searxng/searx/botdetection/http_connection.py
Ivan Gabaldon ce8929cabe
[mod] limiter: trusted proxies (#4911)
Replaces `x_for` functionality with `trusted_proxies`. This allows defining
which IP / ranges to trust extracting the client IP address from X-Forwarded-For
and X-Real-IP headers.

We don't know if the proxy chain will give us the proper client
address (REMOTE_ADDR in the WSGI environment), so we rely on reading the headers
of the proxy before SearXNG (if there is one, in that case it must be added to
trusted_proxies) hoping it has done the proper checks. In case a proxy in the
chain does not check the client address correctly, integrity is compromised and
this should be fixed by whoever manages the proxy, not us.

Closes:

- https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/4940
- https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/4939
- https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/4907
- https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/3632
- https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/3191
- https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/1237

Related:

- https://github.com/searxng/searxng-docker/issues/386
- https://github.com/inetol-infrastructure/searxng-container/issues/81
2025-08-09 23:03:30 +02:00

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# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
"""
Method ``http_connection``
--------------------------
The ``http_connection`` method evaluates a request as the request of a bot if
the Connection_ header is set to ``close``.
.. _Connection:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Connection
"""
from __future__ import annotations
from ipaddress import (
IPv4Network,
IPv6Network,
)
import werkzeug
import flask
from . import config
from ._helpers import too_many_requests
def filter_request(
network: IPv4Network | IPv6Network,
request: flask.Request,
cfg: config.Config, # pylint: disable=unused-argument
) -> werkzeug.Response | None:
if request.headers.get('Connection', '').strip() == 'close':
return too_many_requests(network, "HTTP header 'Connection=close")
return None