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Mitigated the client-ng response exhaustion issue on the switched branch. HTTP/1 and HTTP/2 now enforce response and header limits, and requests have a total response timeout. An oversized response closes its connection and is treated as non-retryable by OpenTelemetry.

The limits are configurable in service. Defaults are 4 MiB for the response body, 64 KiB for headers, 100 headers, and 30 seconds for the timeout. The 4 MiB body default follows the [OTLP response recommendation](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/otlp/).

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  • The same focused pytest command with LEAKS=1 LEAKS_STRICT=1 — 4 passed under macOS Leaks.

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  • New Features
    • HTTP client limits can be configured for response size, header size, total wire size, and header count, along with a response timeout. Defaults are 4 MiB, 65,536 bytes, 64 MiB, 100 headers, and 30 seconds.
  • Bug Fixes
    • OpenTelemetry reports response-limit breaches as errors rather than retryable connection failures. Invalid HTTP client limit settings are rejected.
  • Tests
    • Added coverage for oversized HTTP/1 and HTTP/2 responses and headers, response deadlines, stalled connections, and body-size accounting.

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The HTTP client now supports configurable response, header, wire-size, header-count, and response-timeout limits. HTTP/1 and HTTP/2 enforce size limits, and HTTP/1 sessions enforce response deadlines. The OpenTelemetry output distinguishes response-limit failures from other request failures. Integration tests cover limits and deadlines.

Changes: HTTP Client Limits

Layer / File(s) Summary
Limit configuration
include/fluent-bit/flb_config.h, include/fluent-bit/flb_http_client.h, src/flb_config.c, src/flb_http_client.c
Configuration defines defaults for response, header, and wire sizes, header count, and response timeout. Property parsing validates configured values.
Session and protocol enforcement
src/flb_http_client.c, src/flb_http_client_http1.c, src/flb_http_client_http2.c
Sessions track received wire bytes and enforce response deadlines. HTTP/1 and HTTP/2 reject responses that exceed configured body or header limits.
OpenTelemetry wiring and integration coverage
plugins/out_opentelemetry/*, tests/integration/scenarios/out_opentelemetry/config/*, tests/integration/scenarios/out_opentelemetry/tests/test_out_opentelemetry_001.py, tests/integration/src/server/otlp_server.py
The OpenTelemetry output receives configured limits and distinguishes limit failures from other request failures. Integration scenarios and tests cover response limits, deadlines, stalled TLS writes, configurable response headers, and fragmented HTTP/2 responses.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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sequenceDiagram
  participant OpenTelemetryOutput
  participant HttpClientSession
  participant Http1Handler
  participant Http2Handler
  OpenTelemetryOutput->>HttpClientSession: Execute request with configured limits
  alt HTTP/1 response
    HttpClientSession->>Http1Handler: Process response headers and body
    Http1Handler-->>HttpClientSession: Response or limit error
  else HTTP/2 response
    HttpClientSession->>Http2Handler: Process response headers and data
    Http2Handler-->>HttpClientSession: Response or limit error
  end
  HttpClientSession-->>OpenTelemetryOutput: Response or limit-exceeded status
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Header-dependent integration scenarios may not exercise the intended response headers until the JSON response path is corrected.

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body,
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content_type=response_config["content_type"],
headers=response_config["headers"],

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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Apply configured headers to JSON responses.

_build_response() returns through jsonify(body) for dictionary and list bodies before reaching Line 136. The default response body is a dictionary, so configure_otlp_response(headers=...) does not add headers in the default path. Apply response_config["headers"] to the JSON response before returning it.

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