README and SPEC say when a client too slow to send its request line or headers is answered 400 (closes #138)
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When SWWAF_CLIENT_REQUEST_TIMEOUT runs out partway through a line, Go's
server reads the part that arrived as the whole line. If that part cannot
be read as a line, it answers 400; otherwise it closes the connection
without an answer. The README's "Request log" and SPEC's size and time
limits said such a client always gets no answer, and the README's summary
of answers gave 408, which is only for a slow body.

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@@ -112,11 +112,11 @@ in `bin/state` unless `SWWAF_STATE_DIR` is set, and the default rule file of
log line (see `request_id` in "Request log" below).
- Enforces the timeouts and the size limits below. A limit passed before the
response has started gets `smallwebwaf`'s own answer: `408` for a client too
slow to send its request, `413` for a request body that is too large, `504`
for an app too slow to answer, and `502` for a response that is too large or
an app that cannot be reached. A request that announces a body over the limit
is refused before anything reaches the app. While a request body is still on
its way, a request timeout that runs out answers `408` if `smallwebwaf` was
slow to send its body, `413` for a request body that is too large, `504` for
an app too slow to answer, and `502` for a response that is too large or an
app that cannot be reached. A request that announces a body over the limit is
refused before anything reaches the app. While a request body is still on its
way, a request timeout that runs out answers `408` if `smallwebwaf` was
waiting for the client to send more, and `504` if it was waiting for the app
to take what it had. Once the response has started, a limit can only cut the
connection.
@@ -1042,9 +1042,13 @@ less severe than `SWWAF_LOG_LEVEL` are not written.
Go's HTTP server, on which `smallwebwaf` is built, reads a request's line and
headers before `smallwebwaf` sees the request, and some requests end there,
without a line in the log: headers over `SWWAF_CLIENT_REQUEST_HEADER_MAX_BYTES`,
which it answers `431`, headers slower than `SWWAF_CLIENT_REQUEST_TIMEOUT`,
whose connection it closes without an answer, and requests it cannot read at
all, which it answers itself, mostly with `400`.
which it answers `431`, requests it cannot read at all, which it answers itself,
mostly with `400`, and a request line and headers slower than
`SWWAF_CLIENT_REQUEST_TIMEOUT`. When that time runs out, the server takes what
has arrived of the line it is reading for the whole line, and answers `400` if
that is not a line it can read, as for a request line cut before the end of its
HTTP version or a header cut before its colon. Otherwise, as for a client that
stops at the end of a line, it closes the connection without an answer.
### Sending the log to a syslog server
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@@ -449,11 +449,15 @@ The settings, by group:
waiting for the client to send more at that moment, and `504` if it was
waiting for the app to take what it had.
- Go's HTTP server, on which `smallwebwaf` is built, reads a request's line
and headers before `smallwebwaf` sees the request. A client that takes
longer than `SWWAF_CLIENT_REQUEST_TIMEOUT` to send them gets no answer:
the server closes its connection. Headers over
and headers before `smallwebwaf` sees the request. When
`SWWAF_CLIENT_REQUEST_TIMEOUT` runs out before they have all arrived, the
server takes what has arrived of the line it is reading for the whole
line, and answers `400` if that is not a line it can read, as for a
request line cut before the end of its HTTP version or a header cut before
its colon. Otherwise, as for a client that stops at the end of a line, it
closes the connection without an answer. Headers over
`SWWAF_CLIENT_REQUEST_HEADER_MAX_BYTES` are answered `431` by the server
itself. Neither request gets a line in the request log.
itself. None of these requests gets a line in the request log.
- A WebSocket connection leaves these limits behind once it is upgraded: it
stays open until either side closes it.
- Lookup of AS number and country (R7). On by default through GeoJS, which needs