Implement periodic cleanup of expired rate-limiter entries to prevent
unbounded memory growth during long runtimes.
Changes:
- Create rate_limiter_cleanup task that calls cleanup_expired() every 30 minutes
- Register the task in the startup DAG alongside other background jobs
- Update rate_limiter module documentation with operational notes about the
cleanup lifecycle and memory management strategy
The cleanup is conservative and only removes IPs with no recent attempts
(all timestamps outside the rate-limit window), so active IPs are preserved.
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
- Add in-memory rate limiter with per-IP deque tracking of attempt timestamps
- Limit login attempts to 5 per 60 seconds per IP, return 429 on excess
- Add Retry-After header to rate limit responses
- Implement IP extraction utility with proxy trust validation (prevent X-Forwarded-For spoofing)
- Integrate rate limiter into auth router and dependencies
- Add 10-second asyncio.sleep on failed login attempts to further slow brute-force
- Add comprehensive tests for rate limiting (9 new tests, all passing)
- Update Features.md to document login rate limiting
- Update Backend-Development.md with rate limiting conventions and design patterns
- Fix test infrastructure issues: update password to meet complexity requirements
- Fix TestValidateSession tests to use Bearer token authentication
- All tests passing: 23 auth tests + full test suite coverage
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
