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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.

This PR will remain draft until all milestones are complete.

Milestones

  • M1 — Foundation (TASK-001 … TASK-007): toolchain + build-system prerequisites
  • M2 — Response (TASK-008 … TASK-013)
  • M3 — Request (TASK-014 … TASK-020)
  • M4 — Handlers (TASK-021 … TASK-026)
  • M5 — Routing & Lifecycle (TASK-027 … TASK-036)
  • M6 — Release (TASK-037 … TASK-044)

Specs live under specs/ (product_specs, architecture, tasks).

Merged tasks

  • TASK-001 — Bump C++ standard floor to C++20

Test plan

Per-task validation runs through the groundwork validation loop on each task branch before merging here. Pre-merge of v2.0 to master:

  • ./configure && make clean on macOS (Apple Clang) and Linux (recent GCC)
  • make check green
  • CI matrix green across all supported toolchains
  • No -std=c++(11|14|17) regressions in tree
  • ChangeLog and README reflect v2.0 changes

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etr added a commit that referenced this pull request May 7, 2026
…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>
etr added a commit that referenced this pull request May 7, 2026
… 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>
etr added a commit that referenced this pull request May 11, 2026
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>
etr added a commit that referenced this pull request May 20, 2026
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>
Comment thread src/http_utils.cpp Fixed
Comment thread src/http_utils.cpp Fixed
etr added a commit that referenced this pull request May 21, 2026
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>
Comment thread src/detail/ip_representation.cpp Fixed
Comment thread src/detail/ip_representation.cpp Fixed
etr and others added 22 commits May 27, 2026 18:38
# Conflicts:
#	src/websocket_handler.cpp
…eview-cleanup)

Major findings (5 total):
- #1 (adr-violation): implementation is correct per DR-012/DR-009 §5.2; deferred.
- #2/#3/#28 (code-structure, triplicate): extracted append_impl<P,Sig> template
  helper in resource_hook_table.cpp anonymous namespace; each of the five
  append_* methods now delegates in one line (mirrors fire_short_circuit_impl
  / fire_void_impl pattern).
- #4/#5 (test-structure, advisory): deferred — project prefers per-case
  explicit test bodies for independent failure reporting.

Key minor fixes applied (cosmetic, no behavior change):
- TOCTOU anti-pattern (#6/#35/#36/#45/#47/#48): removed expired()+lock()
  double-check from per_route_table() helper; fire_request_completed_gated
  now uses the helper consistently (was inline-expanded).
- Shadow variable (#15/#38): renamed local var per_route_table → rtable in
  fire_before_handler_gated, consistent with other gated-fire helpers.
- Lifetime comment (#12): added "res keeps the resource alive while rtable
  is in use" note in handle_dispatch_exception.
- Memory-order comment (#50): documented acquire-chain at rtable fetch site
  in fire_before_handler_gated.
- Sentinel assertions (#41/#61/#62): removed LT_CHECK_EQ(true, true) from
  hooks_per_route_resource_destroyed_first.cpp and hook_api_shape_test.cpp;
  replaced with descriptive comments.
- resource_hook_table.hpp comments (#8): clarified named-vector vs std::array
  tradeoff and any_hooks_ unused slots.
- http_resource.hpp (#24/#27): added copy-shares-hook-table note; added
  comment before HTTPSERVER_COMPILATION guard.
- http-resource.md / DR-012.md (#9/#42/#43): documented per-route hook bus
  and PIMPL storage choice.

All 62 items marked [x] in specs/unworked_review_issues/2026-05-26_230100_task-051.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
# Conflicts:
#	specs/architecture/04-components/http-resource.md
#	src/detail/webserver_finalize.cpp
#	test/unit/hook_api_shape_test.cpp
Major fixes:
- Extract as_shared() to test/integ/test_utils.hpp (DRY: removes 10
  verbatim copies from integ TUs; fixes majors #2, #3 and minors
  #9, #16, #27). Add safety contract documentation in the header.
  Update test/Makefile.am noinst_HEADERS.
- Add performance note in webserver_impl.hpp documenting the v1
  route_cache_mutex_ serialization bottleneck and future migration
  path to route_cache_v2 (major #4).
- Document §4.7 compliance status: route_entry variant exists in the
  v2 3-tier table (route_entry.hpp); v1 maps are transitional legacy
  flagged for Cycle K removal (major #1).

Minor fixes:
- Reword duplicate-registration comment to accurately describe both
  unique_ptr and shared_ptr ownership paths (#7, #8).
- Add lock-order explanation before manual registered_resources_lock
  .unlock() call (#15, #18).
- Rename is_exact to is_plain_path with explanatory comment (#14).
- Rename fe to exact_it in resolve_resource_for_request (#17).
- Add comments documenting necessary shared_ptr copies on hot paths
  to prevent reviewers from "optimising" them away (#19, #21).
- Add curl_global_cleanup() after curl_easy_cleanup in
  unique_ptr_overload_compiles_and_serves (#11).
- Document PORT macro sequential assumption and ephemeral-port
  migration path (#10, #13).
- Add compile-time vs runtime note on unique_ptr_overload test (#28).
- Rename threw to caught_invalid_argument in null/dup throw tests
  with post-catch assertion (#29).
- Add comment in set_up documenting dtor_count reset dependency (#30).
- Various already-addressed items noted in spec (ws raw pointer
  removed #5/#26, unregister implicit-conversion bug fixed #22).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Major (finding 1): Already addressed in merged feature/v2.0 code via
unique_ptr data_guard in complete_websocket_upgrade.

Security minors (findings 14-15):
- data_guard.release() now conditional on MHD_queue_response == MHD_YES;
  if MHD_queue_response fails the RAII destructor frees the allocation.
- MHD_websocket_create_accept_header failure now aborts the upgrade
  (destroys response, returns nullopt) instead of sending 101 without
  the required Sec-WebSocket-Accept header (RFC 6455 §4.2.2).

Code quality (findings 2, 4, 7-9):
- registered_ws_handlers in webserver_impl.hpp gets "Lock: protected by
  registered_resources_mutex" comment (findings 2 & 4).
- websocket_handler forward decl in webserver_impl.hpp made unconditional
  to match public webserver.hpp (finding 9).
- Local var renamed key -> url_key in webserver_routes.cpp (finding 8).
- Ownership comment already present via CWE-401 block (finding 7 satisfied).

API documentation (finding 16):
- Added @pre precondition to both register_ws_resource overloads in
  webserver_websocket.hpp documenting the before-start() requirement.

Test improvements (findings 5, 6, 18-20):
- unregister_ws_resource_drops_handler: uses counted_ws_handler + asserts
  dtor_count == 1 after unregister to confirm full ownership release.
- webserver_ws_unavailable_test: inline comment clarifying null is for
  compile convenience only, not a null-specific contract.
- Comment above null_unique_ptr_throws explains both null tests reach the
  same shared_ptr null-guard and documents the try/catch workaround.
- New derived_unique_ptr_accepted_by_shim test pins SFINAE resolution for
  derived types (mirroring TASK-023), satisfying finding 20.

Deferred (no action recommended): findings 3, 11, 13, 17.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
All 44 items (3 major, 41 minor) in the 2026-05-26_000000 first-pass
review file are now cross-referenced against the 2nd-pass cleanup
(fix/task-051-2nd-review-cleanup, commit d5dd7fd). Each item is marked
with its disposition:

- ALREADY FIXED: 19 items already addressed by 2nd-pass (append_impl
  template, expired()+lock() TOCTOU removals, LT_CHECK_EQ sentinels,
  http-resource.md arch doc, per_route_table comment, variable renaming,
  lifetime comments, memory-order comment)
- ALREADY ADDRESSED: 3 items where the recommendation itself said no
  action was needed (remove_slot repetition, test sufficiency note)
- DEFERRED: 22 items carried as advisory or follow-up
  (thread_local perf, C++20 migration, test naming, boundary tests, etc.)

No source or test files changed; this is a housekeeping annotation pass only.

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…ready fixed)

Major (performance):
- commit_handlers_to_shim: pass handler by value, copy into N-1 slots,
  move into last slot — eliminates one extra heap allocation per
  multi-method registration (performance-reviewer-iter1-1)
- Updated declaration in webserver_impl_dispatch.hpp to match

Cosmetic / documentation fixes:
- on_methods_: add null-byte path guard (CWE-20, security-iter1-23)
- on_methods_: add security comment documenting exact-only semantics in
  single_resource mode (CWE-284, security-iter1-22)
- route(method_set,...): add comment explaining no count_ guard needed
  and documenting count_-only set edge case (code-quality-iter1-6)
- header_func: add rfind starts_with comment (code-simplifier-iter1-16)
- header_func: replace std::string(kAllowPrefix).size() with strlen()
  (code-simplifier-iter1-17)

Test additions:
- route_delete_serves_delete_request: exercise DELETE beyond GET/POST
  (code-quality-iter1-7, PORT+15)
- route_duplicate_method_path_throws_for_post: method-agnostic conflict
  check (code-quality-iter1-9, PORT+16)
- route_root_path_serves_get_request: root path sanity (test-iter1-30,
  PORT+17)
- route_method_set_count_sentinel_only_behavior: pin current behaviour
  for method_set{}.set(count_) (test-iter1-29, PORT+18)
- Rename route_only_allows_registered_method ->
  route_get_returns_405_with_allow_header_for_post_request
  (test-quality-iter1-27)

Already-fixed items (verified, no action taken):
- explicit constructor (arch-iter1-2)
- method_set::empty() predicate (code-quality-iter1-3)
- for_each_requested_method helper (code-quality-iter1-4/5/14/15)
- is_new_entry naming (code-simplifier-iter1-12/13)
- assert+unconditional guard in lambda_resource::invoke_
  (security-iter1-21)
- TASK-036 comment in lambda_resource (performance-iter1-18)

Deferred: TIME_WAIT convention (8), ws.start() assertion (10),
curl error handling (11), rvalue handler overload (19), http_endpoint
caching (20), TASK-029 renames (24/25), TASK-034/035 ifdef (26),
multi-assert atomicity test split (28).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
All items checked: 1 major fixed, 12 minors already fixed by prior
tasks, 11 minors fixed in this pass, 6 minors deferred (pre-existing
TASK-029/034/035 items, project conventions, API-width concerns).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…tic_assert

Remove TASK-021 ticket-prefix annotations from permanent source and test
comments (modded_request.hpp, webserver_impl_dispatch.hpp,
webserver_request.cpp, webserver_routes.cpp, method_utils.hpp,
http_method.hpp, http_resource.hpp, webserver_route_test.cpp,
http_resource_test.cpp, basic.cpp). Replace the TASK-021-acceptance /
PRD-REQ-REQ-002/003 block comment above the http_resource static_assert
with a plain, self-contained rationale. Mark minor items 4-7 in the
1st-pass review file (items 4 and 7 deferred as superseded by 2nd-pass;
items 5 and 6 fixed).

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- Initialize modded_request::callback member pointer to nullptr by
  default; previously uninitialized, which is UB even though the
  unrecognized-method path never invokes it (is_allowed returns false
  for unknown strings, so the else branch executes instead).
- Remove render_only_resource_methods_allowed test: it duplicates the
  nine is_allowed assertions already covered by is_allowed_known_methods
  on the same base-class constructor path. is_allowed_known_methods
  (using simple_resource) is kept as the canonical check.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Second-pass review of TASK-021 (webserver/method_set bitmask era).
Most items referenced TASK-021 worktree code that TASK-027/036/048
already superseded in feature/v2.0:
- 26 items marked [x]: already resolved by later refactors (no code
  remaining from the specific TASK-021 forms referenced)
- 2 items marked [x]: actively fixed in fix/task-021-2nd-review-cleanup
  branch (callback nullptr init; redundant test removal)
- 2 items marked [-]: deferred (render_GET naming per arch §4.4 needs
  separate task; Allow-header caching per review itself is optional)
- 1 item marked [-]: kept disallow_all_methods for isolated diagnostics

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# Conflicts:
#	src/httpserver/details/modded_request.hpp
#	test/unit/http_resource_test.cpp
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- per_route_auth.cpp: replace short-circuiting == credential compare with
  a constant-time equal helper (CWE-208); reframe the note as the
  production-ready form.
- pipe_response_example.cpp: wrap writes in a write_all partial-write /
  EINTR loop; mark production-ready.
- clf_access_log.cpp: emit the real advertised protocol version via
  ctx.request->get_version() (TASK-018), sanitized, instead of a
  hard-coded HTTP/1.1.
- client_cert_auth.cpp, centralized_authentication.cpp,
  minimal_https_psk.cpp: reword inline caveats to the consistent
  'for illustration; production must ...' framing.

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…entication, checkboxes, findings)

Applied during the validate pass on top of the implementation commit:
- examples/centralized_authentication.cpp: close CWE-208 timing side-channel
  by using a self-contained constant_time_equal helper (mirrors per_route_auth),
  replacing the short-circuiting != credential compare; comment corrected to
  describe the || reject path accurately.
- specs/tasks/M7-v2-cleanup/TASK-093.md: tick the four completed action items.
- specs/unworked_review_issues: persist 16 unworked minor findings (non-blocking).

make check: examples build clean; library suite green on serial run (the 6
failures under `make check -j4` are pre-existing parallel port-contention
flakes — all pass on serial re-run).

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…n flakiness)

The integration tests each started a webserver on a hardcoded port 8080
and built client URLs as compile-time literals ("localhost:" PORT_STRING
"/path"). Under `make check -j`, concurrent tests raced for :8080, one lost
the bind(), and that test FAILed — a shifting set of failures (6-11 per run)
that read as flakiness but was deterministic port contention.

Each test now binds port 0 (kernel picks a free port) and reads the actual
port back via webserver::get_bound_port() at runtime, building URLs with
std::to_string(port). This mirrors the pattern already used by
threadsafety_stress.cpp and daemon_info.cpp.

Files (12):
- 10 PORT_STRING tests migrated to runtime URLs: basic, authentication,
  ws_start_stop, deferred, ban_system, file_upload, new_response_types,
  digest_challenge_format_test, nodelay, threaded.
- connection_state_body_residue_test: raw-socket connect() now targets the
  runtime bound port.
- route_table_concurrency: create_webserver(8080) -> (0) (no client URLs).
- ws_start_stop: PORT+20/PORT+21 were separate servers -> each binds 0 and
  reads its own get_bound_port(); custom_socket path binds htons(0) and
  recovers the port via getsockname().
- daemon_info left as-is: its get_bound_port()==PORT assertion requires an
  explicit port, and it is now the sole user of 8080 (no collision).

Verified: full `make check -j4` 107/107 PASS; all 13 port-binding tests
launched concurrently for 6 rounds with 0 failures (previously 6-11 FAILs
under plain -j4). The only remaining `make check` red is the pre-existing
check-doxygen failure in unmodified src/ headers.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bNfjNMbo9J5WvrcA4ZQqY
Sweeps the 51 unchecked major findings (0 critical) across the
specs/unworked_review_issues/ ledger; every item is now [x] with a
dated resolution note. Highlights:

- src: overflow-safe bound in unescape_buf_raw; qop_auth_int now throws
  instead of silently no-oping; legacy with_cookie restores v1
  overwrite wire semantics (single Set-Cookie); debug-dump wrapper
  collapsed into detail::debug_dump_request_body_opted_in
- security follow-up: TASK-095 created to track CWE-226 arena-overflow
  zeroing residue; connection_state.hpp references it; residue integ
  test gains a black-box get_user() leak assertion
- gates: new negative-compile gate for the [[deprecated]] cookie
  overload; server-ready-helper self-test wired into check-local;
  shared scripts/lib/find-matrix-includes.py dedupes the lane gates;
  codeql gate loop simplified to one grep -v pass
- tests: LT_SKIP_IF(true,..)->LT_SKIP and curl_get() helper in
  ws_start_stop; stream_capture helpers and throw_probe.hpp extracted;
  threadsafety_stress CAS pool enables real same-slot contention and
  honest proxy docs; bench stat/timing helpers consolidated into
  bench_harness.hpp; new unescape, digest-factory and cookie-overwrite
  unit tests
- docs: TASK-067 action items closed; TASK-080 50-run criterion marked
  deferred with Linux-sweep gap documented

make check: 107/107 PASS (check-doxygen @security noise pre-existing).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NpysYDDJac63yz2mZKKiDf
…review findings

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NpysYDDJac63yz2mZKKiDf
Sweeps the 803 unchecked minor findings across the
specs/unworked_review_issues/ ledger; every item is now [x] with a
dated resolution note. Triage verdicts: 428 fixed, 241 reasoned
no-action, 134 already resolved by later work (1 fix skipped: the
cc-compiler key rename would break the msan-lane structural gate).

Highlights:
- src: unauthorized() realm fast path (no-escape case skips the
  char-by-char copy) with shared kForbiddenFieldChars extracted to
  detail/http_field_validation.hpp; digest_challenge_body primary ctor
  no longer falsely noexcept; local null-guard in
  queue_response_dispatching_kind; prepare_or_create_lambda_shim
  returns pair instead of bool& out-param; should_skip_auth/
  normalize_path take string_view; hook_handle::remove() checks alias
  slot wiring before clearing any_hooks_; test-request cookie parsing
  no longer mis-splits on '=' (friend access in http_request_impl);
  cookie::is_effective_secure() accessor
- gates/CI: new DR-008 lane structural gate (check-dr008-lanes.sh +
  self-test) wired into verify-build.yml; LLVM cache-key/SHA-pin
  verification; shared scripts/lib/check-markdownlint.sh dedupes the
  markdownlint blocks; valgrind/msan lane self-tests gain missing-file,
  duplicate-entry and split fixtures; check-warning-suppressions
  widened to .hpp
- tests: new unescaper_func and debug_dump_request_body_zero binaries;
  SHA512_256 + NUL-in-opaque digest factory tests; bad-cookie-value,
  empty-name and Expires+Max-Age round-trip cookie tests; bench
  kSanitizerBuild consolidated into bench_harness.hpp; hit-path
  assertions added to hooks alias ordering tests; ws.stop() moved
  after assertions
- examples: volatile accumulator in constant_time_equal; CLF sanitizer
  escapes double-quote; write_all handles n==0; anonymous-namespace
  consistency
- docs/specs: PRD gains PRD-RSP-REQ-005a (digest challenge factory);
  09-testing.md items 9-10; stale comments and drifted line references
  corrected across PERFORMANCE.md/PORTABILITY.md

make check: 109/109 PASS (check-doxygen @security noise pre-existing,
warning set byte-identical to base).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NpysYDDJac63yz2mZKKiDf
TASK-029 collapsed the v1 ban_ip/unban_ip/allow_ip/disallow_ip quartet
to a deny-only block_ip/unblock_ip pair, leaving the allowances set and
the REJECT branch of the policy callback reachable only internally. The
result: default_policy(REJECT) was public and documented but unusable
(nothing could populate the allow list, so REJECT rejected every
connection), and block_ip read as blocklist-only while the config could
flip the system into allowlist mode.

This restores a symmetric, consistently-named surface and makes the
allow-list mode actually work:

  block_ip        -> deny_ip
  unblock_ip      -> remove_denied_ip
  (new)           -> allow_ip
  (new)           -> remove_allowed_ip
  ban_system(bool)-> ip_access_control(bool)

default_policy(ACCEPT) makes the deny list the exception list; REJECT
makes the allow list the exception list. An allow entry overrides a
matching deny entry (allow wins). Internal sets renamed bans->deny_list,
allowances->allow_list; accept_ctx reasons "banned"->"denied",
"not-allowed"->"not-on-allow-list".

Restores the allow-list integ coverage TASK-029 deleted (now via the
public API), updates README/RELEASE_NOTES/examples and the CI
enforcement scripts, and renames the ban_system.cpp /
hooks_accept_decision_banned.cpp / minimal_ip_ban.cpp /
banned_ip_log.cpp files to match. Also clears the pre-existing
check-doxygen warnings (define the @security alias; fix stale @ref
targets) so make check is green. Design rationale in
specs/proposals/ip-access-control-naming.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NpysYDDJac63yz2mZKKiDf
Renames block_ip/unblock_ip -> deny_ip/remove_denied_ip, adds the
allow_ip/remove_allowed_ip pair (making default_policy(REJECT) usable),
ban_system -> ip_access_control. make check green (doxygen gate fixed).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NpysYDDJac63yz2mZKKiDf
Last stray "block-list" reference in the hook-phase table, missed by the
IP access-control rename.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NpysYDDJac63yz2mZKKiDf
# Conflicts:
#	src/webserver.cpp
#	test/Makefile.am
#	test/unit/post_iterator_null_key_test.cpp
Comment thread src/peer_address.cpp Fixed
etr and others added 12 commits July 13, 2026 11:44
register_resource was a [[deprecated]] forwarder to register_path,
retained for migration. RELEASE_NOTES already presents it as gone
(replaced by register_path for exact match / register_prefix for prefix),
so the interim alias was the inconsistency. Remove it outright:

  - drop both overloads (templated unique_ptr + shared_ptr) from
    webserver_routes.hpp and the shared_ptr impl from webserver_register.cpp
  - webserver_register_path_prefix_test: replace the bool-family negative
    SFINAE with a clean-break pin that register_resource is gone entirely
    (no smart-pointer or bool-family overload survives); drop the
    deprecated-forwarder runtime test
  - webserver_register_smartptr_test: retarget the ownership tests
    (unique_ptr transfer, shared_ptr retention, null/duplicate throw) at
    register_path, drop the now-obsolete register_resource SFINAE
  - README: drop the "note on register_resource"; check-readme now forbids
    the register_resource identifier outright

Callers use register_path (exact) or register_prefix (prefix).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NpysYDDJac63yz2mZKKiDf
The PR's last CI run predated several review-sweep commits; the fresh run
exposed three latent, platform-specific failures (none from the IP-API
rename, which is macOS-green):

- Linux (-Werror): threadsafety_stress.cpp did an unguarded
  `#define _GNU_SOURCE`, which redefines the build-predefined macro and
  trips -Werror. Guard with #ifndef.
- macOS: ws_start_stop's ipv6_webserver / bind_address_ipv6_string assert
  curl to [::1] succeeds once the server is running, but macOS CI runners
  have no IPv6 client path (getaddrinfo("::1") -> CURLE_COULDNT_RESOLVE_HOST).
  Extend the existing environmental-skip logic to the client side: skip
  only on COULDNT_RESOLVE_HOST; every other error / wrong body still fails,
  so real IPv6 regressions (and Linux CI, which has IPv6) still assert.
- Windows (MinGW): debug_dump_request_body_{unset,set,zero} included
  <sys/wait.h> (absent on MinGW) but none of them fork/wait — the include
  was unused. Removed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NpysYDDJac63yz2mZKKiDf
The install_default_alias_hooks_ doc claimed all three aliases are
"observation-only stubs ... byte-for-byte identical to v1", describing a
superseded design. In the current code the auth and method_not_allowed
aliases ARE the dispatch path (the inline apply_auth_short_circuit / 405
branch was removed) — the auth alias is the security boundary. Only
not_found is observation-only (empty body; seat kept for PRD-HOOK-REQ-009
hook-count introspection). Comment-only; no behavior change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NpysYDDJac63yz2mZKKiDf
unregister_resource is NOT [[deprecated]] and NOT an alias for
unregister_path — it atomically clears either an exact or a prefix
registration (a capability unregister_path alone lacks). Correct the
stale wording; the method stays.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NpysYDDJac63yz2mZKKiDf
CI sets CXX="g++ -std=c++20" (compiler + flag in one var). Two lint
scripts invoked it as a single quoted word — `"$CXX" ...` — so the shell
looked for a command literally named "g++ -std=c++20" and failed with
exit 127 ("command not found"), failing lint-littletest-skip-exit-code
and the installed-examples check on every CI lane. Local runs passed
because a bare CXX (no embedded flag) is a single word.

Split $CXX into an array and expand "${CXX_CMD[@]}", matching the idiom
already used in scripts/check-deprecated-cookie-overload.sh. Verified by
reproducing the failure locally with CXX="clang++ -std=c++20".

These gates only ran now because the earlier build/test failures (fixed
in the prior commit) were masking them — make check aborts at the first
failure.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NpysYDDJac63yz2mZKKiDf
Four independent CI failure classes on the v2.0 matrix:

- tsan/msan/lsan link error: http_request_unescape_arena_test.cpp defines
  global operator new/delete to count heap allocs; the tsan/msan/lsan
  runtimes ship their own strong definitions, so the test collided at link
  time (multiple definition). Guard the overrides out on those lanes via
  -DLHS_SANITIZER_OWNS_OPERATOR_NEW (set in verify-build.yml) plus
  __has_feature/__SANITIZE_THREAD__ fallbacks. With overrides absent the
  counter stays 0, so the zero-global-alloc pins still hold and the
  correctness/lifetime pins still exercise the real arena path.

- Windows (mingw gcc-16): <stdlib.h> no longer declares POSIX
  setenv/unsetenv. Route the three debug_dump_request_body_* tests through
  _putenv on _WIN32 (VAR= removes the variable under MSVCRT).

- cpplint gate (29 errors, surfaced now that the lint script runs): fixed
  runtime/int, indent_namespace, blank_line, header_guard, IWYU (real
  includes where legal, inline NOLINT in mid-class fragment headers),
  TODO username, and try-clause newline formatting.

- CodeQL high-severity cpp/overflowing-snprintf in peer_address.cpp: the
  IPv6 canonicaliser advanced `pos` by snprintf's return value, which
  CodeQL traced into the next call's `sizeof(buf) - pos` size argument
  (potential size_t underflow, CWE-190). A group is <=4 hex digits so it
  never truncates with buf[40], but add the canonical bound guard so pos
  is provably in-range.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NpysYDDJac63yz2mZKKiDf
threadsafety_stress adversarial latency gate: the p95<20x-baseline bound
relies on the TASK-080 CPU-pinning stabilisation, which is Linux-only
(no working affinity API on macOS/Windows). On the oversubscribed hosted
macOS runners the p95 tail is uncontrolled (asymmetric P/E cores, QoS-based
ulock wakeups): observed overall_median ~1.1x baseline but p95 ~40x. The
median proves the registration algorithm is healthy — only the tail is
environmental. Keep the strict p95 gate on Linux (where pinning gives it
regression bite) and gate on the overall MEDIAN (10x) on non-Linux: a real
O(n) regression shifts the whole distribution incl. median, so the bound
still catches it while ignoring the platform tail. Validated locally on
macOS (median ratio ~1.02x, passes). p95/p99 still printed as diagnostics.

helgrind: override ax_valgrind_check's --history-level=approx default with
--history-level=full. approx drops the happens-before history, so helgrind
could not see the synchronisation MHD_start_daemon's pthread_create
establishes between main-thread pre-start setup and the worker threads
reading that immutable-after-start state — producing a flood of benign
"data race" reports on libhttpserver frames whose conflicting access was
"the start of the thread". full tracks the complete graph and proves those
reads ordered, removing the false positives at the source (no suppression
of libhttpserver frames, per DR-008). drd residue to follow.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NpysYDDJac63yz2mZKKiDf
…ot Makefile.am

The previous commit added `VALGRIND_helgrind_FLAGS = --history-level=full`
right after @VALGRIND_CHECK_RULES@ in test/Makefile.am. That corrupted the
generated test/Makefile (config.status "am--depfiles" step hit a "missing
separator" at the injected region), so `configure` failed on every platform
with "Something went wrong bootstrapping makefile fragments". Reproduced and
confirmed fixed locally.

Revert the Makefile.am edit and instead pass VALGRIND_helgrind_FLAGS on the
`make check-valgrind-<tool>` command line in verify-build.yml. A make
command-line assignment overrides the macro's ?= default and propagates to
the recursive check-TESTS make, with none of the Makefile.in-generation risk;
it is inert for the memcheck/drd tools that don't consume it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NpysYDDJac63yz2mZKKiDf
The msan lane rebuilds an MSan-instrumented libc++ from LLVM 18.1.8 source
when the cache misses. LLVM 18 defaults LIBCXXABI_USE_LLVM_UNWINDER=ON, which
now hard-errors at libcxxabi/CMakeLists.txt:51 unless libunwind is also in
LLVM_ENABLE_RUNTIMES:

  LIBCXXABI_USE_LLVM_UNWINDER is set to ON, but libunwind is not specified
  in LLVM_ENABLE_RUNTIMES.

The prior green runs hit the libc++ cache and never re-ran this config, so the
latent breakage only surfaced on cache eviction. Set the flag OFF (the
instrumented libc++ uses the system unwinder, sufficient for running the test
suite) rather than pulling libunwind into the instrumented runtimes build.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NpysYDDJac63yz2mZKKiDf
The TASK-044 v1+v2 parallel-install gate always false-SKIPped with
"ref 'origin/master' not in this repository" even though the CI step
successfully fetches origin/master. Cause: the Phase-2 ref probe used
`git rev-parse --verify -- "$MASTER_REF"`. The `--` makes rev-parse treat
the following argument as a PATHSPEC, not a revision, so it never resolved
the ref (verified locally: `rev-parse --verify -- origin/master` fails,
`rev-parse --verify origin/master` succeeds). Since skip is not authorized
in CI, the gate failed the gcc-14 dynamic lane on every run.

Use `--end-of-options`, which ends option parsing (preserving the guard
against an option-like MASTER_REF) while still treating the argument as a
revision. Line 176's `worktree add` takes the ref as a trailing positional
and is unaffected.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NpysYDDJac63yz2mZKKiDf
The complexity gate (scripts/check-complexity.sh, lizard, CCN_MAX=10) ran
green for the first time once cpplint stopped failing earlier in the lint
lane, exposing two pre-existing over-threshold functions:
  - ip_representation.cpp parse_nested_ipv4 (CCN 11)
  - cookie.cpp parse_cookie_header (CCN 12)

Extract cohesive blocks into commented anonymous-namespace helpers
(validate_ipv4_mapped_prefix, parse_cookie_token), preserving exact
validation/exception behavior. New CCN: 8 and 6. Verified with lizard,
library build, cpplint, and the ip_access_control / cookie_render /
cookie_header_sentinel / http_request_cookies_parsed / http_response_cookie_wire
test binaries (0 failures).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NpysYDDJac63yz2mZKKiDf
--history-level=full did not reduce the helgrind race reports (still 84
FAIL, identical frames). Root cause: MHD signals its worker thread via an
internal ITC pipe, not a pthread primitive, so NO helgrind history level
can observe that happens-before — the reports are inherent to MHD's design,
not an approx-history artifact. Revert to the ax_valgrind_check default
(approx, faster). The valgrind lanes will be addressed with third-party
suppressions instead (tracked separately).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NpysYDDJac63yz2mZKKiDf
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