package middleware import ( "fmt" "strings" "testing" ) // BenchmarkWalkXFF measures the cost of walking a merged X-Forwarded-For // chain end-to-end (visitor never stops). Exercises the worst case for // ClientIPFromXFF when every entry is in the trusted prefix list, and // bounds the absolute cost of a pathologically large attacker-supplied // XFF header (subject to http.Server.MaxHeaderBytes). // // n varies the number of comma-separated entries in a single XFF header. // All entries are valid IPs of identical length, so total header size // scales linearly with n. func BenchmarkWalkXFF(b *testing.B) { for _, n := range []int{1, 10, 100, 1000, 10000} { entries := make([]string, n) for i := range entries { entries[i] = "1.2.3.4" } headers := []string{strings.Join(entries, ", ")} b.Run(fmt.Sprintf("n=%d", n), func(b *testing.B) { b.ReportAllocs() for b.Loop() { walkXFF(headers, func(entry string) bool { return false // walk to the leftmost entry }) } }) } } // BenchmarkWalkXFF_RightmostStop measures the common case for both // ClientIPFromXFF (no trusted prefixes => stop at the first / rightmost // entry) and ClientIPFromXFFTrustedProxies(1). Should be near-constant // regardless of n, since the walker stops after the first visit. func BenchmarkWalkXFF_RightmostStop(b *testing.B) { for _, n := range []int{1, 10, 100, 1000, 10000} { entries := make([]string, n) for i := range entries { entries[i] = "1.2.3.4" } headers := []string{strings.Join(entries, ", ")} b.Run(fmt.Sprintf("n=%d", n), func(b *testing.B) { b.ReportAllocs() for b.Loop() { walkXFF(headers, func(entry string) bool { return true // stop at the rightmost entry }) } }) } }