Add Support for Whitelisting IP Addresses to Bypass Rate Limits

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Problem

Currently, IP rate limiting is applied uniformly across all incoming requests, which may cause issues for certain trusted clients or partners. To address this, we need to implement support for whitelisting specific IP addresses to bypass the rate limit.

This feature should allow a set of whitelisted IP addresses to be defined in the environment configuration. Requests originating from these IPs should bypass the rate limit checks.

Solution

1. Add a new environment variable to define a list of whitelisted IP addresses.
2. Implement a middleware or logic to evaluate incoming requests:
   • If the IP address matches an entry in the whitelist, bypass the rate limit checks.
   • If not, proceed with the current rate limiting logic.
3. Ensure thorough testing to validate the functionality and avoid unintended bypasses.

Alternatives

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