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fix(headers): honor negotiation exclusions and scheme casing - #16

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Summary

  • Compute each supported media type's effective Accept quality from its most specific matching range; exclude q=0 before ranking.
  • Match media types and quality parameter names case-insensitively. These enum cases describe bare media types: ranges requiring additional media parameters do not match them. Preserve stable server order for remaining ties.
  • Distinguish absent Accept-Encoding (null) from a present empty string; honor explicit entries, wildcards and identity.
  • Compare only Authorization scheme tokens case-insensitively and preserve credential bytes for every supported scheme.

Callers using PSR-7 must pass $request->hasHeader('Accept-Encoding') ? $request->getHeaderLine('Accept-Encoding') : null to preserve field presence.

Closes #10
Closes #11
Closes #12

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RFC 9110: Accept, Accept-Encoding, authentication schemes.
Regression tests failed before the implementation (including exclusions, specificity, nullable absence and scheme capitalization), then passed: 142 header tests / 259 assertions on PHP 8.4.26, PHPUnit 12.5.38 with an isolated source bootstrap. Eight existing mock-related PHPUnit notices remain. PHP lint, diff whitespace checks and composer validate --strict passed.

Full development-tool suite is not claimed: dependencies are incomplete in this cloud environment and the previously blocked dependency download was not retried. A broader source-based suite has a known missing Symfony Process dependency in ConsumerSkillTest. PHP 8.3 was not executed locally. Existing PHP 8.3-compatible ASCII token/OWS helpers and released 1.5.1 changes are preserved.

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The test workflow completed successfully on PHP 8.3, 8.4 and 8.5. The PHP 8.3 job log confirms 218 tests / 389 assertions (8 existing PHPUnit notices), with the PHPUnit execution step successful (not merely a published status). Changelog, Reports and Wiki PR workflows also completed successfully. Local dependency limitations above do not describe the hosted runner. Published sources were read back and match the locally tested files byte-for-byte.

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Head 1324f09907fbc1b322453f319ba2e9093d7bc87d includes the escaped-quote scanner fix, Accept-Encoding OWS exclusion fix, extracted specificity lookup and additional invalid-quality/internal-mixed-case tests. Local focused headers: 149 tests / 292 assertions. Latest hosted tests succeeded on PHP 8.3/8.4/8.5; Changelog/Reports/Wiki also succeeded. Codex code review completed on this head without new findings; all prior inline findings are addressed and resolved (CodeRabbit confirmed its findings). The automated Codex security review also completed on this head without findings. CodeRabbit's new full-review round is rate-limited, not a fresh approval.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Authentication schemes are now matched without regard to letter case, while credentials remain unchanged.
    • Accept negotiation now honors media-type specificity, quality values, exclusions, quoted parameters, and header order.
    • Content encoding negotiation now correctly distinguishes missing, empty, restrictive, wildcard, and explicitly excluded values.
    • Unsupported encodings are rejected instead of being accepted implicitly.
  • Documentation

    • Added changelog entries describing the updated authentication and HTTP negotiation behavior.

The changes update Accept and Accept-Encoding negotiation rules and make authorization scheme matching case-insensitive. Tests and patch changelog entries cover these changes.

Changes: Accept negotiation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Accept parsing and matching
src/Header/Accept.php, tests/Header/AcceptTest.php, .changelog/http-negotiation.md
Parsing handles quoted commas, validates quality values, and preserves range order. Matching uses the most specific applicable range, excludes zero-quality candidates, and ranks remaining candidates by quality and specificity.

Accept-Encoding negotiation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Header presence and coding rules
src/Header/ContentEncoding.php, tests/Header/ContentEncodingTest.php, .changelog/http-negotiation.md
isSupported() accepts nullable headers. An absent header allows any coding; a present header follows negotiation rules, with identity as the fallback when no coding matches.

Authorization scheme parsing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Case-insensitive scheme parsing
src/Header/Authorization.php, tests/Header/AuthorizationTest.php, .changelog/authorization-scheme.md
Authorization::parse() matches supported schemes without regard to case. Tests cover capitalization variants and invalid headers.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related issues

  • Issue 10: The changes update Accept matching to use specificity and exclude zero-quality representations.
  • Issue 11: The changes distinguish missing from empty Accept-Encoding fields and update coding negotiation.
  • Issue 12: The changes match supported authorization schemes case-insensitively while preserving credential parsing.
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 52865

Valid headers can select the wrong representation or permit a coding the client explicitly excluded. Fix both parsing paths before merging.

Pre-merge checks: Passed 5
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Title check Passed The title clearly summarizes the main changes: negotiation exclusions and case-insensitive authorization scheme matching.
Linked Issues check Passed The changes implement the coding requirements for #10, #11, and #12. Accept::getBestMatch() computes quality from the most specific matching range, excludes q=0, compares media types and q names…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The changed source files directly implement #10, #11, and #12. The test updates verify those behaviors. The two changelog entries document the same negotiation and authorization fixes. No unrelated so…
Docstring Coverage Passed Docstring coverage is 88.89% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 9 functions across 6 files. (2 skipped: 2 u…
Description check Passed The pull request description directly matches the changeset. It explains Accept and Accept-Encoding negotiation, case-insensitive authorization schemes, API caller requirements, linked issues, and val…
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The changes implement the coding requirements for #10, #11, and #12. Accept::getBestMatch() computes quality from the most specific matching range, excludes q=0, compares media types and q names case-insensitively, and retains supported-type order for equal ties. ContentEncoding::isSupported() accepts nullable input, distinguishes absent from present-empty fields, applies explicit, wildcard, identity, and alias rules, and preserves exclusions. Authorization::parse() compares only scheme tokens with strcasecmp() and passes the original credential bytes to the existing parsers. Regression tests cover the linked cases, including wildcard exclusions, absence versus empty input, mixed-case schemes, and supported schemes.

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The changed source files directly implement #10, #11, and #12. The test updates verify those behaviors. The two changelog entries document the same negotiation and authorization fixes. No unrelated source, test, or release changes are present in the reviewed diff.

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The pull request description directly matches the changeset. It explains Accept and Accept-Encoding negotiation, case-insensitive authorization schemes, API caller requirements, linked issues, and validation results.

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Head: 1324f09907fbc1b322453f319ba2e9093d7bc87d

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  • authorization-scheme.md — fixed, patch

    Match HTTP authentication schemes case-insensitively without changing credential values.

  • http-negotiation.md — fixed, patch

    Honor per-representation Accept specificity and zero-quality exclusions, and distinguish absent Accept-Encoding from empty or restrictive fields.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @src/Header/Accept.php:
- Around line 63-78: Extract the nested effective-preference lookup from
getBestMatch into a private static findEffectivePreference helper, accepting the
preferences and supported media type and returning the most specific matching
preference or null. Replace the inline loop with this helper call while
preserving the existing matching and specificity behavior.
- Around line 93-95: Replace the quote-aware preg_split used by getBestMatch
with a single-pass splitter, adding the private static splitRanges method to
track quoted and escaped characters and split only on commas outside quotes.
Iterate over splitRanges($header) and preserve each range’s original content.

Review comments at @src/Header/ContentEncoding.php:
- Line 131: Update the ContentEncoding parsing pattern to allow optional
whitespace between the encoding name and its quality-parameter semicolon, so
headers such as “gzip ;q=0” parse the exclusion correctly; add a regression test
covering isSupported(ContentEncoding::Gzip, 'gzip ;q=0') returning false.

Review comments at @tests/Header/AcceptTest.php:
- Around line 72-84: Add focused provider cases for invalid and padded q-values
in the Accept test data: cover q=2 and q=abc as skipped ranges, and verify
whitespace around the media type and q parameter name using competing qualities
so Q=0.5 is genuinely parsed. Anchor the additions in the existing Accept test
provider near the “empty header” case.

Review comments at @tests/Header/AuthorizationTest.php:
- Around line 142-143: Extend the variant list in the test loop around testParse
to include explicit internally mixed-case Basic and Bearer scheme tokens, such
as bAsIc and bEaReR, while preserving the existing lowercase, uppercase,
title-case variants and credential assertions.

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