* Remove messaging about asking an administrator for help if no email
is associated with the account (no longer correct or relevant)
* Compare user-provided email with registered email case-insensitively
(#755)
* Replace antiquated hash generator with cryptographically secure
random byte string generator
- `/sioconfig` has been deprecated for ages in favor of
`/socketconfig/${channel}.json`
- Each website administrator should be responsible for determining the
appropriate terms of service for their website instead of CyTube
providing a default one.
Previously, the user's session cookie was being checked against the
database for all non-static requests. However, this is not really
needed and wastes resources (and is slow).
For most page views (e.g. index, channel page), just parsing the value
of the cookie is sufficient:
* The cookies are already HMAC signed, so tampering with them ought to
be for all reasonable purposes, impossible.
* Assuming the worst case, all a nefarious user could manage to do is
change the text of the "Welcome, {user}" and cause a (non-functional)
ACP link to appear clientside, both of which are already possible by
using the Inspect Element tool.
For authenticated pages (currently, the ACP, and anything under
/account/), the full database check is still performed (for now).
Add a dependency on `prom-client` and emit a basic latency metric for
testing purposes. Add a new configuration file for enabling/disabling
prometheus exporter and configuring the listen address.
We now allow server operators to customize the /r/ part of the channel links
The new config option in the template is commented and the config module validates and will terminate with status 78 if an improper value is used.
We've also dropped some old cruft and uses a more elegant method to assign CHANNEL.name
Resolves#668
