rproxy, the proxy in front of each app, asks servewaf and fails open (closes #171)
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`smallwebwaf rproxy` reads the first 64 KiB of each body, asks servewaf over
HTTP/1.1, and passes what servewaf allows to the app within its limits. Any
other answer goes to the visitor as servewaf gave it. SWRP_DEFAULT_DISPOSITION
decides only when servewaf cannot be connected to, does not answer at all, or
does not answer within SWRP_TIMEOUT_MS. A method SPEC.md does not list gets 405.

Duplication: internal/rproxy copies passing-on code from internal/proxy until
#172 removes the originals.
Rule suppressed: gosec G704 and G705; gosec at
internal/smallwebwaf/rproxy_test.go:431; tagliatelle at
internal/requestlog/requestlog.go:203; paralleltest on one test.
Judgement call: an answer over 1 MiB, or with a status below 200, gets 502.
Judgement call: every target not starting with one / gets 400.

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The fields of the JSON object `smallwebwaf` writes for each request. "Request
log" in [`SPEC.md`](../SPEC.md) says when a line is written and how the log is
sent to a syslog server. A field that does not apply to a request is left out.
`smallwebwaf rproxy` writes a shorter line, which "`rproxy`'s line" below gives.
## Example
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## Every line
Every line has:
Every line but `rproxy`'s has:
- `type`: `request` (the process's own messages have `process`);
- the standard web log fields;
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- `counts`: the byte totals now include this request's;
- `limit_hit`, `offence` and `ban_expires`: set when the report's bytes broke a
byte limit.
## `rproxy`'s line
`smallwebwaf rproxy` writes one short line for each request. `request_id` joins
it to `servewaf`'s two. It has these fields and no others:
- `type`: `request`.
- `time`: when the request arrived, RFC 3339 with milliseconds, in UTC.
- `request_id`: the id `rproxy` made for the request when it arrived.
- `client_ip`: the visitor's address.
- `host` and `method`.
- `path` and `query`: as the visitor sent them.
- `status`: what the visitor got, `0` if nothing.
- `request_bytes`: the bytes of the visitor's body that `rproxy` read, with what
a WebSocket carried from the visitor.
- `response_bytes`: the bytes of the answer's body, with what a WebSocket
carried from the app.
- `duration_request`: milliseconds from the request's headers being read until
the app had been sent the whole request, or the answer started if that was
sooner. It includes the wait for `servewaf`.
- `duration_response`: milliseconds from then until the end of the answer.
- `disposition`: what was done with the request: `allow`, `deny` or `close`. It
is `servewaf`'s answer, or the value of `SWRP_DEFAULT_DISPOSITION`. It is left
out when:
- `servewaf` was not asked, as for the health check;
- the visitor went away while `servewaf` was being asked;
- `servewaf`'s answer had no valid `X-Smallwebwaf-Disposition`;
- `rproxy` could not pass on `servewaf`'s answer, and answered `502`.
- `default_disposition`: `true` when `SWRP_DEFAULT_DISPOSITION` gave
`disposition`, and otherwise left out.
For example:
```
{"type":"request","time":"2026-10-03T12:00:00.123Z","request_id":"7Q2NHZ4KJ3VXW5YB6R3MEFTD2A","client_ip":"203.0.113.9","host":"app.example","method":"GET","path":"/","query":"","status":200,"request_bytes":0,"response_bytes":5120,"duration_request":1.204,"duration_response":3.104,"disposition":"allow"}
```