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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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The ConnectRPC API now supports stream lifecycle limits, metrics, active-RPC cancellation, and graceful shutdown. Alertmanager serves each listener with its own HTTP server and configurable TLS HTTP/2 behavior. End-to-end tests cover TLS, h2c, routing, health, reflection, and shutdown.

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ConnectRPC lifecycle and serving

Layer / File(s) Summary
ConnectRPC API and lifecycle control
api/connect/connect.go
Adds stream idle and lifetime limits, lifecycle metrics, active-RPC tracking, cancellation handling, deadline management, and shutdown rejection.
ConnectRPC lifecycle validation
api/connect/status_test.go
Tests shutdown cancellation, timeout normalization, idle and lifetime expiry, capacity release, cleanup ordering, deadlines, and error normalization.
Application configuration and per-listener serving
app/app.go, app/listen.go, app/lifecycle.go, app/lifecycle_test.go, docs/https.md, README.md
Passes ConnectRPC settings into 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
Adds TLS-aware test instances and covers 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: Wrap listener with TLS ALPN configuration
  App->>HTTPServer: Serve each listener with its dedicated server
  HTTPServer->>ConnectAPI: Register shutdown hook and handle RPCs
  App->>HTTPServer: Shut down all servers concurrently
  HTTPServer->>ConnectAPI: Cancel active RPC lifecycles
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ConnectRPC lifecycle limits and shutdown handling are being added, but stream termination may still fail silently in some transports, potentially leaving RPC capacity occupied. This material lifecycle risk should be resolved or explicitly accepted before merge.

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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
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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
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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
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- Line 217: Update both admission-length assertions in the relevant status tests
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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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