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peter 47d968eeea fix: review round 4 — an account switch unloads as the old account, a share link's lockout costs five networks
Deep-review round 4, targeted at round 3's changes (f569b19c..e7f38396).

Accounts
- Switching, adding or signing out an account moved the tab's pin before
  the page unloaded, so the players' resume beacons fired on the way out
  under the NEW account: one account's playback position saved into the
  other. The pin is now handed to the next page (pinOnNextPage) and taken
  over at import; clearActiveAccount is gone.
- Switching to a suspended account was refused but left it in the
  switcher, refused on every click; a deactivated one was not refused at
  all, and made the default it signed every account in the browser out on
  the next request. Every account _session_user would refuse — gone,
  deactivated, suspended, revoked — is refused and dropped from the list.

Share page (/watch)
- An IPv6 client is limited by its /64 (client_ip becomes client_key, for
  every limiter): keyed on the full address, one subscriber could rotate
  through endless identities. The comments now state what the per-link
  ceiling costs: guessing from five networks can keep a link shut for its
  window, and guesses already running when it fills are still checked.
- The link is looked up before the limiter records the attempt, so made-up
  tokens no longer grow it by an entry each.

Forms
- Failing the same way twice is announced again: the sign-in, passphrase
  and setup errors are keyed on the attempt (a clear and a set in one
  handler left the alert node untouched).
- The install wizard's own validation showed the generic error — it threw
  plain objects its catch did not read. It sets the step's message.

Tests: a re-pin leaving the previous account's notices behind; the pin
hand-over; switching to an ended account; the /64 viewer; made-up tokens;
the repeated alerts. Each mutation-checked RED for its own reason.
2026-09-15 02:53:22 +02:00

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"""A tiny in-process sliding-window rate limiter.
Generic groundwork: keyed by an arbitrary string (e.g. a client — `client_key`), so it can throttle any
endpoint. Single-worker uvicorn → in-memory state is sufficient; it resets on restart, which
is fine for abuse throttling (not for anything that must survive a deploy). Not shared across
processes — if we ever run multiple workers, swap the backing store for Redis behind the same
``allow()`` interface.
"""
import ipaddress
import threading
import time
from fastapi import Request
from app.config import settings
class RateLimiter:
def __init__(self, max_events: int, window_seconds: float):
self.max_events = max_events
self.window = window_seconds
self._hits: dict[str, list[float]] = {}
self._lock = threading.Lock()
def reset(self) -> None:
"""Forget every recorded attempt. Each limiter is a module-level singleton, so a test suite
sharing one process would otherwise pool all of its attempts into a single window and
eventually trip an unrelated test with a 429."""
with self._lock:
self._hits.clear()
def exhausted(self, key: str) -> bool:
"""Whether ``key``'s window is already full (``allow`` would refuse it), WITHOUT counting an
attempt — for a limit that counts only some outcomes: ask it first, ``allow`` the ones that
count."""
cutoff = time.monotonic() - self.window
with self._lock:
return sum(1 for t in self._hits.get(key, []) if t > cutoff) >= self.max_events
def allow(self, key: str) -> bool:
"""Record an attempt for ``key`` and return whether it is within the limit.
True -> under the cap (the attempt is counted).
False -> the cap for the current window is already reached (attempt NOT counted, so a
blocked caller can't keep pushing the window forward)."""
now = time.monotonic()
cutoff = now - self.window
with self._lock:
hits = [t for t in self._hits.get(key, []) if t > cutoff]
if len(hits) >= self.max_events:
self._hits[key] = hits
return False
hits.append(now)
self._hits[key] = hits
# Opportunistic cleanup so abandoned keys don't accumulate unboundedly.
if len(self._hits) > 4096:
for k in list(self._hits):
fresh = [t for t in self._hits[k] if t > cutoff]
if fresh:
self._hits[k] = fresh
else:
del self._hits[k]
return True
def _norm_ip(s: str) -> ipaddress.IPv4Address | ipaddress.IPv6Address | None:
"""Parse an IP for comparison, unwrapping IPv4-mapped IPv6 (`::ffff:10.0.0.1` → `10.0.0.1`) so a
plain-IPv4 allowlist still matches a peer that surfaces in mapped form. None for a non-IP string."""
try:
ip = ipaddress.ip_address(s.strip())
except ValueError:
return None
return ip.ipv4_mapped if getattr(ip, "ipv4_mapped", None) else ip
def client_key(request: Request) -> str:
"""Best-effort client identity for rate limiting: its IP, or for IPv6 the /64 the address sits in — a
subscriber is handed a whole /64, so keyed on the full address one client would have endless identities
to spread its attempts over. X-Forwarded-For is client-controlled, so we trust it
ONLY when the request actually arrived from a configured reverse proxy (settings.trusted_proxy_ips
— the address the proxy connects FROM, e.g. the VPS Caddy's WireGuard peer IP). Our proxy APPENDS
the client it saw to XFF, so the RIGHTMOST entry is the real client and can't be forged by a
client pre-seeding the header. Any other peer (someone hitting the app port directly, bypassing the
proxy) is untrusted — we use its real socket IP, so it can't spoof its rate-limit identity.
SAFETY: this relies on `request.client` being the TRUE socket peer. uvicorn is started WITHOUT
`--proxy-headers` (see entrypoint.sh) precisely so it never rewrites `request.client` from XFF —
do NOT add that flag, or the trust check below would compare against a forgeable value."""
peer = request.client.host if request.client else "unknown"
client = peer
trusted = {_norm_ip(p) for p in settings.trusted_proxy_ip_set} - {None}
if _norm_ip(peer) in trusted:
xff = request.headers.get("x-forwarded-for")
parts = [p.strip() for p in (xff or "").split(",") if p.strip()]
if parts:
client = parts[-1]
ip = _norm_ip(client)
if isinstance(ip, ipaddress.IPv6Address):
return str(ipaddress.IPv6Network((ip, 64), strict=False))
return client