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Rate-limit all of the routes for a rate-limited app - #2867

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Updates our existing app rate-limiter to also prevent file uploads and operations through the websocket/sse connection. Previously, it only blocked the /admin routes.

We don't prevent init--I tried that locally and we didn't get a very good error on the client. Instead, we just block any operation over the session, which usually has a better error message.

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Application rate limiting now covers selected runtime and storage routes plus authenticated reactive session operations. Requests extract application IDs from supported locations, check the rate-limit flag, and return rate-limit failures as client-facing 400 errors.

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Application rate limiting

Layer / File(s) Summary
Rate-limit request middleware
server/src/instant/util/http.clj
Adds application-ID extraction from headers, parameters, query data, and request bodies. Adds middleware that rejects flagged applications before handler execution.
Endpoint and session enforcement
server/src/instant/runtime/routes.clj, server/src/instant/storage/routes.clj, server/src/instant/reactive/session.clj
Wraps selected runtime and storage routes with rate-limit middleware. Enforces limits for authenticated application operations while excluding initialization and error events. Classifies rate-limit exceptions as client-facing 400 errors.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 7ef39

The PR applies rate limiting across routes, but upload consumption can bypass application limits and rate-limited applications can still initialize sessions and do initialization work. These gaps can allow traffic or work that the change is intended to prevent, so merge should wait for fixes or explicit owner acceptance.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant RuntimeOrStorageRoutes
  participant with-rate-limiting
  participant handle-event
  Client->>RuntimeOrStorageRoutes: Send application request
  RuntimeOrStorageRoutes->>with-rate-limiting: Invoke wrapped handler
  with-rate-limiting->>with-rate-limiting: Extract app ID and check rate-limit flag
  with-rate-limiting-->>Client: Allow request or throw rate-limit exception
  Client->>handle-event: Send authenticated operation
  handle-event->>handle-event: Check rate limit before dispatch
  handle-event-->>Client: Return rate-limit failure as 400 error
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Possibly related PRs

  • instantdb/instant#2314: Uses shared rate-limiting infrastructure and instant.flags in related rate-limit code paths.
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In `@server/src/instant/reactive/session.clj`:
- Around line 981-984: Update handle-init! to check flags/app-rate-limited?
immediately after coercing :app-id, throwing via ex/throw-rate-limited! before
session initialization or lookups. Preserve the existing post-initialization
check for non-init operations.

In `@server/src/instant/storage/routes.clj`:
- Line 75: Update the consume-upload-url PUT route and its
consume-upload-url-put handler to resolve the application ID from the
server-side upload record using :upload-id before invoking with-rate-limiting.
Apply rate limiting to that resolved application, and do not use or accept any
client-provided application ID for the lookup.

In `@server/src/instant/util/http.clj`:
- Around line 37-51: Update req->rate-limit-app-id and with-rate-limiting so all
supplied application-ID locations are coerced and evaluated, rather than
stopping at the first valid UUID. Reject the request when any candidate is rate
limited; alternatively, reject conflicting IDs, ensuring an untrusted header
cannot override the application ID consumed by the handler.
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In `@server/src/instant/util/http.clj`:
- Around line 44-50: Update req-rate-limited? to inspect every query-parameter
application-ID key supported by the route contract, including both "app-id" and
"app_id" forms (and keyword equivalents where applicable), or reject
unsupported/conflicting forms consistently. Keep the existing application-ID
extraction behavior aligned with the accepted keys so rate limiting cannot be
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dwwoelfel marked this pull request as ready for review August 17, 2026 21:54
@dwwoelfel dwwoelfel changed the title [WIP] rate-limit all of the routes for a rate-limited app Rate-limit all of the routes for a rate-limited app Aug 17, 2026

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Niice!

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dwwoelfel merged commit 1bbf738 into main Aug 17, 2026
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dwwoelfel deleted the rate-limit-global branch August 17, 2026 22:18
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