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#280: remove PALETTE_TRUSTED_IP_HEADER, key rate limits on peer address only
Owner follow-up to the #280 fix (PR #284): the trusted-header env var is
gone. clientIP() now uses the peer address exclusively and ignores all
client-supplied IP headers; the env var row is removed from the README.
2026-09-17 20:48:52 -05:00

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// clientIP extracts the client IP for rate-limit keying.
//
// Trust boundary (issue #280): the bucket key MUST NOT come from any header a
// client can influence. The previous rightmost-X-Forwarded-For scheme (#85)
// assumed Traefik appends the real client IP, but the deployed ingress does
// not rewrite XFF, so a client rotating its own XFF value got a fresh bucket
// per request and the limit was unenforceable (pentest H1: 6x201 across 8
// rotating-XFF creates).
//
// The bucket key is the actual peer address (RemoteAddr) only. Behind any
// reverse proxy this is the proxy's address, so all clients share one bucket
// per endpoint — coarse, but safe. Client-supplied IP headers
// (X-Forwarded-For, X-Real-Ip) are never trusted.
package api
import (
"net"
"net/http"
)
func clientIP(r *http.Request) string {
host := r.RemoteAddr
if h, _, err := net.SplitHostPort(r.RemoteAddr); err == nil {
host = h
}
return host
}