Replace the 5 duplicated switch statements that dispatch sniffed
connections (forward/local, forward/remote, http CONNECT, sni, relay)
with per-package registries keyed by proto string. Protocol handlers
self-register via init(), following the house registration pattern, so
adding a protocol no longer requires touching every dispatch site.
Unify the two HandleOptions types (forwarder lacked dialTLS; sniffing
lacked hop/node/httpKeepalive) into one exported struct in sniffing;
forwarder aliases it. Unknown protocols fall through to raw forwarding
exactly as before; SSH remains detection-only. redirect/tcp's special
fallback-replay dispatch is intentionally left untouched.
Adds Dispatch helpers and 8 registry tests (register/get/duplicate/
unknown/known) in both packages. Net -151 lines.
Add RESP protocol detection to the sniffing framework so plaintext
Redis traffic on a port-reuse listener can be identified and routed by
protocol. Sniff() now peeks 1 byte first to match RESP type bytes
(*+-:$) without blocking, then falls through to the existing 5-byte
TLS/HTTP/SSH detection.
ParseRedisMetadata consumes exactly one RESP message via io.TeeReader
and records command/key in HandlerRecorderObject.Redis. HandleRedis in
both the sniffing (injected-dial) and forwarder (hop-selected) packages
replays the captured first message and pipes the rest, so pipelined
commands beyond the first are forwarded transparently.
Wired into all 5 dispatch sites: sni, forward/local, forward/remote,
http CONNECT, and relay tunnel handlers. forwarder paths route via
resolveRedisNode using ProtocolSelectOption(ProtoRedis), enabling
`protocol: redis` hop selection.
Part of two-phase plan (2026-07-29-sniffing-redis-postgres.md);
PostgreSQL deferred to phase 2.
Extract PopulateQUICClientHello/PopulateQUICServerHello into
internal/util/sniffing/quic.go to deduplicate the QUIC ClientHello/ServerHello
population logic that was copy-pasted across forward/local (Handle, handleRawDatagram)
and redirect/udp handlers (3 sites → 2 helpers).
- handler/redirect/udp: add QUIC ClientHello + ServerHello sniff with
sniffing/sniffing.timeout metadata, populating ro.Proto/ro.TLS for recording.
- handler/forward/local: replace inline QUIC blocks with shared helpers;
use h.md.bufferSize instead of hardcoded 8192 for sniff reads.
- internal/util/sniffing: add ProtoQUIC constant.
Bump quic-dissector dependency to v0.1.0.
The cache-hit path (serveCachedResponse) recorded on the same HandlerRecorderObject
as the calling handler's deferred Record(), producing two records per request.
Copy ro at HandleHTTP entry so the sniffer's internal recording stays isolated
from the caller's defer. Also zero ro.Time when the sniffer takes over, so the
handler's defer Record() skips the now-redundant connection-level record.
Fixes 10 files across sniffer and all 8 handlers that support sniffed HTTP forwarding.
Implements the cache.Cache interface with in-memory backend (TTL,
maxSize/maxBytes bounds, oldest/LRU eviction, background cleanup).
Adds httpcache layer for HTTP response policy (per-status TTL,
serve-stale, method/body filtering). Wires into config parser,
loader, registry, and all four sniffing handlers (forward/local,
forward/remote, sni, http) so HTTP responses are cached before
dialing upstream.
Bumps core dependency to v0.6.0 for the new cache.Cache interface.
Populate the existing Node field on HandlerRecorderObject after every
hop.Select() call in forwarder code paths. Previously the field was
never set, though it was already consumed by tunnel entrypoint HTTP
handler (ephttp.go:145) and tested for round-trip in recorder tests.
Add stateless=true metadata option to UDP listener/handler for raw
datagram forwarding without per-client session tracking, similar to
NGINX Stream Module behavior.
- udp.NewListener: add Stateless field to ListenConfig; branch in
NewListener/Accept to skip connPool/listenLoop when stateless
- datagramConn: lightweight net.Conn+PacketConn wrapping a single
UDP datagram — no channels, mutexes, or pool logic
- forward handler: add handleRawDatagram for single request-response
cycle; extract dialTarget to share hop selection/dial/proxyproto
preamble with handleRawForwarding
Usage: gost -L "udp://:10000/127.0.0.1:2000?stateless=true"
The readTimeout field (default 15s) was being applied via xnet.Pipe to both
directions of a bidirectional proxy connection. During asymmetric transfers
(e.g. HTTP file download), the direction reading from the tunnel sees no
data after the initial request is forwarded, causing SetReadDeadline to fire
after 15s and abort the entire transfer.
Fix: add a separate idleTimeout field (default 0=disabled) to the metadata
structs in both forward/local and forward/remote handlers, and switch
xnet.Pipe to use idleTimeout instead of readTimeout. The readTimeout field
now only applies to the initial protocol sniffing/handshake phase.
Also document readTimeout vs idleTimeout semantics across all 24 locations
in the x/ module where these timeouts appear:
- readTimeout: handshake sniffing deadline (handlers), upstream response
header timeout (http.Transport), or transport-level read deadline
- idleTimeout: idle read deadline per Pipe direction (0=disabled)
- ReadTimeout on Sniffer/SnifferBuilder: upstream response header/TLS
handshake read timeout during sniffing
Extract Handle into handleRawForwarding, handleSniffedProtocol, SnifferBuilder,
newRecorderObject, and checkRateLimit across forward.go, sniffing.go, and
util.go. Replace redundant x509.ParseCertificate with tlsCert.Leaf (already
populated by tls.LoadX509KeyPair since Go 1.23).
- Return clear error when Router is nil instead of panicking
- Capture and log sniffing.Sniff and xnet.Pipe errors at Debug level
- Move dial closure and Sniffer construction into HTTP/TLS switch branch
to avoid unnecessary allocation on non-HTTP/TLS traffic
- Merge ProtoHTTP and ProtoTLS cases, branch internally on proto
- Add doc comments on NewHandler and Handle
- Add comment explaining nil hop is valid (no forwarder config)
- Pass readTimeout to xnet.Pipe via WithReadTimeout