discourse/spec/components/middleware/anonymous_cache_spec.rb
Osama Sayegh b86127ad12
FEATURE: Apply rate limits per user instead of IP for trusted users (#14706)
Currently, Discourse rate limits all incoming requests by the IP address they
originate from regardless of the user making the request. This can be
frustrating if there are multiple users using Discourse simultaneously while
sharing the same IP address (e.g. employees in an office).

This commit implements a new feature to make Discourse apply rate limits by
user id rather than IP address for users at or higher than the configured trust
level (1 is the default).

For example, let's say a Discourse instance is configured to allow 200 requests
per minute per IP address, and we have 10 users at trust level 4 using
Discourse simultaneously from the same IP address. Before this feature, the 10
users could only make a total of 200 requests per minute before they got rate
limited. But with the new feature, each user is allowed to make 200 requests
per minute because the rate limits are applied on user id rather than the IP
address.

The minimum trust level for applying user-id-based rate limits can be
configured by the `skip_per_ip_rate_limit_trust_level` global setting. The
default is 1, but it can be changed by either adding the
`DISCOURSE_SKIP_PER_IP_RATE_LIMIT_TRUST_LEVEL` environment variable with the
desired value to your `app.yml`, or changing the setting's value in the
`discourse.conf` file.

Requests made with API keys are still rate limited by IP address and the
relevant global settings that control API keys rate limits.

Before this commit, Discourse's auth cookie (`_t`) was simply a 32 characters
string that Discourse used to lookup the current user from the database and the
cookie contained no additional information about the user. However, we had to
change the cookie content in this commit so we could identify the user from the
cookie without making a database query before the rate limits logic and avoid
introducing a bottleneck on busy sites.

Besides the 32 characters auth token, the cookie now includes the user id,
trust level and the cookie's generation date, and we encrypt/sign the cookie to
prevent tampering.

Internal ticket number: t54739.
2021-11-17 23:27:30 +03:00

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# frozen_string_literal: true
require "rails_helper"
describe Middleware::AnonymousCache do
let(:middleware) { Middleware::AnonymousCache.new(lambda { |_| [200, {}, []] }) }
def env(opts = {})
create_request_env(path: "http://test.com/path?bla=1").merge(opts)
end
describe Middleware::AnonymousCache::Helper do
def new_helper(opts = {})
Middleware::AnonymousCache::Helper.new(env(opts))
end
context "cacheable?" do
it "true by default" do
expect(new_helper.cacheable?).to eq(true)
end
it "is false for non GET" do
expect(new_helper("ANON_CACHE_DURATION" => 10, "REQUEST_METHOD" => "POST").cacheable?).to eq(false)
end
it "is false if it has a valid auth cookie" do
cookie = create_auth_cookie(token: SecureRandom.hex)
expect(new_helper("HTTP_COOKIE" => "jack=1; _t=#{cookie}; jill=2").cacheable?).to eq(false)
end
it "is true if it has an invalid auth cookie" do
cookie = create_auth_cookie(token: SecureRandom.hex, issued_at: 5.minutes.ago)
cookie = swap_2_different_characters(cookie)
expect(new_helper("HTTP_COOKIE" => "jack=1; _t=#{cookie}; jill=2").cacheable?).to eq(true)
end
it "is false for srv/status routes" do
expect(new_helper("PATH_INFO" => "/srv/status").cacheable?).to eq(false)
end
end
context "per theme cache" do
it "handles theme keys" do
theme = Fabricate(:theme, user_selectable: true)
with_bad_theme_key = new_helper("HTTP_COOKIE" => "theme_ids=abc").cache_key
with_no_theme_key = new_helper().cache_key
expect(with_bad_theme_key).to eq(with_no_theme_key)
with_good_theme_key = new_helper("HTTP_COOKIE" => "theme_ids=#{theme.id}").cache_key
expect(with_good_theme_key).not_to eq(with_no_theme_key)
end
end
context "with header-based locale locale" do
it "handles different languages" do
# Normally does not check the language header
french1 = new_helper("HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE" => "fr").cache_key
french2 = new_helper("HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE" => "FR").cache_key
english = new_helper("HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE" => SiteSetting.default_locale).cache_key
none = new_helper.cache_key
expect(none).to eq(french1)
expect(none).to eq(french2)
expect(none).to eq(english)
SiteSetting.allow_user_locale = true
SiteSetting.set_locale_from_accept_language_header = true
french1 = new_helper("HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE" => "fr").cache_key
french2 = new_helper("HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE" => "FR").cache_key
english = new_helper("HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE" => SiteSetting.default_locale).cache_key
none = new_helper.cache_key
expect(none).to eq(english)
expect(french1).to eq(french2)
expect(french1).not_to eq(none)
end
end
context "cached" do
let!(:helper) do
new_helper("ANON_CACHE_DURATION" => 10)
end
let!(:crawler) do
new_helper("ANON_CACHE_DURATION" => 10, "HTTP_USER_AGENT" => "AdsBot-Google (+http://www.google.com/adsbot.html)")
end
after do
helper.clear_cache
crawler.clear_cache
end
before do
global_setting :anon_cache_store_threshold, 1
end
it "compresses body on demand" do
global_setting :compress_anon_cache, true
payload = "x" * 1000
helper.cache([200, { "HELLO" => "WORLD" }, [payload]])
helper = new_helper("ANON_CACHE_DURATION" => 10)
expect(helper.cached).to eq([200, { "X-Discourse-Cached" => "true", "HELLO" => "WORLD" }, [payload]])
# depends on i7z implementation, but lets assume it is stable unless we discover
# otherwise
expect(Discourse.redis.get(helper.cache_key_body).length).to eq(16)
end
it "handles brotli switching" do
helper.cache([200, { "HELLO" => "WORLD" }, ["hello ", "my world"]])
helper = new_helper("ANON_CACHE_DURATION" => 10)
expect(helper.cached).to eq([200, { "X-Discourse-Cached" => "true", "HELLO" => "WORLD" }, ["hello my world"]])
helper = new_helper("ANON_CACHE_DURATION" => 10, "HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING" => "gz, br")
expect(helper.cached).to eq(nil)
end
it "returns cached data for cached requests" do
helper.is_mobile = true
expect(helper.cached).to eq(nil)
helper.cache([200, { "HELLO" => "WORLD" }, ["hello ", "my world"]])
helper = new_helper("ANON_CACHE_DURATION" => 10)
helper.is_mobile = true
expect(helper.cached).to eq([200, { "X-Discourse-Cached" => "true", "HELLO" => "WORLD" }, ["hello my world"]])
expect(crawler.cached).to eq(nil)
crawler.cache([200, { "HELLO" => "WORLD" }, ["hello ", "world"]])
expect(crawler.cached).to eq([200, { "X-Discourse-Cached" => "true", "HELLO" => "WORLD" }, ["hello world"]])
end
end
end
context 'background request rate limit' do
it 'will rate limit background requests' do
app = Middleware::AnonymousCache.new(
lambda do |env|
[200, {}, ["ok"]]
end
)
global_setting :background_requests_max_queue_length, "0.5"
cookie = create_auth_cookie(token: SecureRandom.hex)
env = create_request_env.merge(
"HTTP_COOKIE" => "_t=#{cookie}",
"HOST" => "site.com",
"REQUEST_METHOD" => "GET",
"REQUEST_URI" => "/somewhere/rainbow",
"REQUEST_QUEUE_SECONDS" => 2.1,
"rack.input" => StringIO.new
)
# non background ... long request
env["REQUEST_QUEUE_SECONDS"] = 2
status, _ = app.call(env.dup)
expect(status).to eq(200)
env["HTTP_DISCOURSE_BACKGROUND"] = "true"
status, headers, body = app.call(env.dup)
expect(status).to eq(429)
expect(headers["content-type"]).to eq("application/json; charset=utf-8")
json = JSON.parse(body.join)
expect(json["extras"]["wait_seconds"]).to be > 4.9
env["REQUEST_QUEUE_SECONDS"] = 0.4
status, _ = app.call(env.dup)
expect(status).to eq(200)
end
end
context 'force_anonymous!' do
before do
RateLimiter.enable
end
it 'will revert to anonymous once we reach the limit' do
RateLimiter.clear_all!
is_anon = false
app = Middleware::AnonymousCache.new(
lambda do |env|
is_anon = env["HTTP_COOKIE"].nil? && env["HTTP_DISCOURSE_LOGGED_IN"].nil?
[200, {}, ["ok"]]
end
)
global_setting :force_anonymous_min_per_10_seconds, 2
global_setting :force_anonymous_min_queue_seconds, 1
cookie = create_auth_cookie(token: SecureRandom.hex)
env = create_request_env.merge(
"HTTP_COOKIE" => "_t=#{cookie}",
"HTTP_DISCOURSE_LOGGED_IN" => "true",
"HOST" => "site.com",
"REQUEST_METHOD" => "GET",
"REQUEST_URI" => "/somewhere/rainbow",
"REQUEST_QUEUE_SECONDS" => 2.1,
"rack.input" => StringIO.new
)
is_anon = false
app.call(env.dup)
expect(is_anon).to eq(false)
is_anon = false
app.call(env.dup)
expect(is_anon).to eq(false)
is_anon = false
app.call(env.dup)
expect(is_anon).to eq(true)
is_anon = false
_status, headers, _body = app.call(env.dup)
expect(is_anon).to eq(true)
expect(headers['Set-Cookie']).to eq('dosp=1; Path=/')
# tricky change, a 50ms delay still will trigger protection
# once it is tripped
env["REQUEST_QUEUE_SECONDS"] = 0.05
is_anon = false
app.call(env.dup)
expect(is_anon).to eq(true)
is_anon = false
env["REQUEST_QUEUE_SECONDS"] = 0.01
app.call(env.dup)
expect(is_anon).to eq(false)
end
end
context 'invalid request payload' do
it 'returns 413 for GET request with payload' do
status, headers, _ = middleware.call(env.tap do |environment|
environment[Rack::RACK_INPUT].write("test")
end)
expect(status).to eq(413)
expect(headers["Cache-Control"]).to eq("private, max-age=0, must-revalidate")
end
end
context "crawler blocking" do
let :non_crawler do
{
"HTTP_USER_AGENT" =>
"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2228.0 Safari/537.36"
}
end
def get(path, options)
@env = env({
"REQUEST_URI" => path,
"PATH_INFO" => path,
"REQUEST_PATH" => path
}.merge(options[:headers]))
@status, @response_header, @response = middleware.call(@env)
end
it "applies allowed_crawler_user_agents correctly" do
SiteSetting.allowed_crawler_user_agents = 'Googlebot'
get '/', headers: {
'HTTP_USER_AGENT' => 'Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.google.com/bot.html)'
}
expect(@status).to eq(200)
get '/', headers: {
'HTTP_USER_AGENT' => 'Anotherbot/2.1 (+http://www.notgoogle.com/bot.html)'
}
expect(@status).to eq(403)
expect(@response).to be_an(Array)
get '/', headers: non_crawler
expect(@status).to eq(200)
end
it "doesn't block api requests" do
SiteSetting.allowed_crawler_user_agents = 'Googlebot'
api_key = Fabricate(:api_key)
get "/latest?api_key=#{api_key.key}&api_username=system", headers: {
"QUERY_STRING" => "api_key=#{api_key.key}&api_username=system"
}
expect(@status).to eq(200)
end
it "applies blocked_crawler_user_agents correctly" do
SiteSetting.blocked_crawler_user_agents = 'Googlebot'
get '/', headers: non_crawler
expect(@status).to eq(200)
get '/', headers: {
'HTTP_USER_AGENT' => 'Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.google.com/bot.html)'
}
expect(@status).to eq(403)
get '/', headers: {
'HTTP_USER_AGENT' => 'Twitterbot/2.1 (+http://www.notgoogle.com/bot.html)'
}
expect(@status).to eq(200)
end
it "should never block robots.txt" do
SiteSetting.blocked_crawler_user_agents = 'Googlebot'
get '/robots.txt', headers: {
'HTTP_USER_AGENT' => 'Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.google.com/bot.html)'
}
expect(@status).to eq(200)
end
it "should never block srv/status" do
SiteSetting.blocked_crawler_user_agents = 'Googlebot'
get '/srv/status', headers: {
'HTTP_USER_AGENT' => 'Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.google.com/bot.html)'
}
expect(@status).to eq(200)
end
it "blocked crawlers shouldn't log page views" do
SiteSetting.blocked_crawler_user_agents = 'Googlebot'
get '/', headers: {
'HTTP_USER_AGENT' => 'Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.google.com/bot.html)'
}
expect(@env["discourse.request_tracker.skip"]).to eq(true)
end
it "blocks json requests" do
SiteSetting.blocked_crawler_user_agents = 'Googlebot'
get '/srv/status.json', headers: {
'HTTP_USER_AGENT' => 'Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.google.com/bot.html)'
}
expect(@status).to eq(403)
end
end
end