Zero-dependency Python 3.11+ single file. 16 failure modes selectable by
URL path and combinable with '+': no-range, lies-about-accept-ranges,
etag-changes, flaky-reset (TCP RST mid-body, clean on the 3rd try),
slow-loris, redirect-chain, 401-basic, 401-digest, 403-without-referer,
416-always, content-length-mismatch, expiring-signed-url, throttled,
chunked-no-length, utf8/legacy content-disposition. Deterministic
synthetic bodies (byte i = f(seed, path, i)) with a /sha256/ reference
route so any range is independently verifiable. /__control {"reset":true}
clears flaky-mode counters between cases.
selftest.py exercises every mode (43 checks) and is registered as the
`testserver_selftest` CTest. README documents the full surface — CORE's
M1 DoD is written against it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HPPSGhiArbvQgwC2DNiURS
mockd/ lane PROTO - mock daemon serving contracts/fixtures testserver/ lane PKG/QA - deliberately hostile HTTP server bench/ lane CORE - throughput and CPU benchmarks fuzz/ lane CORE - libFuzzer targets for every parser