glm-5.2
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OQ-40 resolved: alknet-http owns a shared reqwest_middleware::ClientWithMiddleware (not a bare reqwest::Client) with a two-layer middleware stack — RetryTransientMiddleware (reqwest-retry, exponential backoff on transient failures) + inlined RetryAfterMiddleware (from melotic/reqwest-retry-after, MIT, ~50 lines, inlined to bound the upstream's unbounded HashMap storage). The two are complementary: reqwest-retry's default strategy does not honor Retry-After. Hot-reload is rebuild-and-swap via ArcSwap (same pattern as ConfigIdentityProvider, ADR-035); a rebuild drops the connection pool, which is acceptable since a config change wanting a fresh pool is the trigger. The three one-way constraints stand unchanged: alknet-http owns its client (no env-var config, no shared global), credentials inject per-request from OperationContext.capabilities, outbound TLS uses the system trust store. Records the downstream layering boundary: the agent crate's provider SSE normalization (the solid part of aisdk's pattern — Vercel-UI-message normalization) sits on top of this client, consuming the reqwest::Response stream; it does not replace the client. The aisdk core/client.rs reference for client construction is dropped (env-var config + hand-rolled retry are the anti-patterns discarded); the from_openapi.ts SSE normalization reference in the forwarding-handler section is kept (separate, solid pattern). No ADR — the decision is internal to alknet-http: the client type does not cross crate boundaries (alknet-call never sees reqwest), the library choice is reversible, and it does not touch the system's structure, constraints, or cross-crate API surface. Updates: http-adapters.md (HTTP client section rewritten, references updated, constraints/OQ bullets updated), http-mcp.md (OQ-40 status flip), open- questions.md (OQ-40 resolved with full config-shape table), README.md (OQ-40 folded into the existing two-way-doors bucket), and three secondary docs (crates/http/README.md, overview.md, http-server.md) that carried stale 'open' OQ-40 references.
Alknet
Status: Pre-alpha — This project is undergoing a major architectural pivot to an ALPN-as-service model. The previous implementation has been archived and a greenfield rebuild is in progress.
A self-hostable networking toolkit built on QUIC+TLS with ALPN-based protocol dispatch. Each protocol handler (SSH, SFTP, Git, HTTP, DNS, messaging, call protocol) registers an ALPN string on a shared endpoint. The ALPN negotiation during the TLS/QUIC handshake routes connections to the correct handler before any application bytes are read.
Core Insight
A service IS an ALPN. One endpoint, one port, many protocols — dispatched by the TLS handshake, not by application-level peeking or separate listeners.
Crates
| Crate | Status | Description |
|---|---|---|
alknet-vault |
stable | Local key vault: BIP39/SLIP-0010/AES-GCM key derivation and encryption |
alknet-core |
planned | ProtocolHandler trait, ALPN router, auth/identity, config |
alknet-ssh |
planned | SSH handler (russh), SOCKS5, port forwarding |
alknet-call |
planned | JSON-RPC call protocol (EventEnvelope framing) |
alknet-fs |
planned | Content-addressed file storage (iroh-blobs backend) |
alknet-sftp |
planned | SFTP handler (russh-sftp protocol core) |
alknet-git |
planned | Git smart protocol handler (gix) |
alknet-http |
planned | HTTP handler (axum, REST API, MCP) |
alknet-dns |
planned | DNS handler (hickory-proto, pkarr) |
alknet-msg |
planned | E2E encrypted messaging, mixnet support |
alknet |
planned | CLI binary (assembles and registers handlers) |
Documentation
- ALPN-as-service architecture — pivot proposal
- Cleanup plan — greenfield transition plan
- SDD process — spec-driven development process
- Research references — iroh, russh, russh-sftp deep dives
Reference implementation (previous architecture) is preserved at /workspace/@alkdev/alknet-main/.
License
Licensed under either of
- Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
- MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
at your option.
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