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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
