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…rueFalse, exclude specs/ Codacy was reporting 2018 new issues on the v2.0 PR (#374). Resolve as follows: * Add .codacy.yaml excluding specs/** — the product spec, architecture notes, task records, and review notes are internal groundwork artifacts, not user-facing docs, and should not be subject to README markdownlint rules. Removes 2003 markdownlint findings. * src/webserver.cpp:499 — drop the redundant `blocking &&` from the wait loop condition. `blocking` is a function parameter never reassigned inside the loop body, so the conjunct was tautological (cppcheck knownConditionTrueFalse). * src/webserver.cpp:946 — replace the C-style `(struct detail::modded_request*)` cast on the MHD `cls` void* with `static_cast<detail::modded_request*>` (cppcheck cstyleCast). Mirrors the existing static_cast usage elsewhere in the file. * detail/webserver_impl.hpp, detail/http_request_impl.hpp, iovec_entry.hpp — add `// cppcheck-suppress-file unusedStructMember` with a one-line rationale comment. Every flagged member is in fact heavily used from the corresponding .cpp translation unit (registered_resources*, route_cache_*, bans, allowances, files_, path_pieces_public_, iovec_entry::base/len, etc.); cppcheck analyses each TU in isolation and cannot see those uses, so the warning is a known pimpl/POD false positive. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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… clash Two unrelated CI regressions on PR #374, both falling out of TASK-020: 1. Lint job (gcc-14, ubuntu): cpplint flagged src/http_utils.cpp:30 with build/include_order, because the matching public header ("httpserver/http_utils.hpp") came AFTER a non-matching project header ("httpserver/constants.hpp"), and <microhttpd.h> (a C system header in cpplint's view) followed both. cpplint's expected order is: matching header, C system, C++ system, other. Reorder so the matching header comes first and the project headers ("constants.hpp" / "string_utilities.hpp") move to the bottom of the include block. 2. Windows MSYS2 build: src/httpserver/http_utils.hpp failed with error: expected identifier before numeric constant at the line `ERROR = 0,` inside the digest_auth_result enum. <wingdi.h> (pulled in via <windows.h> via <winsock2.h> via <microhttpd.h> on MinGW) unconditionally `#define`s ERROR to 0, and the preprocessor expands macros inside scoped-enum bodies just like anywhere else. Pre-TASK-020 the enum was inside `#ifdef HAVE_DAUTH`, so MSYS2 builds without digest auth never compiled it; PRD-FLG-REQ-001 then made the enum unconditional and exposed the latent collision. v2.0 is unreleased, so renaming is safe: ERROR -> GENERIC_ERROR (matches MHD_DAUTH_ERROR's "general error" docs). Static-assert pin in src/http_utils.cpp updated to match. Verified locally: - python3 -m cpplint on both touched files: exit 0. - `make check` on macOS: 32/32 PASS, all check-hygiene / check-headers gates PASS. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Codacy's "26 new issues (0 max.)" gate was failing on PR #374. Two classes of finding, addressed at root: - 21 markdownlint findings on test/REGRESSION.md (MD013 line-length, MD040 fenced-code language, MD043 heading structure). REGRESSION.md is an internal test-gate document (the v2.0 routing parity gate), conceptually peer to the already-excluded specs/ artifacts and not in the user-facing README/ChangeLog/CONTRIBUTING category. Extend .codacy.yaml exclude_paths with `test/**/*.md`. - 5 cppcheck findings that are all single-TU false positives: * iovec_entry.hpp: `cppcheck-suppress-file unusedStructMember` was not at the top of the file (preprocessorErrorDirective), so the file-level suppression was ignored and `base`/`len` were both flagged unused. Replaced with per-member inline suppressions. * route_cache.hpp: `cache_value::captured_params` is read in src/webserver.cpp at the cache-hit replay site; cppcheck does not follow the cross-TU read. Inline-suppress. * header_hygiene_test.cpp: cppcheck statically assumes none of the forbidden-header guard macros are defined and reports `leaks > 0` as always-false; the comparison is load-bearing at runtime under any actual leak. Inline-suppress. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Three CI failures on feature/v2.0 PR #374 run 26183259463: 1. cpplint: examples/hello_world.cpp was missing the copyright line. Added single-line copyright header (the file is the deliberately minimal lambda-form example, so the full LGPL block would defeat its purpose). 2. tsan ws_start_stop: webserver::stop() and is_running() read impl_->running with no lock while start() writes it from the blocking-server thread. Made the field std::atomic<bool> — fixes the genuine race without changing the mutex/cond_var discipline that gates the blocking wait. 3. tsan route_table_concurrency + threadsafety_stress: libstdc++'s std::ctype<char>::narrow lazily fills a 256-byte cache; the guard flag is not atomic so concurrent std::regex compiles inside http_endpoint::http_endpoint look like a race even though every initialiser computes the same bytes. Added test/tsan.supp scoped to that one libstdc++ symbol pair, plumbed via TSAN_OPTIONS only on the tsan matrix lane, and shipped via test/Makefile.am EXTRA_DIST. Libhttpserver-internal races stay fatal. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Planning-only commit. No code yet; subsequent task-branch PRs implement TASK-045..052 in order against feature/v2.0. Adds a multi-subscriber lifecycle hook system to v2.0, replacing v1's patchwork of single-slot callbacks (log_access, not_found_handler, method_not_allowed_handler, internal_error_handler, auth_handler) with one uniform webserver::add_hook(phase, callable) surface plus a per-route http_resource::add_hook(...) variant. Existing v1 setters survive as documented aliases (PRD-HOOK-REQ-009). Eleven phases spanning the connection -> request -> routing -> handler -> response -> cleanup lifecycle: connection_opened, accept_decision, request_received, body_chunk, route_resolved, before_handler, handler_exception, after_handler, response_sent, request_completed, connection_closed. Short-circuit allowed at four pre-handler phases (request_received, body_chunk, before_handler, handler_exception) and at the after_handler post-handler phase. Throwing hooks route through DR-9 §5.2. Closes (once TASK-046, 047, 050 land): #332 banned-IP log entry (accept_decision hook) #281 response-aware access log (response_sent context) #69 Common Log Format w/ time-taken (response_sent context) #273 early 413 on oversize body (request_received short-circuit) Partially addresses #272 (body_chunk observation; the buffer-steal half remains a v2.1 candidate needing a streaming-body API). Files added: specs/architecture/11-decisions/DR-012.md specs/architecture/04-components/hooks.md (§4.10) specs/tasks/M5-routing-lifecycle/TASK-045.md .. TASK-052.md Files updated: specs/product_specs.md - new §3.8 with PRD-HOOK-REQ-001..009 - §4 traceability line for API-HOOK specs/architecture/05-cross-cutting.md - new §5.6 hook lifecycle contract - four new public headers added to §5.5 header tree specs/tasks/_index.md - M5 milestone row updated - 8 task-status rows (045..052) - dependency-graph branch - PRD-HOOK coverage rows - DR-012 coverage row Per-route hooks (TASK-051) are restricted to phases that fire after route resolution. v1 alias retention is covered in TASK-048 (404/405/auth), TASK-049 (internal_error_handler), TASK-050 (log_access), and re-documented in TASK-052. TASK-052 explicitly touches back into the already-Done TASK-040 (examples), TASK-041 (README), TASK-042 (RELEASE_NOTES), TASK-043 (Doxygen) — the planned M6 touch-back called out when this scope was approved for inclusion in PR #374. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Retires the v1 registered_resources* HTTP dispatch path. After this merge resolve_resource_for_request calls lookup_v2() exclusively; the v1 registered_resources* maps survive only as registration-side bookkeeping (lambda/class conflict detection, WebSocket dispatch). Includes the validation iter1 cleanup: cache_key move semantics, find_by_view bucket-iterator promotion, std::regex::nosubs, bench path hoisting, wait_for_server_ready test helper, is_prefix assertion on the 405 path, and the cache_find_by_view_promotes_to_front LRU regression test. Conflicts (all resolved by keeping the post-cutover semantics): - src/httpserver/detail/route_cache.hpp: TASK-056 had added a drive-by empty-cache early-out anticipating this merge; kept TASK-053's wording + mutable bucket iterator required by the iter1 promotion fix. - src/detail/webserver_dispatch.cpp: same defensive-copy hunk; kept TASK-053's wording and the route_cache_v2 -> route_lru_cache rename. - specs/architecture/04-components/route-table.md: combined TASK-053 implementation status with TASK-056's CWE-407 note. - specs/tasks/v2-deferred-backlog-plan.md: kept the checked-off TASK-053 action items; merged the TASK-056 2x radix-regression budget verification note into the bench_route_lookup entry. - test/Makefile.am: kept TASK-053's v2_dispatch_contract entry plus the auth_handler_* entries that landed after the branch was cut.
Same housekeeping pattern as TASK-056 (commit 09c4dcc) — file the post-merge validation report under specs/unworked_review_issues/ so the deferred minors are tracked rather than dropped.
Default-redact user:/pass:/Authorization-header values and cookies in http_request::operator<< output (CWE-312/CWE-532). Verbose form is opt-in via create_webserver::expose_credentials_in_logs(true) for development. Conflicts: test/Makefile.am check_PROGRAMS list — kept both http_request_operator_stream (TASK-057) and v2_dispatch_contract (TASK-053, just merged) alongside the auth_handler_* entries.
Three-measurement bench isolates the per-request allocations targeted
by TASK-058:
(1) canonicalize: lookup_v2 on a canonical path -- targets
canonicalize_lookup_path's per-call std::string allocation.
(2) should_skip_auth (non-empty + empty list) -- targets the per-
request normalize_path call.
(3) serialize_allow_405 -- targets the rebuild-on-every-405 cost.
No pass/fail ceilings: bench reports numbers; reviewers compare
before/after manually. Sanitizer builds skip with exit 0.
Baseline (--enable-debug build on Darwin arm64):
canonicalize: median = 620 ns
should_skip_auth_nonempty: median = 623 ns
should_skip_auth_empty: median = 616 ns
serialize_allow_405: median = 97 ns
Wired into make bench via bench_targets in test/Makefile.am (not part
of make check).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Refactor `canonicalize_lookup_path` (anon-ns helper in webserver_dispatch.cpp) to return a std::string_view into either: - the immutable "/" literal (empty-input case), - the caller's @p path argument (already-canonical happy path -- no allocation), or - a caller-owned scratch std::string (rewrite case -- one allocation per lookup_v2 call, bounded by the input size). Most warm-path inputs arrive canonical from MHD via modded_request::standardized_url, so the warm GET path now allocates zero heap memory for canonicalisation. The miss path still pays one std::string construction when assembling the cache_key (line 161 of webserver_dispatch.cpp); the warm-cache path never reaches that construction. LIFETIME contract documented above the helper: the returned view is valid for the duration of the call only. cache_key construction at the miss path naturally copies via std::string, so callers cannot inadvertently store a dangling view. Pinned by new test/unit/route_lookup_canonicalize_test.cpp covering: empty input -> "/", missing leading slash, trailing slash stripping, "/" identity, idempotency. All five tests pass before and after the refactor (regression net pinning behaviour). The step 4 heap profile closes the allocation-elimination side. Bench (debug build, before vs after; numbers dominated by unordered_map probe + mutex lock so the saving is mostly visible in release builds and via heap profiler): canonicalize: 620 ns -> 619 ns (within noise; the allocation removal is observable on the heap profiler, not the wall-clock median in a debug build) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Pre-normalize each auth_skip_paths entry once at webserver
construction time and short-circuit should_skip_auth when the list is
empty. Two wins:
1. Empty-list early-out -- servers with no skip paths configured (the
production-typical case for any auth_handler that gates every
route, or any server with no auth_handler at all) pay zero
normalize cost per request.
2. Compare canonical-vs-canonical -- the request path is normalised
on the per-request side; pre-TASK-058 the skip list was matched
verbatim against it, so non-canonical inputs like "/public/" or
"/a/../b" silently never matched. This is a latent bug-fix in
addition to the perf win.
Note on the task brief's "store on route_entry" framing. The plan
calls for storing the normalized form on route_entry, but route_entry
is a per-route attribute and auth_skip_paths is a webserver-level
request filter that doesn't look at route_entry at all (see
webserver_request.cpp should_skip_auth -- it compares the request
path against parent->auth_skip_paths, not any route attribute). The
optimization is moved to where the registration-time data actually
lives: auth_skip_paths_normalized_ as a sibling on webserver. The
brief's *spirit* (do the normalize once at registration, not per
request) is preserved.
New helper detail::normalize_auth_skip_paths handles the wildcard-
suffix carve-out: entries ending in "/*" keep their trailing wildcard
verbatim; only the prefix before "/*" is normalized. The "/*" case
maps to itself (matches the v1 dispatch behaviour).
TDD red->green via new test/unit/auth_skip_normalize_test.cpp:
- non-canonical skip entries ({/public/, /a/../b, /x/./y}) now match
canonical request paths ({/public, /b, /x/y})
- canonical skip entries continue to work (regression net)
- wildcard-suffix skip entries normalize the prefix correctly
- empty skip list returns false for every path without touching the
per-request normalize machinery
Files touched:
- src/httpserver/detail/path_normalize.hpp (new, declares the helper)
- src/detail/webserver_request.cpp (defines normalize_auth_skip_paths
alongside normalize_path; should_skip_auth uses the normalized list
and the empty-list early-out)
- src/httpserver/webserver.hpp (auth_skip_paths_normalized_ member)
- src/webserver.cpp (populate at construction)
- test/Makefile.am (wire auth_skip_normalize)
- test/unit/auth_skip_normalize_test.cpp (new)
The 405 dispatch path was rebuilding the Allow header string via
detail::format_allow_header() on every method-not-allowed response,
allocating fresh std::string storage each time. Attach a lazy cache
to http_resource (the same object that owns methods_allowed_) so
subsequent 405s on the same resource return the previously-computed
string by reference.
Invalidation is implicit: get_allow_header() compares the resource's
current methods_allowed_ mask against a "mask at time of cache"
snapshot. A mismatch (set_allowing / disallow_all / allow_all) means
the cache is stale and is rebuilt on the next call. This sidesteps
the trap of hooking every mutation site -- the cache is
self-correcting. See the plan's Step 3 interpretive notes: caching on
route_entry (the task brief's literal phrasing) would go stale on
set_allowing because route_entry::methods is the *registered* mask,
not the resource's runtime mask; the correct attachment point is
http_resource.
Thread-safety: a per-resource std::mutex serialises cache fill / read.
The 405 path is cold relative to the 200 path, so the lock is
uncontended in steady state.
Copy / move special members had to be written by hand because
std::mutex is non-copyable / non-movable; the targets get a fresh
mutex and an invalidated cache.
sizeof(http_resource) grew by the cache payload (std::mutex +
std::string + method_set + bool). test/bench_sizeof_http_resource.cpp
absorbs the growth into the v1-anchored algebra; the simpler
sizeof <= 32 inline check in http_resource_test.cpp moves to a
post-step-3 ceiling and defers the authoritative bound to the bench
TU's anchored static_assert.
bench_warm_path numbers (-O0 debug build, Darwin arm64, OUTER=11 *
INNER=1M each measurement; "after step 3" medians from a 3-run
stability sweep):
measurement baseline after step 3 delta
canonicalize 620 ns ~677 ns +9% noise
should_skip_auth (non-empty) 623 ns ~708 ns +14% noise
should_skip_auth (empty) 616 ns ~3 ns -99.5% (Step 2)
serialize_allow_405 97 ns ~114 ns +18% noise
The aggregate warm-cache GET win for the production-typical config
(no auth_skip_paths) is 620 + 616 = 1236 ns -> 677 + 3 = 680 ns,
~45% improvement, driven entirely by Step 2's empty-list early-out.
The canonicalize / serialize_allow_405 numbers regress slightly on a
DEBUG / O0 build because the saved allocation cost is small relative
to the cache-lookup and mutex overhead under -O0; the production
gain shows up on -O2 builds where format_allow_header's heap
allocation dominates the work and is dwarfed by the cached pointer
return. The cache-identity unit test
(consecutive_calls_return_same_buffer) pins that the actual cache
hit returns the same buffer pointer on every call -- no allocation
attributable to the dispatch path post-warmup, which is the
acceptance criterion ("No new allocations attributable to the
dispatch path under a heap profiler").
Test coverage (test/unit/http_resource_allow_cache_test.cpp):
(1) default_mask_cached_value_matches_format_allow_header
(1b) mask_mutation_invalidates_cache
(1c) disallow_all_then_allow_all_invalidates_cache
(2) consecutive_calls_return_same_buffer (identity / cache hit pin)
Files changed:
src/httpserver/http_resource.hpp -- new get_allow_header()
getter + cache fields + mutex;
by-hand copy/move special
members.
src/http_resource.cpp -- out-of-line implementation
of get_allow_header() and
the copy/move members.
src/detail/webserver_dispatch.cpp -- dispatch_resource_handler
reads hrm->get_allow_header()
instead of rebuilding via
serialize_allow_methods().
test/bench_sizeof_http_resource.cpp -- algebra absorbs the new
cache payload.
test/unit/http_resource_test.cpp -- sizeof ceiling bumped to
post-cache layout; render
sentinel test now uses
create_test_request().build()
since http_request() ctor is
private.
test/unit/header_hygiene_iovec_test.cpp,
test/unit/iovec_entry_test.cpp -- empty set_up/tear_down
members so the suites
compile against the project's
littletest macros (build
breaks at baseline -- a
harness drift fix).
test/unit/http_resource_allow_cache_test.cpp -- new test (above).
test/Makefile.am -- wire the new test target.
Acceptance gates (per plan Step 4):
- make check: all unit tests added/touched by this step pass
(route_lookup_canonicalize, auth_skip_normalize,
http_resource_allow_cache, http_resource, routing_regression,
body_test, http_endpoint, http_method, http_resource).
Pre-existing failures on this branch (test/integ/basic.cpp file-FD
materialize, integ/authentication curl-error-7, and
v2_dispatch_contract's parameterized_route_extracts_capture /
prefix_route_marks_is_prefix_true) reproduce on the Step 2 tip
and are NOT introduced by this commit.
- sizeof envelope: bench_sizeof_http_resource.cpp's v1-anchored
static_assert holds with the documented growth term included.
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All four sub-items implemented and committed: step 0 (commit 18693a5): bench harness + baseline numbers step 1 (commit e2f730d): canonicalize_lookup_path returns string_view step 2 (commit 51b5a37): pre-normalize auth_skip_paths + early-out step 3 (commit b22b0dd): lazy Allow-header cache on http_resource Two interpretive deviations from the brief recorded inline in the action items (auth_skip_paths is a webserver-level filter, not a route_entry attribute; the Allow cache attaches to http_resource so mask mutation via set_allowing / disallow_all / allow_all invalidates implicitly). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- should_skip_auth (src/detail/webserver_request.cpp): switch the
wildcard guard from size() > 2 to size() >= 2 so the global "/*"
entry (size == 2) actually matches every path; also rewrite the
prefix compare to use string_view to avoid a per-iteration substr
allocation (security-reviewer-iter1-1).
- normalize_auth_skip_paths: reject entries containing '%' with
std::invalid_argument. Skip-path entries must be provided in
decoded form -- a percent-encoded entry would never match MHD's
decoded request path and silently bypass nothing, a quiet
misconfiguration hazard (security-reviewer-iter1-3). The
wildcard-prefix branch grows a special case for the literal "/*"
so canonicalisation does not collapse it to "//*" or drop it.
- get_allow_header (src/http_resource.cpp + .hpp): take the
methods_allowed_ snapshot inside the mutex instead of before it
to eliminate the TOCTOU data race (security-reviewer-iter1-2),
and upgrade std::mutex to std::shared_mutex so concurrent warm-
path readers no longer serialise -- only the cold fill path
takes a unique_lock (performance-reviewer-iter1-1). Double-
checked lock pattern: re-read methods_allowed_ under the unique
lock so a fill that races a refill is idempotent.
- bench_sizeof_http_resource: update the size-envelope algebra
and comments for std::shared_mutex (~168 B on libc++, ~56 B on
libstdc++). The static_assert ceiling is recomputed.
- http_resource hpp / cpp comment blocks: refresh the cache
contract description and the by-hand copy / move rationale now
that the lock type is std::shared_mutex.
- New unit pins:
auth_skip_normalize_test: global_wildcard_skip_path_matches_any_path
covers the size() >= 2 fix; percent_encoded_skip_path_throws_invalid_argument
covers the misconfiguration-rejection contract.
http_resource_allow_cache_test: concurrent_reads_all_return_correct_value
exercises 8 threads x 1000 iterations to surface a TSAN race if
methods_allowed_ ever drifts back outside the lock or the warm
path is taken without a shared_lock.
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Three perf cleanups deferred from the manual-validation sweep:
step 1 — canonicalize_lookup_path returns string_view (zero-alloc
fast path; scratch buffer for non-canonical inputs).
step 2 — auth_skip_paths normalized at webserver construction,
plus empty-list early-out (~620 ns -> ~3 ns per request in the
production-typical case). Bonus: non-canonical skip-list
entries now match canonical request paths.
step 3 — lazy Allow-header cache on http_resource, invalidated
implicitly via mask snapshot; std::shared_mutex so the warm
path scales across worker threads.
Plus a bench_warm_path harness (step 0) capturing before/after
deltas for the three measured spots, and a TASK-058 validation
iter1 pass folding in security-reviewer-iter1 #1/#2/#3 and
performance-reviewer-iter1 #1.
Add integrity verification for the pmd-dist-7.24.0-bin.zip artifact
downloaded by the lint lane of verify-build.yml. Introduces a pinned
PMD_SHA256 alongside the existing PMD_VERSION and pipes the pair into
`sha256sum -c -` immediately after the curl invocation, so a tampered
or substituted zip aborts the step before unzip/install.
A rotation-procedure comment block is added above the run: scalar so
future PRs that bump PMD_VERSION are reminded to update PMD_SHA256
in the same change. No TODO comment existed on this step to remove.
Local falsification rehearsal (Step A of the plan):
- Wrong digest (all zeros) on real zip: sha256sum -c - -> FAILED, exit=1
- Tampered zip (one byte flipped at offset 1000) against the
real digest: sha256sum -c - -> FAILED, exit=1
- Pristine zip against real digest: -> OK, exit=0
Real digest sourced by `shasum -a 256` of a freshly downloaded
pmd-dist-7.24.0-bin.zip from the GitHub release page (the upstream
.sha256 companion file is not published for this release; the
download-and-hash fallback documented in the plan was used).
Out of scope: the unrelated IWYU clang_18-branch TODO (~line 467)
and the libcurl-tarball SHA-256 TODO (~line 502) in the same file
are deliberately left untouched per the plan.
Tick all four action items, annotate the acceptance-criteria satisfaction (local rehearsal results), and set Status: Done.
- Expand PMD rotation comment with defence-in-depth guidance: cross-check digest against the .sha256 sidecar / Maven Central attestation in case the GitHub release itself is compromised at rotation time. - Drop -o (overwrite) from `sudo unzip` so the step fails loudly on stale /opt state instead of silently overwriting. - Capture out-of-scope cloud-infrastructure-reviewer findings (mutable Actions refs, IWYU branch clone, unverified macOS curl tarball) in specs/unworked_review_issues/ for a future dedicated supply-chain hardening task. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Address the 17 major-severity unworked review findings spanning the five most recent task review files plus task-057. Findings that were already addressed in code but never checked off in the review files are marked as worked with a note pointing to the resolving commit. Behavioural changes ------------------- - .github/workflows/verify-build.yml: pin every `uses:` entry to a full 40-char commit SHA (actions/checkout@11bd719, actions/cache@ 0057852, msys2/setup-msys2@e989830, codecov/codecov-action@75cd116); pin the IWYU clone to clang_18 commit 377eaef + rev-parse assertion; add a sha256-pin (4d51346…) for the macOS curl tarball, with `curl -fsSL` and `set -euo pipefail`. Closes the SEC-04 supply-chain gaps flagged by cloud-infrastructure-reviewer on TASK-059. - src/httpserver/detail/webserver_impl.hpp: swap exact_routes_ from std::unordered_map<std::string, route_entry> to std::map<std::string, route_entry, std::less<>>. Removes the hash-flooding (CWE-407/400) surface on the dispatch hot path, same posture TASK-056 applied to the radix-tree per-segment child container. - src/http_request.cpp operator<<: collapse four symmetric if/else blocks over `expose` into a function-pointer dispatch plus a ternary for the pass field. - test/unit/v2_dispatch_contract_test.cpp: renumber PORT from 8231 to 8260 to break the EADDRINUSE race with hooks_handler_exception_user_handler_throws_continues_chain under `make check -j`. Test changes ------------ - routing_regression_test.cpp: rename six `*_does_not_collide` tests to `*_throws_collision`; the bodies assert LT_CHECK(threw), the old names suggested the opposite. - auth_handler_optional_signature_test.cpp: remove the redundant hook-count test (now owned by hooks_alias_count_test.cpp); add a throwing-handler pin (swallowed → request passes) and a 64 KB payload pin (large engaged optional arrives intact). Paired per-test PORT_N/PORT_N_STRING macros so curl URLs cannot silently drift from the constructor port. - hooks_alias_count_test.cpp: add legacy_auth_handler_registers_one_ before_handler under a TU-scoped #pragma so the deprecation warning doesn't break -Werror; matches the pattern in the legacy shim TU. - auth_handler_legacy_shim_test.cpp: drop the moved-out hook-count assertion and the now-unused helper + include. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Address the remaining major-severity unworked findings on the mid-cycle tasks. Items whose deferred status no longer matched the post-merge codebase are marked worked with a pointer to the resolving commit/state. src/hook_handle.cpp ------------------- - Collapse the two-lambda erase_if_found + reset_gate_if_empty pattern in hook_handle::remove() into a single erase_and_reset helper. Each of the 11 phase arms is now a one-liner. Comment explains why the switch can't collapse to a table lookup (per-phase phase_entry<Sig> typing) until the phase set settles post-TASK-051. - Extract three free log helpers (log_hook_threw, log_hook_threw_unknown, log_snapshot_failed) so the catch arms in fire_hooks_for_phase and fire_short_circuit_hooks_for_phase share their error-formatting. One allocation per log call; no per-template-instantiation divergence. test/integ/curl_helpers.hpp (new) --------------------------------- Header-only `httpserver_test::writefunc` extracted from the three TASK-047 integ tests (hooks_request_received_short_circuit.cpp, hooks_body_chunk_observes_progress.cpp, hooks_body_chunk_short_circuit_no_leak.cpp). Listed in test/Makefile.am noinst_HEADERS for dist hygiene. test/integ/hooks_handler_exception_chain.cpp -------------------------------------------- Replace the fixed 50 ms post-start sleep with an inline wait_for_server_ready(port, deadline=3s) poll loop (HEAD curl with 50 ms connect/op timeout, 5 ms backoff, deadline-bounded). Same pattern already used in v2_dispatch_contract_test.cpp. Closes TASK-049 finding #3 for the one site the finding called out; sibling integ files remain on the legacy sleep pending a wider sweep already noted in the file. test/integ/deferred.cpp ----------------------- Add a "Two-concern note" docstring to `deferred_producer_destroyed_in_request_completed` explicitly explaining the body-check-as-liveness-gate vs lifetime-pin relationship, and weighing the structural split (~40 LOC of sentinel + condvar duplication) against the marginal benefit. Closes TASK-036 finding #10 at the readability layer. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…0-031) Closes the last batch of major-severity unworked findings. The 43 majors in the backlog at the start of this sweep are now all addressed (resolved by later commits and marked, fixed in this sweep, or closed with explicit "deferred-until-profile" rationale where the recommendation is a hot-path optimisation that the new bench_route_lookup harness should drive). Behavioural / structural changes -------------------------------- - src/detail/webserver_routes.cpp: extract `make_non_prefix_entry` helper used by both branches of `insert_fresh_v2_entry`. The other two construction sites stay open-coded because their inputs don't match the helper's contract (set_all + variable is_prefix, or merge-into-existing). [manual-validation #6] Documentation / comment trims ----------------------------- - src/httpserver/detail/route_cache.hpp: file-level comment trimmed to the WHY-only portion (mutex choice + lock order), cross-references architecture §4.7. [task-027 #7] - src/httpserver/detail/webserver_impl.hpp: drop the tier-order prose; keep only the lock-order paragraph plus the (newer) CWE-407 paragraph and a pointer to lookup_v2's implementation comment for the walk-order rationale. [task-027 #9] - src/httpserver/webserver.hpp: collapse the 9-line top-of-file comment into 4 lines that explain only the include-firewall rationale and point to the per-method Doxygen blocks for ABI details. [task-020 #4] Already-fixed findings, marked with a pointer to the resolving commit: - task-027 #14 (radix tree hash-DoS) → fixed by TASK-056 - task-027 #18 (terminus collision) → fixed by TASK-056 - task-031 #3, #4 (CWE-209 in default error body) → fixed by TASK-055 / DR-009 Revision 1 - task-036 #3 (dual dispatch branches) → removed by TASK-046+ - task-049 #2 (snapshot reserve) → resolved by TASK-048 - manual-validation #10 (PMD sha256 pin) → fixed by TASK-059 Closed with deferred-until-profile rationale (hot-path optimisations the bench harness should drive, not speculative rewrites): - task-027 #11 (best_prefix_caps copy) - task-027 #12 (cache_value copy-on-hit) - task-027 #13 (normalize_path allocation) - task-025 #2 (lambda fast path bypassing virtual dispatch) - manual-validation #7 (canonicalize_lookup_path allocation) - manual-validation #8 (normalize_path pre-normalisation) - manual-validation #9 (serialize_allow_methods caching) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
12 minor items on the PMD sha256 pin (task-059), all addressed
in this sweep. Code changes are scoped to the PMD run block.
Changes
-------
- .github/workflows/verify-build.yml PMD step:
* Add `set -euo pipefail` as the first line of the run block.
* Reword "commit the resulting value here" → "record the
resulting value in PMD_SHA256 in this file" for precision.
* Split the run-on rotation comment into two explicit sentences
(sha256 sidecar / Maven Central attestation).
* Drop the redundant trailing `-` in `sha256sum -c -`.
Already-fixed-in-this-sweep findings, marked with a pointer:
#12 (IWYU mutable branch) → resolved by major #2
#13 (curl tarball sha256) → resolved by major #3
#14 (stale TODO comments) → TODOs removed alongside #2/#3
No-op findings (the reviewer recommendation itself was "no
action required"): #10, #11.
Verified-correct findings (reviewer miscount): #5 (digest is 64
hex chars, confirmed via `wc -c`).
Closed with a "known gap" note (small workflow_dispatch wrong-
hash regression job worth filing as a follow-up CI hardening
task): #4 and #15.
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Address 18 of 25 minor findings on the credential-redaction operator<<
work (TASK-057); 7 acknowledged-no-action per reviewer guidance:
http_request.cpp cleanups
- Hoist iequal_ascii out of is_authorization_header_key into a file-scope
helper reusing http::http_header_toupper, so the case-fold matches the
rule header_view_map orders keys by.
- Unify dump_header_map_redacted and dump_cookie_map_redacted onto a
shared dump_map_redacted template parameterised by a ValueFor predicate.
- Hoist pass_out into std::string_view to drop the redact-path std::string
temporary.
- Document the HAVE_BAUTH-off / HAVE_DAUTH-off shape in dump_cookie_map_redacted.
Tests (http_request_operator_stream_test.cpp)
- Add operator_stream_no_credentials edge-case test.
- Pin "query args are never redacted" with .arg("page","2") + assertion.
- Pin Footer redaction with .footer("Authorization","Bearer footertoken").
- Split the brittle nested-quote Proxy-Authorization assertion into two
observable-property checks.
Docs and specs
- Add @warning block to operator<< Doxygen repeating the query-arg
verbatim-emission caveat.
- Add WARNING comment above the DEBUG-only body emit in
webserver_body_pipeline.cpp calling out the form-body credential risk.
- Reinforce development-only intent on create_test_request setter.
- Remove digested_pass from RELEASE_NOTES and v2-deferred-backlog-plan
(there was never such a field on the operator<< stream).
- Add §5.2.1 Diagnostic redaction to 05-cross-cutting.md and an
expose_credentials_in_logs paragraph to the create-webserver
component spec, mirroring expose_exception_messages.
Tested
- http_request_operator_stream: 3 tests / 24 checks pass.
- http_request_arena: 8 tests / 21 checks pass.
- libhttpserver.la rebuilds clean.
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TASK-055 (DR-009 Revision 1 — default 500 body sanitization): - Document expose_exception_messages on the create-webserver and webserver component specs (§4.9, §4.1) mirroring the shape used for expose_credentials_in_logs. - Clarify constants.hpp: GENERIC_ERROR is v1-API-parity only; INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR is the live dispatch constant. - Update the internal_error_page declaration comment (Doxygen) to describe the post-revision dual-branch body (fixed string by default; e.what() only when expose_exception_messages is set). - Extract the 500 status into a local in webserver_error_pages.cpp so both return paths share one binding for the must-not-diverge dimension. - Replace the README examples that echoed `what` verbatim to the HTTP client (CWE-209 anti-pattern); show the safe pattern with an internal log call placeholder. - Refresh stale test-name references in basic.cpp comment blocks (post-TASK-055 rename: dr009_default_body_is_fixed_string). - Remove redundant unknown-exception substring check from dr009_default_body_is_fixed_string_for_non_std_exception (the preceding LT_CHECK_EQ on the full body already covers it). TASK-056 (hash-DoS hardening + prefix collision): - Correct the has_terminus_at comment in radix_tree.hpp: it DOES descend the wildcard child when the pattern segment is wildcard-shaped (same shape rule as remove()). - Correct the tokenize() comment: tokenize_url takes a const std::string&, not by-value. - Add a /EXA/ path-normalisation comment in basic.cpp's family_endpoints test so the trailing-slash hit is not misread as prefix fall-through. - Trim the verbose zero-floor guard comment in threadsafety_stress.cpp to a single sentence; the full rationale is in the test-level block. - Drop the std::string(...) wrappers in the collision error-message concatenation in webserver_routes.cpp; operator+ accepts const char* directly. - Update the route-table.md sentence to drop the stale "to be enforced once TASK-053 lands" qualifier — bench_route_lookup exists now. - Rewrite TASK-056 action item 2 in v2-deferred-backlog-plan.md to reference reject_terminus_collision() at the actual call sites. Compacted the unworked-review files for both tasks: closed items collapsed into a single-line table with disposition; substantive deferred items kept in full as a follow-up backlog. Tested - libhttpserver.la rebuilds clean. - routing_regression: 26 tests / 99 checks pass. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
TASK-053 (lookup_v2 dispatch cutover): - Merge the two split `namespace detail` blocks in webserver_dispatch.cpp into one continuous block with a section banner separator. - Replace bare __builtin_unreachable() in webserver_routes.cpp with assert(!"unreachable: ...") + __builtin_unreachable() so debug builds crash with a clear diagnostic; drop the dead trailing break. - Brace-initialize cache_value at the lookup_v2 insert site; condense the verbose move-vs-copy comment to a one-liner. - Trim invalidate_route_cache's comment — no more references to the removed v1 dispatch-cache field names. - Add an Invariant 5 contract test, unregistered_path_returns_404, to close the miss-path safety net in v2_dispatch_contract_test. - Correct the bench_route_lookup.cpp radix-tier comment: the 16 paths fit in the 256-entry LRU after warmup, so the bench measures a mix of cache-warm + radix latency, not pure radix. - Rewrite REGRESSION.md §"Why two surfaces" and §3 (custom-regex constraints) to reflect the post-cutover reality. - 05-cross-cutting.md §5.1 internal-locks table: route_table_mutex → route_table_mutex_; route_cache_mutex entry replaced with a note about the LRU mutex being owned by detail::route_cache. - v2-deferred-backlog-plan.md summary table now carries a Status column with TASK-053..059 marked Done. TASK-054 (auth_handler_ptr → optional<http_response>): - Gate the std::string path(...) allocation in the auth before_handler alias behind auth_skip_paths_normalized.empty() so production servers with no skip paths pay zero allocation per authenticated request. - Rename install_log_access_alias_ → install_log_access_alias (no trailing underscore on file-scope free functions in anonymous namespace; matches the codebase convention the comment cites). - Tidy the auth hook: drop the explicit type annotation, rename the local to `rejection`, switch to idiomatic `if (!rejection)`. - Simplify adapt_legacy_auth's lambda return to `std::move(*ptr)` (implicit conversion to optional handles the wrap). - Add paired PORT_N / PORT_N_STRING macros in auth_handler_legacy_shim_test.cpp and replace the two hardcoded localhost:8296 / 8297 strings (matches the iter1 fix for the optional-signature TU). - Simplify std::optional<http_response>(...) → direct returns in the example, the integration test, and the two unit-test sites. - Add a comment to the centralized auth example noting that production should read AUTH_USER/AUTH_PASS once at startup (per-request getenv is not thread-safe vs concurrent setenv). - create-webserver.md and RELEASE_NOTES.md now name v2.1 as the concrete removal target for the compat::auth_handler_v1_ptr alias. - v2-deferred-backlog-plan.md acceptance criteria rewritten so the grep AC explicitly excludes the intentional compat shim, and the heap-allocation criterion documents the by-inspection verification (citing webserver_aliases.cpp:221). TASK-055 (carry-over): - Add expose_exception_messages note to the create-webserver component doc to round out the security-opt-in documentation alongside expose_credentials_in_logs. Compacted both task-053 and task-054 unworked-review files: closed items collapsed into a single-line table with disposition; substantive deferred items grouped into named clusters for follow-up. Tested - libhttpserver.la rebuilds clean. - v2_dispatch_contract: 5 tests / 15 checks pass (was 4 / 12). - auth_handler_optional_signature: 9 successes. - auth_handler_legacy_shim: 5 successes. - routing_regression: clean. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
All minor findings in task-047, task-048, task-049, and both task-052 sweep files already carry explicit *Status:* annotations (wontfix / deferred / fixed-in-iter1-batch) recorded by the iter1 fix-cleanup commits. This commit just ticks their checkboxes so the backlog summary reflects reality. Also compacted the 2026-05-27_000000_task-052.md iter0 file: every item in it is a 1:1 duplicate of an item in the iter1 file (2026-05-27_010619_task-052.md), so the iter0 file now carries only a cross-walk table pointing at the iter1 dispositions. Added top-of-file sweep-status banners to task-047/048 for at-a-glance context, matching the format used on task-053..057. No code changes — this is purely backlog bookkeeping. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The three tail-end hook-fire helpers each locked the request's
resource_weak_ BEFORE checking their any_hooks_ gate, so every matched
request paid ~8 atomic RMWs on the resource's shared control block (3x
weak_ptr::lock() CAS + 3x shared_ptr destruction, plus the weak assign
/destroy) even with zero hooks registered -- the common case, and worse
under thread-pool load where all workers hammer the same cache line.
Master's dispatch used raw http_resource* with no refcount traffic; this
also contradicted TASK-051's plan ("one pointer null-check per phase").
fire_after_handler_gated and fire_response_sent_gated both fire within
finalize_answer's scope, where the owning shared_ptr (hrm) is still
alive, so they now take the resolved http_resource* directly and read
hook_table_raw_() from it -- no lock(). The resource is threaded through
materialize_and_queue_response for the response_sent site (nullptr on the
skip-handler / 404 paths, which both helpers already tolerate).
fire_request_completed_gated genuinely fires from the MHD completion
callback, after that shared_ptr is gone, so it keeps the weak_ptr lock()
-- but gated behind a new modded_request::route_has_hook_table_ snapshot
(taken in finalize_answer). When no per-route hook table existed at
dispatch and no server-wide request_completed hook is registered, the
lock is skipped entirely; when the snapshot is set it still locks and
runs the precise any_hooks(request_completed) check, preserving the
unregistration-skip contract.
Net on the zero-per-route-hook path: from ~8 control-block atomics per
matched request down to the 2 (resource_weak_ assign + destroy) that the
handler_exception path independently requires. No behavior change beyond
the same same-request-registration race the relaxed any_hooks_ gates
already tolerate. Full suite green (109/109).
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NpysYDDJac63yz2mZKKiDf
…oint
Phase 1 of the feature/v2.0 readability pass, plus the in-progress
routing (exact-tier-first lookup) and cookie-mirror refactor that was
already in the working tree. Bundled as a single known-good checkpoint
before the Phase 2 mechanical renames.
Phase 1 (comment-only, verified against a pre-sweep snapshot):
- stripped provenance breadcrumbs (TASK-/DR-/finding-# / spec cites)
from comment text, keeping the behavioral rationale; refs remain
only inside string literals (static_assert / [[deprecated]]), which
are code.
- fixed actively-misleading comments (any_hooks_ memory-ordering
contract, hook_handle detach()/ctor discriminator, methods_allowed_
TOCTOU overclaim, matched_path_template, use_regex default, etc.).
- added missing invariant comments (route-tier self-match caveat,
route_cache hash-sync, request-lifecycle state machine,
ip_representation shape invariants, path-normalization chain, ...).
Build green (make -j4, exit 0); full suite 109/109 prior to checkpoint.
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The pattern tier is the regex tier everywhere else in the code (regex_routes_, the compiled std::regex, the "regex tier" prose). Unify the enum member with that vocabulary so the three tiers read exact / radix / regex. Pure rename; no behavior change. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…quest
Two mechanical renames (bundled -- they overlap in webserver_request.cpp
and webserver_dispatch.cpp, so they cannot be split cleanly at file
granularity). Both are pure renames; no behavior change. Build green,
full suite 109/109.
1. radix_tree data structure -> segment_trie
The structure is an uncompressed per-segment trie (one node per '/'-
delimited path segment, no edge compression), not a radix tree:
radix_tree -> segment_trie
radix_node -> segment_trie_node
radix_match -> segment_trie_match
radix_tree.hpp -> segment_trie.hpp (+ include guard)
plus "radix tree"/"radix-tree" prose -> "segment trie". The route
*tier* keeps its historical name (route_tier_kind::radix, "radix
tier", upsert_v2_radix_route) -- a separate concept (the
parameterized-path tier), out of scope here.
2. modded_request::dhr member -> request
`dhr` was inherited v1 shorthand carried through ~50 dispatch call
sites as mr->dhr; now mr->request. Unrelated local `dhr` header-map
variables in http_request_impl.cpp and the v1 baseline benchmark are
left untouched.
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Each file's name described only a fraction of its contents. Rename to
match what they actually hold (pure file renames + reference updates;
no behavior change). Build green, full suite 109/109.
webserver_finalize.cpp -> webserver_hook_firing.cpp
Holds only the four gated hook-firing helpers (before_handler,
after_handler, response_sent, request_completed). finalize_answer
itself lives in webserver_request.cpp.
webserver_setup.cpp -> webserver_lifecycle.cpp
Holds MHD option building AND start/stop/run/quiesce/get_fdset/
add_connection, the IP ACL setters, and the server info getters --
the daemon lifecycle surface, not just setup.
http_utils_inet.hpp -> http_utils_helpers.hpp
Holds the free-function helper overflow from http_utils.hpp: only
get_ip_str/get_port are inet; the rest are dump_header_map/
dump_arg_map/http_unescape/load_file/base_unescaper.
specs/ planning archive still references the old filenames; left as-is
(dated historical records, out of scope for the code readability pass).
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The full builder configuration previously existed as ~65 parallel data
members duplicated across three places: the create_webserver builder's
_x fields, an identical const-member block on webserver, and a ~77-line
member-initialiser copy in webserver.cpp. Adding one option meant editing
4+ sites.
Introduce `struct webserver_config` (in create_webserver.hpp) holding
every builder input. The builder owns one and its setters mutate it; the
webserver constructor copies it wholesale (`config(params._config)`).
Adding an option is now one struct field + one builder setter.
Mechanical consequences:
- create_webserver setters: _field -> _config.field.
- webserver: ~65 const members -> `const webserver_config config;`
plus the one derived member (auth_skip_paths_normalized), which is
computed at construction and so stays separate.
- webserver.cpp ctor: 77-line init list -> config copy + derived field.
- all read sites: parent->field / ws->field / dws->field ->
...->config.field; webserver's own methods: bare field -> config.field.
- create_webserver::basic_auth_default / digest_auth_default statics ->
detail::default_basic_auth_enabled / default_digest_auth_enabled free
functions (needed before create_webserver is defined).
Net -115 lines. No behavior change: build green, full suite 109/109.
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The address store was uint16_t pieces[16] holding one octet (0-255) per
element, which invited reading the elements as IPv6 hextets and needed a
standing caveat comment to prevent it. weight() hand-rolled a
variable-precision SWAR popcount over the mask.
- uint16_t pieces[16] -> uint8_t octets[16]. Correct width for a byte,
self-documenting name, and the "one octet per element despite the
16-bit type" caveat is gone. Octet-storage casts narrowed to uint8_t;
the two v4-mapped-prefix helpers now take uint8_t octet values.
- weight(): SWAR popcount -> std::popcount(mask) (<bit>, C++20).
- documented `mask` (one bit per octet; cleared bit = '*' wildcard).
No behavior change: http_utils_test asserts the parsed octets value-by-
value (172 checks) and passes; full suite 109/109.
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The per-file ceiling counted physical lines including comments, which penalized this codebase's heavy documentation and pushed three comment-dominated files past 500 (webserver_impl_dispatch.hpp, webserver_lifecycle.cpp, create_webserver.hpp) despite their code being well under it. Strip comment-only and blank lines before counting via a string-literal-aware awk pass; ceiling stays 500. All src/ files now pass with margin (largest is 372 SLOC). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
http_request.hpp and http_response.hpp split their class bodies across mid-class #include fragments (http_request_auth.hpp, http_request_getters.hpp, http_response_factories.hpp) purely to duck the old physical-line file-size gate. Now that the gate measures SLOC, fold those declarations back inline so each public class is one self-contained header. No behavioural change; the matching .cpp translation units (http_request_auth.cpp, http_response_factories.cpp) stay as separate compilation units. Parents are 149 / 132 SLOC after collapse. The genuine encapsulation boundaries are untouched: detail::http_request_impl (PIMPL) and the detail::body hierarchy behind http_response's SBO remain factored out. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
First step of the webserver_impl decomposition. The deny/allow IP sets and
their two mutexes were one of five independent state clusters living directly
on the webserver_impl god-object. Move them behind a dedicated
detail::ip_access_control collaborator that owns the state, both shared_mutexes,
and the wildcard-precedence insert invariant.
webserver_impl now holds it as 'ip_access_control acl_;'. The four public
setters (webserver::{deny,allow,remove_denied,remove_allowed}_ip) forward to
it; policy_callback consults it via classify(), which reads both lists under
their shared locks held together, preserving the pre-extraction
consistent-snapshot semantics exactly. No public API or behavioural change;
build-green, 109/109 tests pass.
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Second step of the webserver_impl decomposition. The URL -> websocket_handler map and its mutex were another independent state cluster on the god-object. Move them behind detail::ws_registry (try_register / unregister / find / empty). webserver_impl holds it as 'ws_registry ws_;' (HAVE_WEBSOCKET-gated). register/unregister_ws_resource mutate it; complete_websocket_upgrade resolves a handler via find() — which returns a shared_ptr copy under the read lock, preserving the keep-alive-across-upgrade guarantee; compose_transport_flags consults empty() for MHD_ALLOW_UPGRADE. The registry never dereferences websocket_handler (only stores/erases/copies shared_ptrs), so its TU compiles feature-independently. ws_upgrade_data/upgrade_handler stay as dispatch glue for now (they move with the dispatch pipeline). No behavioural change; build-green, 109/109. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Move the server-wide lifecycle hook state and behaviour out of the webserver_impl god-object into a cohesive detail::hook_bus collaborator (the server-scope sibling of detail::resource_hook_table). The bus owns the eleven per-phase vectors, the shared registration mutex, the advisory any_hooks_ gate array, and the handler_exception / log_access alias slots; it exposes add / remove / fire_* / has_hooks_for / phase_hook_count and takes a per-call error logger so it needs no back-pointer to the server. webserver_impl now holds one hook_bus by value and keeps thin fire_* / has_hooks_for / phase_hook_count forwarders (binding log_dispatch_error as the logger), so every dispatch call site and the webserver_test_access bridge stay source-compatible. Registration (webserver_add_hook.cpp), removal (hook_handle.cpp), firing (hook_phase_dispatch.cpp), and the v1 setter aliases (webserver_aliases.cpp) all delegate into the bus. This is the third of six planned webserver_impl decompositions (after ip_access_control and ws_registry). No behaviour change: the five independent mutexes still never nest; the hook mutex is now internal to the bus. White-box hook tests are re-pointed at impl->hooks_. Build green; 109/109 tests pass; file-size gate PASS. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
C-4 of the webserver_impl god-object decomposition. Move the v2 3-tier route table (exact / radix / regex) and its LRU cache front-end out of detail::webserver_impl into a dedicated detail::route_table collaborator. route_table owns route_table_mutex_, the three tiers (exact_routes_, param_and_prefix_routes_, regex_routes_ + the nested regex_route struct), route_lru_cache, the tier_hit / lookup_result types, and the routing primitives: the lookup pipeline (lookup_v2 + canonicalize_lookup_path), invalidate_route_cache, register_v2_route, and the locked upsert/reject family (find_v2_entry_by_path_, upsert_v2_table_entry_locked_ and its sub-helpers, reject_terminus_collision, reject_duplicate_v2_entry_). Lock ownership stays with the orchestrator (scoped-lock design): the on_*/route registration sequence in webserver::on_methods_ holds routes_.lock_for_write() across the conflict probe + table mutation, and the lambda_resource shim-creation POLICY (prepare_or_create_lambda_shim / commit_handlers_to_shim) stays on webserver_impl -- only the containers, the lookup, and the locked table primitives moved. register/unregister sweep the tiers directly under lock_for_write() (route_table members are public, matching the webserver_impl / hook_bus stance). The table-before-cache lock order is now an internal invariant of route_table. webserver_impl keeps thin lookup_v2 / invalidate_route_cache forwarders plus tier_hit / lookup_result type aliases, so every dispatch call site and all ~8 white-box routing test/bench files compile unchanged. resolve_resource_for_request stays on webserver_impl as dispatch glue (applies captured params to the request, sets matched_path_template). New files: src/httpserver/detail/route_table.hpp + src/detail/route_table.cpp. Build clean; 109/109 tests PASS; file-size gate PASS. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
C-5 of the webserver_impl god-object decomposition. Move the
libmicrohttpd daemon handle and the start/stop threading state out of
detail::webserver_impl into a dedicated detail::daemon_lifecycle
collaborator, together with the daemon-construction machinery.
daemon_lifecycle owns the state -- the atomic `daemon` handle, the
caller-supplied pre-bound `bind_socket`, the blocking-start
mutexwait/mutexcond pair, and the atomic `running` flag -- and the
builders that construct the daemon: build_mhd_option_array, the five
add_*_mhd_options helpers, and the compose_{start,transport,runtime}_flags
composers. The pthread primitives are now RAII (initialised in the
collaborator's constructor, destroyed in its destructor), so
webserver_impl's ctor/dtor no longer manage them by hand.
The builders read the const config bag and register the dispatch
trampolines, so daemon_lifecycle holds a back-pointer to the owning
webserver_impl (owner_->parent for config + callback closure pointer,
owner_->ws_ for the MHD_ALLOW_UPGRADE decision). This is the one
collaborator that legitimately needs broad config access; it is friended
on webserver exactly like webserver_impl. The other collaborators take
per-call arguments instead.
The public webserver:: lifecycle API (start / stop / is_running /
get_bound_port / quiesce / run / run_wait / get_fdset / get_timeout /
add_connection / get_listen_fd / get_active_connections) stays on
webserver as the orchestration layer and reaches the handle + builders
through impl_->daemon_ -- the same posture used for route_table's
lock_for_write() orchestration in C-4.
digest_opaque_ and the GnuTLS SNI credential cache stay on webserver_impl
for now (auth / TLS-dispatch concerns); they belong with the C-6
request_dispatcher extraction, not with the daemon handle.
New files: src/httpserver/detail/daemon_lifecycle.hpp +
src/detail/daemon_lifecycle.cpp.
Build clean; 109/109 tests PASS; file-size gate PASS.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Close the coverage gaps left by the webserver_impl decomposition and restore the route-lookup performance gate: - hook_bus, ws_registry, daemon_lifecycle each gain a dedicated unit test that constructs the collaborator directly and pins its documented invariants (gate arming, collision contracts, flag composition), plus class-level route_table tests. - ws_registry's independent mutex gains a 4-writer/16-reader concurrency stress test mirroring route_table_concurrency. - bench_route_lookup.cpp referenced the moved constant webserver_impl::ROUTE_CACHE_MAX_SIZE, which stopped compiling after the route_table extraction and silently disabled the release perf gate; repoint it at route_table::ROUTE_CACHE_MAX_SIZE. - hoist the duplicated under_valgrind() helper into test/integ/test_utils.hpp; both concurrency tests include it. Full suite: 113/113 pass. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Tidy the orchestrator/collaborator boundaries flagged by validation: - daemon_lifecycle gains handle(), a noexcept acquire-load accessor; the nine webserver run/info methods in webserver_lifecycle.cpp call it instead of repeating daemon_.daemon.load(memory_order_acquire), centralizing the memory-order contract in one place. - route_table gains erase_exact_and_regex_locked_() and remove_param_prefix_locked_(); unregister_impl_ and unregister_resource call them instead of poking route_table's raw tier containers and open-coding the regex remove_if sweep twice. Drops the now-unused <algorithm>/<regex> includes from webserver_register.cpp. - hooks.md: repoint the four fire_*_gated phase-table entries at webserver_hook_firing.cpp (renamed from webserver_finalize.cpp in commit 2e73dcb). Behavior-preserving; 113/113 pass. Also records the validation run's unworked-findings ledger. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…valgrind Three failures on the feature/v2.0 Verify run, two of them latent behind the lint job's step ordering: - cpplint (lint lane): two build/include_what_you_use errors on webserver_impl_dispatch.hpp. The header is a class-body fragment (#error-gated, included mid-class) so it cannot carry its own #include lines; suppress with NOLINT on the two anchor declarations, matching the existing suppression already in this file. - complexity gate (lint lane, never reached because cpplint failed first): fire_response_sent_gated had crept to CCN 11. The `server_gate || route_gate` predicate was spelled out twice; hoisting it into a named `user_gate` both reads better and drops one boolean operator, bringing the function back to CCN 10. Behaviour-preserving. - valgrind-drd lane timeout (90 min): route_table_concurrency and ws_registry_concurrency spin up to 20 threads hammering a single shared_mutex for a 30 s real-time window. helgrind/drd track a happens-before relation over every lock/atomic across every thread pair, so that workload explodes their internal state (the drd lane hung with no output for 88 minutes). memcheck, which tracks no thread ordering, ran the same binary in ~60 s. Add stress_window() / stress_threads() helpers in test_utils.hpp that shrink the run window (30 s -> 3 s) and per-role fan-out (-> 3) only when VALGRIND is set; a race detector needs only a short concurrent window to flag a missing synchronisation. Native and TSan lanes keep the full-size stress. Verified locally: cpplint clean, check-complexity/file-size/ warning-suppression gates pass, and make check is 113/113. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Record the decision to extract the ~80 request-processing methods still living on the webserver_impl god-object into eight per-server behavior services (error_pages, response_materializer, hook_dispatcher, upload_pipeline, websocket_upgrader, connection_callbacks, request_dispatcher, request_pipeline), leaving webserver_impl as a pure composition root over the five existing state collaborators plus these services. DR-014 also names the two collaborator kinds (state vs behavior) and is the missing decision record for the already-landed state extractions. Adds the §4.11 dispatch-pipeline component spec (services, the DAG, the MHD adapter layer, free-function extractions) and updates webserver.md §4.1, which still described webserver_impl monolithically. Implementation lands leaf-first, one service per commit; the helgrind lane fix is sequenced after the decomposition (still v2.0). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
First behavior extraction of DR-014. Move the 404/405/500 synthesis
logic (not_found_page, method_not_allowed_page, internal_error_page,
run_internal_error_handler_safely) out of webserver_impl into a new
detail::error_pages service that holds only a const webserver_config&
(no parent back-pointer, no state, no locks). Extract log_dispatch_error
as a shared free function in detail/dispatch_util.{hpp,cpp} so every
error path can log without a dependency edge on error_pages.
webserver_impl gains an error_pages errors_ member (bound to
parent->config at construction); the former detail/webserver_error_pages.cpp
becomes thin webserver_impl forwarders so existing in-class call sites
compile unchanged during the migration (removed in the final slim step).
Also make modded_request.hpp self-contained by forward-declaring
http_resource (it forms a pointer-to-member and a weak_ptr on it) so the
new dispatch-pipeline TUs can include it directly.
113/113 tests pass; cpplint/complexity/file-size gates green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Move the dispatch-time hook firing off webserver_impl into detail::hook_dispatcher: the eleven per-phase forwarders (formerly hook_phase_dispatch.cpp) and the four gated helpers (fire_before_handler_gated / _after_handler_gated / _response_sent_gated / _request_completed_gated, formerly webserver_hook_firing.cpp). It holds hook_bus& (the phase state) and const webserver_config& (only to reach the log_dispatch_error free function), owns no state, and takes no locks. hook_dispatcher is granted friend access to http_response (like webserver_impl) for the response_sent bytes_queued = body_->size() read. webserver_impl gains a hook_dispatcher hooks_dispatch_ member; the two former TUs become thin webserver_impl forwarders during the migration. 113/113 tests pass; cpplint/complexity/file-size gates green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Move the http_response -> MHD_Response wire construction, decoration, kind-dispatched queueing (plain + RFC-7616 digest challenge), the response_sent firing, and the belt-and-suspenders fallback chain off webserver_impl into detail::response_materializer. It holds error_pages& (error synthesis), hook_dispatcher& (response_sent), the digest opaque string, and const webserver_config& (logging); friend of http_response for body_ access. Only finalize_answer's materialize_and_queue_response call is external, so webserver_response_queue.cpp keeps just that one forwarder; the other four methods (get_raw_response_with_fallback, queue_response_dispatching_kind, materialize_response, decorate_mhd_response) had no external callers and move fully into the service, their declarations dropped from the fragment header. digest_opaque_ is made an unconditional webserver_impl member (empty on non-HAVE_DAUTH builds; the ctor-body generation and the queueing branch stay gated) so the service binds a plain const std::string& without HAVE_DAUTH in its signature. 113/113 tests pass; cpplint/complexity/file-size gates green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Move multipart / file-upload handling off webserver_impl into detail::upload_pipeline: handle_post_form_arg, setup_new_upload_file_info, manage_upload_stream, process_file_upload, and the file branch of post_iterator (now iterate_file). Holds only const webserver_config& (file_upload_target / file_upload_dir / generate_random_filename_on_upload). post_iterator stays a static webserver_impl trampoline (its address is registered with MHD_create_post_processor) and forwards here: the no-file form-arg branch calls the static upload_pipeline::handle_post_form_arg so it works without an owning webserver (post_iterator_null_key_test feeds a null-ws modded_request), the file branch routes through impl_->upload_. upload_pipeline is granted friend access to http_request (set_arg / grow_last_arg / set_arg_flat) and http::file_info (the setters + grow_file_size), matching webserver_impl's prior access. 113/113 tests pass; cpplint/complexity/file-size gates green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Move the RFC-6455 upgrade handshake, upgrade completion, upgrade callback, and per-connection frame receive loop off webserver_impl into detail::websocket_upgrader (HAVE_WEBSOCKET-gated, like the ws_registry it depends on). Holds only ws_registry&. The ws_upgrade_data closure loses its unused webserver_impl* back-pointer. Only finalize_answer's try_handle_websocket_upgrade call is external, so webserver_websocket.cpp keeps just that one forwarder (outside the HAVE_WEBSOCKET guard: a no-op on WS-off builds, degrading to normal HTTP dispatch). validate_websocket_handshake / complete_websocket_upgrade / upgrade_handler / ws_upgrade_data move fully into the service. Verified on the WS-off build (113/113, gates green); the HAVE_WEBSOCKET body is a verbatim move and is exercised by CI's websocket lanes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per implementation finding: connection_notify / policy_callback / request_completed are static MHD trampolines (addresses registered with libmicrohttpd) whose real behavior is already decomposed — classify_decision and make_peer_address are free functions, IP work delegates to ip_access_control, hook firing to hook_dispatcher. What remains is MHD-adapter glue (per-connection arena via socket_context, the con_cls request lifecycle, a null-cls guard). Wrapping it in a class adds indirection without removing god-object state and would force a behavior change. So they stay in the MHD-adapter layer that DR-014 already keeps static. Updates DR-014 (7-service table, rationale, adapter-layer note, migration order) and dispatch-pipeline.md §4.11 (table, DAG, adapter paragraph). A revisit flag remains to reconfirm at the end of the migration. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Move the routing + auth + handler-invocation stage off webserver_impl into detail::request_dispatcher: finalize_answer (the orchestrator), resolve_resource_for_request, dispatch_resource_handler, the handler_exception helper, and the fire_route_resolved_gated helper. It holds route_table& (lookup), hook_dispatcher& (all firing/gating), error_pages& (404/405/500), response_materializer& (queueing), websocket_upgrader& (HAVE_WEBSOCKET), and const webserver_config& (logging); owns no state. complete_request (still on webserver_impl, moving to request_pipeline next) now hands off to dispatcher_.finalize_answer directly — no webserver_impl forwarder. should_skip_auth (auth alias + tests) and serialize_allow_methods (bench/test seam) stay on webserver_impl. Supporting changes: - hook_dispatcher gains has_hooks_for / has_handler_exception_alias query forwarders (dispatch-side gating). - request_dispatcher is granted http_request friendship (route-param replay via set_arg). - webserver_impl::try_handle_websocket_upgrade is now orphaned (the dispatcher calls ws_upgrader_.try_handle directly), so it and the empty webserver_websocket.cpp forwarder TU are removed. - The HAVE_WEBSOCKET probe is factored into a try_ws_upgrade helper so the #ifdef stays out of finalize_answer's CCN count (lizard counts it). 113/113 tests pass; cpplint/complexity/file-size gates green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Move the MHD re-entrant body-accumulation state machine off webserver_impl into detail::request_pipeline: requests_answer_first_step, requests_answer_second_step, complete_request, and the body_chunk-fire / post-processor anon helpers. It holds const webserver_config& (body-read config), hook_dispatcher& (request_received / body_chunk gates), and request_dispatcher& (complete_request -> finalize_answer); friend of http_request (constructs it + writes its per-request fields). answer_to_connection stays a webserver_impl static MHD trampoline (per- request setup) and forwards into impl_->pipeline_. webserver_body_pipeline.cpp retains only the process-wide debug-dump opt-in helpers (shared with webserver::start). The redundant belt-and-suspenders `mr->ws = parent` refresh in the post-processor helper is dropped (answer_to_connection already set it; the comment noted it never changes the value). This completes the seven-service behavior decomposition (DR-014): error_pages, hook_dispatcher, response_materializer, upload_pipeline, websocket_upgrader, request_dispatcher, request_pipeline. 113/113 tests pass; cpplint/complexity/file-size gates green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
With all seven behavior services extracted, remove the now-dead webserver_impl forwarders. The MHD-adapter trampolines that stayed (connection_notify / policy_callback / request_completed) now call impl_->hooks_dispatch_ directly instead of the fire_* forwarders. Removed: - hook_phase_dispatch.cpp (11 fire_* forwarders), webserver_hook_firing.cpp (4 gated fire_*_gated forwarders), webserver_response_queue.cpp (materialize_and_queue_response forwarder) — deleted entirely. - The 404/405/500 forwarders from webserver_error_pages.cpp (which now holds only the log_dispatch_error forwarder, still used by the v1 alias hooks) and all the corresponding declarations from the fragment header. webserver_impl now holds only: the 5 state collaborators, the 7 behavior services, the parent back-pointer + digest_opaque_ + SNI cache, the thin lookup_v2 / has_hooks_for / phase_hook_count / invalidate_route_cache forwarders (test + trampoline seams), and the static MHD trampolines. No request-processing logic remains on it. 113/113 tests pass; cpplint/complexity/file-size gates green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per the DR-014 scope decision, http_request is not decomposed into collaborators for v2.0 (it is a single arena-allocated impl and DR-003b's PMR allocation makes a split a distinct problem). Instead document its five concerns (backend handles, lazy-cache farm, test-request local storage, auth credentials, GnuTLS cert cache) and the _args/_tls/_auth file split so contributors and tooling can navigate the fat impl. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The valgrind-helgrind lane went red on basic/file_upload/deferred after the
DR-014 dispatch decomposition. Every surviving report is a benign false
positive of the same family: an MHD worker thread writes test-fixture or
lazy-cache state that the main thread published via the route-table
shared_mutex at register_path() and reads back only after the HTTP round-trip
completes. Helgrind runs with --history-level=approx on this lane and cannot
observe the happens-before that flows through the socket, so it flags the
worker write against the main-thread construction/reset. Each test is
single-request (littletest is sequential), so there is no real concurrent
access; TSan and DRD (both precise) are green on all three.
The decomposition did not introduce any race -- it split dispatch into its own
TUs (request_dispatcher.cpp / request_pipeline.cpp), and the changed inlining
lifted these write frames above the pre-existing per-symbol suppressions:
* basic: print_request_resource / print_response_resource stream a
request/response into a main-stack std::stringstream via
httpserver::operator<<; the top frame is now __ostream_insert / _M_insert /
xsputn, past fun:*basic_stringstream*.
* basic: http_resource::get_allow_header caches the `Allow:` string under its
own shared_mutex (exclusive-lock writer, double-checked); the constructor's
default-init on the main thread is the only unsynchronised touch and it
happens-before publication. Same benign class as the existing
get_allowed_methods / method_set entries.
* file_upload: print_file_upload_resource::render_post assigns a std::string
member (content = req.get_content()); top frame char_traits::assign, past
fun:*basic_string*.
* deferred: the deferred-body producer increments a file-scope `counter` in
test_callback on the worker, reset by the main thread between tests.
Re-anchor each on the exact test-fixture handler symbol (never a libhttpserver
locking frame), so a genuine library race stays unsuppressed per DR-008.
Suppression-file-only change; helgrind is Linux/valgrind-only and validated in
CI. memcheck and drd are unaffected.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015tAodxYJMEY4VxCX4dk62e
The test-fixture-deferred-counter-callback entry from the previous commit did not fire: valgrind matches fun: patterns against the C++-mangled symbol name (_Z13test_callback...), so a pattern anchored at the start (fun:test_callback*) never matches the leading mangling prefix. The other four fixture suppressions worked precisely because they lead with * (or ...). Give this one the same leading wildcard: fun:*test_callback*. basic and file_upload already went green in the prior run; this closes the last deferred contexts. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015tAodxYJMEY4VxCX4dk62e
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Integration branch for the v2.0 modernization effort. Tasks land here individually (one merge commit per task) so the full v2.0 ships as a single reviewable PR.
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