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, a carriage return without its line
feed included, 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 both documents' summaries of answers
gave 408 for any slow client, when it is only for a slow body.

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@@ -437,10 +437,10 @@ The settings, by group:
the app sends it and the client receives it.
- When a limit is passed before the response has started, `smallwebwaf`
answers itself: `413` for a request body that is too large, `408` for a
client that is too slow, `502` for a response that is too large, `504` for
an app that is too slow. A request that announces a body larger than its
limit is refused before anything reaches the app. Once the response has
started it can only be cut off, and the connection is closed.
client too slow to send its body, `502` for a response that is too large,
`504` for an app that is too slow. A request that announces a body larger
than its limit is refused before anything reaches the app. Once the
response has started it can only be cut off, and the connection is closed.
- Since a request body streams through, each side can hold up the other: a
slow client slows the send to the app, and an app slow to take the body
slows the client's send. So while a request body is still on its way, a
@@ -449,11 +449,16 @@ 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, a header cut before
its colon, or a line cut between its carriage return and line feed.
Otherwise, as for a client that stops right after a line feed, 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