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Summary

  • The built-in listener stops gracefully on a signal: new connections are refused, calls and streams in flight finish, HTTP/2 clients get a GOAWAY, and the drain is bounded.
  • Dropping the serve future closes every connection and ends every handler; nothing keeps running detached.
  • The standalone binary drains on SIGTERM and Ctrl-C and exits 0.

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  • serve_with_shutdown(listener, service, options, signal) and ProxyServer::serve_with_shutdown(signal); serve and serve_with run until dropped.
  • After the signal the listening socket closes; a connection in its TLS handshake or waiting for a max_connections slot is dropped; HTTP/1.1 closes after the response in progress.
  • ServeOptions::drain_timeout and listen.drain_timeout_secs (25 s by default, below the 30 s Kubernetes grace period; 0 waits for all): the connections still open after it are closed.
  • Connections are tasks owned by the serve future (JoinSet), reaped as they close; HTTP/2 stream tasks run under a tracker the shutdown waits on, and are cancelled when the drain times out or the serve future is dropped.
  • A JWKS cache test gets a throttle interval that holds on a loaded machine.
  • The binary listens for SIGTERM (Unix) and Ctrl-C; the systemd unit's TimeoutStopSec stays above the default drain, and the packaged config template documents the key.
  • README: "Shutting down" section, config key, feature list; the README's Rust examples now compile as doc tests.

Testing

Formatting, clippy, the full test suite, doc tests and rustdoc pass locally; the new shutdown cases run in cleartext, behind TLS and under a connection limit, and the binary is checked to exit 0 on SIGTERM.

BREAKING CHANGE: ListenConfig gains drain_timeout_secs, so a ListenConfig built as a struct literal must set it.

Closes #123

- serve_with_shutdown and ProxyServer::serve_with_shutdown stop on a signal
  future: the listener closes, connections in a TLS handshake or waiting for
  a max_connections slot are dropped, HTTP/2 gets a GOAWAY, HTTP/1.1 closes
  after the response in progress, and calls and streams in flight finish
- ServeOptions::drain_timeout / listen.drain_timeout_secs (30 s by default,
  0 waits for all) bounds the drain; the connections still open are closed
- connections are tasks of the serve future, so dropping it closes every
  connection and ends every handler, HTTP/2 stream tasks included
- the binary drains on SIGTERM and Ctrl-C and exits 0; the systemd unit
  stops a few seconds after the default drain

BREAKING CHANGE: ListenConfig gains drain_timeout_secs, so a ListenConfig
built as a struct literal must set it.

Closes #123
- default drain timeout 25 s, below the 30 s a pod gets after SIGTERM, so
  the drain ends before the kill; the systemd unit keeps TimeoutStopSec=30
- the README's Rust examples compile as doc tests in every feature set;
  examples that read a config file at startup are no_run

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  • New Features
    • The proxy now shuts down gracefully on Ctrl-C or SIGTERM, stopping new connections while allowing in-progress requests and streams to finish.
    • Shutdown waits up to 25 seconds by default before closing remaining connections. Configure the timeout, or set it to 0 to wait indefinitely.
    • The library now provides a shutdown-aware serving option for embedded deployments.
  • Documentation
    • Added guidance and examples for graceful shutdown, drain-timeout configuration, and service timeout settings.

Walkthrough

The proxy now accepts shutdown signals, stops accepting connections, and drains tracked connections with a configurable timeout. The binary maps Ctrl-C and Unix SIGTERM to shutdown. Tests cover HTTP/1, HTTP/2, TLS, connection limits, timeout expiry, and task cancellation.

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Graceful shutdown

Layer / File(s) Summary
Drain configuration and public API
src/config.rs, src/serve.rs, src/lib.rs, src/serve/tests.rs, tests/embedded.rs, README.md, packaging/config.yaml, packaging/structured-proxy.service
ListenConfig and ServeOptions now configure the drain timeout. The public API adds serve_with_shutdown and ProxyServer::serve_with_shutdown. Configuration and packaging examples document the default and unbounded setting.
Connection shutdown and draining
Cargo.toml, src/serve.rs, src/lib.rs, tests/shutdown.rs
The server tracks accepted connections, stops accepting when the shutdown future resolves, and asks open connections to shut down gracefully. It waits for connection closure or the configured timeout. Tests exercise active requests and streams, GOAWAY, TLS, connection limits, timeout expiry, and dropped serve tasks.
Process signals and shutdown guidance
src/main.rs, README.md, src/lib.rs, tests/cli.rs
The binary uses Ctrl-C and, on Unix, SIGTERM to request shutdown. README guidance describes shutdown behavior, and the CLI test checks successful SIGTERM exit and refusal of new connections.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Signal as Shutdown signal
  participant Server as serve_with_shutdown
  participant Listener as TcpListener
  participant Tasks as Connection tasks
  participant Clients as HTTP clients
  Signal->>Server: Resolve shutdown future
  Server->>Listener: Stop accepting connections
  Server->>Tasks: Request graceful shutdown
  Tasks->>Clients: Finish active work and send GOAWAY when applicable
  Tasks-->>Server: Report connection closure
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to da4f8

HTTP/2 work may continue after shutdown reports completion. Tie stream handlers to the connection lifetime before merging, or explicitly accept that shutdown limitation.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to da4f8

The default shutdown is bounded and stops accepting new connections, but upgraded connections need confirmation: they may outlive the new drain guarantee in embedded deployments. No authorization bypass is established.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: On deployments that permit HTTP upgrades, an upgraded socket may leave the tracked HTTP connection task and outlive the bounded drain or a dropped serve future. Whether upgrade handling retains that socket under server ownership needs confirmation.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The relevant exposure is availability and connection lifetime for a proxy instance and its in-flight clients, potentially including an embedded consumer that keeps its runtime alive after serving returns. No change to credential authority or upstream authorization is established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — If an upgrade-supporting handler retains its socket after the HTTP driver exits, a client could keep that connection active beyond the new drain while tracked tasks finish. The available evidence does not establish that this occurs, or that an affected route is deployed.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The binary obtains its shutdown trigger from OS signals. The public method builds the configured service and listener before serving; it does not derive shutdown authority from a client request.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The shutdown path gives pending slot acquisition and accept operations a signal-prioritized exit, cancels TLS handshakes, and aborts tracked tasks when the drain deadline expires. These controls narrow the potential gap to work outside tracked connection tasks.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Verify upgrade-socket ownership through graceful shutdown and future drop in an embedded, still-running runtime; either include such sockets in the drain bound or explicitly narrow the shutdown contract.
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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 75.56% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 45 functions across 8 files. (4 skipped: … Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue #123 coding requirements are implemented. serve_with_shutdown stops accepting connections, signals open connections to drain, sends HTTP/2 GOAWAY through GracefulConnection, and resolves aft…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes stay within Issue #123. The hyper-util graceful-server feature and h2 dependency support the shutdown implementation and tests. README, configuration, systemd comments, CLI signal hand…
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: graceful shutdown with a bounded drain. It is concise and specific.
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the graceful-shutdown behavior, APIs, timeout configuration, signal handling, tests, and breaking change.
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- Around line 324-341: Tie HTTP/2 stream tasks spawned by
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Comment thread src/serve.rs
- The accept loop reaped finished connection tasks only when a new client
  arrived, so a burst that closed while the listener sat idle stayed
  allocated (about 190 bytes each) until the next connection. Every wait
  (slot, accept) now reaps as tasks finish; tests/connection_memory.rs
  counts live bytes after such a burst.
- HTTP/2 stream tasks were spawned on the plain tokio executor, so a
  handler could still be running when serve_with_shutdown returned after
  the drain timeout. They now run under a TaskTracker the shutdown waits
  on; the new drain-timeout case checks the handler is gone on return.
- The JWKS refresh-in-flight test measured the throttle with a 50 ms
  interval, shorter than the time a loaded machine takes between the held
  refresh starting and the second lookup checking it (2 failures in 300
  runs); 500 ms leaves the margin, with no failure in 300 runs.

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Comment thread src/serve.rs Outdated
After the drain timeout the shutdown waited on the stream tasks without a
bound, relying on hyper ending a stream when its connection closes. A
stream that never observes that (a service or body that is never woken
again, or a hyper release that does not poll for the reset) would hang the
shutdown past its timeout. Stream tasks now run under a cancellation token:
the drain timeout cancels them before waiting, and dropping the serve
future cancels them too.

The regression test stopping_the_streams_ends_one_that_never_finishes
timed out on the previous code.

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