An image is checked before it is decoded

An upload went straight to libvips: whatever loader recognised the bytes ran (an SVG sent as image/png was rasterised),
nothing bounded how many pixels it would decode to (a small PNG could decode to gigabytes, three times over), a GIF
was loaded frame by frame and never resized, and all of it ran inside the request with nothing limiting how many at
once. A GIF was typed gifv but stayed a .gif, which a gifv player can't play; its metadata was kept; colours lost
their ICC profile without being converted; HEIC was advertised but the bundled libvips can't decode it.

Now:
- only libvips' JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP and HEIF loaders ever run on an upload (every other loader is blocked);
- the header alone says how big an image would decode, refused above Media:MaxPixels (40 MP) or MaxFrames;
- a still image is shrunk on load, turned by its orientation and brought into sRGB (thumbnail), then written without
  metadata, a profile picture the same way;
- an animated GIF becomes a looping silent H.264 mp4 typed gifv, as on Mastodon (PostMedia.Kind keeps it a gifv),
  and a remote GIF is an image;
- processing runs Media:Concurrency at a time, and uploads have their own rate limit per credential;
- HEIC and HEIF are no longer offered.

Tests: only the upload formats load, the header tells the size, an SVG posing as a PNG and an image too large are
refused before decoding, an animated GIF becomes a gifv and a still one an image, HEIC isn't advertised. The media
scenarios against the pasture (GoToSocial, Mastodon, Misskey, Akkoma, Pixelfed, Smithereen, Vernissage, Castopod,
PeerTube) pass: 329 checks.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LsXgEaXee4GCU1hwYgPJXw
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@@ -15,12 +15,15 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Infrastructure
public int AccountsPerMinute { get; set; } = 10;//sign-ups, sign-ins and recoveries per client address
public int InboxBurst { get; set; } = 300;//deliveries a sending origin may make at once
public int InboxPerTenSeconds { get; set; } = 50;//and the rate it earns them back
public int UploadsBurst { get; set; } = 30;//uploads (media, profile pictures) a session may make at once
public int UploadsPerMinute { get; set; } = 10;//and the rate it earns them back
}
public static class RateLimiting
{
public const string Accounts = "accounts";
public const string Inbox = "inbox";
public const string Uploads = "uploads";
static RateLimitOptions Limits(HttpContext context) => context.RequestServices.GetRequiredService<IOptions<RateLimitOptions>>().Value;
@@ -59,8 +62,27 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Infrastructure
ReplenishmentPeriod = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10),
QueueLimit = 0
}));
// per session: the limiter runs before authentication, so the credential sent stands for whoever sends it
options.AddPolicy(Uploads, context => RateLimitPartition.GetTokenBucketLimiter(
Credential(context.Request) ?? "anonymous:" + context.Connection.RemoteIpAddress,
_ => new TokenBucketRateLimiterOptions
{
TokenLimit = Limits(context).UploadsBurst,
TokensPerPeriod = Limits(context).UploadsPerMinute,
ReplenishmentPeriod = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(1),
QueueLimit = 0
}));
});
// a hash of the credential, never the credential itself
static string Credential(HttpRequest request)
{
var authorization = request.Headers.Authorization.ToString();
return string.IsNullOrEmpty(authorization)
? default
: Convert.ToHexStringLower(System.Security.Cryptography.SHA256.HashData(System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(authorization)))[..32];
}
static string SenderOrigin(HttpRequest request)
{
var signature = request.Headers["Signature"].ToString();