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rust_web_server/proxy_config/
validate.rs

1//! Static checks for the proxy sections of `rws.config.toml`, used by
2//! `rws --check` and printed at startup. The parser itself is lenient — a
3//! typo'd key just leaves a default in place — so this is where a route that
4//! points at a missing upstream, an auth secret that isn't set, or a key the
5//! parser never reads gets reported.
6
7use std::collections::HashSet;
8
9use crate::config_check::ConfigReport;
10use crate::proxy_config::{parser, ActionConfig, AuthConfig, MiddlewareConfig, ProxyConfig};
11
12const STRATEGIES: &[&str] = &["round_robin", "random", "ip_hash", "least_connections"];
13
14const HEALTH_CHECK_KEYS: &[&str] = &["path", "interval_secs", "timeout_ms", "healthy_threshold", "unhealthy_threshold"];
15const PROXY_ACTION_KEYS: &[&str] = &["upstream", "connect_timeout_ms", "read_timeout_ms", "strip_path_prefix", "add_path_prefix"];
16const GRPC_ACTION_KEYS: &[&str] = &["upstream", "connect_timeout_ms", "read_timeout_ms"];
17const STATIC_ACTION_KEYS: &[&str] = &["root", "index"];
18const REDIRECT_ACTION_KEYS: &[&str] = &["location", "status"];
19const RESPOND_ACTION_KEYS: &[&str] = &["status", "body", "content_type"];
20const REWRITE_RULE_KEYS: &[&str] = &["type", "name", "value", "prefix", "from", "to", "code", "reason"];
21
22/// The keys the parser reads in a section, by the section's path with array
23/// indices removed (`route[2].middleware.auth` → `route.middleware.auth`).
24/// `None` for a section the parser never reads at all.
25fn known_keys(section: &str) -> Option<Vec<&'static str>> {
26    // The global `[middleware]` table has the same shape as `[route.middleware]`.
27    let route_form;
28    let section = if section == "middleware" || section.starts_with("middleware.") {
29        route_form = format!("route.{section}");
30        route_form.as_str()
31    } else {
32        section
33    };
34    let keys: Vec<&'static str> = match section {
35        "upstream" => vec!["name", "backends", "strategy", "weights", "tls_ca_file", "tls_client_cert_file", "tls_client_key_file"],
36        "upstream.sticky" => vec!["cookie", "max_age_secs"],
37        "upstream.circuit_breaker" => vec!["failure_threshold", "recovery_secs", "half_open_probes"],
38        "upstream.retry" => vec!["attempts", "status"],
39        "upstream.health_check" | "ws_proxy.health_check" => HEALTH_CHECK_KEYS.to_vec(),
40        "route" => vec!["name"],
41        "route.match" => vec!["host", "path", "method", "content_type"],
42        // `[route.action]` takes `type` plus the short form of every action's keys.
43        "route.action" => {
44            let mut keys = vec!["type"];
45            for group in [PROXY_ACTION_KEYS, GRPC_ACTION_KEYS, STATIC_ACTION_KEYS, REDIRECT_ACTION_KEYS, RESPOND_ACTION_KEYS] {
46                for key in group {
47                    if !keys.contains(key) {
48                        keys.push(key);
49                    }
50                }
51            }
52            keys
53        }
54        "route.action.proxy" => PROXY_ACTION_KEYS.to_vec(),
55        "route.action.grpc" => GRPC_ACTION_KEYS.to_vec(),
56        "route.action.static" => STATIC_ACTION_KEYS.to_vec(),
57        "route.action.redirect" => REDIRECT_ACTION_KEYS.to_vec(),
58        "route.action.respond" => RESPOND_ACTION_KEYS.to_vec(),
59        "route.action.mcp" => super::mcp_gateway::GATEWAY_KEYS.to_vec(),
60        "route.action.mcp.upstream" => super::mcp_gateway::UPSTREAM_KEYS.to_vec(),
61        "route.action.mcp.caller" => super::mcp_gateway::CALLER_KEYS.to_vec(),
62        "route.action.mcp.allow" => super::mcp_gateway::ALLOW_KEYS.to_vec(),
63        "route.action.mcp.limit" => super::mcp_gateway::LIMIT_KEYS.to_vec(),
64        "route.action.llm" => super::llm::LLM_KEYS.to_vec(),
65        "route.action.llm.provider" => super::llm::PROVIDER_KEYS.to_vec(),
66        "route.action.llm.key" => super::llm::KEY_KEYS.to_vec(),
67        "route.middleware" => vec!["timeout_ms", "max_body_size"],
68        "route.middleware.rate_limit" => vec!["max_requests", "window_secs"],
69        "route.middleware.cache" => vec!["ttl_secs", "vary_by"],
70        "route.middleware.auth" => vec!["type", "token_env", "secret_env", "htpasswd_file"],
71        "route.middleware.ip_filter" => vec!["allow", "deny"],
72        "route.middleware.wasm" => vec!["module", "fuel", "memory_mb", "config"],
73        "route.middleware.rewrite.request" | "route.middleware.rewrite.response" => REWRITE_RULE_KEYS.to_vec(),
74        "tcp_proxy" => vec!["name", "listen", "backends", "connect_timeout_ms"],
75        "udp_proxy" => vec!["name", "listen", "backends", "reply_timeout_ms", "buffer_size"],
76        "ws_proxy" => vec!["name", "listen", "backends", "connect_timeout_ms", "read_timeout_ms"],
77        _ => return None,
78    };
79    Some(keys)
80}
81
82/// `route[2].middleware.rewrite.request[0]` → `route.middleware.rewrite.request`.
83fn strip_indices(section: &str) -> String {
84    let mut out = String::with_capacity(section.len());
85    let mut in_index = false;
86    for c in section.chars() {
87        match c {
88            '[' => in_index = true,
89            ']' => in_index = false,
90            _ if !in_index => out.push(c),
91            _ => {}
92        }
93    }
94    out
95}
96
97/// Report keys and tables in the proxy sections that the parser ignores.
98pub fn check_unknown_keys(toml: &str, report: &mut ConfigReport) {
99    let map = parser::parse(toml);
100    let mut sections: Vec<&String> = map.keys().collect();
101    sections.sort();
102    for section in sections {
103        let root = section.split(['.', '[']).next().unwrap_or("");
104        if !["route", "upstream", "tcp_proxy", "udp_proxy", "ws_proxy", "middleware"].contains(&root) {
105            continue;
106        }
107        let shape = strip_indices(section);
108        // Header names: any key.
109        if shape == "route.action.mcp.upstream.headers_env" {
110            continue;
111        }
112        match known_keys(&shape) {
113            None => report.error(format!("[{}]: unknown table — ignored", shape)),
114            Some(keys) => {
115                for (key, _) in &map[section] {
116                    if !keys.contains(&key.as_str()) {
117                        report.error(format!("[{}] {}: unknown key — ignored", shape, key));
118                    }
119                }
120            }
121        }
122    }
123}
124
125/// `host:port`, or a URL with an `http://`, `https://`, `h2://`, `ws://` or
126/// `wss://` scheme, whose port may be left to the scheme's default.
127fn is_host_port(backend: &str) -> bool {
128    let (rest, has_scheme) = match ["http://", "https://", "h2://", "h2s://", "grpc://", "grpcs://", "ws://", "wss://"]
129        .iter()
130        .find_map(|scheme| backend.strip_prefix(scheme))
131    {
132        Some(rest) => (rest, true),
133        None => (backend, false),
134    };
135    let rest = rest.trim_end_matches('/');
136    if rest.is_empty() || rest.contains('/') || rest.contains(char::is_whitespace) {
137        return false;
138    }
139    match rest.rsplit_once(':') {
140        Some((host, port)) => !host.is_empty() && port.parse::<u16>().is_ok_and(|p| p > 0),
141        None => has_scheme,
142    }
143}
144
145impl ProxyConfig {
146    /// Check the configuration for mistakes the parser lets through. Reads
147    /// the auth secrets' environment variables and htpasswd files, so run it
148    /// in the environment the server will run in.
149    pub fn validate(&self, report: &mut ConfigReport) {
150        let mut names = HashSet::new();
151        for (i, upstream) in self.upstreams.iter().enumerate() {
152            let label = if upstream.name.is_empty() { format!("[[upstream]] #{}", i + 1) } else { format!("upstream '{}'", upstream.name) };
153            if upstream.name.is_empty() {
154                report.error(format!("{label}: missing `name` — no route can refer to it"));
155            } else if !names.insert(upstream.name.as_str()) {
156                report.error(format!("{label}: declared more than once"));
157            }
158            if upstream.backends.is_empty() {
159                report.error(format!("{label}: `backends` is empty"));
160            }
161            for backend in &upstream.backends {
162                if !is_host_port(backend) {
163                    report.error(format!("{label}: backend '{backend}' is not host:port"));
164                }
165            }
166            let client = match (&upstream.tls_client_cert_file, &upstream.tls_client_key_file) {
167                (Some(cert), Some(key)) => Some((cert.as_str(), key.as_str())),
168                (None, None) => None,
169                _ => {
170                    report.error(format!("{label}: tls_client_cert_file and tls_client_key_file go together"));
171                    None
172                }
173            };
174            if upstream.tls_ca_file.is_some() || client.is_some() {
175                if !crate::config_check::offline() {
176                    if let Err(e) = crate::proxy::UpstreamTls::new(upstream.tls_ca_file.as_deref(), client) {
177                        report.error(format!("{label}: {e}; its TLS backends would answer 502"));
178                    }
179                }
180                if !upstream.tls {
181                    report.warn(format!("{label}: TLS settings are set but no backend is https://, h2s:// or grpcs://, so they aren't used"));
182                }
183            }
184            if !STRATEGIES.contains(&upstream.strategy.as_str()) {
185                report.error(format!(
186                    "{label}: unknown strategy '{}' (expected one of {})",
187                    upstream.strategy,
188                    STRATEGIES.join(", ")
189                ));
190            }
191            if !upstream.weights.is_empty() {
192                if upstream.weights.len() != upstream.backends.len() {
193                    report.error(format!("{label}: `weights` has {} entries for {} backends (one each, in order)", upstream.weights.len(), upstream.backends.len()));
194                }
195                if upstream.weights.contains(&0) {
196                    report.error(format!("{label}: `weights` must be whole numbers of 1 or more"));
197                }
198                if upstream.strategy == "ip_hash" {
199                    report.warn(format!("{label}: `weights` don't apply to strategy ip_hash"));
200                }
201            }
202            if let Some(sticky) = &upstream.sticky {
203                let token = |c: char| c.is_ascii_alphanumeric() || "!#$%&'*+-.^_`|~".contains(c);
204                if sticky.cookie.is_empty() || !sticky.cookie.chars().all(token) {
205                    report.error(format!("{label}: sticky cookie name '{}' isn't a valid cookie name", sticky.cookie));
206                }
207            }
208            if let Some(breaker) = &upstream.circuit_breaker {
209                if breaker.failure_threshold == 0 {
210                    report.error(format!("{label}: circuit_breaker.failure_threshold must be 1 or more"));
211                }
212                if breaker.recovery_secs == 0 {
213                    report.warn(format!("{label}: circuit_breaker.recovery_secs = 0 probes an open backend on the next request"));
214                }
215            }
216            if let Some(retry) = &upstream.retry {
217                if retry.attempts == 0 {
218                    report.warn(format!("{label}: retry.attempts = 0 never retries"));
219                } else if retry.attempts as usize >= upstream.backends.len() {
220                    report.warn(format!(
221                        "{label}: retry.attempts = {} but there are {} backends — a request goes to each at most once",
222                        retry.attempts,
223                        upstream.backends.len()
224                    ));
225                }
226                if let Some(status) = retry.status.iter().find(|s| !(400..=599).contains(*s)) {
227                    report.error(format!("{label}: retry.status {status} isn't an error status (400–599)"));
228                }
229            }
230            #[cfg(not(any(feature = "http-client", feature = "http2")))]
231            if upstream.tls {
232                report.error(format!("{label}: https:// backends need the `http2` or `http-client` feature, which this build doesn't include"));
233            }
234        }
235
236        for (i, route) in self.routes.iter().enumerate() {
237            let label = if route.name.is_empty() { format!("route #{}", i + 1) } else { format!("route '{}'", route.name) };
238            match &route.action {
239                ActionConfig::Proxy { upstream, .. } | ActionConfig::Grpc { upstream, .. } => {
240                    if upstream.is_empty() {
241                        report.error(format!("{label}: proxy action has no `upstream`"));
242                    } else if !names.contains(upstream.as_str()) {
243                        if is_host_port(upstream) {
244                            report.warn(format!("{label}: upstream '{upstream}' is not a declared [[upstream]]; using it as a backend address (no health checks)"));
245                        } else {
246                            report.error(format!("{label}: upstream '{upstream}' is not a declared [[upstream]]"));
247                        }
248                    }
249                }
250                ActionConfig::Static { root, .. } => {
251                    if root.is_empty() {
252                        report.error(format!("{label}: static action has no `root`"));
253                    } else if !crate::config_check::offline() && !std::path::Path::new(root).is_dir() {
254                        report.warn(format!("{label}: static root '{root}' is not a directory (yet)"));
255                    }
256                }
257                ActionConfig::Redirect { location, status } => {
258                    if location.is_empty() {
259                        report.error(format!("{label}: redirect action has no `location`"));
260                    }
261                    if !(300..=399).contains(status) {
262                        report.error(format!("{label}: redirect status {status} is not a 3xx code"));
263                    }
264                }
265                ActionConfig::Respond { status, .. } => {
266                    if !(100..=599).contains(status) {
267                        report.error(format!("{label}: respond status {status} is not an HTTP status code"));
268                    }
269                }
270                ActionConfig::Mcp(gateway) => {
271                    super::mcp_gateway::validate(gateway, route.match_.path.as_deref(), &label, report);
272                }
273                ActionConfig::Llm(llm) => {
274                    super::llm::validate(llm, &label, report);
275                }
276                ActionConfig::Unknown(kind) if kind.is_empty() => {
277                    report.error(format!("{label}: [route.action] has no `type`"));
278                }
279                ActionConfig::Unknown(kind) => {
280                    report.error(format!("{label}: unknown action type '{kind}' (expected proxy, grpc, static, redirect, respond, mcp or llm)"));
281                }
282            }
283            validate_middleware(&label, &route.middleware, report);
284
285            let m = &route.match_;
286            if m.host.is_none() && m.path.is_none() && m.method.is_none() && m.content_type.is_none() && i + 1 < self.routes.len() {
287                report.warn(format!("{label}: matches every request, so the routes after it are never reached"));
288            }
289        }
290
291        validate_middleware("[middleware]", &self.global_middleware, report);
292
293        let listeners = self.tcp_proxies.iter().map(|p| ("tcp_proxy", &p.name, &p.listen, &p.backends))
294            .chain(self.udp_proxies.iter().map(|p| ("udp_proxy", &p.name, &p.listen, &p.backends)))
295            .chain(self.ws_proxies.iter().map(|p| ("ws_proxy", &p.name, &p.listen, &p.backends)));
296        for (kind, name, listen, backends) in listeners {
297            let label = format!("[[{kind}]] '{name}'");
298            if listen.parse::<std::net::SocketAddr>().is_err() {
299                report.error(format!("{label}: listen '{listen}' is not an address like 0.0.0.0:5432"));
300            }
301            if backends.is_empty() {
302                report.error(format!("{label}: `backends` is empty"));
303            }
304            for backend in backends {
305                if !is_host_port(backend) {
306                    report.error(format!("{label}: backend '{backend}' is not host:port"));
307                }
308            }
309        }
310    }
311}
312
313fn validate_middleware(label: &str, mw: &MiddlewareConfig, report: &mut ConfigReport) {
314    if let Some(wasm) = &mw.wasm {
315        if wasm.module.is_empty() {
316            report.error(format!("{label}: [middleware.wasm] has no `module`; the route answers 503"));
317        } else if cfg!(not(feature = "wasm-plugins")) {
318            report.error(format!("{label}: [middleware.wasm] needs the wasm-plugins feature, which this build doesn't include; the route answers 503"));
319        } else if !crate::config_check::offline() {
320            #[cfg(feature = "wasm-plugins")]
321            if let Err(e) = crate::wasm_plugin::WasmLayer::from_file(&wasm.module) {
322                report.error(format!("{label}: {e}; the route answers 503"));
323            }
324        }
325        if wasm.fuel == 0 || wasm.memory_mb == 0 {
326            report.error(format!("{label}: [middleware.wasm] fuel and memory_mb must be above 0"));
327        }
328    }
329    match &mw.auth {
330        Some(AuthConfig::Bearer { token_env }) | Some(AuthConfig::Jwt { secret_env: token_env }) => {
331            if token_env.is_empty() {
332                report.error(format!("{label}: auth has no `token_env` / `secret_env`; the route answers 503"));
333            } else if !crate::config_check::offline() && std::env::var(token_env).unwrap_or_default().is_empty() {
334                report.error(format!("{label}: auth secret env var '{token_env}' is unset or empty; the route answers 503 until it is set"));
335            }
336        }
337        Some(AuthConfig::Basic { htpasswd_file }) => {
338            #[cfg(feature = "auth")]
339            if !crate::config_check::offline() {
340                if let Err(e) = crate::auth::BasicAuthLayer::from_htpasswd_file(htpasswd_file) {
341                    report.error(format!("{label}: basic auth: {e}; the route answers 503"));
342                }
343            }
344            #[cfg(not(feature = "auth"))]
345            let _ = htpasswd_file;
346        }
347        None => {}
348    }
349    #[cfg(not(feature = "auth"))]
350    if matches!(mw.auth, Some(AuthConfig::Jwt { .. }) | Some(AuthConfig::Basic { .. })) {
351        report.error(format!("{label}: jwt and basic auth need the `auth` feature, which this build doesn't include; the route answers 503"));
352    }
353
354    for entry in mw.ip_allow.iter().chain(&mw.ip_deny) {
355        if !crate::ip_filter::is_valid_entry(entry) {
356            report.error(format!("{label}: ip_filter entry '{entry}' is not an IP address or CIDR range — ignored"));
357        }
358    }
359    if !mw.ip_allow.is_empty() && !mw.ip_deny.is_empty() {
360        report.warn(format!("{label}: ip_filter has both `allow` and `deny`; only `allow` is used"));
361    }
362    if let Some(rl) = &mw.rate_limit {
363        if rl.max_requests == 0 || rl.window_secs == 0 {
364            report.error(format!("{label}: rate_limit needs max_requests and window_secs above 0"));
365        }
366    }
367    for rule in mw.rewrite_request.iter().chain(&mw.rewrite_response) {
368        let known = ["header_set", "header_remove", "uri_set", "uri_strip_prefix", "strip_prefix",
369                     "uri_add_prefix", "add_prefix", "status", "body_replace"];
370        if !known.contains(&rule.type_.as_str()) {
371            report.error(format!("{label}: unknown rewrite rule type '{}' — ignored", rule.type_));
372        }
373    }
374}