authentication: use hidden form instead of referer

This also gives us some CSRF protection. Note that we make use of the
hmac to protect the redirect value.

Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>

1 file changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletion

diff --git a/cgitrc.5.txt b/cgitrc.5.txtindex c45dbd3..682d8bb 100644--- a/cgitrc.5.txt+++ b/cgitrc.5.txt@@ -662,7 +662,8 @@ auth filter:: 	the http cookie and return a 0 if it is invalid or 1 if it is invalid, 	in the exit code / close function. If the filter action is 	"authenticate-post", this filter receives POST'd parameters on-	standard input, and should write to output one or more "Set-Cookie"+	standard input, and should write a complete CGI request, preferably+	with a 302 redirect, and write to output one or more "Set-Cookie" 	HTTP headers, each followed by a newline.  	Please see `filters/simple-authentication.lua` for a clear example
diff --git a/cgitrc.5.txt b/cgitrc.5.txt
index c45dbd3..682d8bb 100644
--- a/cgitrc.5.txt
+++ b/cgitrc.5.txt
@@ -662,7 +662,8 @@ auth filter::
 	the http cookie and return a 0 if it is invalid or 1 if it is invalid,
 	in the exit code / close function. If the filter action is
 	"authenticate-post", this filter receives POST'd parameters on
-	standard input, and should write to output one or more "Set-Cookie"
+	standard input, and should write a complete CGI request, preferably
+	with a 302 redirect, and write to output one or more "Set-Cookie"
 	HTTP headers, each followed by a newline.
 
 	Please see `filters/simple-authentication.lua` for a clear example