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The quantitative engine always sent the corpus payload as a query argument, so rules targeting REQUEST_FILENAME, REQUEST_URI or request headers were invisible to the false-positive gate. Add a --placement flag accepting args (default), path or header:<Name>. Exactly one placement applies per run; the decision and rejected alternatives are recorded in ADR 0002. Closes #673 Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GBveJRuPnPpWxyKibb9zmc
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe quantitative command adds a ChangesQuantitative Payload Placement
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Suggested labels: Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to An invalid --placement header name can produce quantitative results for a request a normal HTTP client cannot send. Validate header names before merging or accept this bounded risk. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 16 | ❌ 2❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)
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⚠️ WARNING: Wrap placement errors with flag context — returnfmt.Errorf("reading --placement: %w", err)andfmt.Errorf("parsing --placement: %w", err). These returns omit the operation that failed. As per path instructions, flag “a barereturn errwhere wrapping would give the caller context.”Also applies to: 206-206
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- Around line 116-118: Update the fixed-header setup around tx.AddRequestHeader
to skip adding any fixed header whose name matches e.placement.Header
case-insensitively when the placement kind is "header". This ensures the
selected payload is the only value rules see for colliding headers such as
User-Agent, Host, and Accept.
Review comments at @internal/quantitative/placement.go:
- Line 15: Define a named type for placement kinds and constants for the
supported values, then use that type for Placement.Kind and consistently in the
parser and engine.
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Review comments at @cmd/quantitative/quantitative.go:
- Line 202: In the placement flag handling, wrap the errors from reading and
parsing the placement value with distinct “reading --placement” and “parsing
--placement” context before returning them; preserve the existing return values
otherwise.
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| // added last so a user-chosen name overrides the fixed headers above | ||
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Replace a fixed header when the selected header name collides. For --placement header:User-Agent, Coraza retains both the fixed value and the payload. AddRequestHeader appends; call order does not override the fixed value. This also affects Host and Accept, so rules can match a value the selected placement was meant to replace. Skip the corresponding fixed-header addition when the names match, including case-insensitive matches. (raw.githubusercontent.com) Based on learnings, “the user-supplied value is the one the rules see.”
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Update the fixed-header setup around tx.AddRequestHeader to skip adding any
fixed header whose name matches e.placement.Header case-insensitively when the
placement kind is "header". This ensures the selected payload is the only value
rules see for colliding headers such as User-Agent, Host, and Accept.
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…ementKind Coraza appends on repeated header names, so `--placement header:User-Agent` sent both the fixed browser value and the payload. The fixed header is now dropped when its name matches the placement header case-insensitively. Also give Placement.Kind a named type with constants, wrap the --placement flag errors with context, and document Placement.String. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GBveJRuPnPpWxyKibb9zmc
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| case s == string(PlacementPath): | ||
| return Placement{Kind: PlacementPath}, nil | ||
| case strings.HasPrefix(s, "header:") && len(s) > len("header:"): | ||
| return Placement{Kind: PlacementHeader, Header: s[len("header:"):]}, nil |
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--placement 'header:Bad Name' passes ParsePlacement. CrsCall forwards that name to Coraza, which stores it in REQUEST_HEADERS and evaluates request-header rules instead of rejecting it. The run can therefore report matches for a request with an invalid HTTP field name. Validate the name as an HTTP token; keep the payload verbatim as the header value.
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Review comment at @internal/quantitative/placement.go at line 38:
Update ParsePlacement to validate the name in header placements as an HTTP token
before accepting it; reject invalid names while preserving the payload verbatim
as the header value.
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--placementtoftw quantitativewith valuesargs(default, unchanged),path(/get/<PathEscape(payload)>) andheader:<Name>(payload sent verbatim as that header, replacing a fixed header of the same name).docs/adr/0002-quantitative-payload-placement.md.why
ftw quantitativealways built/get?uri_payload=<payload>, so every corpus sentence landed inARGSonly. Rules targetingREQUEST_FILENAME,REQUEST_URIor request headers could regress without the false-positive gate noticing.refs
Closes #673
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TestParsePlacementcovers valid forms and rejectsheader:,header,bodyTestRequestHeaderschecks a colliding fixed header is dropped case-insensitivelyTestCrsCallPlacementagainst CRS 4.6.0:index.bakfires 920440 only underpath, SQLi inRefererfires 942100TestPlacementFlagchecks the flag reaches params and an unknown value errorsgo test ./cmd/... ./internal/...passesai disclosure
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--placementoption to choose where quantitative test payloads are sent: as query arguments (the default), in a URL path, or in a named request header.