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Thomas Eizinger bae38ec345 feat(connlib): add HTTP2 client with pluggable sockets (#10788)
Firezone's ability to tunnel all traffic on a particular Client (i.e.
the Internet Resource) means we have to ensure that traffic originating
from within the Firezone process does not get routed back into the
tunnel. On MacOS and iOS, this is automatically taken care of for us. On
all other platforms, we need to take steps to prevent these routing
loops.

This functionality is abstracted away using our `SocketFactory`. A
socket created with such a factory is guaranteed to route its traffic
outside of the tunnel. These sockets are used for the WebSocket
connection to the portal, as well as for recursive UDP and TCP DNS
queries.

In order to support DoH, we need to also be able to send HTTPS requests
without causing packet loops.

This PR adds a new crate `http-client` that does exactly that. It
composes together `hyper` and `rustls` such that the configured
`SocketFactory` is used to create the TCP socket for the underlying
HTTP2 connection. Consequently, HTTPS requests made with this library
will automatically be routed outside of the tunnel, assuming the
`SocketFactory` is adequately configured.

Right now, this crate just stands by itself. It will be integrated into
connlib at a later point.

Resolves: #10774
Related: #4668 
Related: #10272
2025-11-04 08:17:59 +00:00
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Rust development guide

Firezone uses Rust for all data plane components. This directory contains the Linux and Windows clients, and low-level networking implementations related to STUN/TURN.

We target the last stable release of Rust using rust-toolchain.toml. If you are using rustup, that is automatically handled for you. Otherwise, ensure you have the latest stable version of Rust installed.

Reading Client logs

The Client logs are written as JSONL for machine-readability.

To make them more human-friendly, pipe them through jq like this:

cd path/to/logs  # e.g. `$HOME/.cache/dev.firezone.client/data/logs` on Linux
cat *.log | jq -r '"\(.time) \(.severity) \(.message)"'

Resulting in, e.g.

2024-04-01T18:25:47.237661392Z INFO started log
2024-04-01T18:25:47.238193266Z INFO GIT_VERSION = 1.0.0-pre.11-35-gcc0d43531
2024-04-01T18:25:48.295243016Z INFO No token / actor_name on disk, starting in signed-out state
2024-04-01T18:25:48.295360641Z INFO null

Benchmarking on Linux

The recommended way for benchmarking any of the Rust components is Linux' perf utility. For example, to attach to a running application, do:

  1. Ensure the binary you are profiling is compiled with the release profile.
  2. sudo perf record -g --freq 10000 --pid $(pgrep <your-binary>).
  3. Run the speed test or whatever load-inducing task you want to measure.
  4. sudo perf script > profile.perf
  5. Open profiler.firefox.com and load profile.perf

Instead of attaching to a process with --pid, you can also specify the path to executable directly. That is useful if you want to capture perf data for a test or a micro-benchmark.