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# Example
## Enabling catpcha response from crowdsec
Crowdsec support 3 remediations solutions `ban`, `captcha`, and `throttle`.
This plugins support the `ban` and `captcha` remediation.
### Traefik configuration
The minimal configuration is defined below.
For now 3 captcha providers are supported:
- [hcaptcha](https://www.hcaptcha.com/)
- [recaptcha](https://www.google.com/recaptcha/about/)
- [turnstile](https://www.cloudflare.com/fr-fr/products/turnstile/)
```yaml
labels:
# Choose captcha provider
- "traefik.http.middlewares.crowdsec.plugin.bouncer.captchaProvider=hcaptcha"
# Define captcha site key
- "traefik.http.middlewares.crowdsec.plugin.bouncer.captchaSiteKey=FIXME"
# Define captcha secret key
- "traefik.http.middlewares.crowdsec.plugin.bouncer.captchaSecretKey=FIXME"
# Define captcha grace period seconds
- "traefik.http.middlewares.crowdsec.plugin.bouncer.captchaGracePeriodSeconds=1800"
# Define captcha HTML file path
- "traefik.http.middlewares.crowdsec.plugin.bouncer.captchaHTMLFilePath=/captcha.html"
```
The captcha HTML file must be present in the Traefik container (bind mounted or added during a custom build).
It is not directly accessible from Traefik even when importing the plugin, so [download](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maxlerebourg/crowdsec-bouncer-traefik-plugin/master/captcha.html) it locally to expose it to Traefik.
```yaml
...
traefik:
image: "traefik:v3.0.0"
volumes:
- './captcha.html:/captcha.html'
...
```
### Crowdsec configuration
Crowdsec by default will take the ban action on suspicious activity detected in logs.
To instruct Crowdsec to use captcha remediation, change the `/etc/crowdsec/profiles.yaml`.
2 modes are supported:
- Always return a captcha decision
- Return a captcha decision the first X times and then a ban decision.
The second mode could be used to prevent repeated malicious activity.
More information is available on configuring Crowdsec in the [official documentation](https://docs.crowdsec.net/docs/next/local_api/profiles/captcha_profile/).
```yaml
...
crowdsec:
image: crowdsecurity/crowdsec:v1.6.1-2
volumes:
# For captcha and ban mixed decision
- './profiles.yaml:/etc/crowdsec/profiles.yaml:ro'
# For captcha only remediation
# - './profiles_captcha_only.yaml:/etc/crowdsec/profiles.yaml:ro'
...
```
## Exemple navigation
We can try to query normally the whoami server:
```bash
curl http://localhost:8000/foo
```
We can try to ban ourself
```bash
docker exec crowdsec cscli decisions add --ip 10.0.0.20 -d 4h --type captcha
```
![image decision captcha](image_decision_captcha.png)
We will see in the browser the captcha validation page:
![image captcha validation](image_captcha_validation.png)
To play the demo environment run:
```bash
make run_captcha
```
> Note, if we are banned with a "ban" decision from crowdsec a captcha will not be asked and you will have to wait for the decision to expire or remove it manually.
```bash
docker exec crowdsec cscli decisions add --ip 10.0.0.10 -d 10m --type ban
```
## Captcha Workflow
> Context: The user has no decision attached to his IP
```mermaid
sequenceDiagram
participant User
participant TraefikPlugin
User->>TraefikPlugin: Can I access that webpage
create participant PluginCache
TraefikPlugin-->>PluginCache: Does the user IP has a crowdsec decision ?
destroy PluginCache
PluginCache-->>TraefikPlugin: Nothing, all good!
destroy TraefikPlugin
TraefikPlugin->>Webserver: Forwarding this HTTP Request from User
Webserver->>User: HTTP Response
```
> Context: The user has a captcha decision attached to his IP
```mermaid
sequenceDiagram
participant User
participant TraefikPlugin
User->>TraefikPlugin: Can I access that webpage
create participant PluginCache
TraefikPlugin-->>PluginCache: Does the User IP has a Crowdsec Decision ?
PluginCache-->>TraefikPlugin: Yes a Catpcha Decision
TraefikPlugin->>User: Please complete this captcha
User->>TraefikPlugin: Fine, done!
create participant ProviderCaptcha
TraefikPlugin-->>ProviderCaptcha: Is the validation OK ?
destroy ProviderCaptcha
ProviderCaptcha-->>TraefikPlugin: Yes
TraefikPlugin-->>PluginCache: Set the User IP Clean for captchaGracePeriodSeconds
destroy PluginCache
PluginCache-->>TraefikPlugin: Done
destroy TraefikPlugin
TraefikPlugin->>Webserver: Forwarding this HTTP Request from User
Webserver->>User: HTTP Response
```
> Context: The user has a ban decision attached to his IP
```mermaid
sequenceDiagram
participant User
participant TraefikPlugin
User->>TraefikPlugin: Can I access that webpage
create participant PluginCache
TraefikPlugin-->>PluginCache: Does the User IP has a Crowdsec Decision ?
destroy PluginCache
PluginCache-->>TraefikPlugin: Yes a ban Decision
TraefikPlugin->>User: No, HTTP 403
```
## Captcha Configuration:
- Recaptcha
Choose v2 (challenge) and configure the domain to protect:
![Recaptcha image](image_recaptcha.png)
- Turnstile
TODO
- Hcatpcha
TODO