- ClientHTTP1 gains connectTimeout (default 15 s), applied to each
address the host resolves to. `timeout` only ever bounded the waits for
a response, so a host that drops the SYNs held Send() for the kernel's
retries, about two minutes, whatever the caller had asked for.
- The default Host header puts an IPv6 literal in brackets.
- FetchHTTP1(url, options) makes one request to an http:// or https://
URL and follows redirects as Python's urllib does, so urllib code ported
over keeps its behaviour: 301/302/303/307/308 for GET and HEAD,
301/302/303 for POST (re-sent as a GET without its body), a relative
Location resolved as urljoin resolves it and percent-encoded as urllib
quotes it, http and https hops mixed, each redirect's body read before
the next request, and the chain stopped by urllib's limits (4 repeats
of one URL, 10 different URLs) with the last redirect returned and
`limited` set. Proxies are not consulted.
New: ShouldTimeoutSilentHTTP1, ShouldFollowRedirectsHTTP1.
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HTTP/1.1 was plaintext-only, which left `https://` to either an HTTP/3
listener or a terminating proxy in front. Neither helps the callers this
stack exists for — curl scripts, CI tooling, old proxies — so wrap the
transport in libssl instead.
Two new partitions:
:Stream a ByteStream with per-call deadlines on both directions, plus
the plaintext socket implementation. The HTTP/1.1 client and
listener now hold a ByteStream& and never learn which
transport they have, which is what lets one code path serve
both schemes.
:TLS TLSContext/TLSStream over OpenSSL 3, with credentials for both
roles: chain and hostname verification on by default, private
trust anchors, client certificates, mutual TLS, ALPN, and an
in-process self-signed certificate for development.
Both descriptors go non-blocking and every read and write is driven by
poll() against a deadline. That is required for TLS — a blocking
descriptor cannot express a handshake timeout — and it means a plaintext
write can now time out too, instead of parking forever against a peer
that stopped reading.
ClientHTTP1 and ListenerHTTP1 gain credential-taking constructors; the
existing ones still speak http://. The listener handshakes on the
connection's own thread, so a peer that stalls mid-handshake costs one
thread rather than the accept loop, and a failed handshake is counted
rather than logged — on a public port it is ordinary traffic.
MessageParser gains SetDefaultScheme so origin-form targets report the
scheme the transport actually used; handlers shared with ListenerHTTP now
see the same "https" they would over HTTP/3.
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README: HTTP/1.1 in the intro, feature list, module list, browser-build
exclusions, dependencies and test list, plus a Components section
covering both classes, the standalone codec, what is and is not
implemented, the smuggling-shaped inputs that are rejected, and an
explicit note that this path is plaintext and belongs behind a TLS
terminator.
ClientHTTP1::timeout was hard-coded and invisible; make it a public
member alongside `limits`, mirroring the listener's timeouts.
Also pipelining coverage in ShouldSendRecieveHTTP1: two requests written
before either is answered, driven from a raw socket since ClientHTTP1
waits for each response.
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HTTP/3-only is not a deployable position yet: plenty of clients, proxies
and CI tooling still speak nothing but HTTP/1.1. This adds that path
using the request/response types the HTTP/3 stack already uses, so a
route handler or call site moves between the two protocols by changing
the class name.
- :HTTP1 — transport-free wire format. Serialisation with the framing
headers owned by the serialiser, and an incremental parser that takes
arbitrary socket chunks and yields one message at a time: keep-alive,
pipelining, content-length and chunked bodies (with trailers),
read-to-EOF responses, interim 1xx skipping, HEAD/204/304 framing and
Expect: 100-continue. Ambiguous framing is rejected rather than
guessed at (content-length with transfer-encoding, disagreeing
content-lengths, whitespace before a colon), and CR/LF in a value we
are asked to serialise is refused.
- ClientHTTP1 — persistent connection, redialling once when a pooled
connection turns out to have been closed by the peer, which is the
race HTTP/1.1 keep-alive cannot avoid. Nothing is replayed after a
response byte has arrived.
- ListenerHTTP1 — one thread per connection (keep-alive connections are
idle most of their life and would pin every ThreadPool thread),
automatic Date, HEAD, 100-continue, handler-requested close, idle and
request timeouts, and 400/404/500 responses. Routes fall back to the
query-stripped path so `/thing?x=1` reaches the handler for `/thing`.
No TLS: this is `http://` only. Encrypted traffic still goes over
HTTP/3, or through a TLS-terminating proxy.
Tests: codec unit tests including the malformed inputs above, a
client/server round-trip, keep-alive and stale-connection recovery, a
10 MiB body both ways, and interop both directions against curl and
python3's http.server (skipped when those are not installed).
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