Android: Add Rate-Topics: header to UnifiedPush subscriptions

[binwiederhier]

For UnifiedPush topic subscriptions, we need to add a header Rate-Topics: ... to the JSON stream and WebSocket Connection, so that the server can rate limit based on the subscriber. Right now, this is done solely based on the topic name up<12 digits>, which was meant to be temporary.

[binwiederhier]

/cc @wunter8 While you're in the Android codebase 😬

[wunter8]

Haha, I'll see if I can get to this over the weekend. What exactly am I doing, though?? Is there a Discord/Matrix thread I should refer to for context?

[binwiederhier]

Basically, you're listing all UnifiedPush topics in the GET request for the subscription connection, e.g.

# HTTP stream
GET /mytopic,up1234567890,backups-yolo,up11231323/json HTTP/1.1
Rate-Topics: up1234567890,up11231323

# Websocket
GET /mytopic,up1234567890,backups-yolo,up11231323/ws HTTP/1.1
Rate-Topics: up1234567890,up11231323

# Polling
GET /up1234567890/json?poll=1 HTTP/1.1
Rate-Topics: up1234567890

This will tell the ntfy server to register visitor as a rate visitor for the UP topics, but not the others. I am happy to give more details, but this is poorly documented, as it is still be ironed out.