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J. Scott Miller 66b065323b feat: log rate-limited external auth token validation (#26754)
When `ValidateToken` keeps a token because the external auth validation
endpoint was rate-limited (a `403` with rate-limit headers or a `429`),
it returns `valid=true` without provider confirmation. Previously this
happened silently, so operators couldn't tell a provider-confirmed token
from one kept optimistically during a rate limit.

This adds a `Logger` to `externalauth.Config` and emits a `Warn` (with
`provider_id`, `provider_type`, `status_code`, and `reason`) on those
rate-limit branches. It also adds a
`coderd_oauth2_external_requests_rate_limited_total{name, source,
status_code}` counter, incremented in the instrumented round tripper
whenever a provider returns a rate-limited response. The rate-limit
detection is the shared `xhttp.IsRateLimited` (in `coderd/util/xhttp`),
used by both the tripper and `ValidateToken` so the metric and the
validation decision share one definition; no extra wiring is needed
since `ValidateToken` already routes through the instrumented client
with `source="ValidateToken"`.

One deliberate behavioral change rides along: rate-limit detection now
also recognizes the unprefixed `RateLimit-Remaining` header (GitLab, and
the IETF draft rate-limit headers), so a `403` with
`RateLimit-Remaining: 0` is treated as optimistically valid where it was
previously treated as revoked. All other valid/invalid decisions are
unchanged. `TestValidateToken` asserts the warning's fields on the
rate-limited cases and no warning for revocations, `401`, and confirmed
responses; `promoauth` and `xhttp` tests cover the detector and the new
counter.

<details>
<summary>Manual testing</summary>

The signals fire on the external-auth status check (`GET
/api/v2/external-auth/{id}`), which calls `ValidateToken`. To force a
rate-limited response, point a provider's `validate_url` at a mock that
returns the rate-limit shape:

1. Run a mock returning `429` on one path and `403` +
`X-RateLimit-Remaining: 0` on another.
2. Start `coder server` with `--prometheus-enable` and external auth
providers whose `validate_url` point at those mock paths (e.g.
`CODER_EXTERNAL_AUTH_0_VALIDATE_URL=http://127.0.0.1:5599/429`).
3. Create a stored link, either complete the OAuth flow, or insert a row
into `external_auth_links` with a future `oauth_expiry` (token contents
are irrelevant; the mock rejects regardless).
4. `curl` the status endpoint with a session token, then check:
- coderd logs for the `Warn` (`reason=status_code` for `429`,
`reason=rate_limit_headers` for `403`),
- the metrics endpoint for
`coderd_oauth2_external_requests_rate_limited_total{...,status_code="429"|"403"}`.

Notes: `scripts/testidp -429` only rate-limits `/oauth2/userinfo`, not
the `/external-auth-validate/...` path, so it does not exercise this;
use a mock `validate_url`. The default Prometheus port `2112` may
already be taken on dogfood workspaces, set `CODER_PROMETHEUS_ADDRESS`
to a free port.

</details>

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