zulip/zerver/views/upload.py

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import base64
import binascii
import os
from datetime import timedelta
from mimetypes import guess_type
from typing import List, Optional, Union
from urllib.parse import quote, urlsplit
from django.conf import settings
from django.contrib.auth.models import AnonymousUser
from django.core.files.uploadedfile import UploadedFile
from django.core.signing import BadSignature, TimestampSigner
from django.http import (
FileResponse,
HttpRequest,
HttpResponse,
HttpResponseBase,
HttpResponseForbidden,
HttpResponseNotFound,
)
from django.shortcuts import redirect
from django.urls import reverse
from django.utils.cache import patch_cache_control, patch_vary_headers
from django.utils.http import content_disposition_header
from django.utils.translation import gettext as _
from zerver.context_processors import get_valid_realm_from_request
from zerver.decorator import zulip_redirect_to_login
from zerver.lib.attachments import validate_attachment_request
from zerver.lib.exceptions import JsonableError
from zerver.lib.response import json_success
from zerver.lib.storage import static_path
from zerver.lib.upload import (
check_upload_within_quota,
get_public_upload_root_url,
upload_message_attachment_from_request,
)
from zerver.lib.upload.base import INLINE_MIME_TYPES
from zerver.lib.upload.local import assert_is_local_storage_path
from zerver.lib.upload.s3 import get_signed_upload_url
from zerver.models import UserProfile
def patch_disposition_header(response: HttpResponse, url: str, is_attachment: bool) -> None:
filename = os.path.basename(urlsplit(url).path)
content_disposition = content_disposition_header(is_attachment, filename)
if content_disposition is not None:
response.headers["Content-Disposition"] = content_disposition
def internal_nginx_redirect(internal_path: str, content_type: Optional[str] = None) -> HttpResponse:
# The following headers from this initial response are
# _preserved_, if present, and sent unmodified to the client;
# all other headers are overridden by the redirected URL:
# - Content-Type
# - Content-Disposition
# - Accept-Ranges
# - Set-Cookie
# - Cache-Control
# - Expires
# As such, we default to unsetting the Content-type header to
# allow nginx to set it from the static file; the caller can set
# Content-Disposition and Cache-Control on this response as they
# desire, and the client will see those values. In some cases
# (local files) we do wish to control the Content-Type, so also
# support setting it explicitly.
response = HttpResponse(content_type=content_type)
response["X-Accel-Redirect"] = internal_path
if content_type is None:
del response["Content-Type"]
return response
def serve_s3(request: HttpRequest, path_id: str, force_download: bool = False) -> HttpResponse:
url = get_signed_upload_url(path_id, force_download=force_download)
uploads: Serve S3 uploads directly from nginx. When file uploads are stored in S3, this means that Zulip serves as a 302 to S3. Because browsers do not cache redirects, this means that no image contents can be cached -- and upon every page load or reload, every recently-posted image must be re-fetched. This incurs extra load on the Zulip server, as well as potentially excessive bandwidth usage from S3, and on the client's connection. Switch to fetching the content from S3 in nginx, and serving the content from nginx. These have `Cache-control: private, immutable` headers set on the response, allowing browsers to cache them locally. Because nginx fetching from S3 can be slow, and requests for uploads will generally be bunched around when a message containing them are first posted, we instruct nginx to cache the contents locally. This is safe because uploaded file contents are immutable; access control is still mediated by Django. The nginx cache key is the URL without query parameters, as those parameters include a time-limited signed authentication parameter which lets nginx fetch the non-public file. This adds a number of nginx-level configuration parameters to control the caching which nginx performs, including the amount of in-memory index for he cache, the maximum storage of the cache on disk, and how long data is retained in the cache. The currently-chosen figures are reasonable for small to medium deployments. The most notable effect of this change is in allowing browsers to cache uploaded image content; however, while there will be many fewer requests, it also has an improvement on request latency. The following tests were done with a non-AWS client in SFO, a server and S3 storage in us-east-1, and with 100 requests after 10 requests of warm-up (to fill the nginx cache). The mean and standard deviation are shown. | | Redirect to S3 | Caching proxy, hot | Caching proxy, cold | | ----------------- | ------------------- | ------------------- | ------------------- | | Time in Django | 263.0 ms ± 28.3 ms | 258.0 ms ± 12.3 ms | 258.0 ms ± 12.3 ms | | Small file (842b) | 586.1 ms ± 21.1 ms | 266.1 ms ± 67.4 ms | 288.6 ms ± 17.7 ms | | Large file (660k) | 959.6 ms ± 137.9 ms | 609.5 ms ± 13.0 ms | 648.1 ms ± 43.2 ms | The hot-cache performance is faster for both large and small files, since it saves the client the time having to make a second request to a separate host. This performance improvement remains at least 100ms even if the client is on the same coast as the server. Cold nginx caches are only slightly slower than hot caches, because VPC access to S3 endpoints is extremely fast (assuming it is in the same region as the host), and nginx can pool connections to S3 and reuse them. However, all of the 648ms taken to serve a cold-cache large file is occupied in nginx, as opposed to the only 263ms which was spent in nginx when using redirects to S3. This means that to overall spend less time responding to uploaded-file requests in nginx, clients will need to find files in their local cache, and skip making an uploaded-file request, at least 60% of the time. Modeling shows a reduction in the number of client requests by about 70% - 80%. The `Content-Disposition` header logic can now also be entirely shared with the local-file codepath, as can the `url_only` path used by mobile clients. While we could provide the direct-to-S3 temporary signed URL to mobile clients, we choose to provide the served-from-Zulip signed URL, to better control caching headers on it, and greater consistency. In doing so, we adjust the salt used for the URL; since these URLs are only valid for 60s, the effect of this salt change is minimal.
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assert url.startswith("https://")
if settings.DEVELOPMENT:
# In development, we do not have the nginx server to offload
# the response to; serve a redirect to the short-lived S3 URL.
# This means the content cannot be cached by the browser, but
# this is acceptable in development.
return redirect(url)
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uploads: Extra-escape internal S3 paths. In nginx, `location` blocks operate on the _decoded_ URI[^1]: > The matching is performed against a normalized URI, after decoding > the text encoded in the “%XX” form This means that if a user-uploaded file contains characters that are not URI-safe, the browser encodes them in UTF-8 and then URI-encodes them -- and nginx decodes them and reassembles the original character before running the `location ~ ^/...` match. This means that the `$2` _is not URI-encoded_ and _may contain non-ASCII characters. When `proxy_pass` is passed a value containing one or more variables, it does no encoding on that expanded value, assuming that the bytes are exactly as they should be passed to the upstream. This means that directly calling `proxy_pass https://$1/$2` would result in sending high-bit characters to the S3 upstream, which would rightly balk. However, a longstanding bug in nginx's `set` directive[^2] means that the following line: ```nginx set $download_url https://$1/$2; ``` ...results in nginx accidentally URI-encoding $1 and $2 when they are inserted, resulting in a `$download_url` which is suitable to pass to `proxy_pass`. This bug is only present with numeric capture variables, not named captures; this is particularly relevant because numeric captures are easily overridden by additional regexes elsewhere, as subsequent commits will add. Fixing this is complicated; nginx does not supply any way to escape values[^3], besides a third-party module[^4] which is an undue complication to begin using. The only variable which nginx exposes which is _not_ un-escaped already is `$request_uri`, which contains the very original URL sent by the browser -- and thus can't respect any work done in Django to generate the `X-Accel-Redirect` (e.g., for `/user_uploads/temporary/` URLs). We also cannot pass these URLs to nginx via query-parameters, since `$arg_foo` values are not URI-decoded by nginx, there is no function to do so[^3], and the values must be URI-encoded because they themselves are URLs with query parameters. Extra-URI-encode the path that we pass to the `X-Accel-Redirect` location, for S3 redirects. We rely on the `location` block un-escaping that layer, leaving `$s3_hostname` and `$s3_path` as they were intended in Django. This works around the nginx bug, with no behaviour change. [^1]: http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#location [^2]: https://trac.nginx.org/nginx/ticket/348 [^3]: https://trac.nginx.org/nginx/ticket/52 [^4]: https://github.com/openresty/set-misc-nginx-module#set_escape_uri
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# We over-escape the path, to work around it being impossible to
# get the _unescaped_ new internal request URI in nginx.
parsed_url = urlsplit(url)
uploads: Extra-escape internal S3 paths. In nginx, `location` blocks operate on the _decoded_ URI[^1]: > The matching is performed against a normalized URI, after decoding > the text encoded in the “%XX” form This means that if a user-uploaded file contains characters that are not URI-safe, the browser encodes them in UTF-8 and then URI-encodes them -- and nginx decodes them and reassembles the original character before running the `location ~ ^/...` match. This means that the `$2` _is not URI-encoded_ and _may contain non-ASCII characters. When `proxy_pass` is passed a value containing one or more variables, it does no encoding on that expanded value, assuming that the bytes are exactly as they should be passed to the upstream. This means that directly calling `proxy_pass https://$1/$2` would result in sending high-bit characters to the S3 upstream, which would rightly balk. However, a longstanding bug in nginx's `set` directive[^2] means that the following line: ```nginx set $download_url https://$1/$2; ``` ...results in nginx accidentally URI-encoding $1 and $2 when they are inserted, resulting in a `$download_url` which is suitable to pass to `proxy_pass`. This bug is only present with numeric capture variables, not named captures; this is particularly relevant because numeric captures are easily overridden by additional regexes elsewhere, as subsequent commits will add. Fixing this is complicated; nginx does not supply any way to escape values[^3], besides a third-party module[^4] which is an undue complication to begin using. The only variable which nginx exposes which is _not_ un-escaped already is `$request_uri`, which contains the very original URL sent by the browser -- and thus can't respect any work done in Django to generate the `X-Accel-Redirect` (e.g., for `/user_uploads/temporary/` URLs). We also cannot pass these URLs to nginx via query-parameters, since `$arg_foo` values are not URI-decoded by nginx, there is no function to do so[^3], and the values must be URI-encoded because they themselves are URLs with query parameters. Extra-URI-encode the path that we pass to the `X-Accel-Redirect` location, for S3 redirects. We rely on the `location` block un-escaping that layer, leaving `$s3_hostname` and `$s3_path` as they were intended in Django. This works around the nginx bug, with no behaviour change. [^1]: http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#location [^2]: https://trac.nginx.org/nginx/ticket/348 [^3]: https://trac.nginx.org/nginx/ticket/52 [^4]: https://github.com/openresty/set-misc-nginx-module#set_escape_uri
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assert parsed_url.hostname is not None
assert parsed_url.path is not None
assert parsed_url.query is not None
escaped_path_parts = parsed_url.hostname + quote(parsed_url.path) + "?" + parsed_url.query
response = internal_nginx_redirect("/internal/s3/" + escaped_path_parts)
# It is important that S3 generate both the Content-Type and
# Content-Disposition headers; when the file was uploaded, we
# stored the browser-provided value for the former, and set
# Content-Disposition according to if that was safe. As such,
# only S3 knows if a given attachment is safe to inline; we only
# override Content-Disposition to "attachment", and do so by
# telling S3 that is what we want in the signed URL.
uploads: Serve S3 uploads directly from nginx. When file uploads are stored in S3, this means that Zulip serves as a 302 to S3. Because browsers do not cache redirects, this means that no image contents can be cached -- and upon every page load or reload, every recently-posted image must be re-fetched. This incurs extra load on the Zulip server, as well as potentially excessive bandwidth usage from S3, and on the client's connection. Switch to fetching the content from S3 in nginx, and serving the content from nginx. These have `Cache-control: private, immutable` headers set on the response, allowing browsers to cache them locally. Because nginx fetching from S3 can be slow, and requests for uploads will generally be bunched around when a message containing them are first posted, we instruct nginx to cache the contents locally. This is safe because uploaded file contents are immutable; access control is still mediated by Django. The nginx cache key is the URL without query parameters, as those parameters include a time-limited signed authentication parameter which lets nginx fetch the non-public file. This adds a number of nginx-level configuration parameters to control the caching which nginx performs, including the amount of in-memory index for he cache, the maximum storage of the cache on disk, and how long data is retained in the cache. The currently-chosen figures are reasonable for small to medium deployments. The most notable effect of this change is in allowing browsers to cache uploaded image content; however, while there will be many fewer requests, it also has an improvement on request latency. The following tests were done with a non-AWS client in SFO, a server and S3 storage in us-east-1, and with 100 requests after 10 requests of warm-up (to fill the nginx cache). The mean and standard deviation are shown. | | Redirect to S3 | Caching proxy, hot | Caching proxy, cold | | ----------------- | ------------------- | ------------------- | ------------------- | | Time in Django | 263.0 ms ± 28.3 ms | 258.0 ms ± 12.3 ms | 258.0 ms ± 12.3 ms | | Small file (842b) | 586.1 ms ± 21.1 ms | 266.1 ms ± 67.4 ms | 288.6 ms ± 17.7 ms | | Large file (660k) | 959.6 ms ± 137.9 ms | 609.5 ms ± 13.0 ms | 648.1 ms ± 43.2 ms | The hot-cache performance is faster for both large and small files, since it saves the client the time having to make a second request to a separate host. This performance improvement remains at least 100ms even if the client is on the same coast as the server. Cold nginx caches are only slightly slower than hot caches, because VPC access to S3 endpoints is extremely fast (assuming it is in the same region as the host), and nginx can pool connections to S3 and reuse them. However, all of the 648ms taken to serve a cold-cache large file is occupied in nginx, as opposed to the only 263ms which was spent in nginx when using redirects to S3. This means that to overall spend less time responding to uploaded-file requests in nginx, clients will need to find files in their local cache, and skip making an uploaded-file request, at least 60% of the time. Modeling shows a reduction in the number of client requests by about 70% - 80%. The `Content-Disposition` header logic can now also be entirely shared with the local-file codepath, as can the `url_only` path used by mobile clients. While we could provide the direct-to-S3 temporary signed URL to mobile clients, we choose to provide the served-from-Zulip signed URL, to better control caching headers on it, and greater consistency. In doing so, we adjust the salt used for the URL; since these URLs are only valid for 60s, the effect of this salt change is minimal.
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patch_cache_control(response, private=True, immutable=True)
return response
def serve_local(
request: HttpRequest, path_id: str, force_download: bool = False
) -> HttpResponseBase:
assert settings.LOCAL_FILES_DIR is not None
local_path = os.path.join(settings.LOCAL_FILES_DIR, path_id)
assert_is_local_storage_path("files", local_path)
if not os.path.isfile(local_path):
return HttpResponseNotFound("<p>File not found</p>")
mimetype, encoding = guess_type(path_id)
download = force_download or mimetype not in INLINE_MIME_TYPES
if settings.DEVELOPMENT:
# In development, we do not have the nginx server to offload
# the response to; serve it directly ourselves. FileResponse
# handles setting Content-Type, Content-Disposition, etc.
response: HttpResponseBase = FileResponse(
open(local_path, "rb"), # noqa: SIM115
as_attachment=download,
)
patch_cache_control(response, private=True, immutable=True)
return response
# For local responses, we are in charge of generating both
# Content-Type and Content-Disposition headers; unlike with S3
# storage, the Content-Type is not stored with the file in any
# way, so Django makes the determination of it, and thus as well
# if that type is safe to have a Content-Disposition of "inline".
# nginx respects the values we send.
response = internal_nginx_redirect(
quote(f"/internal/local/uploads/{path_id}"), content_type=mimetype
)
uploads: Serve S3 uploads directly from nginx. When file uploads are stored in S3, this means that Zulip serves as a 302 to S3. Because browsers do not cache redirects, this means that no image contents can be cached -- and upon every page load or reload, every recently-posted image must be re-fetched. This incurs extra load on the Zulip server, as well as potentially excessive bandwidth usage from S3, and on the client's connection. Switch to fetching the content from S3 in nginx, and serving the content from nginx. These have `Cache-control: private, immutable` headers set on the response, allowing browsers to cache them locally. Because nginx fetching from S3 can be slow, and requests for uploads will generally be bunched around when a message containing them are first posted, we instruct nginx to cache the contents locally. This is safe because uploaded file contents are immutable; access control is still mediated by Django. The nginx cache key is the URL without query parameters, as those parameters include a time-limited signed authentication parameter which lets nginx fetch the non-public file. This adds a number of nginx-level configuration parameters to control the caching which nginx performs, including the amount of in-memory index for he cache, the maximum storage of the cache on disk, and how long data is retained in the cache. The currently-chosen figures are reasonable for small to medium deployments. The most notable effect of this change is in allowing browsers to cache uploaded image content; however, while there will be many fewer requests, it also has an improvement on request latency. The following tests were done with a non-AWS client in SFO, a server and S3 storage in us-east-1, and with 100 requests after 10 requests of warm-up (to fill the nginx cache). The mean and standard deviation are shown. | | Redirect to S3 | Caching proxy, hot | Caching proxy, cold | | ----------------- | ------------------- | ------------------- | ------------------- | | Time in Django | 263.0 ms ± 28.3 ms | 258.0 ms ± 12.3 ms | 258.0 ms ± 12.3 ms | | Small file (842b) | 586.1 ms ± 21.1 ms | 266.1 ms ± 67.4 ms | 288.6 ms ± 17.7 ms | | Large file (660k) | 959.6 ms ± 137.9 ms | 609.5 ms ± 13.0 ms | 648.1 ms ± 43.2 ms | The hot-cache performance is faster for both large and small files, since it saves the client the time having to make a second request to a separate host. This performance improvement remains at least 100ms even if the client is on the same coast as the server. Cold nginx caches are only slightly slower than hot caches, because VPC access to S3 endpoints is extremely fast (assuming it is in the same region as the host), and nginx can pool connections to S3 and reuse them. However, all of the 648ms taken to serve a cold-cache large file is occupied in nginx, as opposed to the only 263ms which was spent in nginx when using redirects to S3. This means that to overall spend less time responding to uploaded-file requests in nginx, clients will need to find files in their local cache, and skip making an uploaded-file request, at least 60% of the time. Modeling shows a reduction in the number of client requests by about 70% - 80%. The `Content-Disposition` header logic can now also be entirely shared with the local-file codepath, as can the `url_only` path used by mobile clients. While we could provide the direct-to-S3 temporary signed URL to mobile clients, we choose to provide the served-from-Zulip signed URL, to better control caching headers on it, and greater consistency. In doing so, we adjust the salt used for the URL; since these URLs are only valid for 60s, the effect of this salt change is minimal.
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patch_disposition_header(response, local_path, download)
patch_cache_control(response, private=True, immutable=True)
return response
def serve_file_download_backend(
request: HttpRequest,
maybe_user_profile: Union[UserProfile, AnonymousUser],
realm_id_str: str,
filename: str,
) -> HttpResponseBase:
return serve_file(
request, maybe_user_profile, realm_id_str, filename, url_only=False, force_download=True
)
def serve_file_backend(
request: HttpRequest,
maybe_user_profile: Union[UserProfile, AnonymousUser],
realm_id_str: str,
filename: str,
) -> HttpResponseBase:
return serve_file(request, maybe_user_profile, realm_id_str, filename, url_only=False)
def serve_file_url_backend(
request: HttpRequest, user_profile: UserProfile, realm_id_str: str, filename: str
) -> HttpResponseBase:
"""
We should return a signed, short-lived URL
that the client can use for native mobile download, rather than serving a redirect.
"""
return serve_file(request, user_profile, realm_id_str, filename, url_only=True)
def preferred_accept(request: HttpRequest, served_types: List[str]) -> Optional[str]:
# Returns the first of the served_types which the browser will
# accept, based on the browser's stated quality preferences.
# Returns None if none of the served_types are accepted by the
# browser.
accepted_types = sorted(
request.accepted_types,
key=lambda e: float(e.params.get("q", "1.0")),
reverse=True,
)
for potential_type in accepted_types:
for served_type in served_types:
if potential_type.match(served_type):
return served_type
return None
def serve_file(
request: HttpRequest,
maybe_user_profile: Union[UserProfile, AnonymousUser],
realm_id_str: str,
filename: str,
url_only: bool = False,
force_download: bool = False,
) -> HttpResponseBase:
path_id = f"{realm_id_str}/{filename}"
realm = get_valid_realm_from_request(request)
is_authorized = validate_attachment_request(maybe_user_profile, path_id, realm)
def serve_image_error(status: int, image_path: str) -> HttpResponseBase:
# We cannot use X-Accel-Redirect to offload the serving of
# this image to nginx, because it does not preserve the status
# code of this response, nor the Vary: header.
return FileResponse(open(static_path(image_path), "rb"), status=status) # noqa: SIM115
if is_authorized is None:
if preferred_accept(request, ["text/html", "image/png"]) == "image/png":
response = serve_image_error(404, "images/errors/image-not-exist.png")
else:
response = HttpResponseNotFound(
_("<p>This file does not exist or has been deleted.</p>")
)
patch_vary_headers(response, ("Accept",))
return response
if not is_authorized:
if preferred_accept(request, ["text/html", "image/png"]) == "image/png":
response = serve_image_error(403, "images/errors/image-no-auth.png")
elif isinstance(maybe_user_profile, AnonymousUser):
response = zulip_redirect_to_login(request)
else:
response = HttpResponseForbidden(_("<p>You are not authorized to view this file.</p>"))
patch_vary_headers(response, ("Accept",))
return response
uploads: Serve S3 uploads directly from nginx. When file uploads are stored in S3, this means that Zulip serves as a 302 to S3. Because browsers do not cache redirects, this means that no image contents can be cached -- and upon every page load or reload, every recently-posted image must be re-fetched. This incurs extra load on the Zulip server, as well as potentially excessive bandwidth usage from S3, and on the client's connection. Switch to fetching the content from S3 in nginx, and serving the content from nginx. These have `Cache-control: private, immutable` headers set on the response, allowing browsers to cache them locally. Because nginx fetching from S3 can be slow, and requests for uploads will generally be bunched around when a message containing them are first posted, we instruct nginx to cache the contents locally. This is safe because uploaded file contents are immutable; access control is still mediated by Django. The nginx cache key is the URL without query parameters, as those parameters include a time-limited signed authentication parameter which lets nginx fetch the non-public file. This adds a number of nginx-level configuration parameters to control the caching which nginx performs, including the amount of in-memory index for he cache, the maximum storage of the cache on disk, and how long data is retained in the cache. The currently-chosen figures are reasonable for small to medium deployments. The most notable effect of this change is in allowing browsers to cache uploaded image content; however, while there will be many fewer requests, it also has an improvement on request latency. The following tests were done with a non-AWS client in SFO, a server and S3 storage in us-east-1, and with 100 requests after 10 requests of warm-up (to fill the nginx cache). The mean and standard deviation are shown. | | Redirect to S3 | Caching proxy, hot | Caching proxy, cold | | ----------------- | ------------------- | ------------------- | ------------------- | | Time in Django | 263.0 ms ± 28.3 ms | 258.0 ms ± 12.3 ms | 258.0 ms ± 12.3 ms | | Small file (842b) | 586.1 ms ± 21.1 ms | 266.1 ms ± 67.4 ms | 288.6 ms ± 17.7 ms | | Large file (660k) | 959.6 ms ± 137.9 ms | 609.5 ms ± 13.0 ms | 648.1 ms ± 43.2 ms | The hot-cache performance is faster for both large and small files, since it saves the client the time having to make a second request to a separate host. This performance improvement remains at least 100ms even if the client is on the same coast as the server. Cold nginx caches are only slightly slower than hot caches, because VPC access to S3 endpoints is extremely fast (assuming it is in the same region as the host), and nginx can pool connections to S3 and reuse them. However, all of the 648ms taken to serve a cold-cache large file is occupied in nginx, as opposed to the only 263ms which was spent in nginx when using redirects to S3. This means that to overall spend less time responding to uploaded-file requests in nginx, clients will need to find files in their local cache, and skip making an uploaded-file request, at least 60% of the time. Modeling shows a reduction in the number of client requests by about 70% - 80%. The `Content-Disposition` header logic can now also be entirely shared with the local-file codepath, as can the `url_only` path used by mobile clients. While we could provide the direct-to-S3 temporary signed URL to mobile clients, we choose to provide the served-from-Zulip signed URL, to better control caching headers on it, and greater consistency. In doing so, we adjust the salt used for the URL; since these URLs are only valid for 60s, the effect of this salt change is minimal.
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if url_only:
url = generate_unauthed_file_access_url(path_id)
return json_success(request, data=dict(url=url))
if settings.LOCAL_UPLOADS_DIR is not None:
return serve_local(request, path_id, force_download=force_download)
uploads: Serve S3 uploads directly from nginx. When file uploads are stored in S3, this means that Zulip serves as a 302 to S3. Because browsers do not cache redirects, this means that no image contents can be cached -- and upon every page load or reload, every recently-posted image must be re-fetched. This incurs extra load on the Zulip server, as well as potentially excessive bandwidth usage from S3, and on the client's connection. Switch to fetching the content from S3 in nginx, and serving the content from nginx. These have `Cache-control: private, immutable` headers set on the response, allowing browsers to cache them locally. Because nginx fetching from S3 can be slow, and requests for uploads will generally be bunched around when a message containing them are first posted, we instruct nginx to cache the contents locally. This is safe because uploaded file contents are immutable; access control is still mediated by Django. The nginx cache key is the URL without query parameters, as those parameters include a time-limited signed authentication parameter which lets nginx fetch the non-public file. This adds a number of nginx-level configuration parameters to control the caching which nginx performs, including the amount of in-memory index for he cache, the maximum storage of the cache on disk, and how long data is retained in the cache. The currently-chosen figures are reasonable for small to medium deployments. The most notable effect of this change is in allowing browsers to cache uploaded image content; however, while there will be many fewer requests, it also has an improvement on request latency. The following tests were done with a non-AWS client in SFO, a server and S3 storage in us-east-1, and with 100 requests after 10 requests of warm-up (to fill the nginx cache). The mean and standard deviation are shown. | | Redirect to S3 | Caching proxy, hot | Caching proxy, cold | | ----------------- | ------------------- | ------------------- | ------------------- | | Time in Django | 263.0 ms ± 28.3 ms | 258.0 ms ± 12.3 ms | 258.0 ms ± 12.3 ms | | Small file (842b) | 586.1 ms ± 21.1 ms | 266.1 ms ± 67.4 ms | 288.6 ms ± 17.7 ms | | Large file (660k) | 959.6 ms ± 137.9 ms | 609.5 ms ± 13.0 ms | 648.1 ms ± 43.2 ms | The hot-cache performance is faster for both large and small files, since it saves the client the time having to make a second request to a separate host. This performance improvement remains at least 100ms even if the client is on the same coast as the server. Cold nginx caches are only slightly slower than hot caches, because VPC access to S3 endpoints is extremely fast (assuming it is in the same region as the host), and nginx can pool connections to S3 and reuse them. However, all of the 648ms taken to serve a cold-cache large file is occupied in nginx, as opposed to the only 263ms which was spent in nginx when using redirects to S3. This means that to overall spend less time responding to uploaded-file requests in nginx, clients will need to find files in their local cache, and skip making an uploaded-file request, at least 60% of the time. Modeling shows a reduction in the number of client requests by about 70% - 80%. The `Content-Disposition` header logic can now also be entirely shared with the local-file codepath, as can the `url_only` path used by mobile clients. While we could provide the direct-to-S3 temporary signed URL to mobile clients, we choose to provide the served-from-Zulip signed URL, to better control caching headers on it, and greater consistency. In doing so, we adjust the salt used for the URL; since these URLs are only valid for 60s, the effect of this salt change is minimal.
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else:
return serve_s3(request, path_id, force_download=force_download)
uploads: Serve S3 uploads directly from nginx. When file uploads are stored in S3, this means that Zulip serves as a 302 to S3. Because browsers do not cache redirects, this means that no image contents can be cached -- and upon every page load or reload, every recently-posted image must be re-fetched. This incurs extra load on the Zulip server, as well as potentially excessive bandwidth usage from S3, and on the client's connection. Switch to fetching the content from S3 in nginx, and serving the content from nginx. These have `Cache-control: private, immutable` headers set on the response, allowing browsers to cache them locally. Because nginx fetching from S3 can be slow, and requests for uploads will generally be bunched around when a message containing them are first posted, we instruct nginx to cache the contents locally. This is safe because uploaded file contents are immutable; access control is still mediated by Django. The nginx cache key is the URL without query parameters, as those parameters include a time-limited signed authentication parameter which lets nginx fetch the non-public file. This adds a number of nginx-level configuration parameters to control the caching which nginx performs, including the amount of in-memory index for he cache, the maximum storage of the cache on disk, and how long data is retained in the cache. The currently-chosen figures are reasonable for small to medium deployments. The most notable effect of this change is in allowing browsers to cache uploaded image content; however, while there will be many fewer requests, it also has an improvement on request latency. The following tests were done with a non-AWS client in SFO, a server and S3 storage in us-east-1, and with 100 requests after 10 requests of warm-up (to fill the nginx cache). The mean and standard deviation are shown. | | Redirect to S3 | Caching proxy, hot | Caching proxy, cold | | ----------------- | ------------------- | ------------------- | ------------------- | | Time in Django | 263.0 ms ± 28.3 ms | 258.0 ms ± 12.3 ms | 258.0 ms ± 12.3 ms | | Small file (842b) | 586.1 ms ± 21.1 ms | 266.1 ms ± 67.4 ms | 288.6 ms ± 17.7 ms | | Large file (660k) | 959.6 ms ± 137.9 ms | 609.5 ms ± 13.0 ms | 648.1 ms ± 43.2 ms | The hot-cache performance is faster for both large and small files, since it saves the client the time having to make a second request to a separate host. This performance improvement remains at least 100ms even if the client is on the same coast as the server. Cold nginx caches are only slightly slower than hot caches, because VPC access to S3 endpoints is extremely fast (assuming it is in the same region as the host), and nginx can pool connections to S3 and reuse them. However, all of the 648ms taken to serve a cold-cache large file is occupied in nginx, as opposed to the only 263ms which was spent in nginx when using redirects to S3. This means that to overall spend less time responding to uploaded-file requests in nginx, clients will need to find files in their local cache, and skip making an uploaded-file request, at least 60% of the time. Modeling shows a reduction in the number of client requests by about 70% - 80%. The `Content-Disposition` header logic can now also be entirely shared with the local-file codepath, as can the `url_only` path used by mobile clients. While we could provide the direct-to-S3 temporary signed URL to mobile clients, we choose to provide the served-from-Zulip signed URL, to better control caching headers on it, and greater consistency. In doing so, we adjust the salt used for the URL; since these URLs are only valid for 60s, the effect of this salt change is minimal.
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USER_UPLOADS_ACCESS_TOKEN_SALT = "user_uploads_"
def generate_unauthed_file_access_url(path_id: str) -> str:
uploads: Serve S3 uploads directly from nginx. When file uploads are stored in S3, this means that Zulip serves as a 302 to S3. Because browsers do not cache redirects, this means that no image contents can be cached -- and upon every page load or reload, every recently-posted image must be re-fetched. This incurs extra load on the Zulip server, as well as potentially excessive bandwidth usage from S3, and on the client's connection. Switch to fetching the content from S3 in nginx, and serving the content from nginx. These have `Cache-control: private, immutable` headers set on the response, allowing browsers to cache them locally. Because nginx fetching from S3 can be slow, and requests for uploads will generally be bunched around when a message containing them are first posted, we instruct nginx to cache the contents locally. This is safe because uploaded file contents are immutable; access control is still mediated by Django. The nginx cache key is the URL without query parameters, as those parameters include a time-limited signed authentication parameter which lets nginx fetch the non-public file. This adds a number of nginx-level configuration parameters to control the caching which nginx performs, including the amount of in-memory index for he cache, the maximum storage of the cache on disk, and how long data is retained in the cache. The currently-chosen figures are reasonable for small to medium deployments. The most notable effect of this change is in allowing browsers to cache uploaded image content; however, while there will be many fewer requests, it also has an improvement on request latency. The following tests were done with a non-AWS client in SFO, a server and S3 storage in us-east-1, and with 100 requests after 10 requests of warm-up (to fill the nginx cache). The mean and standard deviation are shown. | | Redirect to S3 | Caching proxy, hot | Caching proxy, cold | | ----------------- | ------------------- | ------------------- | ------------------- | | Time in Django | 263.0 ms ± 28.3 ms | 258.0 ms ± 12.3 ms | 258.0 ms ± 12.3 ms | | Small file (842b) | 586.1 ms ± 21.1 ms | 266.1 ms ± 67.4 ms | 288.6 ms ± 17.7 ms | | Large file (660k) | 959.6 ms ± 137.9 ms | 609.5 ms ± 13.0 ms | 648.1 ms ± 43.2 ms | The hot-cache performance is faster for both large and small files, since it saves the client the time having to make a second request to a separate host. This performance improvement remains at least 100ms even if the client is on the same coast as the server. Cold nginx caches are only slightly slower than hot caches, because VPC access to S3 endpoints is extremely fast (assuming it is in the same region as the host), and nginx can pool connections to S3 and reuse them. However, all of the 648ms taken to serve a cold-cache large file is occupied in nginx, as opposed to the only 263ms which was spent in nginx when using redirects to S3. This means that to overall spend less time responding to uploaded-file requests in nginx, clients will need to find files in their local cache, and skip making an uploaded-file request, at least 60% of the time. Modeling shows a reduction in the number of client requests by about 70% - 80%. The `Content-Disposition` header logic can now also be entirely shared with the local-file codepath, as can the `url_only` path used by mobile clients. While we could provide the direct-to-S3 temporary signed URL to mobile clients, we choose to provide the served-from-Zulip signed URL, to better control caching headers on it, and greater consistency. In doing so, we adjust the salt used for the URL; since these URLs are only valid for 60s, the effect of this salt change is minimal.
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signed_data = TimestampSigner(salt=USER_UPLOADS_ACCESS_TOKEN_SALT).sign(path_id)
token = base64.b16encode(signed_data.encode()).decode()
filename = path_id.split("/")[-1]
uploads: Serve S3 uploads directly from nginx. When file uploads are stored in S3, this means that Zulip serves as a 302 to S3. Because browsers do not cache redirects, this means that no image contents can be cached -- and upon every page load or reload, every recently-posted image must be re-fetched. This incurs extra load on the Zulip server, as well as potentially excessive bandwidth usage from S3, and on the client's connection. Switch to fetching the content from S3 in nginx, and serving the content from nginx. These have `Cache-control: private, immutable` headers set on the response, allowing browsers to cache them locally. Because nginx fetching from S3 can be slow, and requests for uploads will generally be bunched around when a message containing them are first posted, we instruct nginx to cache the contents locally. This is safe because uploaded file contents are immutable; access control is still mediated by Django. The nginx cache key is the URL without query parameters, as those parameters include a time-limited signed authentication parameter which lets nginx fetch the non-public file. This adds a number of nginx-level configuration parameters to control the caching which nginx performs, including the amount of in-memory index for he cache, the maximum storage of the cache on disk, and how long data is retained in the cache. The currently-chosen figures are reasonable for small to medium deployments. The most notable effect of this change is in allowing browsers to cache uploaded image content; however, while there will be many fewer requests, it also has an improvement on request latency. The following tests were done with a non-AWS client in SFO, a server and S3 storage in us-east-1, and with 100 requests after 10 requests of warm-up (to fill the nginx cache). The mean and standard deviation are shown. | | Redirect to S3 | Caching proxy, hot | Caching proxy, cold | | ----------------- | ------------------- | ------------------- | ------------------- | | Time in Django | 263.0 ms ± 28.3 ms | 258.0 ms ± 12.3 ms | 258.0 ms ± 12.3 ms | | Small file (842b) | 586.1 ms ± 21.1 ms | 266.1 ms ± 67.4 ms | 288.6 ms ± 17.7 ms | | Large file (660k) | 959.6 ms ± 137.9 ms | 609.5 ms ± 13.0 ms | 648.1 ms ± 43.2 ms | The hot-cache performance is faster for both large and small files, since it saves the client the time having to make a second request to a separate host. This performance improvement remains at least 100ms even if the client is on the same coast as the server. Cold nginx caches are only slightly slower than hot caches, because VPC access to S3 endpoints is extremely fast (assuming it is in the same region as the host), and nginx can pool connections to S3 and reuse them. However, all of the 648ms taken to serve a cold-cache large file is occupied in nginx, as opposed to the only 263ms which was spent in nginx when using redirects to S3. This means that to overall spend less time responding to uploaded-file requests in nginx, clients will need to find files in their local cache, and skip making an uploaded-file request, at least 60% of the time. Modeling shows a reduction in the number of client requests by about 70% - 80%. The `Content-Disposition` header logic can now also be entirely shared with the local-file codepath, as can the `url_only` path used by mobile clients. While we could provide the direct-to-S3 temporary signed URL to mobile clients, we choose to provide the served-from-Zulip signed URL, to better control caching headers on it, and greater consistency. In doing so, we adjust the salt used for the URL; since these URLs are only valid for 60s, the effect of this salt change is minimal.
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return reverse("file_unauthed_from_token", args=[token, filename])
uploads: Serve S3 uploads directly from nginx. When file uploads are stored in S3, this means that Zulip serves as a 302 to S3. Because browsers do not cache redirects, this means that no image contents can be cached -- and upon every page load or reload, every recently-posted image must be re-fetched. This incurs extra load on the Zulip server, as well as potentially excessive bandwidth usage from S3, and on the client's connection. Switch to fetching the content from S3 in nginx, and serving the content from nginx. These have `Cache-control: private, immutable` headers set on the response, allowing browsers to cache them locally. Because nginx fetching from S3 can be slow, and requests for uploads will generally be bunched around when a message containing them are first posted, we instruct nginx to cache the contents locally. This is safe because uploaded file contents are immutable; access control is still mediated by Django. The nginx cache key is the URL without query parameters, as those parameters include a time-limited signed authentication parameter which lets nginx fetch the non-public file. This adds a number of nginx-level configuration parameters to control the caching which nginx performs, including the amount of in-memory index for he cache, the maximum storage of the cache on disk, and how long data is retained in the cache. The currently-chosen figures are reasonable for small to medium deployments. The most notable effect of this change is in allowing browsers to cache uploaded image content; however, while there will be many fewer requests, it also has an improvement on request latency. The following tests were done with a non-AWS client in SFO, a server and S3 storage in us-east-1, and with 100 requests after 10 requests of warm-up (to fill the nginx cache). The mean and standard deviation are shown. | | Redirect to S3 | Caching proxy, hot | Caching proxy, cold | | ----------------- | ------------------- | ------------------- | ------------------- | | Time in Django | 263.0 ms ± 28.3 ms | 258.0 ms ± 12.3 ms | 258.0 ms ± 12.3 ms | | Small file (842b) | 586.1 ms ± 21.1 ms | 266.1 ms ± 67.4 ms | 288.6 ms ± 17.7 ms | | Large file (660k) | 959.6 ms ± 137.9 ms | 609.5 ms ± 13.0 ms | 648.1 ms ± 43.2 ms | The hot-cache performance is faster for both large and small files, since it saves the client the time having to make a second request to a separate host. This performance improvement remains at least 100ms even if the client is on the same coast as the server. Cold nginx caches are only slightly slower than hot caches, because VPC access to S3 endpoints is extremely fast (assuming it is in the same region as the host), and nginx can pool connections to S3 and reuse them. However, all of the 648ms taken to serve a cold-cache large file is occupied in nginx, as opposed to the only 263ms which was spent in nginx when using redirects to S3. This means that to overall spend less time responding to uploaded-file requests in nginx, clients will need to find files in their local cache, and skip making an uploaded-file request, at least 60% of the time. Modeling shows a reduction in the number of client requests by about 70% - 80%. The `Content-Disposition` header logic can now also be entirely shared with the local-file codepath, as can the `url_only` path used by mobile clients. While we could provide the direct-to-S3 temporary signed URL to mobile clients, we choose to provide the served-from-Zulip signed URL, to better control caching headers on it, and greater consistency. In doing so, we adjust the salt used for the URL; since these URLs are only valid for 60s, the effect of this salt change is minimal.
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def get_file_path_id_from_token(token: str) -> Optional[str]:
signer = TimestampSigner(salt=USER_UPLOADS_ACCESS_TOKEN_SALT)
try:
signed_data = base64.b16decode(token).decode()
path_id = signer.unsign(
signed_data, max_age=timedelta(seconds=settings.SIGNED_ACCESS_TOKEN_VALIDITY_IN_SECONDS)
)
except (BadSignature, binascii.Error):
return None
return path_id
uploads: Serve S3 uploads directly from nginx. When file uploads are stored in S3, this means that Zulip serves as a 302 to S3. Because browsers do not cache redirects, this means that no image contents can be cached -- and upon every page load or reload, every recently-posted image must be re-fetched. This incurs extra load on the Zulip server, as well as potentially excessive bandwidth usage from S3, and on the client's connection. Switch to fetching the content from S3 in nginx, and serving the content from nginx. These have `Cache-control: private, immutable` headers set on the response, allowing browsers to cache them locally. Because nginx fetching from S3 can be slow, and requests for uploads will generally be bunched around when a message containing them are first posted, we instruct nginx to cache the contents locally. This is safe because uploaded file contents are immutable; access control is still mediated by Django. The nginx cache key is the URL without query parameters, as those parameters include a time-limited signed authentication parameter which lets nginx fetch the non-public file. This adds a number of nginx-level configuration parameters to control the caching which nginx performs, including the amount of in-memory index for he cache, the maximum storage of the cache on disk, and how long data is retained in the cache. The currently-chosen figures are reasonable for small to medium deployments. The most notable effect of this change is in allowing browsers to cache uploaded image content; however, while there will be many fewer requests, it also has an improvement on request latency. The following tests were done with a non-AWS client in SFO, a server and S3 storage in us-east-1, and with 100 requests after 10 requests of warm-up (to fill the nginx cache). The mean and standard deviation are shown. | | Redirect to S3 | Caching proxy, hot | Caching proxy, cold | | ----------------- | ------------------- | ------------------- | ------------------- | | Time in Django | 263.0 ms ± 28.3 ms | 258.0 ms ± 12.3 ms | 258.0 ms ± 12.3 ms | | Small file (842b) | 586.1 ms ± 21.1 ms | 266.1 ms ± 67.4 ms | 288.6 ms ± 17.7 ms | | Large file (660k) | 959.6 ms ± 137.9 ms | 609.5 ms ± 13.0 ms | 648.1 ms ± 43.2 ms | The hot-cache performance is faster for both large and small files, since it saves the client the time having to make a second request to a separate host. This performance improvement remains at least 100ms even if the client is on the same coast as the server. Cold nginx caches are only slightly slower than hot caches, because VPC access to S3 endpoints is extremely fast (assuming it is in the same region as the host), and nginx can pool connections to S3 and reuse them. However, all of the 648ms taken to serve a cold-cache large file is occupied in nginx, as opposed to the only 263ms which was spent in nginx when using redirects to S3. This means that to overall spend less time responding to uploaded-file requests in nginx, clients will need to find files in their local cache, and skip making an uploaded-file request, at least 60% of the time. Modeling shows a reduction in the number of client requests by about 70% - 80%. The `Content-Disposition` header logic can now also be entirely shared with the local-file codepath, as can the `url_only` path used by mobile clients. While we could provide the direct-to-S3 temporary signed URL to mobile clients, we choose to provide the served-from-Zulip signed URL, to better control caching headers on it, and greater consistency. In doing so, we adjust the salt used for the URL; since these URLs are only valid for 60s, the effect of this salt change is minimal.
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def serve_file_unauthed_from_token(
request: HttpRequest, token: str, filename: str
) -> HttpResponseBase:
path_id = get_file_path_id_from_token(token)
if path_id is None:
raise JsonableError(_("Invalid token"))
if path_id.split("/")[-1] != filename:
raise JsonableError(_("Invalid filename"))
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uploads: Serve S3 uploads directly from nginx. When file uploads are stored in S3, this means that Zulip serves as a 302 to S3. Because browsers do not cache redirects, this means that no image contents can be cached -- and upon every page load or reload, every recently-posted image must be re-fetched. This incurs extra load on the Zulip server, as well as potentially excessive bandwidth usage from S3, and on the client's connection. Switch to fetching the content from S3 in nginx, and serving the content from nginx. These have `Cache-control: private, immutable` headers set on the response, allowing browsers to cache them locally. Because nginx fetching from S3 can be slow, and requests for uploads will generally be bunched around when a message containing them are first posted, we instruct nginx to cache the contents locally. This is safe because uploaded file contents are immutable; access control is still mediated by Django. The nginx cache key is the URL without query parameters, as those parameters include a time-limited signed authentication parameter which lets nginx fetch the non-public file. This adds a number of nginx-level configuration parameters to control the caching which nginx performs, including the amount of in-memory index for he cache, the maximum storage of the cache on disk, and how long data is retained in the cache. The currently-chosen figures are reasonable for small to medium deployments. The most notable effect of this change is in allowing browsers to cache uploaded image content; however, while there will be many fewer requests, it also has an improvement on request latency. The following tests were done with a non-AWS client in SFO, a server and S3 storage in us-east-1, and with 100 requests after 10 requests of warm-up (to fill the nginx cache). The mean and standard deviation are shown. | | Redirect to S3 | Caching proxy, hot | Caching proxy, cold | | ----------------- | ------------------- | ------------------- | ------------------- | | Time in Django | 263.0 ms ± 28.3 ms | 258.0 ms ± 12.3 ms | 258.0 ms ± 12.3 ms | | Small file (842b) | 586.1 ms ± 21.1 ms | 266.1 ms ± 67.4 ms | 288.6 ms ± 17.7 ms | | Large file (660k) | 959.6 ms ± 137.9 ms | 609.5 ms ± 13.0 ms | 648.1 ms ± 43.2 ms | The hot-cache performance is faster for both large and small files, since it saves the client the time having to make a second request to a separate host. This performance improvement remains at least 100ms even if the client is on the same coast as the server. Cold nginx caches are only slightly slower than hot caches, because VPC access to S3 endpoints is extremely fast (assuming it is in the same region as the host), and nginx can pool connections to S3 and reuse them. However, all of the 648ms taken to serve a cold-cache large file is occupied in nginx, as opposed to the only 263ms which was spent in nginx when using redirects to S3. This means that to overall spend less time responding to uploaded-file requests in nginx, clients will need to find files in their local cache, and skip making an uploaded-file request, at least 60% of the time. Modeling shows a reduction in the number of client requests by about 70% - 80%. The `Content-Disposition` header logic can now also be entirely shared with the local-file codepath, as can the `url_only` path used by mobile clients. While we could provide the direct-to-S3 temporary signed URL to mobile clients, we choose to provide the served-from-Zulip signed URL, to better control caching headers on it, and greater consistency. In doing so, we adjust the salt used for the URL; since these URLs are only valid for 60s, the effect of this salt change is minimal.
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if settings.LOCAL_UPLOADS_DIR is not None:
return serve_local(request, path_id)
uploads: Serve S3 uploads directly from nginx. When file uploads are stored in S3, this means that Zulip serves as a 302 to S3. Because browsers do not cache redirects, this means that no image contents can be cached -- and upon every page load or reload, every recently-posted image must be re-fetched. This incurs extra load on the Zulip server, as well as potentially excessive bandwidth usage from S3, and on the client's connection. Switch to fetching the content from S3 in nginx, and serving the content from nginx. These have `Cache-control: private, immutable` headers set on the response, allowing browsers to cache them locally. Because nginx fetching from S3 can be slow, and requests for uploads will generally be bunched around when a message containing them are first posted, we instruct nginx to cache the contents locally. This is safe because uploaded file contents are immutable; access control is still mediated by Django. The nginx cache key is the URL without query parameters, as those parameters include a time-limited signed authentication parameter which lets nginx fetch the non-public file. This adds a number of nginx-level configuration parameters to control the caching which nginx performs, including the amount of in-memory index for he cache, the maximum storage of the cache on disk, and how long data is retained in the cache. The currently-chosen figures are reasonable for small to medium deployments. The most notable effect of this change is in allowing browsers to cache uploaded image content; however, while there will be many fewer requests, it also has an improvement on request latency. The following tests were done with a non-AWS client in SFO, a server and S3 storage in us-east-1, and with 100 requests after 10 requests of warm-up (to fill the nginx cache). The mean and standard deviation are shown. | | Redirect to S3 | Caching proxy, hot | Caching proxy, cold | | ----------------- | ------------------- | ------------------- | ------------------- | | Time in Django | 263.0 ms ± 28.3 ms | 258.0 ms ± 12.3 ms | 258.0 ms ± 12.3 ms | | Small file (842b) | 586.1 ms ± 21.1 ms | 266.1 ms ± 67.4 ms | 288.6 ms ± 17.7 ms | | Large file (660k) | 959.6 ms ± 137.9 ms | 609.5 ms ± 13.0 ms | 648.1 ms ± 43.2 ms | The hot-cache performance is faster for both large and small files, since it saves the client the time having to make a second request to a separate host. This performance improvement remains at least 100ms even if the client is on the same coast as the server. Cold nginx caches are only slightly slower than hot caches, because VPC access to S3 endpoints is extremely fast (assuming it is in the same region as the host), and nginx can pool connections to S3 and reuse them. However, all of the 648ms taken to serve a cold-cache large file is occupied in nginx, as opposed to the only 263ms which was spent in nginx when using redirects to S3. This means that to overall spend less time responding to uploaded-file requests in nginx, clients will need to find files in their local cache, and skip making an uploaded-file request, at least 60% of the time. Modeling shows a reduction in the number of client requests by about 70% - 80%. The `Content-Disposition` header logic can now also be entirely shared with the local-file codepath, as can the `url_only` path used by mobile clients. While we could provide the direct-to-S3 temporary signed URL to mobile clients, we choose to provide the served-from-Zulip signed URL, to better control caching headers on it, and greater consistency. In doing so, we adjust the salt used for the URL; since these URLs are only valid for 60s, the effect of this salt change is minimal.
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else:
return serve_s3(request, path_id)
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def serve_local_avatar_unauthed(request: HttpRequest, path: str) -> HttpResponseBase:
"""Serves avatar images off disk, via nginx (or directly in dev), with no auth.
This is done unauthed because these need to be accessed from HTML
emails, where the client does not have any auth. We rely on the
URL being generated using the AVATAR_SALT secret.
"""
if settings.LOCAL_AVATARS_DIR is None:
# We do not expect clients to hit this URL when using the S3
# backend; however, there is no reason to not serve the
# redirect to S3 where the content lives.
return redirect(
get_public_upload_root_url() + path + "?" + request.GET.urlencode(), permanent=True
)
local_path = os.path.join(settings.LOCAL_AVATARS_DIR, path)
assert_is_local_storage_path("avatars", local_path)
if not os.path.isfile(local_path):
return HttpResponseNotFound("<p>File not found</p>")
if settings.DEVELOPMENT:
response: HttpResponseBase = FileResponse(open(local_path, "rb")) # noqa: SIM115
else:
uploads: Serve S3 uploads directly from nginx. When file uploads are stored in S3, this means that Zulip serves as a 302 to S3. Because browsers do not cache redirects, this means that no image contents can be cached -- and upon every page load or reload, every recently-posted image must be re-fetched. This incurs extra load on the Zulip server, as well as potentially excessive bandwidth usage from S3, and on the client's connection. Switch to fetching the content from S3 in nginx, and serving the content from nginx. These have `Cache-control: private, immutable` headers set on the response, allowing browsers to cache them locally. Because nginx fetching from S3 can be slow, and requests for uploads will generally be bunched around when a message containing them are first posted, we instruct nginx to cache the contents locally. This is safe because uploaded file contents are immutable; access control is still mediated by Django. The nginx cache key is the URL without query parameters, as those parameters include a time-limited signed authentication parameter which lets nginx fetch the non-public file. This adds a number of nginx-level configuration parameters to control the caching which nginx performs, including the amount of in-memory index for he cache, the maximum storage of the cache on disk, and how long data is retained in the cache. The currently-chosen figures are reasonable for small to medium deployments. The most notable effect of this change is in allowing browsers to cache uploaded image content; however, while there will be many fewer requests, it also has an improvement on request latency. The following tests were done with a non-AWS client in SFO, a server and S3 storage in us-east-1, and with 100 requests after 10 requests of warm-up (to fill the nginx cache). The mean and standard deviation are shown. | | Redirect to S3 | Caching proxy, hot | Caching proxy, cold | | ----------------- | ------------------- | ------------------- | ------------------- | | Time in Django | 263.0 ms ± 28.3 ms | 258.0 ms ± 12.3 ms | 258.0 ms ± 12.3 ms | | Small file (842b) | 586.1 ms ± 21.1 ms | 266.1 ms ± 67.4 ms | 288.6 ms ± 17.7 ms | | Large file (660k) | 959.6 ms ± 137.9 ms | 609.5 ms ± 13.0 ms | 648.1 ms ± 43.2 ms | The hot-cache performance is faster for both large and small files, since it saves the client the time having to make a second request to a separate host. This performance improvement remains at least 100ms even if the client is on the same coast as the server. Cold nginx caches are only slightly slower than hot caches, because VPC access to S3 endpoints is extremely fast (assuming it is in the same region as the host), and nginx can pool connections to S3 and reuse them. However, all of the 648ms taken to serve a cold-cache large file is occupied in nginx, as opposed to the only 263ms which was spent in nginx when using redirects to S3. This means that to overall spend less time responding to uploaded-file requests in nginx, clients will need to find files in their local cache, and skip making an uploaded-file request, at least 60% of the time. Modeling shows a reduction in the number of client requests by about 70% - 80%. The `Content-Disposition` header logic can now also be entirely shared with the local-file codepath, as can the `url_only` path used by mobile clients. While we could provide the direct-to-S3 temporary signed URL to mobile clients, we choose to provide the served-from-Zulip signed URL, to better control caching headers on it, and greater consistency. In doing so, we adjust the salt used for the URL; since these URLs are only valid for 60s, the effect of this salt change is minimal.
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response = internal_nginx_redirect(quote(f"/internal/local/user_avatars/{path}"))
# We do _not_ mark the contents as immutable for caching purposes,
# since the path for avatar images is hashed only by their user-id
# and a salt, and as such are reused when a user's avatar is
# updated.
return response
def upload_file_backend(request: HttpRequest, user_profile: UserProfile) -> HttpResponse:
if len(request.FILES) == 0:
raise JsonableError(_("You must specify a file to upload"))
if len(request.FILES) != 1:
raise JsonableError(_("You may only upload one file at a time"))
[user_file] = request.FILES.values()
assert isinstance(user_file, UploadedFile)
file_size = user_file.size
assert file_size is not None
if file_size > settings.MAX_FILE_UPLOAD_SIZE * 1024 * 1024:
raise JsonableError(
_("Uploaded file is larger than the allowed limit of {max_size} MiB").format(
max_size=settings.MAX_FILE_UPLOAD_SIZE,
)
)
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check_upload_within_quota(user_profile.realm, file_size)
uri = upload_message_attachment_from_request(user_file, user_profile, file_size)
return json_success(request, data={"uri": uri})