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mix 03b6a2a2f9 docs: decide CSRF item A.2 in favour of the origin check
Records variant (b): the panel will check Origin / Sec-Fetch-Site in the same
middleware as the security headers, and will not carry CSRF tokens. The
coverage table above the decision already says what that buys; what the item
was missing is what it does not buy, so both are now written down — the
accepted risk (a client sending neither header still gets through, which is
exactly the old-browser row) and the two escalation paths with their price,
tightening the policy to reject those requests, or session-bound tokens.

Phase 14.A grows the implementation rules: which requests are checked, the
three-way decision, and the fact that only the host is compared because the
panel sits behind a proxy and never sees its own external scheme. The rule
depends on r.Host being the external name — all four shipped proxy fragments
preserve it (checked), but a proxy that rewrites Host would turn every POST
into a 403, so the rejection has to log both sides of the comparison and the
container test has to run through a real proxy.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-01 22:24:59 +03:00
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