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Explanation of Change

This PR listens for the X-Load-Test header, and then multiplies requests accordingly. Allowing us to perform stress testing with API traffic from NewDot.

Fixed Issues

$ #88480

Tests

  1. Add define('LOAD_TEST', ['multiplier' => 3, 'expire' => '2099-01-01T00:00:00']); to your _config.local.php file in Web-Expensify
  2. Load NewDot
  3. Open the JS console and look at network requests
  4. Verify that each request is duplicated twice, for a total of three requests
  5. Comment out that constant from _config.local.php
  6. Go back to NewDot and verify network requests are no longer duplicated
  • Verify that no errors appear in the JS console

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None, this requires online access.

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None. We will QA this in production during the next stress test

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@tgolen tgolen changed the title Tgolen duplicate requests Allow stress testing with API traffic from NewDot Apr 21, 2026
@tgolen tgolen changed the title Allow stress testing with API traffic from NewDot [No QA] Allow stress testing with API traffic from NewDot Apr 21, 2026
@tgolen tgolen changed the title [No QA] Allow stress testing with API traffic from NewDot [HOLD Web-Expensify/pull/52274] [No QA] Allow stress testing with API traffic from NewDot Apr 21, 2026
@tgolen tgolen requested a review from flodnv April 21, 2026 23:02
- Drop unused isFromSequentialQueue parameter from LoadTest middleware
- Type fetch mock calls so the test helper passes no-unsafe-return/member-access
- Construct Headers with tuple syntax to avoid naming-convention error on the X-Load-Test property name
- Rephrase comments to avoid cspell unknown words ("preflights", "unparseable")

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if (multiplier > 1 && expire && Number.isFinite(expireTime) && Date.now() < expireTime) {
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P1 Badge Clamp load-test multiplier before fan-out

getDuplicateRequestCount() trusts the multiplier parsed from X-Load-Test without validating it is a finite, bounded integer. If the header contains an oversized JSON number (for example 1e309), JSON.parse yields Infinity, this condition passes, and the function returns an unbounded count; triggerDuplicates() then runs for (let i = 0; i < count; i++), which can effectively hang the JS thread and flood requests. Please sanitize multiplier (finite integer + max cap) before returning it.

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Good catch — fixed in 19ce660. The sanitizer now:

  • Rejects non-numbers and non-finite values (so Infinity/NaN short-circuit to 0 duplicates).
  • Floors fractional multipliers so the for-loop counter is always an integer.
  • Caps at MAX_MULTIPLIER = 100, which is well above any legitimate real-world load-test value (typically 3–10) but small enough that even a worst-case server response can't lock up the JS thread or self-DDOS.
  • Rejects multipliers < 2 (anything where multiplier - 1 <= 0).

Added unit tests covering Infinity (1e309 JSON), NaN, negative, fractional, and oversized multipliers — 24/24 passing.

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The multiplier parsed from the X-Load-Test response header was trusted as-is,
which meant a malicious or misconfigured server could send `multiplier: 1e309`
(parses to Infinity) and turn the duplicate-firing for-loop into an infinite
loop that hangs the JS thread and floods the server. It also accepted
fractional, negative, and non-number multipliers without sanitization.

- Reject anything that is not a finite number outright
- Floor fractional values so the loop counter is always an integer
- Cap at MAX_MULTIPLIER (100) which is well above any plausible real load test
- Add unit tests covering Infinity, NaN, negative, fractional, and oversized
  multipliers

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P2 Badge Reject non-object X-Load-Test payloads

setLoadTestParameters() assigns JSON.parse(headerString) directly to loadTest, but valid JSON like "null" parses to null and is still accepted here. On the next request, getDuplicateRequestCount() reads loadTest.multiplier, which throws a TypeError for that payload and forces the middleware’s try/catch path, silently disabling load-test fan-out. Treating non-object parsed values as invalid and resetting to {} avoids this runtime fault.

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Eh, I don't think we need to be overly defensive or descriptive here and I think it's OK for the try/catch to do it's thing.

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@tgolen tgolen changed the title [HOLD Web-Expensify/pull/52274] [No QA] Allow stress testing with API traffic from NewDot [No QA] Allow stress testing with API traffic from NewDot May 4, 2026
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Does this require (or is even possible to test) C+ review?

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@Ollyws It can only be tested by an internal engineer. A code review would still be good though.

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Code LGTM.

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tgolen commented May 13, 2026

@flodnv do you want to merge this, or close it? I think it would be good to have the code deployed so that it's ready for stress testing at some point, even if we're not going to be doing one soon.

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Thanks for the ping, yes, let's merge it.

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✋ This PR was not deployed to staging yet because QA is ongoing. It will be automatically deployed to staging after the next production release.

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🚀 Deployed to staging by https://github.com/flodnv in version: 9.3.74-7 🚀

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🕸 web 🕸 success ✅
🤖 android 🤖 success ✅
🍎 iOS 🍎 success ✅

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No help site changes are required for this PR.

This PR adds internal stress testing infrastructure (a LoadTest middleware that duplicates API requests when the server sends an X-Load-Test header). It has no user-facing impact — no new UI, no changed settings, no modified workflows — so no updates to App/docs/articles are needed.

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🚀 Deployed to production by https://github.com/Beamanator in version: 9.3.74-7 🚀

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