yahoo / yahoo/proxy-verifier

Add session validation

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Description

@SolidWallOfCode has mentioned that it would be helpful if Proxy Verifier had the ability to verify certain properties of the session. He mentioned specifically wanting to verify the ip address of the session. Here are other possible properties to validate:

  • Validate the ip protocol (v4 or v6)
  • Validate the HTTP protocol (HTTP/1 or HTTP/2)
  • Validate whether the connection is secured via HTTPS.

This would be server side session validation since the client itself connects according to its own parameters. Currently, verifier-server does no session validation against the way the proxy connects to it. This issue records the desire to be able to do such validation against the way the proxy connects to verifier-server.

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First steps

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start with the verifier-server entry point and inspect how it currently handles the proxy connection and session. Determine how YAML or JSON configuration should express IP, IP protocol, HTTP protocol, and HTTPS validation. Done means verifier-server enforces the requested session properties and rejects connections that do not match.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
backend, networking
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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