Posts tagged tooling.

We built our own HTTP engine from scratch. No normalisation, no typed header map, no helpfulness at all, because a well-behaved client quietly fixes the exact malformations you need to send. Here is what Keith is, and why we changed our minds about open-sourcing it.

Starting a build-in-public log for Keith, an HTTP/1.1/2/3 desync prober. The premise: a conformant HTTP client is the wrong tool for finding HTTP parser bugs, because it normalises away exactly the malformed framing you need to send.