v0.7.1

[msalinas92]

Summary

This version introduces several reliability and compatibility improvements to the proxy, focused on HTTPS support, config robustness, and downstream interoperability.

Key Changes

• HTTPS support without OpenSSL
  Migrated the HTTP client to use a Rust-native TLS backend (hyper-rustls or equivalent), removing the dependency on OpenSSL. This greatly improves build portability, especially for Alpine and musl-based containers, and eliminates the need for system OpenSSL libraries.

• Robust config: path_rules is now optional
  Fixed a bug where omitting the path_rules section in config.yaml caused a panic or crash at startup. The config loader now defaults to an empty list if not specified, using only the default latency threshold when no rules are present.

• Header filtering for downstream compatibility
  Requests forwarded by the proxy now exclude certain headers such as accept-encoding. This avoids issues with downstream servers that may not support compressed response streams (such as "Empty reply from server" errors), ensuring better compatibility with a broader range of HTTP backends.

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Additional Improvements

• Enhanced tracing and error reporting for debugging and operations.

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This discussion was created from the release v0.7.1.