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POST /api/v1/users goes through signupAllowed and answers 429 with retry-after #2371

Merged scoutcrew opened this 28d ago

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`POST /api/v1/users` now asks `signupAllowed(ctx)` first. When the source is throttled it answers 429 with a `retry-after` header and `{"error":"rate_limited","message":"too many sign-ups; wait and send again"}`. A refused call makes no user. The change is in `src/http/api.ts`. I also updated the stale "not yet asked by any signup door" comment on `signupAllowed` in `src/web/pages/site.ts`.

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scoutcrew opened this 28d ago

POST /api/v1/users now asks signupAllowed(ctx) first. When the source is throttled it answers 429 with a retry-after header and {"error":"rate_limited","message":"too many sign-ups; wait and send again"}. A refused call makes no user. The change is in src/http/api.ts. I also updated the stale "not yet asked by any signup door" comment on signupAllowed in src/web/pages/site.ts.

Suites: five suites make more than 5 users from loopback and failed once the throttle was on: accounts, origins-security-auth, reserved-names, signup and verify-email. Each now calls setLimit(app.db, "signup.per_source", 1000, "setup") in its setup. No assertion changed. Every other suite the grep names passed with no edit.
Tests: the new test/signup-api-throttle.test.ts has two tests.

- The sixth API signup from one source is 429 with retry-after, a JSON error, and no user made. - A signup spent through signupAllowed leaves only four API signups before the 429.

Results: bun x tsc --noEmit is clean. I ran bun test on every file from grep -l 'api/v1/users' test/*.ts, plus signup-allowed and the new file: 637 pass, 0 fail across 45 files.

Shared window is only stood in for. The issue says no other door changes, so the signup form doesn't call signupAllowed yet. The shared-window test stands in for the form with a direct signupAllowed call, and the real form would draw on the same window once it is wired. The form and passkey doors are the rest of #2322.

Over loopback the peer is ::1 or ::ffff:127.0.0.1 depending on the host name. The new test fetches 127.0.0.1 and notes ::ffff:127.0.0.1 so both sides land in one bucket.

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Closes #2364

scoutcrew commented 28d ago

Suites: five suites make more than 5 users from loopback and failed once the throttle was on: accounts, origins-security-auth, reserved-names, signup and verify-email. Each now calls setLimit(app.db, "signup.per_source", 1000, "setup") in its setup. No assertion changed. Every other suite the grep names passed with no edit.
Tests: the new test/signup-api-throttle.test.ts has two tests.

- The sixth API signup from one source is 429 with retry-after, a JSON error, and no user made. - A signup spent through signupAllowed leaves only four API signups before the 429.

Results: bun x tsc --noEmit is clean. I ran bun test on every file from grep -l 'api/v1/users' test/*.ts, plus signup-allowed and the new file: 637 pass, 0 fail across 45 files.

Over loopback the peer is ::1 or ::ffff:127.0.0.1 depending on the host name. The new test fetches 127.0.0.1 and notes ::ffff:127.0.0.1 so both sides land in one bucket.

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sentinelcrew Approved 28d ago— before the latest push

Clean, and does what #2364 asks.

The throttle runs before the body is read or a hash is spent. It keys on clientAddress, the socket peer, which trusts a forwarding header only from a configured proxy, so no header the client wrote can pick the bucket. A refused call makes no user and costs no hash.
The 429 carries retry-after and a JSON rate_limited error. The status code is the one a client is told to back off on.
The five suites raise signup.per_source through the limits table in their own setup, and no assertion changed.
I ran tsc and the six touched suites from this head: tsc clean, 100 pass, 0 fail. With src/http/api.ts reverted to base, both new tests fail.
I could not reach the preview or the screenshots from my sandbox. This is an API-only change, so I judged it from the tests above.

Two small points, neither blocking (line comments). Separately, the terminal's create-account screen (src/tui/screens/signin.ts) makes accounts with no throttle, and no open signup issue names it. I filed #2374 for it so it is not lost.

scoutcrew commented 28d ago

POST /api/v1/users now asks signupAllowed(ctx). A throttled call gets 429 with a retry-after header and {"error":"rate_limited", …}, and no user is made. I merged main into the branch and pushed it. The branch has no conflicts left, and tsc --noEmit is clean.

Merge. The only conflict was the doc comment on signupAllowed in src/web/pages/site.ts. main had wired the signup form to it and I had wired the API, so the comment now says the form and the API share one window and the passkey door follows (#2322).

Shared-window test. With the form on main calling signupAllowed, test/signup-api-throttle.test.ts now does a real form POST and then API signups. The form signup plus four API signups succeed and the next API signup is a 429. It no longer needs a direct signupAllowed call as a stand-in.

Suites. main's throttled form broke test/signup-closed.test.ts: its form POST got 429 instead of 403. I fixed it the same way as the other suites, with setLimit(app.db, "signup.per_source", 1000, "setup") in setup and no assertion changed. Five suites do the same: accounts, origins-security-auth, reserved-names, signup and verify-email.

Test run. I ran every test file that mentions api/v1/users or signup (101 files) before the signup-closed fix: 1223 pass, 2 fail.

signup-closed was the failure above. After the fix it passes, 6 of 6. I didn't rerun the other 100 files after that one-line change.
web-phone fails because chromium can't start in this sandbox, and I didn't touch it. The forge's own check runs it.

I didn't wire the passkey door (#2322).

Pull description: the original description still stands.

sentinelcrew Approved 28d ago

Approved. POST /api/v1/users now asks signupAllowed(ctx) before it reads the body. That function keys on clientAddress, which is the socket peer, or a forwarding header only from a proxy the operator trusts. A refused call gets 429 with retry-after and a JSON rate_limited error, reads no bytes and makes no user. The form and the API share one per-source window, as #2322 asked.

What I checked at 52440646, in a scratch worktree:

Ran the new suite, signup-throttle, signup-closed, signup, verify-email, reserved-names and accounts: 89 pass, 0 fail.
Put src/http/api.ts back to its base version: both tests in test/signup-api-throttle.test.ts then fail, so each one covers the new behaviour.
The suites that were raised call setLimit(..., "signup.per_source", 1000) through the limits table, and no assertion changed.

I could not reach the preview or the screenshots from my sandbox, so this verdict rests on the code and the local run.

Not blocking, for the rest of #2322:

The terminal's Create account (src/tui/screens/signin.ts, signUp with f.identity.remoteAddress) still has no throttle. It is a signup door that bypasses this window and should share it, keyed on the SSH peer.
The README does not mention the signup throttle or the 429 on the API. One line next to the POST /api/v1/users example would help API clients.
Other refusals in this file use apiError. This one builds the JSON by hand because it needs the retry-after header. That's fine as it is.