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Exercise every supported RPC transport through exporter-toolkit TLS and plaintext h2c. Preserve HTTP/2 ALPN across reloads and isolate mutable server state per listener. Bind lifecycle timer callbacks to request teardown and report listener failures without waiting for other servers.

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[BUGFIX] API: Preserve HTTP/2 ALPN for ConnectRPC with reloadable TLS and isolate multiple listener servers.

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@siavashs siavashs changed the title test: verify Connect transports over TLS and h2c api: harden Connect transports over TLS and h2c Sep 1, 2026
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The ConnectRPC API now synchronizes lifecycle cleanup and read-deadline updates. Alertmanager serves each listener with a dedicated HTTP server and configurable TLS HTTP/2 behavior. Tests cover lifecycle handling, TLS, h2c, routing, health, reflection, and shutdown.

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ConnectRPC lifecycle and serving

Layer / File(s) Summary
ConnectRPC lifecycle and deadline control
api/connect/connect.go, api/connect/status_test.go
Lifecycle termination and cleanup now use a finished state and synchronized read-deadline updates. Tests cover cancellation, timeout normalization, stream expiry, capacity release, cleanup ordering, and error handling.
Application configuration and per-listener serving
app/app.go, app/listen.go, app/lifecycle.go, app/lifecycle_test.go, docs/https.md, README.md
The application passes ConnectRPC settings to the API, creates one HTTP server per listener, configures TLS ALPN from web configuration, aggregates listener errors, and shuts down all servers. Documentation describes the experimental API and h2c behavior.
TLS and transport integration tests
test/e2e/harness_test.go, test/e2e/routing_test.go, test/e2e/status_test.go
The end-to-end harness supports TLS and configurable HTTP/2. Tests cover TLS and h2c routing, Connect, gRPC-Web, native gRPC, health, reflection, HTTP/2 negotiation, and shutdown cancellation.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant App
  participant Listener
  participant HTTPServer
  participant ConnectAPI
  App->>Listener: Apply configured HTTP/2 ALPN behavior
  App->>HTTPServer: Serve each listener with its dedicated server
  HTTPServer->>ConnectAPI: Handle RPCs and register shutdown hook
  App->>HTTPServer: Shut down all servers concurrently
  HTTPServer->>ConnectAPI: Cancel active RPC lifecycles
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When a stream deadline cannot be applied, an idle or expired stream can remain blocked and retain its admission slot. Handle deadline errors before merging.

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In `@api/connect/connect.go`:
- Around line 379-386: Update normalizeContextError to return immediately when
err is nil, before inspecting context.Cause(ctx) or converting
deadline/cancellation causes; preserve existing normalization for non-nil errors
so successful unary and streaming RPC responses remain successful.
- Around line 265-272: The deadline calls in the controller block must record
errors from SetReadDeadline and SetWriteDeadline, including
http.ErrNotSupported, instead of discarding them. Update the stream and
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app/lifecycle.go (1)

65-82: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Report listener failures immediately

When web.Serve returns an unexpected listener error, this coordinator waits for every other web.Serve call before writing to a.serveErrc. With multiple listeners, another server can continue serving, so serveLoop cannot return the failure until that server stops or its context is canceled. Forward the first unexpected error immediately and use the existing shutdown path to stop the remaining servers.

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In `@app/lifecycle.go` around lines 65 - 82, Update the listener coordination in
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a.serveErrc immediately, rather than waiting for all listeners; then invoke the
existing shutdown path to stop remaining servers while preserving the
http.ErrServerClosed exclusion.
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In `@api/connect/connect.go`:
- Around line 317-325: Bind request teardown to the finished state: update stop
to set finished while holding l.mutex, and ensure unaryContext cleanup calls
stop. Make terminate acquire l.mutex before accessing l.controller and return
when finished is set; make touch likewise return during teardown. Apply the same
synchronization in Shutdown so callbacks cannot use ResponseController after the
handler returns or revive timers.

In `@api/connect/status_test.go`:
- Line 217: Update both admission-length assertions in the relevant status tests
to use Eventually(...).Should(BeZero()) instead of immediate HaveLen(0) checks,
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channel is empty.

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Exercise every supported RPC transport through exporter-toolkit TLS and plaintext h2c. Preserve HTTP/2 ALPN across reloads and isolate mutable server state per listener. Bind lifecycle timer callbacks to request teardown and report listener failures without waiting for other servers.

Signed-off-by: Siavash Safi <siavash@cloudflare.com>
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Route read deadline changes through the RPC lifecycle mutex so request teardown cannot complete while a controller update is active.

Signed-off-by: Siavash Safi <siavash@cloudflare.com>

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I didn't have time to finish the review. But there are two ideas I would like to try here.

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type rpcLifecycleContextKey struct{}

type rpcLifecycle struct {

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An idea by Claude:

Let the connection time itself out instead of supervising it from another goroutine. activityConn pushes the deadline forward after every successful Send or Receive, so a peer that goes quiet just runs out the clock in the call that is already blocked. Then only the request goroutine touches the connection, and
the lock has nothing left to protect.

func (l *rpcLifecycle) touch() {
      if l.controller == nil || l.idleTimeout <= 0 {
              return
      }
      deadline := time.Now().Add(l.idleTimeout)
      _ = l.controller.SetReadDeadline(deadline)
      _ = l.controller.SetWriteDeadline(deadline)
}

Comment thread app/app.go
server.RegisterOnShutdown(apih.Shutdown)
return server
}
a.servers = make([]*http.Server, 0, len(a.listeners))

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I really don't want to use multple servers here. Can't just vendor in the buggy implementation? It looks like the Config is public, so we don't loose the prometheus compatibility.

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