On Thu, 10 Apr 2025 11:37:23 GMT, Daniel Jeliński <djelin...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> RFC 9113 HTTP/2 mandates certain validation for HTTP headers; the HttpClient 
> don't fully implement the described requirements.
> 
> This PR adds the following validation:
> - pseudo-headers defined for requests are rejected in responses and push 
> streams
> - pseudo-headers defined for responses are rejected in push promises
> - connection headers are rejected in responses and push streams
> 
> Connection headers are still accepted in push promises; that's because some 
> popular server implementations were found to echo the request headers in push 
> promises, and when the original request was a HTTP/1 upgrade, the push 
> promise could contain one or more headers that were prohibited in HTTP/2 but 
> allowed in HTTP/1.
> 
> An existing test was adapted to verify the handling of response headers. The 
> modified test passes with this the changes in this PR, fails without them. 
> Other tier1-3 tests continue to pass.

src/java.net.http/share/classes/jdk/internal/net/http/common/ValidatingHeadersConsumer.java
 line 46:

> 44:         REQUEST,
> 45:         RESPONSE,
> 46:         TRAILER

Do we need `TRAILER`, given we don't use it, AFAIU?

test/jdk/java/net/httpclient/http2/BadHeadersTest.java line 83:

> 81:         of(entry(":status", "200"),  entry("hello", "DE" + ((char) 0x7F) 
> + "L")),  // Bad byte in value
> 82:         of(entry(":status", "200"),  entry("connection", "close")),       
>          // Prohibited connection-specific header
> 83:         of(entry(":status", "200"),  entry(":scheme", "https")),          
>          // Request pseudo-header in response

Shouldn't we instead exhaustively test against all hard-coded header collection 
in `ValidatingHeadersConsumer`, i.e., `PSEUDO_HEADERS` and `PROHIBITED_HEADERS`?

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24569#discussion_r2037267873
PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24569#discussion_r2037262108

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