Krystie
3cf5980083
Symptoms:
- Open 4-5 service tabs (Plex, Torrent, Radarr, etc.) + dashboard polling
- Each page-load fires Caddy forward_auth on every asset (HTML, JS, CSS, XHR)
- /api/v1/auth/gate/<service> counted each call against the 20/15min STRICT budget
- Within a minute or two of normal browsing, every gated service flips to 'down'
with statusCode 429, because Caddy bounces the 429 to a 'auth required' redirect
to status.sami
Fix:
- Split /auth/gate into its own limiter: 600/15min (40/min average) — comfortably
accommodates ~6 service tabs each polling every 15s
- Keep /auth/keys, /auth/jwt, /auth/app-token on the original 20/15min STRICT
(those actually mint credentials — gate just hands Caddy pre-existing auth)
- Same skip clause preserved: req.auth.type in {session, jwt, apikey} bypasses
the limit, so a properly-logged-in user never hits either limit
This is the same class of bug as the DC-044 / P21 health-check probe false
negative (probe chatter exhausting the auth budget). Adding to BACKLOG.