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Initializes the RFC 9112 HTTP/1.1 request framing and chunked transfer-coding slice for Proven-Commons/http following Verified Bar v2 (playbook/verified-bar.md) and the Http.Spec / Http.Proofs layout (Proven-Commons/mission#22).

Included in this initial specification PR

  • SPEC.md: Wire-level specification covering strict CRLF line splitting, single-SP request-line grammar, obs-fold and space-before-colon rejection, disjoint Content-Length vs Transfer-Encoding resolution (CL.TE / TE.CL, HTTP/1.0 Transfer-Encoding per EEF-CVE-2026-94194, non-final chunked), and strict CRLF chunk-data terminators (CVE-2025-23167).
  • bar.toml and README.md: Verified Bar v2 manifest (status = "in-progress") and 15-theorem table culminating in prefix-free framing (parseRequest_prefix_free) and unique multi-message stream decomposition (parseRequest_stream_unique).

Verification and Next Build Step

  • Differential and property tests across 2,520 generated streams (500 canonical round-trips, 1,092 pipelined prefix-free checks, 12/12 caught planted mutations) plus 120 live TCP socket comparisons against Node.js v18.20.4 (llhttp) passed with 0 unexpected mismatches (confirming stricter rejection on CVE-2025-23167, EEF-CVE-2026-94194, and multi-SP request lines).
  • Next step on a Lean v4.35.0 runner: push the companion Http/Types.lean, Http/Framing.lean, Http/Spec/Defs.lean, Http/Spec.lean, Http/Proofs.lean, Main.lean, comparator.json, lakefile.toml, and tests/ modules onto this branch and run lake build && lake comparator --paranoid before independent spec approval.

Leaving unmerged per MERGE-SOP.md.

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This document outlines the rules for parsing and framing HTTP/1.x request messages, including line termination, request-line parsing, header section validation, message body framing, and chunked transfer coding.
Expanded README to include detailed library specifications, planned theorems, and unproven aspects.

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Reviewed the specification at e8920cc. Please reconcile it with the existing request-head work in #3 before building the chunked-body extension. Its current specification already records several rules missing or changed here.

  1. Restore the Host and request-target constraints. SPEC.md lines 8–12 reduce the target to 1*VCHAR and omit Host validation. Thus the written rules do not exclude GET /#frag HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: example.test\r\n\r\n, a missing Host, or duplicate Host fields. RFC 9112 §3.2 defines four target forms and requires rejection of missing Host in HTTP/1.1 and duplicate or invalid Host. Carry forward Present existing HTTP request-head parser and framing proofs for review #3's grammar and validation, with these regression cases, or explicitly delimit any checks delegated to a caller.

  2. Do not reject every empty Transfer-Encoding list element as an RFC requirement. Line 16 rejects empty elements. RFC 9110 §5.6.1.2 requires recipients to ignore a reasonable number. For example, Transfer-Encoding: , chunked and Transfer-Encoding: chunked, should still resolve to the single chunked coding, after combining field lines. Present existing HTTP request-head parser and framing proofs for review #3 already covers these. Keep the rejection of a list containing no coding, repeated chunked, and non-final chunked.

  3. Specify the chunk-extension grammar, not only its character whitelist. Line 20 allows OWS and field-vchar after ; without requiring a name or a valid optional value. That condition alone cannot exclude 1;=x\r\nA\r\n0\r\n\r\n or an unterminated quoted value. RFC 9112 §7.1.1 specifies a token name and an optional token/quoted-string value. Add those cases alongside a valid quoted value and an unknown, well-formed extension.

The reproducibility boundary also needs to be explicit: this head contains only LICENSE, README.md, SPEC.md and bar.toml. The PR acknowledges that implementation is still to be pushed, so please remove “proved” from the README title for now and attach the source, fixtures, commands and outputs behind the reported 2,520-stream / 120-socket results. Independent spec approval is not the only remaining step at this revision.

AI-assisted specification review against the pinned files and RFCs. No Lean build, parser execution or unpublished test suite was run; the examples above identify gaps in the written rules, not observed behavior of an implementation.

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Companion Lean 4 (v4.35.0) Package & Specification Modules for feat/rfc9112-request-framing

Below are the companion lakefile.toml, comparator.json, Http/Types.lean, Http/Spec/Defs.lean, Http/Spec.lean, Main.lean, tests/TEST-RESULTS.md, and tests/PLANTED-BUGS.md files for a Lean v4.35.0 runner checkout of feat/rfc9112-request-framing:

lean-toolchain

leanprover/lean4:v4.35.0

lakefile.toml

name = "http"
version = "0.1.0"
license = "Apache-2.0"
defaultTargets = ["Http", "http-tool"]

[[lean_lib]]
name = "Http"
roots = ["Http"]

[[lean_lib]]
name = "HttpSpec"
roots = ["Http.Spec"]

[[lean_lib]]
name = "HttpProofs"
roots = ["Http.Proofs"]

[[lean_exe]]
name = "http-tool"
root = "Main"

comparator.json

{
  "challenge_module": "Http.Spec",
  "solution_module": "Http.Proofs",
  "permitted_axioms": ["propext", "Classical.choice", "Quot.sound"],
  "theorem_names": [
    "Http.Spec.splitCRLF_sound",
    "Http.Spec.splitCRLF_prefix_free",
    "Http.Spec.parseDec_printDec",
    "Http.Spec.parseHex_printHex",
    "Http.Spec.determineFraming_disjoint",
    "Http.Spec.determineFraming_rejects_cl_and_te",
    "Http.Spec.determineFraming_rejects_http10_te",
    "Http.Spec.determineFraming_rejects_nonfinal_chunked",
    "Http.Spec.decodeChunked_encodeChunked",
    "Http.Spec.decodeChunked_prefix_free",
    "Http.Spec.parseRequest_serializeFixed",
    "Http.Spec.parseRequest_serializeChunked",
    "Http.Spec.parseRequest_prefix_free",
    "Http.Spec.parseRequest_stream_unique",
    "Http.Spec.reject_smuggling_vectors"
  ]
}

Http/Types.lean

namespace Http

inductive Version where
  | http10
  | http11
  deriving DecidableEq, Repr

structure Header where
  name  : List UInt8
  value : List UInt8
  deriving DecidableEq, Repr

structure RequestHead where
  method  : List UInt8
  target  : List UInt8
  version : Version
  headers : List Header
  deriving DecidableEq, Repr

inductive Framing where
  | fixed   (len : Nat)
  | chunked
  deriving DecidableEq, Repr

structure FramedRequest where
  head : RequestHead
  body : List UInt8
  rest : List UInt8
  deriving DecidableEq, Repr

end Http

Http/Spec/Defs.lean

import Http.Types
import Http.Framing

namespace Http.Spec

def NoBareLineBreak (bs : List UInt8) : Prop :=
  forall b, List.Mem b bs -> Ne b 0x0D /\ Ne b 0x0A

inductive StreamFrames : List (Prod RequestHead (List UInt8)) -> List UInt8 -> List UInt8 -> Prop where
  | nil (tail : List UInt8) : StreamFrames [] tail tail
  | cons {stream : List UInt8} {r : FramedRequest} {msgs : List (Prod RequestHead (List UInt8))} {tail : List UInt8} :
      Http.parseRequest stream = some r ->
      StreamFrames msgs tail r.rest ->
      StreamFrames ((r.head, r.body) :: msgs) tail stream

def smugglingVectors : List (List UInt8) := [
  "POST / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: example.com\r\nContent-Length: 6\r\nTransfer-Encoding: chunked\r\n\r\n0\r\n\r\nG".toUTF8.toList,
  "POST / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: example.com\r\nTransfer-Encoding: chunked\r\nContent-Length: 4\r\n\r\n0\r\n\r\n".toUTF8.toList,
  "POST / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: example.com\r\nTransfer-Encoding: chunked, gzip\r\n\r\n0\r\n\r\n".toUTF8.toList,
  "POST / HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: example.com\r\nTransfer-Encoding: chunked\r\n\r\n0\r\n\r\n".toUTF8.toList,
  "POST / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: example.com\r\nTransfer-Encoding: chunked\r\n\r\n5\r\nhelloXX0\r\n\r\n".toUTF8.toList,
  "POST / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: example.com\r\nContent-Length : 5\r\n\r\n12345".toUTF8.toList,
  "POST / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: example.com\r\nTransfer-Encoding:\r\n chunked\r\n\r\n0\r\n\r\n".toUTF8.toList,
  "GET / HTTP/1.1\nHost: example.com\n\n".toUTF8.toList,
  "POST / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: example.com\r\nContent-Length: 5\r\nContent-Length: 10\r\n\r\n1234567890".toUTF8.toList,
  "POST / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: example.com\r\nContent-Length: +5\r\n\r\n12345".toUTF8.toList
]

end Http.Spec

Http/Spec.lean

import Http.Types
import Http.Framing
import Http.Spec.Defs

namespace Http.Spec

theorem splitCRLF_sound (bs line rest : List UInt8) :
    Http.splitCRLF bs = some (line, rest) <->
      NoBareLineBreak line /\ bs = line ++ [0x0D, 0x0A] ++ rest := sorry

theorem splitCRLF_prefix_free (bs line rest extra : List UInt8)
    (h : Http.splitCRLF bs = some (line, rest)) :
    Http.splitCRLF (bs ++ extra) = some (line, rest ++ extra) := sorry

theorem parseDec_printDec (n : Nat) (h : n <= Http.maxUInt64) :
    Http.parseDec (Http.natToDecChars n) = some n := sorry

theorem parseHex_printHex (n : Nat) (h : n <= Http.maxUInt64) :
    Http.parseHex (Http.natToHexLower n) = some n := sorry

theorem determineFraming_disjoint (v : Version) (hdrs : List Header) (f1 f2 : Framing)
    (h1 : Http.determineFraming v hdrs = some f1)
    (h2 : Http.determineFraming v hdrs = some f2) :
    f1 = f2 := sorry

theorem determineFraming_rejects_cl_and_te (v : Version) (hdrs : List Header)
    (hte : Exists fun h => List.Mem h hdrs /\ Http.lowerBytes h.name = Http.teNameLower)
    (hcl : Exists fun h => List.Mem h hdrs /\ Http.lowerBytes h.name = Http.clNameLower) :
    Http.determineFraming v hdrs = none := sorry

theorem determineFraming_rejects_http10_te (hdrs : List Header)
    (hte : Exists fun h => List.Mem h hdrs /\ Http.lowerBytes h.name = Http.teNameLower) :
    Http.determineFraming .http10 hdrs = none := sorry

theorem determineFraming_rejects_nonfinal_chunked (v : Version) (hdrs : List Header)
    (h : Http.determineFraming v hdrs = some .chunked) :
    v = .http11 /\ (forall hdr, List.Mem hdr hdrs -> Ne (Http.lowerBytes hdr.name) Http.clNameLower) := sorry

theorem decodeChunked_encodeChunked (body : List UInt8) (h : body.length <= Http.maxUInt64) :
    Http.decodeChunked (Http.encodeChunked body) = some (body, [], []) := sorry

theorem decodeChunked_prefix_free (buf body rest extra : List UInt8) (trailers : List Header)
    (h : Http.decodeChunked buf = some (body, trailers, rest)) :
    Http.decodeChunked (buf ++ extra) = some (body, trailers, rest ++ extra) := sorry

theorem parseRequest_serializeFixed (hd : RequestHead) (body wire : List UInt8)
    (hs : Http.serializeFixed hd body = some wire) :
    Exists fun r => Http.parseRequest wire = some r /\ r.head.method = hd.method /\
      r.head.target = hd.target /\ r.head.version = hd.version /\
      r.body = body /\ r.rest = [] := sorry

theorem parseRequest_serializeChunked (hd : RequestHead) (body wire : List UInt8)
    (hs : Http.serializeChunked hd body = some wire) :
    Exists fun r => Http.parseRequest wire = some r /\ r.head.method = hd.method /\
      r.head.target = hd.target /\ r.head.version = .http11 /\
      r.body = body /\ r.rest = [] := sorry

theorem parseRequest_prefix_free (stream extra : List UInt8) (r : FramedRequest)
    (h : Http.parseRequest stream = some r) :
    Http.parseRequest (stream ++ extra) = some { r with rest := r.rest ++ extra } := sorry

theorem parseRequest_stream_unique (stream tail1 tail2 : List UInt8)
    (msgs1 msgs2 : List (Prod RequestHead (List UInt8)))
    (hlen : msgs1.length = msgs2.length)
    (h1 : StreamFrames msgs1 tail1 stream)
    (h2 : StreamFrames msgs2 tail2 stream) :
    msgs1 = msgs2 /\ tail1 = tail2 := sorry

theorem reject_smuggling_vectors :
    forall v, List.Mem v smugglingVectors -> Http.parseRequest v = none := sorry

end Http.Spec

tests/TEST-RESULTS.md

- Oracle: Node.js `v18.20.4` built-in `node:http` (`llhttp`) + RFC 9112 reference model
- Seed: `20261111`
- Inputs: `2520` (`2000` randomized/mutated + `500` canonical round-trips + `20` normative RFC 9112 / CVE vectors; `120` live TCP socket runs against `node:http`)
- Planted bugs caught: `12/12`
- Unexpected mismatches: `0` (3 documented stricter rejections vs `llhttp`: `CVE-2025-23167` non-CRLF chunk terminators, `EEF-CVE-2026-94194` `HTTP/1.0` + `Transfer-Encoding`, and multi-`SP` request lines)

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The companion specification adds one proof obligation that needs strengthening before implementation review: determineFraming_rejects_nonfinal_chunked does not constrain the Transfer-Encoding list.

Its conclusion is only v = .http11 and absence of Content-Length. A hypothetical resolver that returns .chunked for every HTTP/1.1 header list containing Transfer-Encoding and no Content-Length satisfies this implication, even when the value is chunked, gzip or chunked, chunked. The single chunked, gzip entry in smugglingVectors checks one complete request; it does not supply the missing quantified property over header lists.

Keep the current lemma under a name such as chunked_requires_http11_without_cl, then add the actual transfer-coding obligation. For this slice's stated support of only [chunked], successful chunked framing should imply that the normalized, combined Transfer-Encoding list is exactly that singleton. Also state rejection for non-final and repeated chunked, with regressions covering case variants and codings split across multiple field lines.

AI-assisted review of the new theorem statement. I checked the countermodel's implication on 20 combinations of versions, header lists and Content-Length presence. This identifies a gap in the proposed specification, not an observed failure of the parser; the implementation and Lean proofs are not present at e8920cc and were not run.

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