Rate Limiting using HAProxy with Large Post Requests - haproxy

I am using HAProxy v2.0.13 in front of an API and have attempted to implement URL based rate limiting to try and limit connections to 5 within a 30 minute sliding window per source IP for the "/get_link" path:
frontend fe_dev
mode http
bind *:8081,[::]:8081
stick-table type ip size 100k expire 30m store http_req_rate(30m)
http-request track-sc0 src if METH_POST { path -i -m beg /get_link }
http-request deny deny_status 429 if { sc_http_req_rate(0) gt 5 }
default_backend be_dev
This API endpoint is called from a JavaScript function using an XMLHttpRequest() request and I am using Google Chrome v83.
var xHR = new XMLHttpRequest();
xHR.open("POST", "get_link", true);
xHR.onload = function() {
console.log('status code is ' + this.status);
};
xHR.onerror = function() {
console.log("onerror()");
};
var obj = {};
xHR.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");
xHR.send(JSON.stringify(obj));
When the size of my POST request is small (i.e. a few hundred bytes) then everything works fine - after 5 requests I start getting HTTP 429 returned. I then tried with a large POST request (the content length was around 35500 bytes) and this is when Chrome started to trigger the onerror function.
I have done a tcpdump and it looks like HAProxy doesn't wait for the whole request before sending back a 429 (output trimmed for brevity):
POST /get_link HTTP/1.1
Host: server:8081
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 35687
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.116 Safari/537.36
Content-Type: application/json
Accept: */*
Origin: http://server:8081
Referer: http://server:8081/index.html
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9
{"req1":"XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXHTTP/1.1 429 Too Many Requests
content-length: 117
cache-control: no-cache
content-type: text/html
connection: close
<html><body><h1>429 Too Many Requests</h1>
You have sent too many requests in a given amount of time.
</body></html>
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
From looking at tcpdump I can also see that HAProxy sends a TCP RST as soon as it has sent back the 429 even though Chrome is still sending POST data. How do I get HAProxy to play nicely and wait until it has received the whole request before rejecting it?

The answer that no one came up with is enabling “option http-buffer-request”.

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Access-Control-Allow-Origin equals origin but the browser still denies access... why?

I have an application (React SPA) that calls a bunch of servers on different subdomains of the application domain, i.e.:
the web app sits at foo.bar.com,
and talks to api.foo.bar.com and media.foo.bar.com.
When accessing api.foo.bar.com, I get an error from the browser (be it Edge, Chrome, or Firefox) telling me that the origin (foo.bar.com) is different from the value of the Access-Control-Allow-Origin response header. However, by inspection of the response, they are the same:
(I unfortunately have to obfuscate the address.)
Those apps are hosted on Kubernetes; the ingress is NGINX, and it's is not providing CORS (cors-enabled annotation is false). Both applications (api and media) are Express apps, and both have the same CORS configuration allowing the specific origin.
I'm wondering if this has something to do with the redirect - the call to the media... endpoint returns a redirect (302) whose Location is a api... address.
Other than that, I have no clue what could be wrong. Something is, for sure, because all browsers agree that my request should be blocked (on account of the origin).
In all cases, I've checked the address multiple times for typos, ending forward-slashes, etc. I've called OPTIONS on those endpoints with cURL and Postman, using all headers or just a few. They always answer the correct address.
Additional information, as requested:
Preflight request:
OPTIONS /media/1.0.0/rtsp/hls?feedUrl=https%3A%2F%2Flive.monuv.com.br%2Fa1%2F14298.stream%2Fstr27%2Fchunklist.m3u8%3Fm_hash%3DkhV_hCnKG3nhaNCFaYZxBnoMz-99idQVHiQh80ADW78%253D HTTP/2
Host: media.aiXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:93.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/93.0
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Access-Control-Request-Method: GET
Access-Control-Request-Headers: feedurl
Referer: https://aiXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.com/
Origin: https://aiXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.com
DNT: 1
Connection: keep-alive
Sec-Fetch-Dest: empty
Sec-Fetch-Mode: cors
Sec-Fetch-Site: same-site
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache
TE: trailers
Preflight response:
HTTP/2 204 No Content
date: Fri, 08 Oct 2021 13:33:10 GMT
x-powered-by: Express
access-control-allow-origin: https://aiXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.com
vary: Origin
access-control-allow-credentials: true
access-control-allow-methods: GET,HEAD,PUT,PATCH,POST,DELETE
access-control-allow-headers: Content-Type, feedUrl
strict-transport-security: max-age=15724800; includeSubDomains
X-Firefox-Spdy: h2
Request
The preflight passes, and the browsers starts a "flight" request:
GET /media/1.0.0/rtsp/hls?feedUrl=https%3A%2F%2Flive.monuv.com.br%2Fa1%2F14298.stream%2Fstr27%2Fchunklist.m3u8%3Fm_hash%3DkhV_hCnKG3nhaNCFaYZxBnoMz-99idQVHiQh80ADW78%253D HTTP/2
Host: media.aiXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:93.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/93.0
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
feedUrl: https://live.monuv.com.br/a1/14298.stream/str27/chunklist.m3u8?m_hash=khV_hCnKG3nhaNCFaYZxBnoMz-99idQVHiQh80ADW78%3D
Origin: https://aiXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.com
DNT: 1
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: https://aiXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.com/
Cookie: ory_kratos_session=MTYzMzYzODY1OHxEdi1CQkFFQ180SUFBUkFCRUFBQVJfLUNBQUVHYzNSeWFXNW5EQThBRFhObGMzTnBiXXXXXXXXXXXXYVc1bkRDSUFJSHBtUWxsaWFsVlJhWGRTVGxSMmIzZHRkbTFqYm5CUlRWVkdkelpPWkRoWnXXXTyqwgK-0Pe0qtZHjNhfU-YoASjg3istMZi672swQ==
Sec-Fetch-Dest: empty
Sec-Fetch-Mode: cors
Sec-Fetch-Site: same-site
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache
TE: trailers
Response
HTTP/2 302 Found
date: Fri, 08 Oct 2021 13:33:10 GMT
content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
content-length: 129
location: https://api.aiXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.com/media/1.0.0/hls/streams/19dd149d-f551-4093-b2aa-e5558388d545/hls.m3u8
x-powered-by: Express
access-control-allow-origin: https://aiXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.com
vary: Origin, Accept
access-control-allow-credentials: true
strict-transport-security: max-age=15724800; includeSubDomains
X-Firefox-Spdy: h2
At this response, the browser fails saying that the origin don't match the access-control-allow-origin.
(the first image was from Edge, since the log was more clear; this log is from Firefox)
Problem
The error message—I'm using dummy URLs and origins below—from the browser can be a bit confusing:
Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://api.example.com/' (redirected from 'https://media.example.com/') from origin 'https://example.com' has been blocked by CORS policy: Response to preflight request doesn't pass access control check: The 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header has a value 'https://example.com' that is not equal to the supplied origin.
The key here is that, as sideshowbarker hinted at in his comment, because your first preflighted request to https://media.example.com/ responds with a cross-origin redirect to https://api.example.com/, the browser performs another whole CORS access-control check for that resource. However, because the redirect resulting from the first preflighted request happens to be cross-origin, the browser sets the origin of the second preflight request (which the error message refers to as the "supplied origin"), not as https://example.com, but as the null origin!
Here's a rundown of what is likely happening:
Because https://api.example.com likely doesn't (and shouldn't!) allow the null, the second access-control check fails and you get that annoying CORS error.
Solution
Resist the temptation to allow the null origin on https://api.example.com/, as doing so has serious security ramifications: it amount to voiding the protection that the Same-Origin Policy provides.
Instead, you should get rid of that redirect from https://media.example.com/ to https://api.example.com/ and make your frontend request the https://api.example.com/ resource directly.
Alternatively, if you cannot completely get rid of the redirect but you can change its destination, make it a same-origin redirect (from somewhere https://media.example.org to elsewhere on https://media.example.org).

CORS restrictions even when headers are applied in java server backend

So I have a REST Service based on Java EE which returns every request with this function in addition to set the CORS Headers:
protected Response.ResponseBuilder addRequiredHeaders(Response.ResponseBuilder rb) {
return rb
.header("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "http://localhost:8080")
.header("Access-Control-Allow-Credentials", "true")
.header("Access-Control-Allow-Methods", "POST, GET, PUT, DELETE")
.header("Access-Control-Allow-Headers", "Content-Type, *");
}
Now when I'm making a request from the frontend I'm still getting some CORS related issues. Here's the code for the request from the frontend
fetch (apiURL + "/api/rest/users/create", {
body: JSON.stringify(payload),
headers: {
"content-type": "application/json"
},
method: "POST",
mode: "cors",
})
.then((response) => {
...
}.catch((err) => {
...
}
Here is the exact error message:
Failed to load http://localhost:8888/java_ee_project/api/rest/users/create:
Response to preflight request doesn't pass access control check:
No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource.
Origin 'http://localhost:8080' is therefore not allowed access. If an opaque response serves your needs, set the request's mode to 'no-cors' to fetch the resource with CORS disabled.
Here is some additional information from the network tab in the devtools from the browser
General
Request URL: http://localhost:8888/java_ee_project/api/rest/users/create
Request Method: OPTIONS
Status Code: 200 OK
Remote Address: 127.0.0.1:8888
Referrer Policy: no-referrer-when-downgrade
Response Headers
Allow: POST, OPTIONS
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 13
Content-Type: text/plain;charset=UTF-8
Date: Fri, 04 May 2018 23:10:04 GMT
Server: WildFly/11
X-Powered-By: Undertow/1
Request Headers
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9
Access-Control-Request-Headers: content-type
Access-Control-Request-Method: POST
Connection: keep-alive
DNT: 1
Host: localhost:8888
Origin: http://localhost:8080
Referer: http://localhost:8080/
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 10_3_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/603.1.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.0 Mobile/14E304 Safari/602.1
When I'm executing the same request with Postman everything works fine so I would be very gladful for any help or information about this problem.
Somehow the solution via the added responsebuilder function is not working properly.
Using the second option from http://www.codingpedia.org/ama/how-to-add-cors-support-on-the-server-side-in-java-with-jersey/ with the cors response filter it's working now.

URLSession on Linux giving different result than on iOS

I've got a simple class making a HTTP POST request (to a Neo4j server, but that shouldn't matter) using URLSession, and an integration test that tests that it succeeds.
Through Xcode, via the iOS simulator, I can run this test a million times - it succeeds every time.
However, when I run swift test on Ubuntu Linux (I use the docker image provided by IBM) then I very often will get a test failure saying I got a 401 response.
Replicating that via cURL in the container does not fail at all, so I do not believe this to be a problem with my container.
I have added a packet dump (that I inspect via Charles Proxy) where our of 15 test runs, 7 test runs (and thus 7 requests) fail. All of the failed requests complain that no authentication header was supplied. And from the dump, that is correct, the dump does not contain the authentication header for those requests that fail. But why not? In fact, all of the header flags are different: a successful run has these headers:
POST /db/data/cypher HTTP/1.1
Host: 192.168.0.18:7474
Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip
Authorization: Basic bmVvNGo6c3RhY2swdmVyRmxvdw==
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Accept: application/json; charset=utf-8
Connection: keep-alive
User-Agent: urlsessionTestPackageTests.xctest (unknown version) curl/7.35.0
Content-Length: 135
while an unsuccessful one has these:
POST /db/data/cypher HTTP/1.1
Host: 192.168.0.18:7474
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip
Connection: keep-alive
User-Agent: urlsessionTestPackageTests.xctest (unknown version) curl/7.35.0
Content-Length: 135
All the 200 results have the same headers, and all the 401 results have the same headers. Can you see anything in my code that should warrant such a random request?

How to post data with REST service from remote server

I am new to REST so bear with me if I'm missing something obvious.
Any pointer would be much appreciated as I am a bit lost.
Scenario
I needed to post some data to the following REST service: https://api.dotmailer.com/ from my web application https://myapp.com/.
During testing, I was able to post the data from my local pc.
However, as soon as I published the updated application to https://myapp.com/ on a remote server, I was no longer able to post any data.
What I've tried so far
Added rule to the remote server firewall to allow outgoing traffic to use https. Didn't solve the problem.
Disabled the url rewriting rule that change http to https for myapp.com. Didn't solve the problem.
Pasted the URL I use to post my data (https://api.dotmailer.com/v2/address-books/12345/contacts) in a browser on the remote server, entered the correct credentials, but couldn't access it.
the error message said "Unable to open this internet site. The requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found." If I do the same on my local PC I can access the URL.
Monitored the two calls with Fiddler2.
I include the results of the monitoring process below:
CALLS MADE FROM REMOTE SERVER
----------
POST /bla.aspx HTTP/1.1
Host: myapp.com
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 10660
Cache-Control: max-age=0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Origin: https://myapp.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/35.0.1916.153 Safari/537.36
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
DNT: 1
Referer: https://myapp.com/bla.aspx
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8,it;q=0.6
Cookie: ASP.NET_SessionId=xxx; Myapp=xxx; GUID=xxx
CALLS MADE FROM LOCAL PC
----------
POST /bla.aspx HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:xxx
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 10656
Cache-Control: max-age=0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Origin: http://localhost:60675
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/35.0.1916.153 Safari/537.36
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
DNT: 1
Referer: http://localhost:xxx/bla.aspx
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8,it;q=0.6
Cookie: __eqtUser=xxx; ASP.NET_SessionId=xxx; Myapp=xxx; GUID=xxx
Question
I believe point 3 shows that the cause is some setting on the remote server.
Does anyone know what it could be? Or am I completely off-track?
Update
I spoke with the developer on the receiving end of my calls who can monitor incoming traffic.
He could see my local calls but not the ones submitted from https://myapp.com.
In response to gmlime reply, I've added the following to myapp.com web.config file but didn't help.
<system.webServer>
<httpProtocol>
<customHeaders>
<add name="Access-Control-Allow-Origin" value="*" />
</customHeaders>
</httpProtocol>
</system.webServer>
Should I put it at a higher level in the hierarchy?
Make sure that this gets added to the response:
YourAddHeaderMethod("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*");
Many servers deny posting from other domains and can terminate the connection. You can learn more about it from the w3 docs for Access-Conrol-Allow-Origin and Mozzilla covers some scenarios. You may have to check with the server administrator to rule out cross domain problems also.

syntax difference between PUT and POST method

I am writing a restful API and try to use all available http method but have a problem with PUT method.
When I send http request whith put method, I have "400 Bad request" error.
If I use POST method, I have no problem.
Here is my http PUT request :
Remote Address:::1:8080
Request URL:http://localhost:8080/adminRight
Request Method:PUT
Status Code:400 Mauvaise Requête
Request Headersview parsed
PUT /adminRight HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:8080
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 37
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/35.0.1916.114 Safari/537.36
Origin: chrome-extension://hgmloofddffdnphfgcellkdfbfbjeloo
Content-Type: application/json
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language: fr-FR,fr;q=0.8,en-US;q=0.6,en;q=0.4
Cookie: JSESSIONID=41D1CCDF94D3150F0FCA3754E347A4AD
Request Payload
typeList=1&id=2&nom=labelViewerAvance
Response Headersview parsed
HTTP/1.1 400 Mauvaise Requête
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 984
Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 12:55:32 GMT
Connection: close
And here my http POST request :
Remote Address:::1:8080
Request URL:http://localhost:8080/adminRight
Request Method:POST
Status Code:200 OK
Request Headersview parsed
POST /adminRight HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:8080
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 37
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/35.0.1916.114 Safari/537.36
Origin: chrome-extension://hgmloofddffdnphfgcellkdfbfbjeloo
Content-Type: application/json
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language: fr-FR,fr;q=0.8,en-US;q=0.6,en;q=0.4
Cookie: JSESSIONID=41D1CCDF94D3150F0FCA3754E347A4AD
Request Payload
typeList=1&id=2&nom=labelViewerAvance
Response Headersview parsed
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Content-Type: application/json;charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 2
Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 13:09:03 GMT
What is the difference between PUT and POST syntax? Or maybe, is it one special configuration in my web.xml?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Edit with new information :
My requests are mapped in java with these two methods :
#RequestMapping(value = "/adminRight",
method = RequestMethod.PUT
)
#ResponseBody
public ResponseEntity<String> updateListRights(#RequestParam(value = "typeList") String typeList,
#RequestParam(value = "id") String idList,
#RequestParam(value = "nom") String nomList)
{
and
#RequestMapping(value = "/adminRight",
method = RequestMethod.POST
)
#ResponseBody
public ResponseEntity<String> addNewListRights(#RequestParam(value = "typeList") String typeList,
#RequestParam(value = "id") String idList,
#RequestParam(value = "nom") String nomList)
{
Your Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1 is just a HTTP connector. Behind that connector there is a web server, for example Apache Tomcat. You have to look up the manual of that server and check how you can allow a HTTP method. By Tomcat there is a server.xml file, in that there is something like this:
// Sample Security Constraint
<security-constraint>
<web-resource-collection>
<web-resource-name><strong>restricted methods</strong></web-resource-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
<http-method>PUT</http-method>
<http-method>POST</http-method>
<http-method>DELETE</http-method>
<http-method>OPTIONS</http-method>
<http-method>TRACE</http-method>
</web-resource-collection>
<auth-constraint />
</security-constraint>
You should add PUT and DELETE to that list. If your REST clients are running in browsers and they are served under a different domain, then you have to enable the OPTIONS method either (for CORS preflight requests), and add CORS allow headers as well. By serving browsers you have to add some HTTP response headers as well and set them properly to prevent XSS attacks.
Another security concern that you should hide the version number of the coyote connector.
Btw. using session cookies like Cookie: JSESSIONID=41D1CCDF94D3150F0FCA3754E347A4AD is not RESTful.
I know very little about java request mapping, but by REST you use POST usually to add a new item resource to a collection resource, for example POST /rights in your case, and PUT usually to edit an entire item resource, for example PUT /rights/{id} where {id} should be a unique resource id (probably the same as one of your aggregate ids). In your code I can't see anything related to this URL structure by the PUT request. You may be interested in PATCH as well.