"""The proxy trust boundary. The whole security property is "a caller cannot forge their own address", and it rests on counting in from the RIGHT of the header rather than the left. These are the cases that tell the two apart — pure functions, no request context, no database. """ from thoughtsync.proxy import forwarded_for, trusted_entry from thoughtsync.settings import live PEER = "10.0.0.1" # the socket address: our own proxy, or the caller when unproxied def test_default_is_one_hop(): # One reverse proxy terminating TLS — this deployment, and the only shape that is # safe to assume. A wrong default here is a silent security bug, not a preference. # # Read through live() rather than the registry: live() is what proxy.py actually # calls, and it is seeded from the defaults at import time so the value is right # before the first database read. A boot that never reached the DB must still # count one hop, not zero. assert live("trusted_proxy_hops") == 1 def test_no_proxy_ignores_the_header_entirely(): # hops=0 says nothing in front of us appends anything, so the header can only be # something a caller invented. assert forwarded_for("1.2.3.4", PEER, 0) == PEER def test_one_hop_reads_what_our_proxy_wrote(): assert forwarded_for("203.0.113.7", PEER, 1) == "203.0.113.7" def test_a_forged_prefix_is_never_selected(): # THE test. A caller sends `X-Forwarded-For: 1.2.3.4`; our proxy appends the # address it actually saw. Reading from the left would hand the caller a fresh # rate-limit bucket for every value they invent. assert forwarded_for("1.2.3.4, 203.0.113.7", PEER, 1) == "203.0.113.7" # …and padding it doesn't help either. assert forwarded_for("a, b, c, d, 203.0.113.7", PEER, 1) == "203.0.113.7" def test_two_hops_sees_past_a_cdn(): # Cloudflare appended the real client; our proxy appended Cloudflare. assert forwarded_for("203.0.113.7, 172.16.0.5", PEER, 2) == "203.0.113.7" assert forwarded_for("1.2.3.4, 203.0.113.7, 172.16.0.5", PEER, 2) == "203.0.113.7" def test_a_short_header_falls_back_rather_than_reaching_left(): # Fewer proxies than configured. Reaching further left would start believing # entries no proxy of ours wrote, so the safe direction is the socket address — # at worst several callers share one bucket. assert forwarded_for("203.0.113.7", PEER, 2) == PEER assert forwarded_for("", PEER, 1) == PEER def test_malformed_headers_do_not_crash_or_leak_empties(): assert forwarded_for(",,,", PEER, 1) == PEER assert forwarded_for(" , 203.0.113.7 , ", PEER, 1) == "203.0.113.7" def test_the_key_is_length_bounded(): # It becomes a dict key in the limiter; an unbounded header must not become an # unbounded allocation. assert len(forwarded_for("x" * 5000, PEER, 1)) <= 64 def test_trusted_entry_reports_absence_rather_than_guessing(): # `is_https` needs to tell "no trusted entry" apart from "an entry saying http", # which is why this returns None rather than a default. assert trusted_entry("", 1) is None assert trusted_entry("https", 0) is None assert trusted_entry("http, https", 1) == "https"