Add logged in user to HTTP response header

[fatihusta]

Feature Request

Requierment I want to save username to access.log who logged in from the IP address for security purpose.

Solution I saw a solution on the link. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39475430/how-to-add-laravel-username-to-the-access-log-of-nginx

I staticly tested. And It worked but just at root page(/). I'm not a PHP developer. So please support this feature in flarum.

Sample nginx log

{
  "time_local": "2022-02-25T15:37:45+03:00",
  "client_ip": "x.x.x.x",
  "remote_addr": "x.x.x.x",
  "remote_user": "Flarum",
  "request": "GET / HTTP/1.1",
  "status": "200",
  "body_bytes_sent": "17571",
  "request_time": "0.221",
  "http_referrer": "",
  "http_user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/98.0.4758.102 Safari/537.36",
  "request_id": "6a2cbee8fb90adb02b4218cb4a485ef2"
}

My static test src/Http/Middleware/UsernameToHeader.php (copied from FlarumPromotionHeader.php)

<?php

/*
 * This file is part of Flarum.
 *
 * For detailed copyright and license information, please view the
 * LICENSE file that was distributed with this source code.
 */

namespace Flarum\Http\Middleware;

use Flarum\Foundation\Config;
use Illuminate\Support\Arr;
use Psr\Http\Message\ResponseInterface;
use Psr\Http\Message\ServerRequestInterface;
use Psr\Http\Server\MiddlewareInterface as Middleware;
use Psr\Http\Server\RequestHandlerInterface;

class UsernameToHeader implements Middleware
{
    protected $enabled = true;

    public function __construct(Config $config)
    {
        $this->enabled = Arr::get($config, 'headers.usernameToHeader') ?? true;
    }

    public function process(ServerRequestInterface $request, RequestHandlerInterface $handler): ResponseInterface
    {
        $response = $handler->handle($request);

        if ($this->enabled) {
            $response = $response->withAddedHeader('X-Username', 'Flarum');
        }

        return $response;
    }
}

src/Forum/ForumServiceProvider.php

...
HttpMiddleware\FlarumPromotionHeader::class,
HttpMiddleware\UsernameToHeader::class,
...

config.php

....
  'headers' =>
  array (
    'poweredByHeader' => true,
    'usernameToHeader' => true,
    'referrerPolicy' => 'same-origin',
  ),

/etc/nginx/conf.d/logging.conf

log_format json_combined escape=json
    '{'
      '"time_local":"$time_iso8601",'
      '"client_ip":"$http_x_forwarded_for",'
      '"remote_addr":"$remote_addr",'
      '"remote_user":"$sent_http_x_username",'
      '"request":"$request",'
      '"status":"$status",'
      '"body_bytes_sent":"$body_bytes_sent",'
      '"request_time":"$request_time",'
      '"http_referrer":"$http_referer",'
      '"http_user_agent":"$http_user_agent",'
      '"request_id":"$request_id"'
    '}';

access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log json_combined;

[tankerkiller125]

So this can 100% be an extension, you would just need to have your directories setup something like this:

- src/
-- Middleware/UsernameToHeader::class
-- extend.php
composer.json

From there you need to change the namespace of your Middleware to be your own and setup the extend.php and use the Middleware extender to add your middleware in the extend.php file.

For an example of adding and using middleware in an extension you can take a look at https://github.com/flarum-tank/middleware/blob/master/extend.php

In your case you need to use both: (new Extend\Middleware('forum'))->add(<classhere>) and (new Extend\Middleware('api'))->add(<classhere>)

You can read more documentation on this via our docs: https://docs.flarum.org/extend/middleware