Improve automated conformance testing of HTTP/1.1 implementation

[mtrudel]

This is something of a blanket ticket; actual work is a bit more adhoc. Contributors should feel free to use this ticket as a rallying point for discussion on the matter.

[jbr]

I'd love to have this for trillium as well. I don't know of existing conformance testing other than redbot.org, but it seems like it should be possible to point some standalone tool at a http/1.1 (or 1.0) server and get a report card. I'd happily help write something, but unfortunately part of what I'd be checking is my own understanding of the spec(s).

[mtrudel]

That's my understanding as well - h2spec is a bit of a gift on the HTTP/2 side of the house, but redbot is about as good of a suite as I've seen for HTTP/1.x. I'm likely going to throw Mint, stream_data and Bandit into a pot and do some automated property testing, but it'll be more about testing broad behaviour and less about poking corners of the spec.

[mtrudel]

Closing for hygiene