refactor: update rateLimiter to check try

This changes adds a new method called `.canTry` to the rate limiter to check if
there are tokens remaining in the bucket.

It also adds suggestions from @oxy to make sure the user can brute force past
the rate limiter.
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Joe Previte 2021-04-16 14:22:09 -07:00
parent a8719e1f79
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1 changed files with 12 additions and 3 deletions

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@ -17,11 +17,15 @@ export class RateLimiter {
private readonly minuteLimiter = new Limiter(2, "minute")
private readonly hourLimiter = new Limiter(12, "hour")
public try(): boolean {
if (this.minuteLimiter.tryRemoveTokens(1)) {
return true
public canTry(): boolean {
return this.minuteLimiter.getTokensRemaining() > 0 || this.hourLimiter.getTokensRemaining() > 0
}
return this.hourLimiter.tryRemoveTokens(1)
public try(): boolean {
if (this.canTry()) {
return this.minuteLimiter.tryRemoveTokens(1) || this.hourLimiter.tryRemoveTokens(1)
}
return false
}
}
@ -59,6 +63,11 @@ router.get("/", async (req, res) => {
router.post("/", async (req, res) => {
try {
// Check to see if they exceeded their login attempts
if (!limiter.canTry()) {
throw new Error("Login rate limited!")
}
if (!req.body.password) {
throw new Error("Missing password")
}