rproxy and servewaf replace the one-process smallwebwaf (closes #172, closes #165)
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`smallwebwaf` with no command now prints the commands and exits with status 2.
The image runs rproxy, or servewaf with SMALLWEBWAF_COMMAND=servewaf. The
passing-on code, its settings and its log fields and metric go. internal/proxy
keeps the checks, answers, reports and own endpoints; its tests run through the
real rproxy. The documents describe the pair.

Judgement call: clients.json keeps token_refused, since state files refuse unknown fields.
Deviation: script/gitea-requests sets SWWAF_LOG_REQUEST_HEADERS, to label requests.
Partially verified: make example-app and make gitea-requests never built the image, as Ubuntu's snapshot service answered 5xx.

Model: opus-5-5
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# The metrics
What `GET /_smallwebwaf/metrics` answers with. "Metrics endpoint" in
[`SPEC.md`](../SPEC.md) describes the endpoint. Prometheus keeps the `instance`
label as `exported_instance` unless the scrape sets `honor_labels: true`.
What `GET /_smallwebwaf/metrics` answers with, at `servewaf`'s own address.
"Metrics endpoint" in [`SPEC.md`](../SPEC.md) describes the endpoint. Prometheus
keeps the `instance` label as `exported_instance` unless the scrape sets
`honor_labels: true`. `rproxy` has no metrics.
## Traffic
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`action`;
- `smallwebwaf_request_duration_seconds` and
`smallwebwaf_upstream_duration_seconds`, as histograms;
- `smallwebwaf_requests_in_flight`.
- `smallwebwaf_requests_in_flight`: the questions and requests to its own
endpoints that `servewaf` is handling.
## Limits and bans
- `smallwebwaf_rate_limit_hits_total`, by `window` and by `kind` (`requests`,
`bytes` or `refusals`);
- `smallwebwaf_size_and_time_limit_hits_total`, by `limit`, the setting passed.
`servewaf`'s header limits have no setting, so it leaves them out;
- `smallwebwaf_offences_total`, by `kind`;
- `smallwebwaf_bans_made_total`, by `cause`;
- `smallwebwaf_active_bans` and `smallwebwaf_permanent_bans`.
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`smallwebwaf_alerts_dropped_total`;
- Go's own `go_` metrics and the process's `process_` metrics.
## `servewaf`
## When a request is counted
`smallwebwaf servewaf` counts a denied request at its decision. It counts an
allowed request when its report comes, with the status, bytes and times the
report gives. These are not counted:
`servewaf` counts a denied request at its decision, and a request to its own
endpoints when it is answered. It counts an allowed request when its report
comes, with the status, bytes and times the report gives. These are not counted:
- a report itself;
- an allowed request whose report never comes;