## Why
HTTP retries used local backoff even when the server supplied `Retry-After`. Relative retry delays also failed to account for time spent propagating errors or reporting retries.
## What changed
- Parse `Retry-After` delay seconds and HTTP dates into a monotonic deadline captured when response headers arrive.
- Honor that deadline for HTTP retries, falling back to local backoff when valid advice is absent.
- Preserve deadlines through API and Bedrock error mapping, stream retries, and exhausted retry state. Expired advice remains a zero delay instead of triggering local backoff.
## Testing
Add coverage for header parsing, deadline countdown and expiry, error mapping after exhausted HTTP retries, and delayed stream retry notifications. Update Responses and remote compaction tests to verify that HTTP retries honor `Retry-After`.
GitOrigin-RevId: a2eff02946e5524f29e06f7ba1431e3d339261a4
## Why
Destination restrictions and policy revocation must remain effective during redirects, response body reads, and established WebSocket traffic. Policy denials must also survive error handling so callers do not retry them or report a revoked operation as successful.
## What changed
- Route managed HTTP clients through a shared `RequestBuilder` and policy-aware execution, checking each redirect destination before route resolution and retaining a network permit while consuming response bodies.
- Guard WebSocket connection setup, reads, and writes with revocable permits, including independent wakeups for split readers and writers.
- Preserve `TransportError::Policy` through HTTP, SSE, and realtime error handling, and treat policy denials as non-retryable.
- Keep the supplied network policy in plugin startup HTTP requests and propagate response body failures from backend and plugin requests.
## Testing
Add regression coverage for rejection before connecting, revocation during redirect routing and streamed body reads, split WebSocket revocation, realtime writer error propagation, and revoked plugin upload responses.
GitOrigin-RevId: fba36700444c98a8364c09b4dc5452c4d78a90fb
## Why
HTTP callers currently cannot bound response bodies. Callers accepting provider-controlled model catalogs need a size limit before decoding the response.
## What changed
- Add per-request `response_body_limit_bytes` for buffered, streaming, and error responses, leaving requests unbounded by default. Reject oversized declared lengths early and count observed bytes across chunks.
- Return a non-retryable `ResponseTooLarge` error that reports only the byte limit. Preserve HTTP status and headers when a bounded error body fails to read without exceeding the limit.
- Expose `ModelsClient::list_models_raw` to fetch bytes and an optional ETag using provider authentication and retries, with an optional body limit. Keep existing `list_models` decoding behavior.
## Testing
Add HTTP fixture tests covering size boundaries, chunked and missing-length responses, early rejection, stream termination, interrupted bodies, error text decoding, and request isolation. Add a models-client test verifying that limits survive authentication retries without affecting subsequent ordinary requests.
GitOrigin-RevId: 61b8940bc8a549588cee6865a3b5d1cff789074d
## What changed
- Classify HTTP connection failures separately from other network errors without exposing request URLs.
- For sampling requests, retry connection failures with exponential delays from 5 to 60 seconds and show a `Reconnecting... waiting for network` stream error.
- Preserve the normal stream retry budget while waiting for the provider to become reachable. Keep the existing bounded retry behavior for other retryable errors.
## Testing
- Verify connection errors are classified without leaking URL contents.
- Verify a turn recovers after its provider becomes reachable and still applies the configured retry limit to a subsequent incomplete stream.
GitOrigin-RevId: 646553290c865a1332abd30c4a64ed9266bbfc6f
## Why
Codex-owned HTTP construction currently lives in `codex-client`
alongside higher-level retry, SSE, and request-telemetry policy. That
makes it difficult to apply shared network behavior consistently across
crates, particularly system proxy/PAC resolution, custom CA handling,
and the ChatGPT Cloudflare cookie policy. It also leaves no clear crate
boundary for migrating direct `reqwest` usage behind a single Codex
abstraction.
This change establishes that low-level ownership boundary without
changing request behavior. It builds on the system proxy support
introduced in #26706, #26707, #26708, and #26709.
## What changed
- Added `codex-rs/http-client` as the `codex-http-client` crate.
- Moved request/response types, the concrete `reqwest` transport, custom
CA handling, Cloudflare cookie policy, and macOS/Windows proxy
resolution into the new crate.
- Kept retry, SSE, and request-telemetry policy in `codex-client`.
- Re-exported the moved API from `codex-client`, including compatibility
aliases for `CodexHttpClient` and `CodexRequestBuilder`, so existing
consumers do not change in this PR.
- Moved the existing proxy and custom-CA tests with their
implementation.
## Scope boundary
This PR deliberately stops at the crate extraction. Stacked follow-up
#31331 migrates downstream imports from `codex-client` to
`codex-http-client`, keeping this change focused on ownership and
compatibility rather than mixing in repository-wide call-site churn.
## Review guide
GitHub reports 30 changed files, of which 17 are detected renames. A
useful review order is:
1. Review the new boundary in `codex-rs/http-client/Cargo.toml` and
`codex-rs/http-client/src/lib.rs`.
2. Review `codex-rs/codex-client/Cargo.toml` and
`codex-rs/codex-client/src/lib.rs` for what remains in the higher-level
crate and how compatibility is preserved.
3. Treat the renamed implementation and test files as moves. Their
meaningful edits are limited to crate paths and normalizing the new
crate's type names to `HttpClient` and `RequestBuilder`.
4. Review `codex-rs/Cargo.toml`, `codex-rs/Cargo.lock`, and the two
`BUILD.bazel` files as mechanical workspace integration.
## Test plan
- `just test -p codex-http-client -p codex-client` (38 tests)
- Compile-checked the unchanged `codex-api`, `codex-backend-client`,
`codex-cloud-tasks`, `codex-exec-server`, `codex-login`, and
`codex-model-provider` consumers against the compatibility re-exports.
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