auth, headers: the examples are refused, HTTPS is insisted on

The server no longer starts with WORKSPACE_SECRET or WORKSPACE_PASSWORD
left at the value .env.example ships with. The secret was only checked
for length, and the public placeholder passed: anyone who had read the
repository could sign a session cookie for themselves. A secret under
32 characters is warned about.

With WORKSPACE_SECURE_COOKIE=1 the cookie is named __Host-diary_session,
which the browser keeps to this host and to HTTPS and which no sibling
subdomain can plant; turning it on logs everyone out once. Responses
then carry Strict-Transport-Security for a year. The traefik example
turns it on.

The password is compared as an HMAC under the secret, so the time a
comparison takes no longer depends on the configured password's length.

Every response also carries Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy and
Cross-Origin-Resource-Policy same-origin and a Permissions-Policy that
turns camera, microphone, location, payment and USB off; API answers
are no-store unless they say otherwise.
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@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ use anyhow::{Context, Result};
use chrono::Weekday;
use chrono_tz::Tz;
/// The placeholders `.env.example` ships with, refused when left in place.
const EXAMPLE_SECRET: &str = "replace-with-32-random-characters";
const EXAMPLE_PASSWORD: &str = "change-me";
/// Runtime configuration. Everything comes from the environment (`.env` is
/// loaded on startup), because this is a deliberately single-user application.
#[derive(Clone)]
@@ -251,13 +255,20 @@ impl Config {
if secret.len() < 16 {
anyhow::bail!("WORKSPACE_SECRET must be at least 16 characters");
}
if password == "change-me" {
tracing::warn!(
"WORKSPACE_PASSWORD is still the example value from .env.example — \
anyone who can reach this server can read the workspace"
// The examples are public: with the secret anyone can sign a session
// cookie, with the password anyone can log in.
if secret == EXAMPLE_SECRET.as_bytes() {
anyhow::bail!(
"WORKSPACE_SECRET is still the example from .env.example — \
set it to something random: openssl rand -base64 32"
);
}
if secret.len() < 32 {
tracing::warn!("WORKSPACE_SECRET is shorter than 32 characters; a longer one is safer");
}
if password == EXAMPLE_PASSWORD {
anyhow::bail!("WORKSPACE_PASSWORD is still the example from .env.example — change it");
}
let bind = var("BIND")
.unwrap_or_else(|| "127.0.0.1:4242".to_string())