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davide 702b37b319 Cap SSE subscribers per client IP instead of only globally (B-38)
GET /rounds/stream capped concurrent subscribers with one global
counter (MAX_SUBSCRIBERS=500): anyone opening 500 connections degraded
every other user to polling. The comment called it a defensive cap;
it was actually the vector, since nothing stopped a single source from
exhausting it alone.

RoundEventBroadcaster now also tracks subscribers per client IP,
capped much lower (MAX_SUBSCRIBERS_PER_IP=5). Past that cap, opening
one more stream evicts that same IP's own oldest connection (woken via
a new EVICTED sentinel so the SSE generator closes it promptly) rather
than refusing the new one or letting one abusive IP crowd out unrelated
clients under the old global-only cap. The global cap stays as a
backstop against overall resource exhaustion regardless of source.

Extracted client_ip() (X-Forwarded-For, since Caddy reverse-proxies
every request) out of auth/routes.py into app/api/client_ip.py so the
login/registration throttles (B-33) and this new per-IP cap share one
definition instead of two that could drift apart.

Not implemented: enforcing the connection cap at the Caddy layer
itself, which the proposed fix also suggested - the standard Caddy
image this project uses has no such directive without a third-party
module, and building a custom image felt like a bigger, separate change
than this fix warranted.

Suite grows from 201 to 211 tests. BUGS.md moves B-38 to Previously
fixed.
2026-07-27 14:44:15 +02:00

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import asyncio
from collections import defaultdict
# Defensive backstop on concurrent SSE subscribers overall, regardless of source
# — expected load is on the order of ~100 concurrent users, so this is set well
# above that. The real defense against a single abusive source is the per-IP cap
# below (B-38): a global-only cap was trivially exhausted by one client opening
# MAX_SUBSCRIBERS connections, degrading every other user to polling — the
# comment used to call it "defensive"; it was actually the vector.
MAX_SUBSCRIBERS = 500
# How many concurrent streams a single client IP may hold. Deliberately small —
# a real browser tab needs at most one, occasionally two briefly across a
# reload — since this bounds one source's share of the global capacity, not a
# legitimate per-user concurrency limit.
MAX_SUBSCRIBERS_PER_IP = 5
# Put on a to-be-evicted subscriber's queue (B-38) to wake its generator
# (app/api/routes/rounds.py:round_stream) promptly so it closes the connection
# instead of lingering, silently uncounted, until the client's own network
# timeout or the next keep-alive tick.
EVICTED = object()
class RoundEventCapacityError(Exception):
"""Raised by subscribe() when MAX_SUBSCRIBERS — the global backstop — is
already reached. The per-IP cap never raises this; it evicts instead (see
subscribe())."""
class RoundEventBroadcaster:
"""In-process pub/sub so SSE clients (GET /rounds/stream) get pushed a
notification the instant round/bet/balance state changes, instead of only
finding out on their next poll. The message carries no payload — it's just
a "something changed, go refetch" signal; the client re-hits the existing
per-user REST endpoints (/rounds/current, /users/me, ...) for the actual
data, so this never needs to know what changed or who's allowed to see it.
Single-process only (no cross-worker fan-out) — fine for this deployment
(one uvicorn process, see docker-compose.yml). A multi-worker deployment
would need a shared channel (e.g. Redis pub/sub) instead.
"""
def __init__(self, max_subscribers: int = MAX_SUBSCRIBERS, max_per_ip: int = MAX_SUBSCRIBERS_PER_IP):
self._ip_by_queue: dict[asyncio.Queue, str] = {}
self._queues_by_ip: dict[str, list[asyncio.Queue]] = defaultdict(list)
self.max_subscribers = max_subscribers
self.max_per_ip = max_per_ip
def subscribe(self, client_ip: str = "unknown") -> asyncio.Queue:
if len(self._ip_by_queue) >= self.max_subscribers:
raise RoundEventCapacityError(f"already at the {self.max_subscribers}-subscriber cap")
ip_queues = self._queues_by_ip[client_ip]
if len(ip_queues) >= self.max_per_ip:
# B-38: evict this IP's own oldest connection rather than refusing
# the new one — bounds one source's footprint without turning a
# legitimate reconnect storm (a flaky network retrying EventSource)
# into an outright block, and without letting one abusive IP crowd
# out unrelated clients the way the old global-only cap did.
oldest = ip_queues.pop(0)
self._ip_by_queue.pop(oldest, None)
if not oldest.full():
oldest.put_nowait(EVICTED)
queue: asyncio.Queue = asyncio.Queue(maxsize=1)
self._ip_by_queue[queue] = client_ip
ip_queues.append(queue)
return queue
def unsubscribe(self, queue: asyncio.Queue) -> None:
client_ip = self._ip_by_queue.pop(queue, None)
if client_ip is None:
return
ip_queues = self._queues_by_ip.get(client_ip)
if ip_queues is None:
return
if queue in ip_queues:
ip_queues.remove(queue)
if not ip_queues:
self._queues_by_ip.pop(client_ip, None)
def publish(self) -> None:
for queue in self._ip_by_queue:
if queue.full():
continue # a not-yet-delivered notification already covers this one
queue.put_nowait(None)
broadcaster = RoundEventBroadcaster()