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Loop detection

Open mhamann opened this issue 6 years ago • 0 comments

Add logic to detect when an API might be calling itself (directly or via another API) in a loop, and terminate the loop.

This can be done through injection of unique headers for every hop through the gateway.

For example:

Client request -> GW: GET /api1 GW inject header: X-ApiGw-Loop: get_api1 GW request -> GW: GET /api2 GW inject header: X-ApiGw-Loop: get_api1 get_api2 GW request -> GW: GET /api1 GW analyzes X-ApiGw-Loop and sees get_api1 is already present GW response: 508 Loop detected (or similar)

mhamann avatar Oct 17 '19 20:10 mhamann