Reload proxy configuration without dropping healthy in-flight requests
Configuration reloads close active report streams immediately.
- Focused work estimate
- 3h 30m + prerequisites
- Priority in the scenario
- High
- Engineering practice
- Operational networking
Estimated field mix
- Networking60%
- Site reliability40%
Field percentages are editorial estimates of the ticket's engineering focus. They total 100%; they are not measured time, proficiency scores, or ownership evidence.
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Project context
A fictional reporting API sits behind a reverse proxy. Clients see intermittent disconnects and incorrect origins after changes to keep-alive and forwarding headers.
Setup prerequisites
- Create two loopback HTTP services and a local proxy with synthetic requests; no public scanning or external traffic.
Preceding work
Complete these dependencies, or supply their agreed outputs before taking this ticket.
- BPROXY-101 · Document the trusted proxy chain and public origin
- BPROXY-102 · Normalize forwarded headers without accepting client spoofing
- BPROXY-103 · Strip hop-by-hop headers before forwarding requests
- BPROXY-104 · Align keep-alive lifetimes between proxy and upstream
- BPROXY-105 · Limit upstream connections per service without unbounded waiting
- BPROXY-106 · Propagate downstream disconnects through streamed responses
- BPROXY-107 · Avoid unsafe automatic replay after partial request transmission
- BPROXY-108 · Compare buffering and streaming under bounded memory
Acceptance criteria
- Validate new configuration before activation.
- Drain existing connections within a bounded deadline.
- Reject invalid reloads while retaining the prior configuration.
Implementation constraints
- Use only locally owned processes.
Verification to include
- Reload during an active stream.
- Submit invalid configuration and verify the old proxy remains usable.
Deliverables
- Graceful reload behavior.
Rollout and recovery
Keep a tested prior configuration and an explicit drain timeout.
Value of the work
For the engineer: Practice HTTP intermediaries, connection lifetimes, and network failure isolation.
For the team: Provide a proxy contract that preserves request identity and releases resources predictably.
Evidence boundaries
Outcome Evidence: Tests, patches, and runbooks are requested deliverables. They become Outcome Evidence only through a qualified Mission and immutable Evidence IDs.
Ownership Evidence: Independent adaptation must be observed under a declared verification policy and cite immutable Evidence IDs. Completing a planning ticket establishes no Ownership Evidence.