '$2 == want { print $1; found = 1 }
+        END { if (!found) exit 1 }' "$ROOT/$MANIFEST"
+}
+
+# verify <file> <expected-sha256> <what>
+verify() {
+    actual="$(sha256_of "$1")"
+    if [ "$actual" != "$2" ]; then
+        echo "fetch-assets: sha256 mismatch for $3" >&2
+        echo "  expected: $2" >&2
+        echo "  actual:   $actual" >&2
+        exit 1
+    fi
+}
+
+# up_to_date <path-relative-to-static> <expected-sha256>
+up_to_date() {
+    [ -f "$ROOT/static/$1" ] || return 1
+    [ "$(sha256_of "$ROOT/static/$1")" = "$2" ]
+}
+
+fetch_alpine() {
+    want="$(expected_sha256 "$ALPINE_DEST")"
+
+    if up_to_date "$ALPINE_DEST" "$want"; then
+        echo "fetch-assets: static/$ALPINE_DEST already at $want"
+        return 0
+    fi
+
+    echo "fetch-assets: fetching Alpine.js $ALPINE_VERSION from $ALPINE_URL"
+    tmp="$(mktemp -d)"
+    trap 'rm -rf "$tmp"' EXIT INT TERM
+    curl -fsSL -o "$tmp/alpine.tgz" "$ALPINE_URL"
+    verify "$tmp/alpine.tgz" "$ALPINE_TARBALL_SHA256" "alpinejs-${ALPINE_VERSION}.tgz"
+    tar -xzOf "$tmp/alpine.tgz" "$ALPINE_MEMBER" >"$tmp/alpine.min.js"
+    verify "$tmp/alpine.min.js" "$want" "$ALPINE_MEMBER from alpinejs-${ALPINE_VERSION}.tgz"
+
+    mkdir -p "$(dirname "$ROOT/static/$ALPINE_DEST")"
+    cp "$tmp/alpine.min.js" "$ROOT/static/$ALPINE_DEST"
+    rm -rf "$tmp"
+    trap - EXIT INT TERM
+    echo "fetch-assets: installed static/$ALPINE_DEST ($want)"
+}
+
+# Re-check every manifest entry against what is now on disk, so an entry
+# no script installs fails loudly instead of passing silently.
+verify_manifest() {
+    while read -r want path; do
+        case "$want" in '' | '#'*) continue ;; esac
+        if [ ! -f "$ROOT/static/$path" ]; then
+            echo "fetch-assets: $MANIFEST lists static/$path, which is missing" >&2
+            exit 1
+        fi
+        verify "$ROOT/static/$path" "$want" "static/$path"
+    done <"$ROOT/$MANIFEST"
+}
+
+main() {
+    cd "$ROOT"
+    fetch_alpine
+    verify_manifest
+    echo "fetch-assets: all assets in $MANIFEST verified"
+}
+
+main "$@"

static/vendor.sha256

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+3ed1eed252488921df65e363d6715deb04d7f92aaedb9e52199fdf73cb1e0ad3  js/alpine.min.js

static/vendor_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+package static_test
+
+import (
+	"bufio"
+	"crypto/sha256"
+	"encoding/hex"
+	"os"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+
+	"sneak.berlin/go/webhooker/static"
+)
+
+const manifestPath = "vendor.sha256"
+
+// fetchHint is appended to every failure here: the assets the manifest
+// covers are fetched by the build, not committed, so a fresh clone that
+// has not run script/fetch-assets fails this test and should be told why.
+const fetchHint = "run `script/fetch-assets` (or `make assets`) to install " +
+	"the pinned third-party assets"
+
+// TestVendoredAssetsMatchManifest asserts that every asset listed in
+// static/vendor.sha256 is embedded in the binary with exactly the pinned
+// bytes. script/fetch-assets verifies the same hashes at download time;
+// this test verifies them again on what actually ships, so a build that
+// skipped, cached, or subverted the fetch cannot produce a binary serving
+// unpinned third-party JavaScript.
+func TestVendoredAssetsMatchManifest(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	entries := readManifest(t)
+	require.NotEmpty(t, entries, "%s lists no assets", manifestPath)
+
+	for path, want := range entries {
+		t.Run(path, func(t *testing.T) {
+			t.Parallel()
+
+			data, err := static.Static.ReadFile(path)
+			require.NoErrorf(
+				t, err,
+				"%s is listed in %s but is not embedded; %s",
+				path, manifestPath, fetchHint,
+			)
+
+			sum := sha256.Sum256(data)
+			got := hex.EncodeToString(sum[:])
+			require.Equalf(
+				t, want, got,
+				"embedded %s does not match its pinned sha256 in %s; %s",
+				path, manifestPath, fetchHint,
+			)
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// readManifest parses static/vendor.sha256, which is in sha256sum(1)
+// format with paths relative to static/.
+func readManifest(t *testing.T) map[string]string {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	f, err := os.Open(manifestPath)
+	require.NoError(t, err, "opening %s", manifestPath)
+
+	defer func() { require.NoError(t, f.Close()) }()
+
+	entries := make(map[string]string)
+	scanner := bufio.NewScanner(f)
+
+	for scanner.Scan() {
+		line := strings.TrimSpace(scanner.Text())
+		if line == "" || strings.HasPrefix(line, "#") {
+			continue
+		}
+
+		fields := strings.Fields(line)
+		require.Lenf(
+			t, fields, 2,
+			"%s: malformed entry %q, want \"<sha256>  <path>\"",
+			manifestPath, line,
+		)
+
+		sum, path := fields[0], fields[1]
+		require.Lenf(t, sum, 64, "%s: %q is not a sha256", manifestPath, sum)
+		entries[path] = sum
+	}
+
+	require.NoError(t, scanner.Err(), "reading %s", manifestPath)
+
+	return entries
+}