Lesson 3.5

Break it live - five ways framing fails

Reproduce the real framing failures with your own hands (the dropped fragment, the quadratic rescan, the swallowed request, the mangled multibyte body, the trusted content-length), then watch the same request whole and byte-by-byte produce one identical response while the stage checks stay green.

25 minthrowaway scratch copies and small test clients
  • Reproduce each framing failure on a throwaway copy and read it on the wire before undoing it.
  • Demonstrate that a request sent whole and one byte per segment produces one identical response.
  • Run the stage-03 and stage-04 checks and the full regression through stage 04.
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