## Why
Sequential dispatch lets a long-running request block unrelated health checks
and cleanup on the same connection.
## What changed
- Add `--concurrent-requests <COUNT>` for local and remote exec-server
connections, while retaining sequential dispatch when the option is omitted
or set to `1`.
- Preserve handshake ordering before enabling concurrent dispatch.
- Reserve separate capacity for status, signal, terminate, and close requests so
they remain responsive when ordinary request capacity is saturated.
- Drain queued client responses during disconnect and cancel outstanding
request tasks during connection shutdown.
## Testing
- Cover CLI parsing and concurrency-limit validation.
- Verify default sequential behavior, pipelined handshake ordering, concurrent
request progress, control-request responsiveness, and disconnect handling.
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## What changed
- Rename `ReqwestHttpClient` to `RouteAwareHttpClient` to reflect that delegated HTTP uses Codex's shared route-aware transport.
- Use `codex_http_client` response and error types plus transport-neutral `http` and `url` types, removing the exec server's direct `reqwest` dependency.
## Testing
- Cover fragment stripping and Unicode hostname normalization for delegated HTTP requests.
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[Codex Thread
019ef1f9-36e2-7e91-9337-504f097b9dc1](https://codex-thread-link.openai.chatgpt-team.site/thread/019ef1f9-36e2-7e91-9337-504f097b9dc1)
## Why
Hosted plugin-service Streamable HTTP MCP traffic uses
`https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/ps/mcp` and depends on Cloudflare's
`__cflb` cookie for load-balancer affinity. The local and exec-server
`http/request` path built a fresh reqwest client for each request
without installing Codex's existing shared ChatGPT Cloudflare cookie
store, so affinity could be lost between calls.
This is an affinity-hardening change motivated by an incident
investigation. It does not establish the broader connector-cache
incident RCA or claim to fix that incident in full.
## What changed
- Install the existing process-local, strictly allowlisted ChatGPT
Cloudflare cookie store on the reqwest client used by
`ReqwestHttpClient`.
- Fresh clients now share allowed Cloudflare infrastructure cookies
within the process that originates the local or exec-server network
request.
- Keep the existing HTTPS ChatGPT-host and Cloudflare-cookie-name
restrictions. This does not introduce a general cookie jar or send
ChatGPT Cloudflare cookies to unrelated hosts.
## Test coverage
- `codex-client` unit coverage verifies that the existing strict store
accepts and returns `__cflb` for HTTPS ChatGPT URLs.
- The exec-server HTTPS integration test sends four independent
`http/request` calls through a local TLS-intercepting proxy and verifies
that:
- `Set-Cookie: __cflb=west` is sent on the next plugin-service request;
- a later `Set-Cookie: __cflb=central` replaces the stored value;
- non-Cloudflare session cookies are discarded;
- no stored ChatGPT Cloudflare cookie is sent to a non-ChatGPT host.
- `just test -p codex-client` — 38 passed.
- `just test -p codex-exec-server --test chatgpt_cloudflare_affinity` —
1 passed.
- `just bazel-lock-check` — passed.
## Non-goals
- No persistence of ChatGPT auth, account, session, residency, or
arbitrary cookies.
- No cookie persistence for third-party MCP servers.
- No special composition of caller-provided `Cookie` headers.
- No plugin-service, connector-cache, Habitat/habicache, routing,
redirect, or API-contract changes.
- No broader incident RCA conclusions.