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Pat Whittingslow 5c54030f19 add http/httphi (#171)
* add http/httphi

* begin adding httphi tests

* claude found neat bugs

* add low level Handle function and more tests

* more tests, run go generate

* add Hijacker-like functionality

* improve locking and acquisition of Exchanges in reconfiguring

* several bugfixes, add internal.IntLen, round up http-linux example with new router API

* small nit

* add benchmarks

* add query handling

* remove ForEach pattern, allocates in TinyGo

* massive documentation push and code reordering in files

* Router.Handle returns error after being torn down

* run go fix

* rework Mux interface to receive a string request path

* add MethodFrom

* minor doc nit

* fail on incomplete staging

* add raw buffer access

* add streaming API distinct from Exchange

* begin adding multipart form logic

* finish rounding up multipart form parsing

* remove status type

* first Multipart approach

* begin adding readMultiPart

* add Exchange.ReadMultiparts reimagining of clanker slop

* ai insists with backoffs

* simplify clanker slop

* apply go fix

* add a pattern argument to Mux

* explicit header key/value alloc and add ExchangeConfig

* fix tests after excplicit header alloc change

* fix examples

* run go fix

* expose rawsock as experimental package (will use for external benchmarks)

* remove backoff from form parsing

* @MDr164 suggestions get potential fixes

* apply go fix

* add examples

* add README.md

* fix rawsock tinygo implementation

* apply @MDr164 various fixes

* update documentation on ContentLength methods and fix bug in Form reset on empty body

* fix tests

* add fuzz tests

* run go fix

* io.ErrNoProgress on parsing form spin

* run go fix

* remove backoff assumption from Router

* httphi.Handle rejects unsupported protocols

* go format router.go

* add kvbuffer

* rewrite Cookie with KVBuffer

* mid refactor of KVBuffer into Header

* work on KVBuffer exhausted semantics

* add Go's ServeMux Request.PathValue access semantics to Exchange, Mux and MuxSlice

* add PathValue example

* document all the things; improve req Query semantics; add Form.EnableBufferGrowth

* unexport kvBuffer

* add Exchange.PathValueAppend

* use stdlib in example instead of rawsock

* remove rawsock from http example

* add darwin arch rawsock

* fix example

* rename Router.TeardownGoroutines to Shutdown matching http.Server.Shutdown

* rename types and identifiers

* @MDr164 Content-Type and Transfer-Encoding bug catches
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# httφ
Heapless HTTP/1.1 router with `net/http`-shaped handlers. Benchmarked against `net/http` and friends at [**soypat/httpbench**](https://github.com/soypat/httpbench).
## Why
`net/http` allocates per request: `Request`, header map, response buffer, goroutine. Fine on a
server, fatal on a microcontroller. httφ pays that cost once, at `Router.Configure`:
- Exchanges and goroutines are fixed there. Serving allocates nothing; memory does not grow with load.
- No free exchange means `Handle` refuses the connection unclosed, rather than allocating one more of everything.
- `Handle` takes an `io.ReadWriteCloser`, so the router runs over a raw socket, an [`lneto`](https://github.com/soypat/lneto) TCP stack or a test pipe. No listener, no OS, no clock.
Parsing is [`httpraw`](../httpraw).
## Example
```go
var mux httphi.MuxSlice
mux.Handle("GET /", func(ex *httphi.Exchange) {
ex.WriteBody([]byte("hello world"))
})
var router httphi.Router
err := router.Configure(httphi.RouterConfig{
FixedNumGoroutines: 4, // 4 workers, 4 exchanges, allocated here and never again.
MaxAwaitingConns: 8, // Queue depth. Full queue drops connections.
RequestHeaderBufferSize: 1024,
ResponseHeaderMinBufferSize: 32, // Shares the request buffer.
RequestNumHeaderKVCap: 32,
Backoff: func(uint) time.Duration { return time.Millisecond },
Mux: &mux,
})
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
for {
conn, err := listener.Accept() // Accepting is the caller's job.
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
if err = router.Handle(conn); err != nil {
conn.Close() // Refused: never blocks, never queues unboundedly.
}
}
```
`FixedNumGoroutines: -1` gives the unbounded flavor, a goroutine and an exchange per connection.
Runnable server over raw Linux sockets, plus query, form and multipart handlers:
[`example_test.go`](./example_test.go).