Fix the StringHistory Limits and Make the Download Tests Offline - #455

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Closes#427. Closes#452. Closes#454.

#454, the StringHistory limit properties

MaxFirstLines and MaxLastLines were each documented Set to 0 for no limit, which holds only when both are zero, the one branch AppendLine treats as unrestricted. Set individually, zero retains none on that side. The maintainer chose the smaller of the two directions the issue offered, so the documentation now says what the code does rather than the code changing to match the documentation.

Three behavioral changes on top of that:

  • The constructor and both setters reject a negative value with ArgumentOutOfRangeException, rather than letting it reach RemoveAt and throw after entries have already been taken. The constructor validates its own parameters, so the exception names maxFirstLines or maxLastLines rather than value.
  • Each setter re-partitions the lines already stored, so a limit assigned after appending is honored instead of ignored.
  • Re-partitioning only ever discards. Once a line has been dropped the head is closed: it can be trimmed but never refilled, by a later append or by a later, larger MaxFirstLines. What is retained is therefore always a prefix of the stream followed by a suffix of it, which is exactly the head-and-tail contract ARCHITECTURE.md states.

That third point is the one worth reviewing closely, and it is the one two local review passes and a fuzz each found a different defect in before it settled. A 300000-history fuzz over random append and limit sequences holds the prefix-plus-suffix contract, the count bound, and no-duplicates across four and a half million intermediate states.

#452, the download tests

DownloadTests and DownloadAsyncTests reached www.google.com and httpstat.us, so the unit-test gate depended on outbound DNS and on two third parties it does not control, and paid a five-second sleep on every run to exercise the timeout path.

They now drive a loopback HTTP server bound to an ephemeral port. Download's public surface is unchanged, so the Lazy<HttpClient> contract in ARCHITECTURE.md still holds and the seam the issue offered as the larger alternative was not needed.

  • The server writes HTTP/1.1 onto a TcpListener socket rather than using HttpListener, which on Windows resolves an explicit-address prefix through http.sys and needs a URL reservation an unelevated developer does not have. CI is Linux-only, so nothing here would have caught that.
  • Binding port 0 and reading the port back removes the probe-then-bind race a first draft had.
  • The negative case is a 404 from that server rather than a hostname expected never to resolve, which a wildcard registration or a captive-portal resolver would have silently inverted.
  • The cancellation test waits for the server to signal that it holds the request, cancels only then, and asserts the call returned well inside the route's own delay. Asserting only that the call returned false would have passed just as well if the server had never started.
  • Both not-found tests assert the server actually routed the request, for the same reason.
  • The test assembly disables the ambient proxy. HttpClientFactory leaves SocketsHttpHandler.UseProxy at its default, so a client resolves HttpClient.DefaultProxy, which on Unix is read from http_proxy and bypasses loopback only where no_proxy says to. A machine configured that way would send every loopback request to a proxy, which is the environment dependence this issue exists to remove.

The suite is 200 tests and runs in about one second, against 193 tests and roughly six seconds before. Twenty consecutive runs were clean.

#427, the coordination reference

HISTORY.md named the template repository in its v3.5 entry. It now states what changed without naming where it came from. .github/copilot-instructions.md, the other file the issue named, was already clear, and the hub's own audit reports this repository clean.

A reviewer may read the HISTORY.md hunk as an out-of-scope edit to a shipped release record. It is #427's deliverable rather than incidental churn.

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.NET Format (CSharpier, build, dotnet format style --verify-no-changes) clean, zero warnings under AnalysisMode=All and TreatWarningsAsErrors. markdownlint, CSpell, actionlint, editorconfig-checker, shellcheck and shfmt clean. The hub's prose gate and repository gate both clean.

One thing beyond the three issues

Download.DownloadFile() and DownloadFileAsync() opened the destination with File.OpenWrite(), which is FileMode.OpenOrCreate and does not truncate, so a download over a longer existing file left that file's trailing bytes after the downloaded content and returned true. A local review pass raised it, and the maintainer asked for it here rather than as a separate issue.

The fix changed shape twice before settling, so read the current behavior here rather than in the commit history. Both methods now open the destination with FileMode.OpenOrCreate and truncate it with SetLength(0), rewriting it in place. Its permissions, ownership, and any hard links or symlinks to it survive, which a probe confirms on Linux: mode 0600 stays 0600 with the file truncated to the body's length, a hard link sees the new content, a symlink is written through rather than replaced, and a read-only destination is refused with the file intact.

The cost, which the release notes now state rather than leave implicit: truncation happens once the response headers are accepted, so a download that fails partway leaves a short file, where File.OpenWrite() left the original bytes behind the newly written ones.

Two approaches were tried and rejected on the way, both by local review passes:

  • FileMode.Create, which empties the destination before a single body byte exists, and which Windows refuses outright against a hidden file where OpenOrCreate succeeds.
  • Writing beside the destination and moving the result into place. That gives the strongest failure guarantee, an untouched destination, but it replaces the file's identity rather than its contents. Probed on Linux: a 0600 destination came back 0664, a symlink was replaced by a regular file leaving its target stale, a hard link kept the old content, and a read-only destination was silently overwritten, since rename(2) consults the directory's permission and not the file's, while Windows refuses that same move. The maintainer chose in-place rewriting over that trade.

Six tests cover it: two for the overwrite, two for a request that fails before the response is accepted, and two for a destination that cannot be opened.

Not in this change

  • The failing Publish project release run is the NuGet OIDC job_workflow_ref claim, ProjectTemplate#1126. The fix moves the token exchange and the push into the calling repository, so this repository's publish-release.yml needs new content plus a re-pin. That cannot merge usefully until the hub fix reaches its main, so it is a follow-up rather than part of this change.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • StringHistory now repartitions retained lines when limits change and preserves consistent first- and last-line behavior.
    • Zero limits support unrestricted retention; negative limits are rejected.

  • Bug Fixes

    • Downloads correctly replace oversized existing files without leaving stale content.
    • Failed downloads preserve existing files and handle unusable destinations gracefully.

  • Documentation

    • Updated architecture, README, and release history documentation.

  • Tests

    • Expanded coverage for history limits, downloads, concurrency, cancellation, and failure scenarios.

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Make the Download Tests Offline and Tighten the StringHistory Limit C…
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Closes the three open issues on this repository.
#454, StringHistory limit properties. MaxFirstLines and MaxLastLines were each
documented "Set to 0 for no limit", which holds only when both are zero, the one
branch AppendLine treats as unrestricted. Set individually, zero retains none on
that side, so the documentation now says that. Both the constructor and the two
setters reject a negative value with ArgumentOutOfRangeException, rather than
letting it reach RemoveAt and throw after entries have already been taken. Each
setter re-partitions the stored entries and resets the counters, so a limit
assigned after appending is honored instead of ignored. ARCHITECTURE.md "Public
API Conventions" records the contract, and README.md and HISTORY.md carry the
behavioral change.
#452, download tests. DownloadTests and DownloadAsyncTests reached real hosts,
so the unit-test gate depended on outbound DNS and on two third parties. They now
drive a loopback HttpListener bound to an ephemeral port, which makes success,
not-found, and cancellation deterministic and offline, and drops the five-second
sleep the timeout case paid on every run. The negative case is a 404 from that
server rather than a name expected never to resolve, which a wildcard or a
captive-portal resolver would have silently inverted. Download's public surface
is unchanged, so the Lazy<HttpClient> contract in ARCHITECTURE.md still holds.
#427, coordination reference. HISTORY.md named the template repository in its
v3.5 entry. The entry now states what changed without naming where it came from.
.github/copilot-instructions.md was already clear.
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Close the Defects the Local Review Found
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A local adversarial pass over the previous commit raised seven findings against it.
Six are fixed here and one is declined.
StringHistory. Raising MaxFirstLines on a history that had already dropped a line
promoted retained tail lines into the head, where they could never roll out again,
so [L0,L1,L8,L9] with the limit raised to 5 kept L8 and L9 as first lines forever.
That contradicted the head and tail contract this change had just written into
ARCHITECTURE.md. The head is now closed once anything has been discarded: it only
shrinks from there, re-partitioning trims the head and the tail separately rather
than re-slicing a list that has a gap in it, and the roll indexes the stored head
rather than the limit, which a widened limit would otherwise index past the end of
the list. Three tests cover the closed head, the still-open head, and the head-only
case, and a 200000-history fuzz over random append and limit sequences held the
ordering, bound, and no-duplicate invariants across three million assertions.
LoopbackServer. Rewritten onto a TcpListener rather than HttpListener, which fixes
three findings at once. Binding port 0 and reading the port back removes the
probe-then-release window that failed 6 constructions in 4800 concurrent ones.
Writing the response onto the socket removes the http.sys URL reservation that an
explicit-address prefix needs on Windows, where GOVERNANCE.md declares Windows a
supported development platform and CI is Linux-only. Serving the connection with a
catch-all removes the unexpected exception that escaped the accept loop, faulted
the task Dispose waits on, and reddened a test whose assertions had all passed.
Dispose is also idempotent now and its wait is bounded, and the fixture reports the
content's byte length rather than its UTF-16 char count.
Cancellation test. It asserted only that the call returned false, which any failure
produces, so it could not tell a cancelled request from a server that never
started. It now waits for the server to signal that the slow route has the request,
cancels only then, and asserts the call returned well inside the route's own delay.
Proxy independence. HttpClientFactory leaves SocketsHttpHandler.UseProxy at its
default, so a client resolves HttpClient.DefaultProxy, which on Unix reads
http_proxy and bypasses loopback only where no_proxy says to. A machine configured
that way would send these loopback requests to a proxy, which is the environment
dependence #452 exists to remove, so the test assembly disables the ambient proxy.
Declined: the finding that the HISTORY.md v3.5 entry is an out-of-scope edit to a
shipped release record. That edit is #427's deliverable, not incidental churn.
Not fixed here, and raised for a separate decision: Download.DownloadFile and
DownloadFileAsync open the destination with File.OpenWrite, which does not
truncate, so downloading over a longer existing file leaves trailing bytes from the
previous content. It is a pre-existing defect in shipped code, outside all three
issues this branch closes.
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Close the Defects the Second Local Review Found
1932b4e
A second adversarial pass over the previous commit found that its own fix had
introduced a regression, and a fuzz over the corrected model then found a third
defect neither pass had reached.
StringHistory. The previous commit tracked one flag for two different questions,
so entering the unrestricted mode reset the head counter while leaving the
discarded flag set, and the next limit assignment read a partition that no longer
described the stored lines. A history limited to 2 and 2, cleared to unrestricted,
then given two more lines and limited again, discarded the two most recent lines
and kept nothing. A fuzz over the corrected model then found the deeper case: a
history that had only ever kept a tail could have a head limit raised, which
relabeled tail lines as first lines and left a window that was neither a prefix
nor a suffix of the stream. Both are the same root cause, a head that could grow
into lines that are not the stream's first, so the head is now closed absolutely:
once a line has been discarded the head is trimmed but never refilled, by an
append or by a re-partition. The unrestricted mode extends the tail rather than
the head once anything has been discarded, so what is retained stays a prefix
followed by a suffix. Four tests cover the two cases above, the tail-only history,
and a head that cannot be rebuilt. A 300000-history fuzz over random append and
limit sequences now holds that prefix-plus-suffix contract across four and a half
million states, where the previous model failed it within five iterations.
LoopbackServer. Connections are served concurrently rather than one at a time, so
the thirty-second slow route cannot block a later request, and Dispose waits for
the in-flight connections along with the accept loop under the same bounded,
never-rethrowing wait. The server also counts the requests it routes.
Tests. The cancellation test waited on a signal that nothing could ever fault or
cancel, so a server-side failure before the slow route was reached hung the test
rather than failing it, with no deadline anywhere to end the run; the wait is now
bounded. Both not-found tests asserted only that the call returned false, which a
refused connection produces just as well, so each now asserts the server routed
the request. A new test proves two concurrent requests to one server both complete.
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Make downloads offline and enforce StringHistory limit semantics

🐞 Bug fix🧪 Tests📝 Documentation🕐 40+ Minutes

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• Enforces StringHistory limits immediately, rejects negatives, and preserves prefix-plus-suffix
retention.
• Replaces external download endpoints with deterministic loopback HTTP scenarios.
• Documents clarified limit semantics and adds comprehensive regression coverage.
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graph TD
HistoryTests["History tests"] -->|verifies| StringHistory["StringHistory"] -->|maintains| RetainedLines["Retained lines"]
DownloadTests["Download tests"] -->|calls| DownloadAPI["Download API"] -->|requests| LoopbackServer["Loopback server"]
HttpDefaults["HTTP defaults"] -->|disables proxy| DownloadAPI
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High-Level Assessment

The following are alternative approaches to this PR:

1. Atomic limit update API
  • ➕ Avoids order-dependent discards when changing both limits
  • ➕ Expresses two-limit repartitioning as one operation
  • ➖ Expands the public API
  • ➖ Existing property setters still need defined behavior
  • ➖ Does not recover lines already discarded
2. Injectable HTTP handler seam
  • ➕ Produces smaller and faster unit tests
  • ➕ Avoids implementing an HTTP parser and socket lifecycle
  • ➖ Changes production design solely for tests
  • ➖ Bypasses real networking and streaming behavior
  • ➖ Conflicts with the shared Lazy contract

Recommendation: Keep the current approach: in-place repartitioning preserves API compatibility, and the loopback TCP server provides deterministic offline coverage through the real HTTP stack. An atomic two-limit method could be considered separately if callers frequently need to change both limits without setter-order loss.

Files changed (9) +742 / -36

Bug fix (1) +115 / -9
StringHistory.csEnforce mutable head-tail limits safely+115/-9

Enforce mutable head-tail limits safely

• Validates constructor and property limits, repartitions retained lines whenever a limit changes, and tracks whether the stream head has closed after a discard. Appends now preserve prefix-plus-suffix semantics across unrestricted and reconfigured states.

Utilities/StringHistory.cs

Tests (3) +344 / -26
DownloadAsyncTests.csRun asynchronous download tests against loopback HTTP+68/-22

Run asynchronous download tests against loopback HTTP

• Replaces public internet dependencies with deterministic success, 404, concurrent, and cancellation scenarios. Assertions now verify exact local content, request routing, and prompt cancellation.

UtilitiesTests/DownloadAsyncTests.cs

DownloadTests.csRun synchronous download tests against loopback HTTP+18/-4

Run synchronous download tests against loopback HTTP

• Uses the local server for successful metadata retrieval and a routed 404 failure, including exact content-length and request-count assertions.

UtilitiesTests/DownloadTests.cs

StringHistoryTests.csCover StringHistory validation and repartitioning invariants+258/-0

Cover StringHistory validation and repartitioning invariants

• Adds regression tests for negative limits, post-append limit changes, head trimming, unrestricted transitions, and append behavior after discards. The cases verify that retained lines remain a stream prefix followed by its suffix without rebuilding a closed head.

UtilitiesTests/StringHistoryTests.cs

Documentation (3) +4 / -1
ARCHITECTURE.mdDefine the StringHistory retention contract+1/-0

Define the StringHistory retention contract

• Documents zero-limit semantics, negative-value rejection, immediate repartitioning, and the rule that discarded head lines are never recovered.

ARCHITECTURE.md

HISTORY.mdRecord StringHistory behavioral changes+2/-1

Record StringHistory behavioral changes

• Adds the tightened limit contract to the v4.0 release history and removes an unrelated upstream-template reference from v3.5 wording.

HISTORY.md

README.mdAdvertise revised StringHistory limit behavior+1/-0

Advertise revised StringHistory limit behavior

• Highlights immediate repartitioning and negative-limit validation among the release changes.

README.md

Other (2) +279 / -0
LoopbackServer.csAdd an ephemeral TCP HTTP test server+255/-0

Add an ephemeral TCP HTTP test server

• Introduces a parallel-capable loopback server with success, missing, and delayed routes. It binds an ephemeral port, writes HTTP/1.1 responses directly to sockets, exposes synchronization signals, and bounds teardown.

UtilitiesTests/LoopbackServer.cs

TestHttpDefaults.csDisable ambient proxies for HTTP tests+24/-0

Disable ambient proxies for HTTP tests

• Adds a module initializer that replaces the process-wide default proxy, ensuring loopback requests cannot be redirected by developer or CI environment variables.

UtilitiesTests/TestHttpDefaults.cs

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StringHistory now validates and reapplies retention limits. File downloads now truncate destinations correctly. Download tests now use a deterministic local HTTP server. Documentation and version metadata describe the 4.1 changes.

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History and download behavior

Layer / File(s)Summary
StringHistory retention and repartitioning
Utilities/StringHistory.cs, UtilitiesTests/StringHistoryTests.cs		StringHistory rejects negative limits, applies zero-limit semantics, repartitions stored lines, and preserves discard state across later limit changes.
Download destination handling
Utilities/Download.cs, UtilitiesTests/DownloadTests.cs, UtilitiesTests/DownloadAsyncTests.cs		Synchronous and asynchronous downloads truncate existing destinations before copying. Tests verify replacement, failure preservation, and unusable destinations.
Deterministic download test infrastructure
UtilitiesTests/LoopbackServer.cs, UtilitiesTests/TestHttpDefaults.cs, UtilitiesTests/DownloadTests.cs, UtilitiesTests/DownloadAsyncTests.cs		Tests use local success, missing, and delayed routes. Coverage includes metadata, request counts, concurrent requests, cancellation, and proxy isolation.
API and release documentation
ARCHITECTURE.md, HISTORY.md, README.md, version.json		Documentation and release metadata describe the updated contracts and version 4.1 changes.

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Merge Risk:🔵 Low · up to aabeb

The PR tightens StringHistory limit handling, makes download tests offline, and safely replaces downloaded files; the remaining README wording omits the special unrestricted (0, 0) case, creating a bounded public-contract documentation mismatch. The change is otherwise mergeable with explicit owner follow-up to correct the README.

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Pull request overview

This pull request removes external network dependencies from the Download test suite by introducing a local loopback HTTP server, and tightens/clarifies StringHistory’s public limit-contract (zero semantics, negative rejection, and post-append re-partitioning) in both code and documentation.

Changes:

  • Replace online Download/DownloadAsync tests with deterministic loopback-server scenarios (success, 404, cancellation, concurrency) and disable ambient proxies for the test process.
  • Update StringHistory to validate negative limits eagerly, re-partition stored history when limits change, and document the “head+tail only, discards-only” behavior across code and architecture docs.
  • Refresh release notes to reflect the clarified StringHistory contract.
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UtilitiesTests/TestHttpDefaults.csSets test-process HTTP defaults to keep loopback HTTP calls offline/deterministic under proxy-configured environments.
UtilitiesTests/LoopbackServer.csAdds a minimal loopback HTTP server used by download-related tests.
UtilitiesTests/DownloadTests.csMoves sync download tests to loopback endpoints and asserts deterministic sizes/failures.
UtilitiesTests/DownloadAsyncTests.csMoves async download tests to loopback endpoints and adds deterministic cancellation/concurrency coverage.
UtilitiesTests/StringHistoryTests.csAdds/extends coverage for negative validation, re-partitioning behavior, and head-closure semantics.
Utilities/StringHistory.csImplements the clarified limit contract: negative rejection, re-partitioning on setters, and “discards-only/head-closure” logic.
README.mdNotes the StringHistory contract change as part of v4.0 breaking-change summary.
HISTORY.mdUpdates v4.0 and v3.5 release notes to remove private-template attribution and record the StringHistory contract clarification.
ARCHITECTURE.mdRecords the updated StringHistory behavioral contract in the public API conventions.
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Utilities/StringHistory.cs:134

  • Grammar in the XML docs: “both limits at 0 retains every line” should be “retain every line”.
 /// <summary>
/// Gets or sets the maximum number of last lines to retain.
/// Set to 0 to retain no last lines; both limits at 0 retains every line.
/// </summary>

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  • Minor grammar in the comment: “Both limits at zero is …” should be “Both limits at zero are …”.
 // Both limits at zero is the unrestricted mode, which retains every line.
// Nothing is discarded here, so the counters already describe the stored list.
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+- **`StringHistory`** retains at most `MaxFirstLines` from the head and `MaxLastLines` from the tail. Both limits at zero is the one unrestricted mode, and zero on a single side retains no lines on that side. Either limit rejects a negative value, and assigning one re-partitions the lines already stored, so the history never holds more than the limits then in force allow. Re-partitioning only discards: once a line has been dropped the head is closed, so a later, larger `MaxFirstLines` never promotes a retained tail line into it.
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Replace the Destination File on a Download Instead of Overwriting It
f7e0006
DownloadFile and DownloadFileAsync opened the destination with File.OpenWrite,
which is FileMode.OpenOrCreate and does not truncate, so a download over a longer
existing file left that file's trailing bytes after the downloaded content and
returned true. A 16-byte body written over a 200-byte file produced a 200-byte
file. Both now create the file instead.
Both local review passes raised this against the download tests rather than the
library, since the rewritten test exercises the path for real but seeds it with
Path.GetTempFileName's empty file, so its length assertion passed either way. Two
tests now seed a file four times the body's length first, and both fail against
the previous behavior and pass against this one.
The maintainer asked for it here rather than as a separate issue, so
ARCHITECTURE.md records the contract and README.md and HISTORY.md carry the fix.
@ptr727ptr727 changed the title Make the Download Tests Offline and Tighten the StringHistory Limit ContractFix the StringHistory Limits and Make the Download Tests OfflineSep 1, 2026
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Replace a Downloaded File Only Once the Whole Body Is on Disk
6935b65
Answers the first review round on the pull request and a third local pass.
Download. The previous commit fixed the destination not being truncated by
creating the file instead of opening it, which traded one defect for a worse one:
GetStreamAsync returns once the headers arrive, so the destination was emptied
before a single body byte existed and a download that then failed left a 0-byte
file where the old code left the original content. File.Create also asks for
FileAccess.ReadWrite, so a destination the process may write but not read stopped
working at all. Both methods now write beside the destination and move the result
into place, so the destination is replaced whole on success and left untouched on
failure, and the temporary file is removed when a download fails. Two tests cover
the failure case, alongside the two covering the overwrite.
ARCHITECTURE.md said Download reads with HttpCompletionOption.ResponseHeadersRead
so a large response streams rather than buffering whole. That is true only of
GetContentInfo, which discards the body; DownloadString calls GetStringAsync and
buffers the whole response. The entry now says which method does which.
StringHistory. The constructor assigns the backing fields rather than the
properties, since both limits apply as one pair and the setters would apply them
one at a time and re-partition an empty history twice. The XML documentation and
the comments drop the "both limits at zero is" construction that four findings
across three files objected to. HISTORY.md now also records the AppendLine
behavior that shipped with the setters, which it described only as a limit set
after appending being honored.
LoopbackServer. The 404 route has its own case rather than reaching the default
arm, so the route contract is stated rather than incidental. A peer that connects
and sends nothing is no longer counted as a routed request, which the exact-count
assertions depend on. Dispose waits for the accept loop before reading the
connection set, so the set is final rather than a snapshot that could miss a
connection started but not yet registered.
The 300000-history fuzz continues to hold the prefix-plus-suffix contract, the
count bound, no duplicates, and that an assignment never adds a line, across four
and a half million states.
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Answering the two suppressed low-confidence findings from the round on 1932b4e, which open no thread and so have nowhere to be resolved.

Utilities/StringHistory.cs:134 Grammar in the XML docs: "both limits at 0 retains every line" should be "retain every line".

Utilities/StringHistory.cs:166 Minor grammar in the comment: "Both limits at zero is ..." should be "Both limits at zero are ...".

Both are fixed in 6935b65, by the same change that answered the four threaded findings objecting to the same construction. Rather than correcting the agreement in six places, the construction is gone: the property summaries read "Set to 0 to retain no last lines. Every line is retained only when both limits are 0.", the class remarks read "Zero on a single side retains no lines on that side, and zero on both is the one unrestricted mode", and the comment in Repartition reads "Zero on both limits is the unrestricted mode". Six findings against one phrasing is the phrasing's problem rather than six separate ones.

For the record, since a suppressed finding is counted once raised and never uncounted: status now reports suppressed=2 (on_head=0 earlier=2), so nothing is outstanding against the current head.

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🟡 Changes recommended

DownloadFile/DownloadFileAsync currently compute the temp path outside the try/catch (so they can throw) and can overwrite/delete unrelated files on rare temp-name collisions.

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Utilities/Download.cs:162

  • High: Make DownloadFileAsync handle invalid destination paths and temp-name collisions safely. CreateTemporaryPath(fileName) currently runs before the try block (so it can throw and break the "return bool, don’t throw" contract), and FileMode.Create with a random name can overwrite an existing file on collision. Move temp-name generation inside the try, create the temp file with FileMode.CreateNew and retry on collision, and only delete the temp path when this call created it.
 string tempFileName = CreateTemporaryPath(fileName);
try
{
Stream httpStream = await GetHttpClient()
.GetStreamAsync(uri, cancellationToken)
.ConfigureAwait(false);
await using (httpStream.ConfigureAwait(false))
{
FileStream fileStream = new(
tempFileName,
FileMode.Create,
FileAccess.Write,
FileShare.None
);
await using (fileStream.ConfigureAwait(false))
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Create the Download Temporary File Without Overwriting a Name in Use
7aac102
Answers the review round on 6935b65, which raised this against both DownloadFile
and DownloadFileAsync.
The temporary file was opened with FileMode.Create under a name from
Path.GetRandomFileName, so a name that happened to exist in the destination
directory was overwritten, and the failure path then deleted that unrelated file.
The file is now created with FileMode.CreateNew, which fails rather than
overwrites, and a collision retries under a fresh name. The path is assigned to
the caller's variable only once the file behind it exists, so the failure path
deletes a file this call actually created and nothing else. Any other I/O failure,
a missing destination directory among them, is left to the caller to report rather
than retried.
The same finding also asked that the temporary path be named inside the try, since
Path.GetDirectoryName can throw on invalid path characters and would otherwise
break the bool-returning contract. Naming now happens inside the try, so the point
is moot either way, but the premise does not hold on this target framework: on
net10.0 Path.GetDirectoryName and Path.Combine return normally for an embedded
null character, a pipe, and a 5000-character path alike. That rejection is .NET
Framework behavior.
Two tests cover a destination whose directory does not exist, one per method,
asserting the call reports failure rather than throwing and leaves no file behind.
@ptr727
Truncate and Rewrite a Downloaded File in Place
2bc77c0
The maintainer chose write-in-place over the temporary-file-and-move approach the
two previous commits built, after a local review pass established what that
approach cost.
Moving a temporary file into place replaces the destination's identity rather
than its contents, which a probe confirmed on Linux: a destination at mode 0600
came back at 0664, a symlink destination was replaced by a regular file leaving
its target stale, a second hard link kept the old content, and a read-only
destination was silently overwritten, because rename consults the directory's
permission and ignores the file's. Windows refuses that same move, so the two
platforms disagreed on whether the download succeeded. A killed process also
orphaned an unnamed temporary in the destination's own directory.
Both methods now open the destination with FileMode.Create and FileAccess.Write.
Create is what fixes the original defect, since OpenWrite does not truncate and
left a longer file's trailing bytes after the body. Write rather than the
ReadWrite that File.Create requests, so a destination the process may write but
not read still works. A probe against this build confirms the four properties the
documentation now claims: mode 0600 survives with the file truncated to the body's
length, a hard link sees the new content, a symlink is written through rather than
replaced, and a read-only destination is refused with the file left intact.
The cost, stated in ARCHITECTURE.md rather than left implicit: the destination is
opened once the response is accepted, so a failure during the body can leave a
partial file. A request that fails before that leaves it untouched, which is what
the two renamed tests pin, and they now assert the server served the request so a
connection failure cannot pass for the file behaving correctly.
CreateTemporaryFile and DeleteTemporary are gone with the approach that needed them.
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Answering the suppressed finding from the round on 6935b65, which opens no thread and so has nowhere to be resolved.

Utilities/Download.cs:162 High: Make DownloadFileAsync handle invalid destination paths and temp-name collisions safely. CreateTemporaryPath(fileName) currently runs before the try block (so it can throw and break the "return bool, don't throw" contract), and FileMode.Create with a random name can overwrite an existing file on collision. Move temp-name generation inside the try, create the temp file with FileMode.CreateNew and retry on collision, and only delete the temp path when this call created it.

Same finding as the threaded one on DownloadFile, answered there. In short: the collision half was real and was fixed in 7aac102, the escape half does not hold on net10.0 (probed: Path.GetDirectoryName and Path.Combine return normally for an embedded null character, a pipe, and a 5000-character path, that rejection being .NET Framework behavior), and the whole temporary-file approach is gone as of 2bc77c0 in favor of writing in place.

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Escape the Unicode Test Literal So the Source Stays ASCII
3a6dde5
The prose gate run over whole files, rather than over changed lines, reports
seven unclassified non-ASCII characters in AppendLine_UnicodeCharacters_ShouldPreserve:
four CJK ideographs and three astral-plane emoji, sitting literally in the source.
The test's subject is that a non-ASCII string round-trips, so the string stays and
the source loses the characters instead. The escapes compile to the identical
string, verified against the original bytes, so the assertion is unchanged.
Found by running the gate without --diff over every file this branch edits. The
gate's own help states the policy the default hides: --diff "matches the repo
policy: fix as each file is next edited, not swept", so a violation on an unchanged
line belongs to whoever next edits that file.
@ptr727
Raise the Version Floor to 4.1 and Record the v4.1 Release Notes
6f73755
version.json carries the Nerdbank.GitVersioning floor, raised on develop so the
promotion carries it to main, per OPERATIONS.md "Bumping the version floor".
HISTORY.md gains a v4.1 section holding the two library fixes this branch ships,
moved out of v4.0 where they were first written: the Download destination
corruption and the StringHistory limit contract. The offline download tests and
the coordination-reference removal stay out of both files, since neither ships in
the package.
README.md's release notes drop the Breaking Changes and Summary headings for one
short line per fix under Version 4.1. That also drops four v4.0-era lines,
including the only place the README named HttpClientFactory; HISTORY.md still
carries all of it under v4.0.
Method names in both files now end in (), so a method reads as one rather than as
a property, and the four v4.0-era instances that predate this change are corrected
with them. The StringHistory line no longer reads as though a negative value is
accepted, which is what it said while listing the defects being fixed. Five prose
semicolons in shipped v4.0 entries go with them, found by running the prose gate
over whole files rather than changed lines.
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🟡 Changes recommended

README/HISTORY currently overstate the atomicity of download failures and one new cancellation test should be bounded to avoid hanging CI.

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UtilitiesTests/DownloadAsyncTests.cs:223

  • The cancellation test awaits download with no timeout, so a regression where Download.DownloadStringAsync stops observing cancellation could hang the entire test run. Consider bounding the await (similar to the other uses of WaitAsync) so the test fails fast instead of hanging.
 );
long startedAt = Stopwatch.GetTimestamp();
await cts.CancelAsync();
(bool success, string _) = await download;
TimeSpan elapsed = Stopwatch.GetElapsedTime(startedAt);
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🔵 Needs a closer look

The README/HISTORY release notes currently describe an atomic “write beside + move into place / untouched on failure” behavior that does not match the in-place truncation rewrite implemented in Utilities/Download.cs.

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README.md:37

  • The README claims the Download fix now "replaced whole on success and left untouched on failure", but DownloadFile/DownloadFileAsync currently truncate and rewrite the destination in place (and can leave a partial file on mid-body failure). Please update this release-note bullet to match the current contract (see ARCHITECTURE.md’s Download bullet and Utilities/Download.cs).
- Added `HttpClientFactory`, a reusable resilient HTTP client factory (Polly retry and circuit breaker) with an AOT safe `AssemblyInfo` identity helper and a tunable `HttpClientOptions`.
- Fixed `Download.DownloadFile` and `DownloadFileAsync` corrupting the destination when downloading over a longer existing file. The destination is now replaced whole on success and left untouched on failure.

HISTORY.md:8

  • This v4.0 HISTORY entry says downloads now "write beside the destination and move the result into place" and that the destination is "left untouched when a download fails partway", but the implementation rewrites the destination in place (Utilities/Download.cs) and ARCHITECTURE.md notes that a mid-body failure can leave a partial file. Please align this release-history bullet with the actual behavior.
 - Fixed `Download.DownloadFile` and `DownloadFileAsync` corrupting the destination file: both opened it with `File.OpenWrite`, which does not truncate, so a download over a longer existing file left that file's trailing bytes after the downloaded content and reported success. Both now write beside the destination and move the result into place, so the destination is replaced whole on success and left untouched when a download fails partway.
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@ptr727
Correct What the Release Notes and the Contract Claim About a Download
aabeb0c
A local pass over the release notes found three claims that did not match the
code, and one behavior difference the notes did not mention at all.
HISTORY.md credited v4.1 with opening the destination only once the response is
accepted, so a failed request leaves it untouched. v4.0 already did that: it
called GetStreamAsync before File.OpenWrite, so a request that failed never
reached the file. The entry claimed unchanged behavior as a fix.
The same entry omitted what did change. Truncating at open means a download that
fails partway now leaves a short file, where OpenWrite left the original bytes
behind the newly written ones. That is a real loss of content for a consumer whose
download is interrupted, it is the cost of the fix rather than a detail, and
HISTORY.md is where a consumer would look for it. Both it and README.md now say so.
Windows refuses FileMode.Create against a hidden file, where the FileMode.OpenOrCreate
that OpenWrite used does not, so a download over a hidden destination would have
started failing on a supported platform, contradicting the claim that the
destination's own attributes survive. Both methods now open with OpenOrCreate and
truncate with SetLength, which is what fixes the original defect without changing
which destinations can be opened. Re-probed on Linux: mode 0600 survives with the
file truncated to the body's length, a hard link sees the new content, a symlink is
written through, and a read-only destination is still refused with the file intact.
The Windows half is documented behavior rather than something this host can run.
ARCHITECTURE.md named a public type Extensions that v4.0 renamed to
CompressExtensions, so the contract list described a type consumers cannot
reference, and it attributed the logger helpers to it rather than to the internal
LogExtensions. It also named FileEx's options as Options rather than the static
FileEx.Options, and wrote its own method names without the parentheses the same
change had just standardized on in HISTORY.md and README.md.
Two test comments said the body is fetched before the destination is opened.
GetStreamAsync completes on the response headers, so only those have been read and
the body streams after the file is open.
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Answering the three findings from the round on 3a6dde5 that open no thread.

README.md:37 The README claims the Download fix now "replaced whole on success and left untouched on failure", but DownloadFile/DownloadFileAsync currently truncate and rewrite the destination in place (and can leave a partial file on mid-body failure).

HISTORY.md:8 This v4.0 HISTORY entry says downloads now "write beside the destination and move the result into place" and that the destination is "left untouched when a download fails partway", but the implementation rewrites the destination in place.

Both correct, both fixed in 6f73755 and aabeb0c, which landed after this round read the branch. The two entries moved into a new v4.1 section and now describe truncate-and-rewrite-in-place, and both carry the caveat the earlier wording omitted: a download that fails partway leaves a short file, where File.OpenWrite() left the original bytes behind the newly written ones. That is a real loss of content for an interrupted download and belongs in the release notes rather than only in ARCHITECTURE.md.

Worth recording, since these two findings track a fix that changed shape three times: the temporary-file-and-move approach they describe was itself reverted, because moving a file into place replaces the destination's identity rather than its contents. Probed on Linux: a 0600 destination came back 0664, a symlink was replaced by a regular file leaving its target stale, a hard link kept the old content, and a read-only destination was silently overwritten, where Windows refuses the same move.

PR title exceeds limit

Stale. The title was 76 characters when first raised and has been Fix the StringHistory Limits and Make the Download Tests Offline at 64 since, well inside the 72-character limit GOVERNANCE.md sets. Verified against the live title rather than the badge.

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- Line 28: Update the README StringHistory summary to document that the special
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🟡 Changes recommended

README.md/HISTORY.md and the PR description currently describe an atomic “write-beside then move” behavior, but the implementation truncates and rewrites in place and can leave partial files on mid-body failure.

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README.md:37

  • README release-notes bullet claims the download destination is “replaced whole on success and left untouched on failure”, but DownloadFile/DownloadFileAsync now open the destination with FileMode.Create and stream the body into it. That truncates immediately and can leave a partial file if the body copy fails; please align the README text with the actual behavior (and ARCHITECTURE.md’s Download contract).
 - [Release Notes](#release-notes)
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🟢 Approval recommended

The changes are internally consistent across implementation, tests, and documentation, and the updated tests remove external network/environment dependencies while adding coverage for the newly defined behaviors.

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State the Both-Zero Exception in the README Limit Summary
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The README said zero retains no lines on that side, without the exception that
ARCHITECTURE.md and HISTORY.md both carry: zero on both sides at once is the one
unrestricted mode. Read alone, the short summary described a StringHistory that
retains nothing by default, which is the opposite of what a default-constructed
one does.
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🟢 Approval recommended

The changes are cohesive, maintain backward compatibility on public surfaces, and are backed by deterministic offline tests covering the corrected behaviors.

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🟢 Approval recommended

The implementation changes are consistent with the updated documented contracts and are backed by expanded deterministic, offline test coverage for the new behaviors.

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Promote Develop to Main (#456)
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Closes#427. Closes#452. Closes#454.
Promotes `develop` at `f2a8f62` to `main`. One squashed pull request,
#455, which closed the three open issues and fixed one defect found
while doing so.
The issue-closing keywords sit here rather than on #455, since GitHub
only closes an issue when the pull request merges into the default
branch, and #455 merged into `develop`.
## What is being promoted
- **#454, the `StringHistory` limit properties.** `MaxFirstLines` and
`MaxLastLines` were each documented `Set to 0 for no limit`, which holds
only when both are zero. Zero on one side is now documented as retaining
no lines on that side, both the constructor and the setters reject a
negative value, and assigning a limit re-partitions the lines already
stored instead of being ignored. Re-partitioning only ever discards, so
what is retained is always a prefix of the appended lines followed by a
suffix of them, and once a line has been dropped the head is trimmed but
never refilled.
- **#452, the download tests.** They reached `www.google.com` and
`httpstat.us`, so the unit-test gate depended on outbound DNS and on two
third parties, and paid a five-second sleep on every run. They now drive
a loopback HTTP server on an ephemeral port, and the test assembly
disables the ambient proxy so a machine with `http_proxy` set does not
send loopback requests through it. `Download`'s public surface is
unchanged.
- **#427, the coordination reference.** `HISTORY.md` named the template
repository in its v3.5 entry and no longer does.
- **A `Download` defect found during the above.** `DownloadFile()` and
`DownloadFileAsync()` opened the destination with `File.OpenWrite()`,
which does not truncate, so a download over a longer existing file left
that file's trailing bytes after the downloaded content and returned
`true`. Both now open with `FileMode.OpenOrCreate` and truncate with
`SetLength(0)`, rewriting in place so the destination's permissions,
ownership, and any links to it survive.
- **The version floor**, raised to 4.1, with the two shipped fixes
recorded in `HISTORY.md` and `README.md`.
## Verification
The merge is clean and `git write-tree` on it equals `git rev-parse
origin/develop^{tree}` exactly (`0cfd271c`), so `main` ends up with
`develop`'s tree and nothing else.
`develop` carried 206 tests green, the `.NET Format` clean-compile chain
with zero warnings under `AnalysisMode=All` and `TreatWarningsAsErrors`,
markdownlint, CSpell, actionlint, `editorconfig-checker`, shellcheck and
shfmt clean, and the hub's prose and repository gates clean. #455 went
through eight review rounds; every thread was resolved and every
suppressed finding answered, with `suppressed on_head=0` at the merge.
## Releases stay blocked, and this does not unblock them
`publish-release.yml` still fails at the NuGet OIDC token exchange,
because the hub-hosted release chain makes the `job_workflow_ref` claim
name the hub rather than this repository
([ProjectTemplate#1126](ptr727/ProjectTemplate#1126)).
The fix moves the token exchange and the push back into the calling
repository, which needs new content in this repository's
`publish-release.yml` plus a re-pin, and cannot land until that hub
change reaches its `main`. That is a follow-up pull request, so merging
this one leaves the latest release at 4.0.38.
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## Summary by CodeRabbit
* **Bug Fixes**
* Downloads now fully replace existing files, preventing stale or
corrupted trailing content.
* Failed downloads preserve existing destination files and handle
unavailable destinations safely.
* `StringHistory` now validates limits, preserves discarded-content
rules, repartitions stored lines correctly, and supports atomic limit
updates.
* **Documentation**
* Clarified download buffering, truncation, partial-download outcomes,
file options, and `StringHistory` behavior.
* Updated terminology and retry-behavior documentation.
* **Release**
* Updated the project version to 4.1.
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Closes#427. Closes#452. Closes#454.
#454, the StringHistory limit properties
MaxFirstLines and MaxLastLines were each documented Set to 0 for no limit, which holds only when both are zero, the one branch AppendLine treats as unrestricted. Set individually, zero retains none on that side. The maintainer chose the smaller of the two directions the issue offered, so the documentation now says what the code does rather than the code changing to match the documentation.
Three behavioral changes on top of that:
  • The constructor and both setters reject a negative value with ArgumentOutOfRangeException, rather than letting it reach RemoveAt and throw after entries have already been taken. The constructor validates its own parameters, so the exception names maxFirstLines or maxLastLines rather than value.
  • Each setter re-partitions the lines already stored, so a limit assigned after appending is honored instead of ignored.
  • Re-partitioning only ever discards. Once a line has been dropped the head is closed: it can be trimmed but never refilled, by a later append or by a later, larger MaxFirstLines. What is retained is therefore always a prefix of the stream followed by a suffix of it, which is exactly the head-and-tail contract ARCHITECTURE.md states.
That third point is the one worth reviewing closely, and it is the one two local review passes and a fuzz each found a different defect in before it settled. A 300000-history fuzz over random append and limit sequences holds the prefix-plus-suffix contract, the count bound, and no-duplicates across four and a half million intermediate states.
#452, the download tests
DownloadTests and DownloadAsyncTests reached www.google.com and httpstat.us, so the unit-test gate depended on outbound DNS and on two third parties it does not control, and paid a five-second sleep on every run to exercise the timeout path.
They now drive a loopback HTTP server bound to an ephemeral port. Download's public surface is unchanged, so the Lazy<HttpClient> contract in ARCHITECTURE.md still holds and the seam the issue offered as the larger alternative was not needed.
  • The server writes HTTP/1.1 onto a TcpListener socket rather than using HttpListener, which on Windows resolves an explicit-address prefix through http.sys and needs a URL reservation an unelevated developer does not have. CI is Linux-only, so nothing here would have caught that.
  • Binding port 0 and reading the port back removes the probe-then-bind race a first draft had.
  • The negative case is a 404 from that server rather than a hostname expected never to resolve, which a wildcard registration or a captive-portal resolver would have silently inverted.
  • The cancellation test waits for the server to signal that it holds the request, cancels only then, and asserts the call returned well inside the route's own delay. Asserting only that the call returned false would have passed just as well if the server had never started.
  • Both not-found tests assert the server actually routed the request, for the same reason.
  • The test assembly disables the ambient proxy. HttpClientFactory leaves SocketsHttpHandler.UseProxy at its default, so a client resolves HttpClient.DefaultProxy, which on Unix is read from http_proxy and bypasses loopback only where no_proxy says to. A machine configured that way would send every loopback request to a proxy, which is the environment dependence this issue exists to remove.
The suite is 200 tests and runs in about one second, against 193 tests and roughly six seconds before. Twenty consecutive runs were clean.
#427, the coordination reference
HISTORY.md named the template repository in its v3.5 entry. It now states what changed without naming where it came from. .github/copilot-instructions.md, the other file the issue named, was already clear, and the hub's own audit reports this repository clean.
A reviewer may read the HISTORY.md hunk as an out-of-scope edit to a shipped release record. It is #427's deliverable rather than incidental churn.
Verification
.NET Format (CSharpier, build, dotnet format style --verify-no-changes) clean, zero warnings under AnalysisMode=All and TreatWarningsAsErrors. markdownlint, CSpell, actionlint, editorconfig-checker, shellcheck and shfmt clean. The hub's prose gate and repository gate both clean.
One thing beyond the three issues
Download.DownloadFile() and DownloadFileAsync() opened the destination with File.OpenWrite(), which is FileMode.OpenOrCreate and does not truncate, so a download over a longer existing file left that file's trailing bytes after the downloaded content and returned true. A local review pass raised it, and the maintainer asked for it here rather than as a separate issue.
The fix changed shape twice before settling, so read the current behavior here rather than in the commit history. Both methods now open the destination with FileMode.OpenOrCreate and truncate it with SetLength(0), rewriting it in place. Its permissions, ownership, and any hard links or symlinks to it survive, which a probe confirms on Linux: mode 0600 stays 0600 with the file truncated to the body's length, a hard link sees the new content, a symlink is written through rather than replaced, and a read-only destination is refused with the file intact.
The cost, which the release notes now state rather than leave implicit: truncation happens once the response headers are accepted, so a download that fails partway leaves a short file, where File.OpenWrite() left the original bytes behind the newly written ones.
Two approaches were tried and rejected on the way, both by local review passes:
  • FileMode.Create, which empties the destination before a single body byte exists, and which Windows refuses outright against a hidden file where OpenOrCreate succeeds.
  • Writing beside the destination and moving the result into place. That gives the strongest failure guarantee, an untouched destination, but it replaces the file's identity rather than its contents. Probed on Linux: a 0600 destination came back 0664, a symlink was replaced by a regular file leaving its target stale, a hard link kept the old content, and a read-only destination was silently overwritten, since rename(2) consults the directory's permission and not the file's, while Windows refuses that same move. The maintainer chose in-place rewriting over that trade.
Six tests cover it: two for the overwrite, two for a request that fails before the response is accepted, and two for a destination that cannot be opened.
Not in this change
  • The failing Publish project release run is the NuGet OIDC job_workflow_ref claim, ProjectTemplate#1126. The fix moves the token exchange and the push into the calling repository, so this repository's publish-release.yml needs new content plus a re-pin. That cannot merge usefully until the hub fix reaches its main, so it is a follow-up rather than part of this change.
Summary by CodeRabbit
  • New Features
    • StringHistory now repartitions retained lines when limits change and preserves consistent first- and last-line behavior.
    • Zero limits support unrestricted retention; negative limits are rejected.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Downloads correctly replace oversized existing files without leaving stale content.
    • Failed downloads preserve existing files and handle unusable destinations gracefully.
  • Documentation
    • Updated architecture, README, and release history documentation.
  • Tests
    • Expanded coverage for history limits, downloads, concurrency, cancellation, and failure scenarios.
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Make the Download Tests Offline and Tighten the StringHistory Limit C…
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Closes the three open issues on this repository.
#454, StringHistory limit properties. MaxFirstLines and MaxLastLines were each
documented "Set to 0 for no limit", which holds only when both are zero, the one
branch AppendLine treats as unrestricted. Set individually, zero retains none on
that side, so the documentation now says that. Both the constructor and the two
setters reject a negative value with ArgumentOutOfRangeException, rather than
letting it reach RemoveAt and throw after entries have already been taken. Each
setter re-partitions the stored entries and resets the counters, so a limit
assigned after appending is honored instead of ignored. ARCHITECTURE.md "Public
API Conventions" records the contract, and README.md and HISTORY.md carry the
behavioral change.
#452, download tests. DownloadTests and DownloadAsyncTests reached real hosts,
so the unit-test gate depended on outbound DNS and on two third parties. They now
drive a loopback HttpListener bound to an ephemeral port, which makes success,
not-found, and cancellation deterministic and offline, and drops the five-second
sleep the timeout case paid on every run. The negative case is a 404 from that
server rather than a name expected never to resolve, which a wildcard or a
captive-portal resolver would have silently inverted. Download's public surface
is unchanged, so the Lazy<HttpClient> contract in ARCHITECTURE.md still holds.
#427, coordination reference. HISTORY.md named the template repository in its
v3.5 entry. The entry now states what changed without naming where it came from.
.github/copilot-instructions.md was already clear.
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Close the Defects the Local Review Found
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A local adversarial pass over the previous commit raised seven findings against it.
Six are fixed here and one is declined.
StringHistory. Raising MaxFirstLines on a history that had already dropped a line
promoted retained tail lines into the head, where they could never roll out again,
so [L0,L1,L8,L9] with the limit raised to 5 kept L8 and L9 as first lines forever.
That contradicted the head and tail contract this change had just written into
ARCHITECTURE.md. The head is now closed once anything has been discarded: it only
shrinks from there, re-partitioning trims the head and the tail separately rather
than re-slicing a list that has a gap in it, and the roll indexes the stored head
rather than the limit, which a widened limit would otherwise index past the end of
the list. Three tests cover the closed head, the still-open head, and the head-only
case, and a 200000-history fuzz over random append and limit sequences held the
ordering, bound, and no-duplicate invariants across three million assertions.
LoopbackServer. Rewritten onto a TcpListener rather than HttpListener, which fixes
three findings at once. Binding port 0 and reading the port back removes the
probe-then-release window that failed 6 constructions in 4800 concurrent ones.
Writing the response onto the socket removes the http.sys URL reservation that an
explicit-address prefix needs on Windows, where GOVERNANCE.md declares Windows a
supported development platform and CI is Linux-only. Serving the connection with a
catch-all removes the unexpected exception that escaped the accept loop, faulted
the task Dispose waits on, and reddened a test whose assertions had all passed.
Dispose is also idempotent now and its wait is bounded, and the fixture reports the
content's byte length rather than its UTF-16 char count.
Cancellation test. It asserted only that the call returned false, which any failure
produces, so it could not tell a cancelled request from a server that never
started. It now waits for the server to signal that the slow route has the request,
cancels only then, and asserts the call returned well inside the route's own delay.
Proxy independence. HttpClientFactory leaves SocketsHttpHandler.UseProxy at its
default, so a client resolves HttpClient.DefaultProxy, which on Unix reads
http_proxy and bypasses loopback only where no_proxy says to. A machine configured
that way would send these loopback requests to a proxy, which is the environment
dependence #452 exists to remove, so the test assembly disables the ambient proxy.
Declined: the finding that the HISTORY.md v3.5 entry is an out-of-scope edit to a
shipped release record. That edit is #427's deliverable, not incidental churn.
Not fixed here, and raised for a separate decision: Download.DownloadFile and
DownloadFileAsync open the destination with File.OpenWrite, which does not
truncate, so downloading over a longer existing file leaves trailing bytes from the
previous content. It is a pre-existing defect in shipped code, outside all three
issues this branch closes.
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Close the Defects the Second Local Review Found
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A second adversarial pass over the previous commit found that its own fix had
introduced a regression, and a fuzz over the corrected model then found a third
defect neither pass had reached.
StringHistory. The previous commit tracked one flag for two different questions,
so entering the unrestricted mode reset the head counter while leaving the
discarded flag set, and the next limit assignment read a partition that no longer
described the stored lines. A history limited to 2 and 2, cleared to unrestricted,
then given two more lines and limited again, discarded the two most recent lines
and kept nothing. A fuzz over the corrected model then found the deeper case: a
history that had only ever kept a tail could have a head limit raised, which
relabeled tail lines as first lines and left a window that was neither a prefix
nor a suffix of the stream. Both are the same root cause, a head that could grow
into lines that are not the stream's first, so the head is now closed absolutely:
once a line has been discarded the head is trimmed but never refilled, by an
append or by a re-partition. The unrestricted mode extends the tail rather than
the head once anything has been discarded, so what is retained stays a prefix
followed by a suffix. Four tests cover the two cases above, the tail-only history,
and a head that cannot be rebuilt. A 300000-history fuzz over random append and
limit sequences now holds that prefix-plus-suffix contract across four and a half
million states, where the previous model failed it within five iterations.
LoopbackServer. Connections are served concurrently rather than one at a time, so
the thirty-second slow route cannot block a later request, and Dispose waits for
the in-flight connections along with the accept loop under the same bounded,
never-rethrowing wait. The server also counts the requests it routes.
Tests. The cancellation test waited on a signal that nothing could ever fault or
cancel, so a server-side failure before the slow route was reached hung the test
rather than failing it, with no deadline anywhere to end the run; the wait is now
bounded. Both not-found tests asserted only that the call returned false, which a
refused connection produces just as well, so each now asserts the server routed
the request. A new test proves two concurrent requests to one server both complete.
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Make downloads offline and enforce StringHistory limit semantics
🐞 Bug fix🧪 Tests📝 Documentation🕐 40+ Minutes
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• Enforces StringHistory limits immediately, rejects negatives, and preserves prefix-plus-suffix
retention.
• Replaces external download endpoints with deterministic loopback HTTP scenarios.
• Documents clarified limit semantics and adds comprehensive regression coverage.

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graph TD
HistoryTests["History tests"] -->|verifies| StringHistory["StringHistory"] -->|maintains| RetainedLines["Retained lines"]
DownloadTests["Download tests"] -->|calls| DownloadAPI["Download API"] -->|requests| LoopbackServer["Loopback server"]
HttpDefaults["HTTP defaults"] -->|disables proxy| DownloadAPI

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The following are alternative approaches to this PR:
1. Atomic limit update API
  • ➕ Avoids order-dependent discards when changing both limits
  • ➕ Expresses two-limit repartitioning as one operation
  • ➖ Expands the public API
  • ➖ Existing property setters still need defined behavior
  • ➖ Does not recover lines already discarded
2. Injectable HTTP handler seam
  • ➕ Produces smaller and faster unit tests
  • ➕ Avoids implementing an HTTP parser and socket lifecycle
  • ➖ Changes production design solely for tests
  • ➖ Bypasses real networking and streaming behavior
  • ➖ Conflicts with the shared Lazy contract
Recommendation: Keep the current approach: in-place repartitioning preserves API compatibility, and the loopback TCP server provides deterministic offline coverage through the real HTTP stack. An atomic two-limit method could be considered separately if callers frequently need to change both limits without setter-order loss.
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Bug fix (1)  +115 / -9 
StringHistory.csEnforce mutable head-tail limits safely+115/-9
Enforce mutable head-tail limits safely
• Validates constructor and property limits, repartitions retained lines whenever a limit changes, and tracks whether the stream head has closed after a discard. Appends now preserve prefix-plus-suffix semantics across unrestricted and reconfigured states.

Utilities/StringHistory.cs
Tests (3)  +344 / -26 
DownloadAsyncTests.csRun asynchronous download tests against loopback HTTP+68/-22
Run asynchronous download tests against loopback HTTP
• Replaces public internet dependencies with deterministic success, 404, concurrent, and cancellation scenarios. Assertions now verify exact local content, request routing, and prompt cancellation.

UtilitiesTests/DownloadAsyncTests.cs
DownloadTests.csRun synchronous download tests against loopback HTTP+18/-4
Run synchronous download tests against loopback HTTP
• Uses the local server for successful metadata retrieval and a routed 404 failure, including exact content-length and request-count assertions.

UtilitiesTests/DownloadTests.cs
StringHistoryTests.csCover StringHistory validation and repartitioning invariants+258/-0
Cover StringHistory validation and repartitioning invariants
• Adds regression tests for negative limits, post-append limit changes, head trimming, unrestricted transitions, and append behavior after discards. The cases verify that retained lines remain a stream prefix followed by its suffix without rebuilding a closed head.

UtilitiesTests/StringHistoryTests.cs
Documentation (3)  +4 / -1 
ARCHITECTURE.mdDefine the StringHistory retention contract+1/-0
Define the StringHistory retention contract
• Documents zero-limit semantics, negative-value rejection, immediate repartitioning, and the rule that discarded head lines are never recovered.

ARCHITECTURE.md
HISTORY.mdRecord StringHistory behavioral changes+2/-1
Record StringHistory behavioral changes
• Adds the tightened limit contract to the v4.0 release history and removes an unrelated upstream-template reference from v3.5 wording.

HISTORY.md
README.mdAdvertise revised StringHistory limit behavior+1/-0
Advertise revised StringHistory limit behavior
• Highlights immediate repartitioning and negative-limit validation among the release changes.

README.md
Other (2)  +279 / -0 
LoopbackServer.csAdd an ephemeral TCP HTTP test server+255/-0
Add an ephemeral TCP HTTP test server
• Introduces a parallel-capable loopback server with success, missing, and delayed routes. It binds an ephemeral port, writes HTTP/1.1 responses directly to sockets, exposes synchronization signals, and bounds teardown.

UtilitiesTests/LoopbackServer.cs
TestHttpDefaults.csDisable ambient proxies for HTTP tests+24/-0
Disable ambient proxies for HTTP tests
• Adds a module initializer that replaces the process-wide default proxy, ensuring loopback requests cannot be redirected by developer or CI environment variables.

UtilitiesTests/TestHttpDefaults.cs
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StringHistory now validates and reapplies retention limits. File downloads now truncate destinations correctly. Download tests now use a deterministic local HTTP server. Documentation and version metadata describe the 4.1 changes.
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History and download behavior
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StringHistory retention and repartitioning
Utilities/StringHistory.cs, UtilitiesTests/StringHistoryTests.cs		StringHistory rejects negative limits, applies zero-limit semantics, repartitions stored lines, and preserves discard state across later limit changes.
Download destination handling
Utilities/Download.cs, UtilitiesTests/DownloadTests.cs, UtilitiesTests/DownloadAsyncTests.cs		Synchronous and asynchronous downloads truncate existing destinations before copying. Tests verify replacement, failure preservation, and unusable destinations.
Deterministic download test infrastructure
UtilitiesTests/LoopbackServer.cs, UtilitiesTests/TestHttpDefaults.cs, UtilitiesTests/DownloadTests.cs, UtilitiesTests/DownloadAsyncTests.cs		Tests use local success, missing, and delayed routes. Coverage includes metadata, request counts, concurrent requests, cancellation, and proxy isolation.
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ARCHITECTURE.md, HISTORY.md, README.md, version.json		Documentation and release metadata describe the updated contracts and version 4.1 changes.
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes
Merge Risk:🔵 Low · up to aabeb
The PR tightens StringHistory limit handling, makes download tests offline, and safely replaces downloaded files; the remaining README wording omits the special unrestricted (0, 0) case, creating a bounded public-contract documentation mismatch. The change is otherwise mergeable with explicit owner follow-up to correct the README.
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The remaining findings are minor clarity/grammar improvements and do not affect the correctness or determinism goals of the change.
Pull request overview
This pull request removes external network dependencies from the Download test suite by introducing a local loopback HTTP server, and tightens/clarifies StringHistory’s public limit-contract (zero semantics, negative rejection, and post-append re-partitioning) in both code and documentation.
Changes:
  • Replace online Download/DownloadAsync tests with deterministic loopback-server scenarios (success, 404, cancellation, concurrency) and disable ambient proxies for the test process.
  • Update StringHistory to validate negative limits eagerly, re-partition stored history when limits change, and document the “head+tail only, discards-only” behavior across code and architecture docs.
  • Refresh release notes to reflect the clarified StringHistory contract.
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UtilitiesTests/TestHttpDefaults.csSets test-process HTTP defaults to keep loopback HTTP calls offline/deterministic under proxy-configured environments.
UtilitiesTests/LoopbackServer.csAdds a minimal loopback HTTP server used by download-related tests.
UtilitiesTests/DownloadTests.csMoves sync download tests to loopback endpoints and asserts deterministic sizes/failures.
UtilitiesTests/DownloadAsyncTests.csMoves async download tests to loopback endpoints and adds deterministic cancellation/concurrency coverage.
UtilitiesTests/StringHistoryTests.csAdds/extends coverage for negative validation, re-partitioning behavior, and head-closure semantics.
Utilities/StringHistory.csImplements the clarified limit contract: negative rejection, re-partitioning on setters, and “discards-only/head-closure” logic.
README.mdNotes the StringHistory contract change as part of v4.0 breaking-change summary.
HISTORY.mdUpdates v4.0 and v3.5 release notes to remove private-template attribution and record the StringHistory contract clarification.
ARCHITECTURE.mdRecords the updated StringHistory behavioral contract in the public API conventions.
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/// </summary>

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  • Minor grammar in the comment: “Both limits at zero is …” should be “Both limits at zero are …”.
 // Both limits at zero is the unrestricted mode, which retains every line.
// Nothing is discarded here, so the counters already describe the stored list.

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+- **`StringHistory`** retains at most `MaxFirstLines` from the head and `MaxLastLines` from the tail. Both limits at zero is the one unrestricted mode, and zero on a single side retains no lines on that side. Either limit rejects a negative value, and assigning one re-partitions the lines already stored, so the history never holds more than the limits then in force allow. Re-partitioning only discards: once a line has been dropped the head is closed, so a later, larger `MaxFirstLines` never promotes a retained tail line into it.
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Replace the Destination File on a Download Instead of Overwriting It
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DownloadFile and DownloadFileAsync opened the destination with File.OpenWrite,
which is FileMode.OpenOrCreate and does not truncate, so a download over a longer
existing file left that file's trailing bytes after the downloaded content and
returned true. A 16-byte body written over a 200-byte file produced a 200-byte
file. Both now create the file instead.
Both local review passes raised this against the download tests rather than the
library, since the rewritten test exercises the path for real but seeds it with
Path.GetTempFileName's empty file, so its length assertion passed either way. Two
tests now seed a file four times the body's length first, and both fail against
the previous behavior and pass against this one.
The maintainer asked for it here rather than as a separate issue, so
ARCHITECTURE.md records the contract and README.md and HISTORY.md carry the fix.
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Replace a Downloaded File Only Once the Whole Body Is on Disk
6935b65
Answers the first review round on the pull request and a third local pass.
Download. The previous commit fixed the destination not being truncated by
creating the file instead of opening it, which traded one defect for a worse one:
GetStreamAsync returns once the headers arrive, so the destination was emptied
before a single body byte existed and a download that then failed left a 0-byte
file where the old code left the original content. File.Create also asks for
FileAccess.ReadWrite, so a destination the process may write but not read stopped
working at all. Both methods now write beside the destination and move the result
into place, so the destination is replaced whole on success and left untouched on
failure, and the temporary file is removed when a download fails. Two tests cover
the failure case, alongside the two covering the overwrite.
ARCHITECTURE.md said Download reads with HttpCompletionOption.ResponseHeadersRead
so a large response streams rather than buffering whole. That is true only of
GetContentInfo, which discards the body; DownloadString calls GetStringAsync and
buffers the whole response. The entry now says which method does which.
StringHistory. The constructor assigns the backing fields rather than the
properties, since both limits apply as one pair and the setters would apply them
one at a time and re-partition an empty history twice. The XML documentation and
the comments drop the "both limits at zero is" construction that four findings
across three files objected to. HISTORY.md now also records the AppendLine
behavior that shipped with the setters, which it described only as a limit set
after appending being honored.
LoopbackServer. The 404 route has its own case rather than reaching the default
arm, so the route contract is stated rather than incidental. A peer that connects
and sends nothing is no longer counted as a routed request, which the exact-count
assertions depend on. Dispose waits for the accept loop before reading the
connection set, so the set is final rather than a snapshot that could miss a
connection started but not yet registered.
The 300000-history fuzz continues to hold the prefix-plus-suffix contract, the
count bound, no duplicates, and that an assignment never adds a line, across four
and a half million states.
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Answering the two suppressed low-confidence findings from the round on 1932b4e, which open no thread and so have nowhere to be resolved.
Utilities/StringHistory.cs:134 Grammar in the XML docs: "both limits at 0 retains every line" should be "retain every line".
Utilities/StringHistory.cs:166 Minor grammar in the comment: "Both limits at zero is ..." should be "Both limits at zero are ...".
Both are fixed in 6935b65, by the same change that answered the four threaded findings objecting to the same construction. Rather than correcting the agreement in six places, the construction is gone: the property summaries read "Set to 0 to retain no last lines. Every line is retained only when both limits are 0.", the class remarks read "Zero on a single side retains no lines on that side, and zero on both is the one unrestricted mode", and the comment in Repartition reads "Zero on both limits is the unrestricted mode". Six findings against one phrasing is the phrasing's problem rather than six separate ones.
For the record, since a suppressed finding is counted once raised and never uncounted: status now reports suppressed=2 (on_head=0 earlier=2), so nothing is outstanding against the current head.
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DownloadFile/DownloadFileAsync currently compute the temp path outside the try/catch (so they can throw) and can overwrite/delete unrelated files on rare temp-name collisions. 
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Utilities/Download.cs:162
  • High: Make DownloadFileAsync handle invalid destination paths and temp-name collisions safely. CreateTemporaryPath(fileName) currently runs before the try block (so it can throw and break the "return bool, don’t throw" contract), and FileMode.Create with a random name can overwrite an existing file on collision. Move temp-name generation inside the try, create the temp file with FileMode.CreateNew and retry on collision, and only delete the temp path when this call created it.
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Create the Download Temporary File Without Overwriting a Name in Use
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Answers the review round on 6935b65, which raised this against both DownloadFile
and DownloadFileAsync.
The temporary file was opened with FileMode.Create under a name from
Path.GetRandomFileName, so a name that happened to exist in the destination
directory was overwritten, and the failure path then deleted that unrelated file.
The file is now created with FileMode.CreateNew, which fails rather than
overwrites, and a collision retries under a fresh name. The path is assigned to
the caller's variable only once the file behind it exists, so the failure path
deletes a file this call actually created and nothing else. Any other I/O failure,
a missing destination directory among them, is left to the caller to report rather
than retried.
The same finding also asked that the temporary path be named inside the try, since
Path.GetDirectoryName can throw on invalid path characters and would otherwise
break the bool-returning contract. Naming now happens inside the try, so the point
is moot either way, but the premise does not hold on this target framework: on
net10.0 Path.GetDirectoryName and Path.Combine return normally for an embedded
null character, a pipe, and a 5000-character path alike. That rejection is .NET
Framework behavior.
Two tests cover a destination whose directory does not exist, one per method,
asserting the call reports failure rather than throwing and leaves no file behind.
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Truncate and Rewrite a Downloaded File in Place
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The maintainer chose write-in-place over the temporary-file-and-move approach the
two previous commits built, after a local review pass established what that
approach cost.
Moving a temporary file into place replaces the destination's identity rather
than its contents, which a probe confirmed on Linux: a destination at mode 0600
came back at 0664, a symlink destination was replaced by a regular file leaving
its target stale, a second hard link kept the old content, and a read-only
destination was silently overwritten, because rename consults the directory's
permission and ignores the file's. Windows refuses that same move, so the two
platforms disagreed on whether the download succeeded. A killed process also
orphaned an unnamed temporary in the destination's own directory.
Both methods now open the destination with FileMode.Create and FileAccess.Write.
Create is what fixes the original defect, since OpenWrite does not truncate and
left a longer file's trailing bytes after the body. Write rather than the
ReadWrite that File.Create requests, so a destination the process may write but
not read still works. A probe against this build confirms the four properties the
documentation now claims: mode 0600 survives with the file truncated to the body's
length, a hard link sees the new content, a symlink is written through rather than
replaced, and a read-only destination is refused with the file left intact.
The cost, stated in ARCHITECTURE.md rather than left implicit: the destination is
opened once the response is accepted, so a failure during the body can leave a
partial file. A request that fails before that leaves it untouched, which is what
the two renamed tests pin, and they now assert the server served the request so a
connection failure cannot pass for the file behaving correctly.
CreateTemporaryFile and DeleteTemporary are gone with the approach that needed them.
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Answering the suppressed finding from the round on 6935b65, which opens no thread and so has nowhere to be resolved.
Utilities/Download.cs:162 High: Make DownloadFileAsync handle invalid destination paths and temp-name collisions safely. CreateTemporaryPath(fileName) currently runs before the try block (so it can throw and break the "return bool, don't throw" contract), and FileMode.Create with a random name can overwrite an existing file on collision. Move temp-name generation inside the try, create the temp file with FileMode.CreateNew and retry on collision, and only delete the temp path when this call created it.
Same finding as the threaded one on DownloadFile, answered there. In short: the collision half was real and was fixed in 7aac102, the escape half does not hold on net10.0 (probed: Path.GetDirectoryName and Path.Combine return normally for an embedded null character, a pipe, and a 5000-character path, that rejection being .NET Framework behavior), and the whole temporary-file approach is gone as of 2bc77c0 in favor of writing in place.
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Escape the Unicode Test Literal So the Source Stays ASCII
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The prose gate run over whole files, rather than over changed lines, reports
seven unclassified non-ASCII characters in AppendLine_UnicodeCharacters_ShouldPreserve:
four CJK ideographs and three astral-plane emoji, sitting literally in the source.
The test's subject is that a non-ASCII string round-trips, so the string stays and
the source loses the characters instead. The escapes compile to the identical
string, verified against the original bytes, so the assertion is unchanged.
Found by running the gate without --diff over every file this branch edits. The
gate's own help states the policy the default hides: --diff "matches the repo
policy: fix as each file is next edited, not swept", so a violation on an unchanged
line belongs to whoever next edits that file.
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Raise the Version Floor to 4.1 and Record the v4.1 Release Notes
6f73755
version.json carries the Nerdbank.GitVersioning floor, raised on develop so the
promotion carries it to main, per OPERATIONS.md "Bumping the version floor".
HISTORY.md gains a v4.1 section holding the two library fixes this branch ships,
moved out of v4.0 where they were first written: the Download destination
corruption and the StringHistory limit contract. The offline download tests and
the coordination-reference removal stay out of both files, since neither ships in
the package.
README.md's release notes drop the Breaking Changes and Summary headings for one
short line per fix under Version 4.1. That also drops four v4.0-era lines,
including the only place the README named HttpClientFactory; HISTORY.md still
carries all of it under v4.0.
Method names in both files now end in (), so a method reads as one rather than as
a property, and the four v4.0-era instances that predate this change are corrected
with them. The StringHistory line no longer reads as though a negative value is
accepted, which is what it said while listing the defects being fixed. Five prose
semicolons in shipped v4.0 entries go with them, found by running the prose gate
over whole files rather than changed lines.
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README/HISTORY currently overstate the atomicity of download failures and one new cancellation test should be bounded to avoid hanging CI. 
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UtilitiesTests/DownloadAsyncTests.cs:223
  • The cancellation test awaits download with no timeout, so a regression where Download.DownloadStringAsync stops observing cancellation could hang the entire test run. Consider bounding the await (similar to the other uses of WaitAsync) so the test fails fast instead of hanging.
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long startedAt = Stopwatch.GetTimestamp();
await cts.CancelAsync();
(bool success, string _) = await download;
TimeSpan elapsed = Stopwatch.GetElapsedTime(startedAt);

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🔵 Needs a closer look
The README/HISTORY release notes currently describe an atomic “write beside + move into place / untouched on failure” behavior that does not match the in-place truncation rewrite implemented in Utilities/Download.cs.
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README.md:37
  • The README claims the Download fix now "replaced whole on success and left untouched on failure", but DownloadFile/DownloadFileAsync currently truncate and rewrite the destination in place (and can leave a partial file on mid-body failure). Please update this release-note bullet to match the current contract (see ARCHITECTURE.md’s Download bullet and Utilities/Download.cs).
- Added `HttpClientFactory`, a reusable resilient HTTP client factory (Polly retry and circuit breaker) with an AOT safe `AssemblyInfo` identity helper and a tunable `HttpClientOptions`.
- Fixed `Download.DownloadFile` and `DownloadFileAsync` corrupting the destination when downloading over a longer existing file. The destination is now replaced whole on success and left untouched on failure.

HISTORY.md:8
  • This v4.0 HISTORY entry says downloads now "write beside the destination and move the result into place" and that the destination is "left untouched when a download fails partway", but the implementation rewrites the destination in place (Utilities/Download.cs) and ARCHITECTURE.md notes that a mid-body failure can leave a partial file. Please align this release-history bullet with the actual behavior.
 - Fixed `Download.DownloadFile` and `DownloadFileAsync` corrupting the destination file: both opened it with `File.OpenWrite`, which does not truncate, so a download over a longer existing file left that file's trailing bytes after the downloaded content and reported success. Both now write beside the destination and move the result into place, so the destination is replaced whole on success and left untouched when a download fails partway.

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Correct What the Release Notes and the Contract Claim About a Download
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A local pass over the release notes found three claims that did not match the
code, and one behavior difference the notes did not mention at all.
HISTORY.md credited v4.1 with opening the destination only once the response is
accepted, so a failed request leaves it untouched. v4.0 already did that: it
called GetStreamAsync before File.OpenWrite, so a request that failed never
reached the file. The entry claimed unchanged behavior as a fix.
The same entry omitted what did change. Truncating at open means a download that
fails partway now leaves a short file, where OpenWrite left the original bytes
behind the newly written ones. That is a real loss of content for a consumer whose
download is interrupted, it is the cost of the fix rather than a detail, and
HISTORY.md is where a consumer would look for it. Both it and README.md now say so.
Windows refuses FileMode.Create against a hidden file, where the FileMode.OpenOrCreate
that OpenWrite used does not, so a download over a hidden destination would have
started failing on a supported platform, contradicting the claim that the
destination's own attributes survive. Both methods now open with OpenOrCreate and
truncate with SetLength, which is what fixes the original defect without changing
which destinations can be opened. Re-probed on Linux: mode 0600 survives with the
file truncated to the body's length, a hard link sees the new content, a symlink is
written through, and a read-only destination is still refused with the file intact.
The Windows half is documented behavior rather than something this host can run.
ARCHITECTURE.md named a public type Extensions that v4.0 renamed to
CompressExtensions, so the contract list described a type consumers cannot
reference, and it attributed the logger helpers to it rather than to the internal
LogExtensions. It also named FileEx's options as Options rather than the static
FileEx.Options, and wrote its own method names without the parentheses the same
change had just standardized on in HISTORY.md and README.md.
Two test comments said the body is fetched before the destination is opened.
GetStreamAsync completes on the response headers, so only those have been read and
the body streams after the file is open.
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Answering the three findings from the round on 3a6dde5 that open no thread.
README.md:37 The README claims the Download fix now "replaced whole on success and left untouched on failure", but DownloadFile/DownloadFileAsync currently truncate and rewrite the destination in place (and can leave a partial file on mid-body failure).
HISTORY.md:8 This v4.0 HISTORY entry says downloads now "write beside the destination and move the result into place" and that the destination is "left untouched when a download fails partway", but the implementation rewrites the destination in place.
Both correct, both fixed in 6f73755 and aabeb0c, which landed after this round read the branch. The two entries moved into a new v4.1 section and now describe truncate-and-rewrite-in-place, and both carry the caveat the earlier wording omitted: a download that fails partway leaves a short file, where File.OpenWrite() left the original bytes behind the newly written ones. That is a real loss of content for an interrupted download and belongs in the release notes rather than only in ARCHITECTURE.md.
Worth recording, since these two findings track a fix that changed shape three times: the temporary-file-and-move approach they describe was itself reverted, because moving a file into place replaces the destination's identity rather than its contents. Probed on Linux: a 0600 destination came back 0664, a symlink was replaced by a regular file leaving its target stale, a hard link kept the old content, and a read-only destination was silently overwritten, where Windows refuses the same move.
PR title exceeds limit
Stale. The title was 76 characters when first raised and has been Fix the StringHistory Limits and Make the Download Tests Offline at 64 since, well inside the 72-character limit GOVERNANCE.md sets. Verified against the live title rather than the badge.
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README.md/HISTORY.md and the PR description currently describe an atomic “write-beside then move” behavior, but the implementation truncates and rewrites in place and can leave partial files on mid-body failure.
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  • README release-notes bullet claims the download destination is “replaced whole on success and left untouched on failure”, but DownloadFile/DownloadFileAsync now open the destination with FileMode.Create and stream the body into it. That truncates immediately and can leave a partial file if the body copy fails; please align the README text with the actual behavior (and ARCHITECTURE.md’s Download contract).
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State the Both-Zero Exception in the README Limit Summary
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The README said zero retains no lines on that side, without the exception that
ARCHITECTURE.md and HISTORY.md both carry: zero on both sides at once is the one
unrestricted mode. Read alone, the short summary described a StringHistory that
retains nothing by default, which is the opposite of what a default-constructed
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## What is being promoted
- **#454, the `StringHistory` limit properties.** `MaxFirstLines` and
`MaxLastLines` were each documented `Set to 0 for no limit`, which holds
only when both are zero. Zero on one side is now documented as retaining
no lines on that side, both the constructor and the setters reject a
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suffix of them, and once a line has been dropped the head is trimmed but
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- **#452, the download tests.** They reached `www.google.com` and
`httpstat.us`, so the unit-test gate depended on outbound DNS and on two
third parties, and paid a five-second sleep on every run. They now drive
a loopback HTTP server on an ephemeral port, and the test assembly
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send loopback requests through it. `Download`'s public surface is
unchanged.
- **#427, the coordination reference.** `HISTORY.md` named the template
repository in its v3.5 entry and no longer does.
- **A `Download` defect found during the above.** `DownloadFile()` and
`DownloadFileAsync()` opened the destination with `File.OpenWrite()`,
which does not truncate, so a download over a longer existing file left
that file's trailing bytes after the downloaded content and returned
`true`. Both now open with `FileMode.OpenOrCreate` and truncate with
`SetLength(0)`, rewriting in place so the destination's permissions,
ownership, and any links to it survive.
- **The version floor**, raised to 4.1, with the two shipped fixes
recorded in `HISTORY.md` and `README.md`.
## Verification
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origin/develop^{tree}` exactly (`0cfd271c`), so `main` ends up with
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`develop` carried 206 tests green, the `.NET Format` clean-compile chain
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## Releases stay blocked, and this does not unblock them
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name the hub rather than this repository
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* **Bug Fixes**
* Downloads now fully replace existing files, preventing stale or
corrupted trailing content.
* Failed downloads preserve existing destination files and handle
unavailable destinations safely.
* `StringHistory` now validates limits, preserves discarded-content
rules, repartitions stored lines correctly, and supports atomic limit
updates.
* **Documentation**
* Clarified download buffering, truncation, partial-download outcomes,
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* Updated terminology and retry-behavior documentation.
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Closes#427. Closes#452. Closes#454.
#454, the StringHistory limit properties
MaxFirstLines and MaxLastLines were each documented Set to 0 for no limit, which holds only when both are zero, the one branch AppendLine treats as unrestricted. Set individually, zero retains none on that side. The maintainer chose the smaller of the two directions the issue offered, so the documentation now says what the code does rather than the code changing to match the documentation.
Three behavioral changes on top of that:
  • The constructor and both setters reject a negative value with ArgumentOutOfRangeException, rather than letting it reach RemoveAt and throw after entries have already been taken. The constructor validates its own parameters, so the exception names maxFirstLines or maxLastLines rather than value.
  • Each setter re-partitions the lines already stored, so a limit assigned after appending is honored instead of ignored.
  • Re-partitioning only ever discards. Once a line has been dropped the head is closed: it can be trimmed but never refilled, by a later append or by a later, larger MaxFirstLines. What is retained is therefore always a prefix of the stream followed by a suffix of it, which is exactly the head-and-tail contract ARCHITECTURE.md states.
That third point is the one worth reviewing closely, and it is the one two local review passes and a fuzz each found a different defect in before it settled. A 300000-history fuzz over random append and limit sequences holds the prefix-plus-suffix contract, the count bound, and no-duplicates across four and a half million intermediate states.
#452, the download tests
DownloadTests and DownloadAsyncTests reached www.google.com and httpstat.us, so the unit-test gate depended on outbound DNS and on two third parties it does not control, and paid a five-second sleep on every run to exercise the timeout path.
They now drive a loopback HTTP server bound to an ephemeral port. Download's public surface is unchanged, so the Lazy<HttpClient> contract in ARCHITECTURE.md still holds and the seam the issue offered as the larger alternative was not needed.
  • The server writes HTTP/1.1 onto a TcpListener socket rather than using HttpListener, which on Windows resolves an explicit-address prefix through http.sys and needs a URL reservation an unelevated developer does not have. CI is Linux-only, so nothing here would have caught that.
  • Binding port 0 and reading the port back removes the probe-then-bind race a first draft had.
  • The negative case is a 404 from that server rather than a hostname expected never to resolve, which a wildcard registration or a captive-portal resolver would have silently inverted.
  • The cancellation test waits for the server to signal that it holds the request, cancels only then, and asserts the call returned well inside the route's own delay. Asserting only that the call returned false would have passed just as well if the server had never started.
  • Both not-found tests assert the server actually routed the request, for the same reason.
  • The test assembly disables the ambient proxy. HttpClientFactory leaves SocketsHttpHandler.UseProxy at its default, so a client resolves HttpClient.DefaultProxy, which on Unix is read from http_proxy and bypasses loopback only where no_proxy says to. A machine configured that way would send every loopback request to a proxy, which is the environment dependence this issue exists to remove.
The suite is 200 tests and runs in about one second, against 193 tests and roughly six seconds before. Twenty consecutive runs were clean.
#427, the coordination reference
HISTORY.md named the template repository in its v3.5 entry. It now states what changed without naming where it came from. .github/copilot-instructions.md, the other file the issue named, was already clear, and the hub's own audit reports this repository clean.
A reviewer may read the HISTORY.md hunk as an out-of-scope edit to a shipped release record. It is #427's deliverable rather than incidental churn.
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.NET Format (CSharpier, build, dotnet format style --verify-no-changes) clean, zero warnings under AnalysisMode=All and TreatWarningsAsErrors. markdownlint, CSpell, actionlint, editorconfig-checker, shellcheck and shfmt clean. The hub's prose gate and repository gate both clean.
One thing beyond the three issues
Download.DownloadFile() and DownloadFileAsync() opened the destination with File.OpenWrite(), which is FileMode.OpenOrCreate and does not truncate, so a download over a longer existing file left that file's trailing bytes after the downloaded content and returned true. A local review pass raised it, and the maintainer asked for it here rather than as a separate issue.
The fix changed shape twice before settling, so read the current behavior here rather than in the commit history. Both methods now open the destination with FileMode.OpenOrCreate and truncate it with SetLength(0), rewriting it in place. Its permissions, ownership, and any hard links or symlinks to it survive, which a probe confirms on Linux: mode 0600 stays 0600 with the file truncated to the body's length, a hard link sees the new content, a symlink is written through rather than replaced, and a read-only destination is refused with the file intact.
The cost, which the release notes now state rather than leave implicit: truncation happens once the response headers are accepted, so a download that fails partway leaves a short file, where File.OpenWrite() left the original bytes behind the newly written ones.
Two approaches were tried and rejected on the way, both by local review passes:
  • FileMode.Create, which empties the destination before a single body byte exists, and which Windows refuses outright against a hidden file where OpenOrCreate succeeds.
  • Writing beside the destination and moving the result into place. That gives the strongest failure guarantee, an untouched destination, but it replaces the file's identity rather than its contents. Probed on Linux: a 0600 destination came back 0664, a symlink was replaced by a regular file leaving its target stale, a hard link kept the old content, and a read-only destination was silently overwritten, since rename(2) consults the directory's permission and not the file's, while Windows refuses that same move. The maintainer chose in-place rewriting over that trade.
Six tests cover it: two for the overwrite, two for a request that fails before the response is accepted, and two for a destination that cannot be opened.
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  • The failing Publish project release run is the NuGet OIDC job_workflow_ref claim, ProjectTemplate#1126. The fix moves the token exchange and the push into the calling repository, so this repository's publish-release.yml needs new content plus a re-pin. That cannot merge usefully until the hub fix reaches its main, so it is a follow-up rather than part of this change.
Summary by CodeRabbit
  • New Features
    • StringHistory now repartitions retained lines when limits change and preserves consistent first- and last-line behavior.
    • Zero limits support unrestricted retention; negative limits are rejected.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Downloads correctly replace oversized existing files without leaving stale content.
    • Failed downloads preserve existing files and handle unusable destinations gracefully.
  • Documentation
    • Updated architecture, README, and release history documentation.
  • Tests
    • Expanded coverage for history limits, downloads, concurrency, cancellation, and failure scenarios.
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Closes the three open issues on this repository.
#454, StringHistory limit properties. MaxFirstLines and MaxLastLines were each
documented "Set to 0 for no limit", which holds only when both are zero, the one
branch AppendLine treats as unrestricted. Set individually, zero retains none on
that side, so the documentation now says that. Both the constructor and the two
setters reject a negative value with ArgumentOutOfRangeException, rather than
letting it reach RemoveAt and throw after entries have already been taken. Each
setter re-partitions the stored entries and resets the counters, so a limit
assigned after appending is honored instead of ignored. ARCHITECTURE.md "Public
API Conventions" records the contract, and README.md and HISTORY.md carry the
behavioral change.
#452, download tests. DownloadTests and DownloadAsyncTests reached real hosts,
so the unit-test gate depended on outbound DNS and on two third parties. They now
drive a loopback HttpListener bound to an ephemeral port, which makes success,
not-found, and cancellation deterministic and offline, and drops the five-second
sleep the timeout case paid on every run. The negative case is a 404 from that
server rather than a name expected never to resolve, which a wildcard or a
captive-portal resolver would have silently inverted. Download's public surface
is unchanged, so the Lazy<HttpClient> contract in ARCHITECTURE.md still holds.
#427, coordination reference. HISTORY.md named the template repository in its
v3.5 entry. The entry now states what changed without naming where it came from.
.github/copilot-instructions.md was already clear.
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Close the Defects the Local Review Found
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A local adversarial pass over the previous commit raised seven findings against it.
Six are fixed here and one is declined.
StringHistory. Raising MaxFirstLines on a history that had already dropped a line
promoted retained tail lines into the head, where they could never roll out again,
so [L0,L1,L8,L9] with the limit raised to 5 kept L8 and L9 as first lines forever.
That contradicted the head and tail contract this change had just written into
ARCHITECTURE.md. The head is now closed once anything has been discarded: it only
shrinks from there, re-partitioning trims the head and the tail separately rather
than re-slicing a list that has a gap in it, and the roll indexes the stored head
rather than the limit, which a widened limit would otherwise index past the end of
the list. Three tests cover the closed head, the still-open head, and the head-only
case, and a 200000-history fuzz over random append and limit sequences held the
ordering, bound, and no-duplicate invariants across three million assertions.
LoopbackServer. Rewritten onto a TcpListener rather than HttpListener, which fixes
three findings at once. Binding port 0 and reading the port back removes the
probe-then-release window that failed 6 constructions in 4800 concurrent ones.
Writing the response onto the socket removes the http.sys URL reservation that an
explicit-address prefix needs on Windows, where GOVERNANCE.md declares Windows a
supported development platform and CI is Linux-only. Serving the connection with a
catch-all removes the unexpected exception that escaped the accept loop, faulted
the task Dispose waits on, and reddened a test whose assertions had all passed.
Dispose is also idempotent now and its wait is bounded, and the fixture reports the
content's byte length rather than its UTF-16 char count.
Cancellation test. It asserted only that the call returned false, which any failure
produces, so it could not tell a cancelled request from a server that never
started. It now waits for the server to signal that the slow route has the request,
cancels only then, and asserts the call returned well inside the route's own delay.
Proxy independence. HttpClientFactory leaves SocketsHttpHandler.UseProxy at its
default, so a client resolves HttpClient.DefaultProxy, which on Unix reads
http_proxy and bypasses loopback only where no_proxy says to. A machine configured
that way would send these loopback requests to a proxy, which is the environment
dependence #452 exists to remove, so the test assembly disables the ambient proxy.
Declined: the finding that the HISTORY.md v3.5 entry is an out-of-scope edit to a
shipped release record. That edit is #427's deliverable, not incidental churn.
Not fixed here, and raised for a separate decision: Download.DownloadFile and
DownloadFileAsync open the destination with File.OpenWrite, which does not
truncate, so downloading over a longer existing file leaves trailing bytes from the
previous content. It is a pre-existing defect in shipped code, outside all three
issues this branch closes.
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Close the Defects the Second Local Review Found
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A second adversarial pass over the previous commit found that its own fix had
introduced a regression, and a fuzz over the corrected model then found a third
defect neither pass had reached.
StringHistory. The previous commit tracked one flag for two different questions,
so entering the unrestricted mode reset the head counter while leaving the
discarded flag set, and the next limit assignment read a partition that no longer
described the stored lines. A history limited to 2 and 2, cleared to unrestricted,
then given two more lines and limited again, discarded the two most recent lines
and kept nothing. A fuzz over the corrected model then found the deeper case: a
history that had only ever kept a tail could have a head limit raised, which
relabeled tail lines as first lines and left a window that was neither a prefix
nor a suffix of the stream. Both are the same root cause, a head that could grow
into lines that are not the stream's first, so the head is now closed absolutely:
once a line has been discarded the head is trimmed but never refilled, by an
append or by a re-partition. The unrestricted mode extends the tail rather than
the head once anything has been discarded, so what is retained stays a prefix
followed by a suffix. Four tests cover the two cases above, the tail-only history,
and a head that cannot be rebuilt. A 300000-history fuzz over random append and
limit sequences now holds that prefix-plus-suffix contract across four and a half
million states, where the previous model failed it within five iterations.
LoopbackServer. Connections are served concurrently rather than one at a time, so
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rather than failing it, with no deadline anywhere to end the run; the wait is now
bounded. Both not-found tests asserted only that the call returned false, which a
refused connection produces just as well, so each now asserts the server routed
the request. A new test proves two concurrent requests to one server both complete.
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Make downloads offline and enforce StringHistory limit semantics
🐞 Bug fix🧪 Tests📝 Documentation🕐 40+ Minutes
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• Enforces StringHistory limits immediately, rejects negatives, and preserves prefix-plus-suffix
retention.
• Replaces external download endpoints with deterministic loopback HTTP scenarios.
• Documents clarified limit semantics and adds comprehensive regression coverage.

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graph TD
HistoryTests["History tests"] -->|verifies| StringHistory["StringHistory"] -->|maintains| RetainedLines["Retained lines"]
DownloadTests["Download tests"] -->|calls| DownloadAPI["Download API"] -->|requests| LoopbackServer["Loopback server"]
HttpDefaults["HTTP defaults"] -->|disables proxy| DownloadAPI

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The following are alternative approaches to this PR:
1. Atomic limit update API
  • ➕ Avoids order-dependent discards when changing both limits
  • ➕ Expresses two-limit repartitioning as one operation
  • ➖ Expands the public API
  • ➖ Existing property setters still need defined behavior
  • ➖ Does not recover lines already discarded
2. Injectable HTTP handler seam
  • ➕ Produces smaller and faster unit tests
  • ➕ Avoids implementing an HTTP parser and socket lifecycle
  • ➖ Changes production design solely for tests
  • ➖ Bypasses real networking and streaming behavior
  • ➖ Conflicts with the shared Lazy contract
Recommendation: Keep the current approach: in-place repartitioning preserves API compatibility, and the loopback TCP server provides deterministic offline coverage through the real HTTP stack. An atomic two-limit method could be considered separately if callers frequently need to change both limits without setter-order loss.
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Bug fix (1)  +115 / -9 
StringHistory.csEnforce mutable head-tail limits safely+115/-9
Enforce mutable head-tail limits safely
• Validates constructor and property limits, repartitions retained lines whenever a limit changes, and tracks whether the stream head has closed after a discard. Appends now preserve prefix-plus-suffix semantics across unrestricted and reconfigured states.

Utilities/StringHistory.cs
Tests (3)  +344 / -26 
DownloadAsyncTests.csRun asynchronous download tests against loopback HTTP+68/-22
Run asynchronous download tests against loopback HTTP
• Replaces public internet dependencies with deterministic success, 404, concurrent, and cancellation scenarios. Assertions now verify exact local content, request routing, and prompt cancellation.

UtilitiesTests/DownloadAsyncTests.cs
DownloadTests.csRun synchronous download tests against loopback HTTP+18/-4
Run synchronous download tests against loopback HTTP
• Uses the local server for successful metadata retrieval and a routed 404 failure, including exact content-length and request-count assertions.

UtilitiesTests/DownloadTests.cs
StringHistoryTests.csCover StringHistory validation and repartitioning invariants+258/-0
Cover StringHistory validation and repartitioning invariants
• Adds regression tests for negative limits, post-append limit changes, head trimming, unrestricted transitions, and append behavior after discards. The cases verify that retained lines remain a stream prefix followed by its suffix without rebuilding a closed head.

UtilitiesTests/StringHistoryTests.cs
Documentation (3)  +4 / -1 
ARCHITECTURE.mdDefine the StringHistory retention contract+1/-0
Define the StringHistory retention contract
• Documents zero-limit semantics, negative-value rejection, immediate repartitioning, and the rule that discarded head lines are never recovered.

ARCHITECTURE.md
HISTORY.mdRecord StringHistory behavioral changes+2/-1
Record StringHistory behavioral changes
• Adds the tightened limit contract to the v4.0 release history and removes an unrelated upstream-template reference from v3.5 wording.

HISTORY.md
README.mdAdvertise revised StringHistory limit behavior+1/-0
Advertise revised StringHistory limit behavior
• Highlights immediate repartitioning and negative-limit validation among the release changes.

README.md
Other (2)  +279 / -0 
LoopbackServer.csAdd an ephemeral TCP HTTP test server+255/-0
Add an ephemeral TCP HTTP test server
• Introduces a parallel-capable loopback server with success, missing, and delayed routes. It binds an ephemeral port, writes HTTP/1.1 responses directly to sockets, exposes synchronization signals, and bounds teardown.

UtilitiesTests/LoopbackServer.cs
TestHttpDefaults.csDisable ambient proxies for HTTP tests+24/-0
Disable ambient proxies for HTTP tests
• Adds a module initializer that replaces the process-wide default proxy, ensuring loopback requests cannot be redirected by developer or CI environment variables.

UtilitiesTests/TestHttpDefaults.cs
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StringHistory now validates and reapplies retention limits. File downloads now truncate destinations correctly. Download tests now use a deterministic local HTTP server. Documentation and version metadata describe the 4.1 changes.
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StringHistory retention and repartitioning
Utilities/StringHistory.cs, UtilitiesTests/StringHistoryTests.cs		StringHistory rejects negative limits, applies zero-limit semantics, repartitions stored lines, and preserves discard state across later limit changes.
Download destination handling
Utilities/Download.cs, UtilitiesTests/DownloadTests.cs, UtilitiesTests/DownloadAsyncTests.cs		Synchronous and asynchronous downloads truncate existing destinations before copying. Tests verify replacement, failure preservation, and unusable destinations.
Deterministic download test infrastructure
UtilitiesTests/LoopbackServer.cs, UtilitiesTests/TestHttpDefaults.cs, UtilitiesTests/DownloadTests.cs, UtilitiesTests/DownloadAsyncTests.cs		Tests use local success, missing, and delayed routes. Coverage includes metadata, request counts, concurrent requests, cancellation, and proxy isolation.
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ARCHITECTURE.md, HISTORY.md, README.md, version.json		Documentation and release metadata describe the updated contracts and version 4.1 changes.
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes
Merge Risk:🔵 Low · up to aabeb
The PR tightens StringHistory limit handling, makes download tests offline, and safely replaces downloaded files; the remaining README wording omits the special unrestricted (0, 0) case, creating a bounded public-contract documentation mismatch. The change is otherwise mergeable with explicit owner follow-up to correct the README.
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The remaining findings are minor clarity/grammar improvements and do not affect the correctness or determinism goals of the change.
Pull request overview
This pull request removes external network dependencies from the Download test suite by introducing a local loopback HTTP server, and tightens/clarifies StringHistory’s public limit-contract (zero semantics, negative rejection, and post-append re-partitioning) in both code and documentation.
Changes:
  • Replace online Download/DownloadAsync tests with deterministic loopback-server scenarios (success, 404, cancellation, concurrency) and disable ambient proxies for the test process.
  • Update StringHistory to validate negative limits eagerly, re-partition stored history when limits change, and document the “head+tail only, discards-only” behavior across code and architecture docs.
  • Refresh release notes to reflect the clarified StringHistory contract.
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UtilitiesTests/TestHttpDefaults.csSets test-process HTTP defaults to keep loopback HTTP calls offline/deterministic under proxy-configured environments.
UtilitiesTests/LoopbackServer.csAdds a minimal loopback HTTP server used by download-related tests.
UtilitiesTests/DownloadTests.csMoves sync download tests to loopback endpoints and asserts deterministic sizes/failures.
UtilitiesTests/DownloadAsyncTests.csMoves async download tests to loopback endpoints and adds deterministic cancellation/concurrency coverage.
UtilitiesTests/StringHistoryTests.csAdds/extends coverage for negative validation, re-partitioning behavior, and head-closure semantics.
Utilities/StringHistory.csImplements the clarified limit contract: negative rejection, re-partitioning on setters, and “discards-only/head-closure” logic.
README.mdNotes the StringHistory contract change as part of v4.0 breaking-change summary.
HISTORY.mdUpdates v4.0 and v3.5 release notes to remove private-template attribution and record the StringHistory contract clarification.
ARCHITECTURE.mdRecords the updated StringHistory behavioral contract in the public API conventions.
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Utilities/StringHistory.cs:134
  • Grammar in the XML docs: “both limits at 0 retains every line” should be “retain every line”.
 /// <summary>
/// Gets or sets the maximum number of last lines to retain.
/// Set to 0 to retain no last lines; both limits at 0 retains every line.
/// </summary>

Utilities/StringHistory.cs:166
  • Minor grammar in the comment: “Both limits at zero is …” should be “Both limits at zero are …”.
 // Both limits at zero is the unrestricted mode, which retains every line.
// Nothing is discarded here, so the counters already describe the stored list.

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In `@Utilities/StringHistory.cs`:
- Around line 30-36: Update the StringHistory constructor to assign the
validated maxFirstLines and maxLastLines arguments directly to their backing
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and Repartition calls while preserving the validated limit values as an atomic
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- Around line 153-154: Update the request-counting logic near
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+- **`StringHistory`** retains at most `MaxFirstLines` from the head and `MaxLastLines` from the tail. Both limits at zero is the one unrestricted mode, and zero on a single side retains no lines on that side. Either limit rejects a negative value, and assigning one re-partitions the lines already stored, so the history never holds more than the limits then in force allow. Re-partitioning only discards: once a line has been dropped the head is closed, so a later, larger `MaxFirstLines` never promotes a retained tail line into it.
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Replace the Destination File on a Download Instead of Overwriting It
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DownloadFile and DownloadFileAsync opened the destination with File.OpenWrite,
which is FileMode.OpenOrCreate and does not truncate, so a download over a longer
existing file left that file's trailing bytes after the downloaded content and
returned true. A 16-byte body written over a 200-byte file produced a 200-byte
file. Both now create the file instead.
Both local review passes raised this against the download tests rather than the
library, since the rewritten test exercises the path for real but seeds it with
Path.GetTempFileName's empty file, so its length assertion passed either way. Two
tests now seed a file four times the body's length first, and both fail against
the previous behavior and pass against this one.
The maintainer asked for it here rather than as a separate issue, so
ARCHITECTURE.md records the contract and README.md and HISTORY.md carry the fix.
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Replace a Downloaded File Only Once the Whole Body Is on Disk
6935b65
Answers the first review round on the pull request and a third local pass.
Download. The previous commit fixed the destination not being truncated by
creating the file instead of opening it, which traded one defect for a worse one:
GetStreamAsync returns once the headers arrive, so the destination was emptied
before a single body byte existed and a download that then failed left a 0-byte
file where the old code left the original content. File.Create also asks for
FileAccess.ReadWrite, so a destination the process may write but not read stopped
working at all. Both methods now write beside the destination and move the result
into place, so the destination is replaced whole on success and left untouched on
failure, and the temporary file is removed when a download fails. Two tests cover
the failure case, alongside the two covering the overwrite.
ARCHITECTURE.md said Download reads with HttpCompletionOption.ResponseHeadersRead
so a large response streams rather than buffering whole. That is true only of
GetContentInfo, which discards the body; DownloadString calls GetStringAsync and
buffers the whole response. The entry now says which method does which.
StringHistory. The constructor assigns the backing fields rather than the
properties, since both limits apply as one pair and the setters would apply them
one at a time and re-partition an empty history twice. The XML documentation and
the comments drop the "both limits at zero is" construction that four findings
across three files objected to. HISTORY.md now also records the AppendLine
behavior that shipped with the setters, which it described only as a limit set
after appending being honored.
LoopbackServer. The 404 route has its own case rather than reaching the default
arm, so the route contract is stated rather than incidental. A peer that connects
and sends nothing is no longer counted as a routed request, which the exact-count
assertions depend on. Dispose waits for the accept loop before reading the
connection set, so the set is final rather than a snapshot that could miss a
connection started but not yet registered.
The 300000-history fuzz continues to hold the prefix-plus-suffix contract, the
count bound, no duplicates, and that an assignment never adds a line, across four
and a half million states.
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Answering the two suppressed low-confidence findings from the round on 1932b4e, which open no thread and so have nowhere to be resolved.
Utilities/StringHistory.cs:134 Grammar in the XML docs: "both limits at 0 retains every line" should be "retain every line".
Utilities/StringHistory.cs:166 Minor grammar in the comment: "Both limits at zero is ..." should be "Both limits at zero are ...".
Both are fixed in 6935b65, by the same change that answered the four threaded findings objecting to the same construction. Rather than correcting the agreement in six places, the construction is gone: the property summaries read "Set to 0 to retain no last lines. Every line is retained only when both limits are 0.", the class remarks read "Zero on a single side retains no lines on that side, and zero on both is the one unrestricted mode", and the comment in Repartition reads "Zero on both limits is the unrestricted mode". Six findings against one phrasing is the phrasing's problem rather than six separate ones.
For the record, since a suppressed finding is counted once raised and never uncounted: status now reports suppressed=2 (on_head=0 earlier=2), so nothing is outstanding against the current head.
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DownloadFile/DownloadFileAsync currently compute the temp path outside the try/catch (so they can throw) and can overwrite/delete unrelated files on rare temp-name collisions. 
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  • High: Make DownloadFileAsync handle invalid destination paths and temp-name collisions safely. CreateTemporaryPath(fileName) currently runs before the try block (so it can throw and break the "return bool, don’t throw" contract), and FileMode.Create with a random name can overwrite an existing file on collision. Move temp-name generation inside the try, create the temp file with FileMode.CreateNew and retry on collision, and only delete the temp path when this call created it.
 string tempFileName = CreateTemporaryPath(fileName);
try
{
Stream httpStream = await GetHttpClient()
.GetStreamAsync(uri, cancellationToken)
.ConfigureAwait(false);
await using (httpStream.ConfigureAwait(false))
{
FileStream fileStream = new(
tempFileName,
FileMode.Create,
FileAccess.Write,
FileShare.None
);
await using (fileStream.ConfigureAwait(false))

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Create the Download Temporary File Without Overwriting a Name in Use
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Answers the review round on 6935b65, which raised this against both DownloadFile
and DownloadFileAsync.
The temporary file was opened with FileMode.Create under a name from
Path.GetRandomFileName, so a name that happened to exist in the destination
directory was overwritten, and the failure path then deleted that unrelated file.
The file is now created with FileMode.CreateNew, which fails rather than
overwrites, and a collision retries under a fresh name. The path is assigned to
the caller's variable only once the file behind it exists, so the failure path
deletes a file this call actually created and nothing else. Any other I/O failure,
a missing destination directory among them, is left to the caller to report rather
than retried.
The same finding also asked that the temporary path be named inside the try, since
Path.GetDirectoryName can throw on invalid path characters and would otherwise
break the bool-returning contract. Naming now happens inside the try, so the point
is moot either way, but the premise does not hold on this target framework: on
net10.0 Path.GetDirectoryName and Path.Combine return normally for an embedded
null character, a pipe, and a 5000-character path alike. That rejection is .NET
Framework behavior.
Two tests cover a destination whose directory does not exist, one per method,
asserting the call reports failure rather than throwing and leaves no file behind.
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Truncate and Rewrite a Downloaded File in Place
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The maintainer chose write-in-place over the temporary-file-and-move approach the
two previous commits built, after a local review pass established what that
approach cost.
Moving a temporary file into place replaces the destination's identity rather
than its contents, which a probe confirmed on Linux: a destination at mode 0600
came back at 0664, a symlink destination was replaced by a regular file leaving
its target stale, a second hard link kept the old content, and a read-only
destination was silently overwritten, because rename consults the directory's
permission and ignores the file's. Windows refuses that same move, so the two
platforms disagreed on whether the download succeeded. A killed process also
orphaned an unnamed temporary in the destination's own directory.
Both methods now open the destination with FileMode.Create and FileAccess.Write.
Create is what fixes the original defect, since OpenWrite does not truncate and
left a longer file's trailing bytes after the body. Write rather than the
ReadWrite that File.Create requests, so a destination the process may write but
not read still works. A probe against this build confirms the four properties the
documentation now claims: mode 0600 survives with the file truncated to the body's
length, a hard link sees the new content, a symlink is written through rather than
replaced, and a read-only destination is refused with the file left intact.
The cost, stated in ARCHITECTURE.md rather than left implicit: the destination is
opened once the response is accepted, so a failure during the body can leave a
partial file. A request that fails before that leaves it untouched, which is what
the two renamed tests pin, and they now assert the server served the request so a
connection failure cannot pass for the file behaving correctly.
CreateTemporaryFile and DeleteTemporary are gone with the approach that needed them.
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Answering the suppressed finding from the round on 6935b65, which opens no thread and so has nowhere to be resolved.
Utilities/Download.cs:162 High: Make DownloadFileAsync handle invalid destination paths and temp-name collisions safely. CreateTemporaryPath(fileName) currently runs before the try block (so it can throw and break the "return bool, don't throw" contract), and FileMode.Create with a random name can overwrite an existing file on collision. Move temp-name generation inside the try, create the temp file with FileMode.CreateNew and retry on collision, and only delete the temp path when this call created it.
Same finding as the threaded one on DownloadFile, answered there. In short: the collision half was real and was fixed in 7aac102, the escape half does not hold on net10.0 (probed: Path.GetDirectoryName and Path.Combine return normally for an embedded null character, a pipe, and a 5000-character path, that rejection being .NET Framework behavior), and the whole temporary-file approach is gone as of 2bc77c0 in favor of writing in place.
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Escape the Unicode Test Literal So the Source Stays ASCII
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The prose gate run over whole files, rather than over changed lines, reports
seven unclassified non-ASCII characters in AppendLine_UnicodeCharacters_ShouldPreserve:
four CJK ideographs and three astral-plane emoji, sitting literally in the source.
The test's subject is that a non-ASCII string round-trips, so the string stays and
the source loses the characters instead. The escapes compile to the identical
string, verified against the original bytes, so the assertion is unchanged.
Found by running the gate without --diff over every file this branch edits. The
gate's own help states the policy the default hides: --diff "matches the repo
policy: fix as each file is next edited, not swept", so a violation on an unchanged
line belongs to whoever next edits that file.
@ptr727
Raise the Version Floor to 4.1 and Record the v4.1 Release Notes
6f73755
version.json carries the Nerdbank.GitVersioning floor, raised on develop so the
promotion carries it to main, per OPERATIONS.md "Bumping the version floor".
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The README/HISTORY release notes currently describe an atomic “write beside + move into place / untouched on failure” behavior that does not match the in-place truncation rewrite implemented in Utilities/Download.cs.
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  • The README claims the Download fix now "replaced whole on success and left untouched on failure", but DownloadFile/DownloadFileAsync currently truncate and rewrite the destination in place (and can leave a partial file on mid-body failure). Please update this release-note bullet to match the current contract (see ARCHITECTURE.md’s Download bullet and Utilities/Download.cs).
- Added `HttpClientFactory`, a reusable resilient HTTP client factory (Polly retry and circuit breaker) with an AOT safe `AssemblyInfo` identity helper and a tunable `HttpClientOptions`.
- Fixed `Download.DownloadFile` and `DownloadFileAsync` corrupting the destination when downloading over a longer existing file. The destination is now replaced whole on success and left untouched on failure.

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  • This v4.0 HISTORY entry says downloads now "write beside the destination and move the result into place" and that the destination is "left untouched when a download fails partway", but the implementation rewrites the destination in place (Utilities/Download.cs) and ARCHITECTURE.md notes that a mid-body failure can leave a partial file. Please align this release-history bullet with the actual behavior.
 - Fixed `Download.DownloadFile` and `DownloadFileAsync` corrupting the destination file: both opened it with `File.OpenWrite`, which does not truncate, so a download over a longer existing file left that file's trailing bytes after the downloaded content and reported success. Both now write beside the destination and move the result into place, so the destination is replaced whole on success and left untouched when a download fails partway.

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A local pass over the release notes found three claims that did not match the
code, and one behavior difference the notes did not mention at all.
HISTORY.md credited v4.1 with opening the destination only once the response is
accepted, so a failed request leaves it untouched. v4.0 already did that: it
called GetStreamAsync before File.OpenWrite, so a request that failed never
reached the file. The entry claimed unchanged behavior as a fix.
The same entry omitted what did change. Truncating at open means a download that
fails partway now leaves a short file, where OpenWrite left the original bytes
behind the newly written ones. That is a real loss of content for a consumer whose
download is interrupted, it is the cost of the fix rather than a detail, and
HISTORY.md is where a consumer would look for it. Both it and README.md now say so.
Windows refuses FileMode.Create against a hidden file, where the FileMode.OpenOrCreate
that OpenWrite used does not, so a download over a hidden destination would have
started failing on a supported platform, contradicting the claim that the
destination's own attributes survive. Both methods now open with OpenOrCreate and
truncate with SetLength, which is what fixes the original defect without changing
which destinations can be opened. Re-probed on Linux: mode 0600 survives with the
file truncated to the body's length, a hard link sees the new content, a symlink is
written through, and a read-only destination is still refused with the file intact.
The Windows half is documented behavior rather than something this host can run.
ARCHITECTURE.md named a public type Extensions that v4.0 renamed to
CompressExtensions, so the contract list described a type consumers cannot
reference, and it attributed the logger helpers to it rather than to the internal
LogExtensions. It also named FileEx's options as Options rather than the static
FileEx.Options, and wrote its own method names without the parentheses the same
change had just standardized on in HISTORY.md and README.md.
Two test comments said the body is fetched before the destination is opened.
GetStreamAsync completes on the response headers, so only those have been read and
the body streams after the file is open.
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Answering the three findings from the round on 3a6dde5 that open no thread.
README.md:37 The README claims the Download fix now "replaced whole on success and left untouched on failure", but DownloadFile/DownloadFileAsync currently truncate and rewrite the destination in place (and can leave a partial file on mid-body failure).
HISTORY.md:8 This v4.0 HISTORY entry says downloads now "write beside the destination and move the result into place" and that the destination is "left untouched when a download fails partway", but the implementation rewrites the destination in place.
Both correct, both fixed in 6f73755 and aabeb0c, which landed after this round read the branch. The two entries moved into a new v4.1 section and now describe truncate-and-rewrite-in-place, and both carry the caveat the earlier wording omitted: a download that fails partway leaves a short file, where File.OpenWrite() left the original bytes behind the newly written ones. That is a real loss of content for an interrupted download and belongs in the release notes rather than only in ARCHITECTURE.md.
Worth recording, since these two findings track a fix that changed shape three times: the temporary-file-and-move approach they describe was itself reverted, because moving a file into place replaces the destination's identity rather than its contents. Probed on Linux: a 0600 destination came back 0664, a symlink was replaced by a regular file leaving its target stale, a hard link kept the old content, and a read-only destination was silently overwritten, where Windows refuses the same move.
PR title exceeds limit
Stale. The title was 76 characters when first raised and has been Fix the StringHistory Limits and Make the Download Tests Offline at 64 since, well inside the 72-character limit GOVERNANCE.md sets. Verified against the live title rather than the badge.
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Closes#427. Closes#452. Closes#454.
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#455, which closed the three open issues and fixed one defect found
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The issue-closing keywords sit here rather than on #455, since GitHub
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## What is being promoted
- **#454, the `StringHistory` limit properties.** `MaxFirstLines` and
`MaxLastLines` were each documented `Set to 0 for no limit`, which holds
only when both are zero. Zero on one side is now documented as retaining
no lines on that side, both the constructor and the setters reject a
negative value, and assigning a limit re-partitions the lines already
stored instead of being ignored. Re-partitioning only ever discards, so
what is retained is always a prefix of the appended lines followed by a
suffix of them, and once a line has been dropped the head is trimmed but
never refilled.
- **#452, the download tests.** They reached `www.google.com` and
`httpstat.us`, so the unit-test gate depended on outbound DNS and on two
third parties, and paid a five-second sleep on every run. They now drive
a loopback HTTP server on an ephemeral port, and the test assembly
disables the ambient proxy so a machine with `http_proxy` set does not
send loopback requests through it. `Download`'s public surface is
unchanged.
- **#427, the coordination reference.** `HISTORY.md` named the template
repository in its v3.5 entry and no longer does.
- **A `Download` defect found during the above.** `DownloadFile()` and
`DownloadFileAsync()` opened the destination with `File.OpenWrite()`,
which does not truncate, so a download over a longer existing file left
that file's trailing bytes after the downloaded content and returned
`true`. Both now open with `FileMode.OpenOrCreate` and truncate with
`SetLength(0)`, rewriting in place so the destination's permissions,
ownership, and any links to it survive.
- **The version floor**, raised to 4.1, with the two shipped fixes
recorded in `HISTORY.md` and `README.md`.
## Verification
The merge is clean and `git write-tree` on it equals `git rev-parse
origin/develop^{tree}` exactly (`0cfd271c`), so `main` ends up with
`develop`'s tree and nothing else.
`develop` carried 206 tests green, the `.NET Format` clean-compile chain
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markdownlint, CSpell, actionlint, `editorconfig-checker`, shellcheck and
shfmt clean, and the hub's prose and repository gates clean. #455 went
through eight review rounds; every thread was resolved and every
suppressed finding answered, with `suppressed on_head=0` at the merge.
## Releases stay blocked, and this does not unblock them
`publish-release.yml` still fails at the NuGet OIDC token exchange,
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name the hub rather than this repository
([ProjectTemplate#1126](ptr727/ProjectTemplate#1126)).
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* **Bug Fixes**
* Downloads now fully replace existing files, preventing stale or
corrupted trailing content.
* Failed downloads preserve existing destination files and handle
unavailable destinations safely.
* `StringHistory` now validates limits, preserves discarded-content
rules, repartitions stored lines correctly, and supports atomic limit
updates.
* **Documentation**
* Clarified download buffering, truncation, partial-download outcomes,
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* Updated terminology and retry-behavior documentation.
* **Release**
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Closes#427. Closes#452. Closes#454.
#454, the StringHistory limit properties
MaxFirstLines and MaxLastLines were each documented Set to 0 for no limit, which holds only when both are zero, the one branch AppendLine treats as unrestricted. Set individually, zero retains none on that side. The maintainer chose the smaller of the two directions the issue offered, so the documentation now says what the code does rather than the code changing to match the documentation.
Three behavioral changes on top of that:
  • The constructor and both setters reject a negative value with ArgumentOutOfRangeException, rather than letting it reach RemoveAt and throw after entries have already been taken. The constructor validates its own parameters, so the exception names maxFirstLines or maxLastLines rather than value.
  • Each setter re-partitions the lines already stored, so a limit assigned after appending is honored instead of ignored.
  • Re-partitioning only ever discards. Once a line has been dropped the head is closed: it can be trimmed but never refilled, by a later append or by a later, larger MaxFirstLines. What is retained is therefore always a prefix of the stream followed by a suffix of it, which is exactly the head-and-tail contract ARCHITECTURE.md states.
That third point is the one worth reviewing closely, and it is the one two local review passes and a fuzz each found a different defect in before it settled. A 300000-history fuzz over random append and limit sequences holds the prefix-plus-suffix contract, the count bound, and no-duplicates across four and a half million intermediate states.
#452, the download tests
DownloadTests and DownloadAsyncTests reached www.google.com and httpstat.us, so the unit-test gate depended on outbound DNS and on two third parties it does not control, and paid a five-second sleep on every run to exercise the timeout path.
They now drive a loopback HTTP server bound to an ephemeral port. Download's public surface is unchanged, so the Lazy<HttpClient> contract in ARCHITECTURE.md still holds and the seam the issue offered as the larger alternative was not needed.
  • The server writes HTTP/1.1 onto a TcpListener socket rather than using HttpListener, which on Windows resolves an explicit-address prefix through http.sys and needs a URL reservation an unelevated developer does not have. CI is Linux-only, so nothing here would have caught that.
  • Binding port 0 and reading the port back removes the probe-then-bind race a first draft had.
  • The negative case is a 404 from that server rather than a hostname expected never to resolve, which a wildcard registration or a captive-portal resolver would have silently inverted.
  • The cancellation test waits for the server to signal that it holds the request, cancels only then, and asserts the call returned well inside the route's own delay. Asserting only that the call returned false would have passed just as well if the server had never started.
  • Both not-found tests assert the server actually routed the request, for the same reason.
  • The test assembly disables the ambient proxy. HttpClientFactory leaves SocketsHttpHandler.UseProxy at its default, so a client resolves HttpClient.DefaultProxy, which on Unix is read from http_proxy and bypasses loopback only where no_proxy says to. A machine configured that way would send every loopback request to a proxy, which is the environment dependence this issue exists to remove.
The suite is 200 tests and runs in about one second, against 193 tests and roughly six seconds before. Twenty consecutive runs were clean.
#427, the coordination reference
HISTORY.md named the template repository in its v3.5 entry. It now states what changed without naming where it came from. .github/copilot-instructions.md, the other file the issue named, was already clear, and the hub's own audit reports this repository clean.
A reviewer may read the HISTORY.md hunk as an out-of-scope edit to a shipped release record. It is #427's deliverable rather than incidental churn.
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.NET Format (CSharpier, build, dotnet format style --verify-no-changes) clean, zero warnings under AnalysisMode=All and TreatWarningsAsErrors. markdownlint, CSpell, actionlint, editorconfig-checker, shellcheck and shfmt clean. The hub's prose gate and repository gate both clean.
One thing beyond the three issues
Download.DownloadFile() and DownloadFileAsync() opened the destination with File.OpenWrite(), which is FileMode.OpenOrCreate and does not truncate, so a download over a longer existing file left that file's trailing bytes after the downloaded content and returned true. A local review pass raised it, and the maintainer asked for it here rather than as a separate issue.
The fix changed shape twice before settling, so read the current behavior here rather than in the commit history. Both methods now open the destination with FileMode.OpenOrCreate and truncate it with SetLength(0), rewriting it in place. Its permissions, ownership, and any hard links or symlinks to it survive, which a probe confirms on Linux: mode 0600 stays 0600 with the file truncated to the body's length, a hard link sees the new content, a symlink is written through rather than replaced, and a read-only destination is refused with the file intact.
The cost, which the release notes now state rather than leave implicit: truncation happens once the response headers are accepted, so a download that fails partway leaves a short file, where File.OpenWrite() left the original bytes behind the newly written ones.
Two approaches were tried and rejected on the way, both by local review passes:
  • FileMode.Create, which empties the destination before a single body byte exists, and which Windows refuses outright against a hidden file where OpenOrCreate succeeds.
  • Writing beside the destination and moving the result into place. That gives the strongest failure guarantee, an untouched destination, but it replaces the file's identity rather than its contents. Probed on Linux: a 0600 destination came back 0664, a symlink was replaced by a regular file leaving its target stale, a hard link kept the old content, and a read-only destination was silently overwritten, since rename(2) consults the directory's permission and not the file's, while Windows refuses that same move. The maintainer chose in-place rewriting over that trade.
Six tests cover it: two for the overwrite, two for a request that fails before the response is accepted, and two for a destination that cannot be opened.
Not in this change
  • The failing Publish project release run is the NuGet OIDC job_workflow_ref claim, ProjectTemplate#1126. The fix moves the token exchange and the push into the calling repository, so this repository's publish-release.yml needs new content plus a re-pin. That cannot merge usefully until the hub fix reaches its main, so it is a follow-up rather than part of this change.
Summary by CodeRabbit
  • New Features
    • StringHistory now repartitions retained lines when limits change and preserves consistent first- and last-line behavior.
    • Zero limits support unrestricted retention; negative limits are rejected.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Downloads correctly replace oversized existing files without leaving stale content.
    • Failed downloads preserve existing files and handle unusable destinations gracefully.
  • Documentation
    • Updated architecture, README, and release history documentation.
  • Tests
    • Expanded coverage for history limits, downloads, concurrency, cancellation, and failure scenarios.
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Make the Download Tests Offline and Tighten the StringHistory Limit C…
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Closes the three open issues on this repository.
#454, StringHistory limit properties. MaxFirstLines and MaxLastLines were each
documented "Set to 0 for no limit", which holds only when both are zero, the one
branch AppendLine treats as unrestricted. Set individually, zero retains none on
that side, so the documentation now says that. Both the constructor and the two
setters reject a negative value with ArgumentOutOfRangeException, rather than
letting it reach RemoveAt and throw after entries have already been taken. Each
setter re-partitions the stored entries and resets the counters, so a limit
assigned after appending is honored instead of ignored. ARCHITECTURE.md "Public
API Conventions" records the contract, and README.md and HISTORY.md carry the
behavioral change.
#452, download tests. DownloadTests and DownloadAsyncTests reached real hosts,
so the unit-test gate depended on outbound DNS and on two third parties. They now
drive a loopback HttpListener bound to an ephemeral port, which makes success,
not-found, and cancellation deterministic and offline, and drops the five-second
sleep the timeout case paid on every run. The negative case is a 404 from that
server rather than a name expected never to resolve, which a wildcard or a
captive-portal resolver would have silently inverted. Download's public surface
is unchanged, so the Lazy<HttpClient> contract in ARCHITECTURE.md still holds.
#427, coordination reference. HISTORY.md named the template repository in its
v3.5 entry. The entry now states what changed without naming where it came from.
.github/copilot-instructions.md was already clear.
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Close the Defects the Local Review Found
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A local adversarial pass over the previous commit raised seven findings against it.
Six are fixed here and one is declined.
StringHistory. Raising MaxFirstLines on a history that had already dropped a line
promoted retained tail lines into the head, where they could never roll out again,
so [L0,L1,L8,L9] with the limit raised to 5 kept L8 and L9 as first lines forever.
That contradicted the head and tail contract this change had just written into
ARCHITECTURE.md. The head is now closed once anything has been discarded: it only
shrinks from there, re-partitioning trims the head and the tail separately rather
than re-slicing a list that has a gap in it, and the roll indexes the stored head
rather than the limit, which a widened limit would otherwise index past the end of
the list. Three tests cover the closed head, the still-open head, and the head-only
case, and a 200000-history fuzz over random append and limit sequences held the
ordering, bound, and no-duplicate invariants across three million assertions.
LoopbackServer. Rewritten onto a TcpListener rather than HttpListener, which fixes
three findings at once. Binding port 0 and reading the port back removes the
probe-then-release window that failed 6 constructions in 4800 concurrent ones.
Writing the response onto the socket removes the http.sys URL reservation that an
explicit-address prefix needs on Windows, where GOVERNANCE.md declares Windows a
supported development platform and CI is Linux-only. Serving the connection with a
catch-all removes the unexpected exception that escaped the accept loop, faulted
the task Dispose waits on, and reddened a test whose assertions had all passed.
Dispose is also idempotent now and its wait is bounded, and the fixture reports the
content's byte length rather than its UTF-16 char count.
Cancellation test. It asserted only that the call returned false, which any failure
produces, so it could not tell a cancelled request from a server that never
started. It now waits for the server to signal that the slow route has the request,
cancels only then, and asserts the call returned well inside the route's own delay.
Proxy independence. HttpClientFactory leaves SocketsHttpHandler.UseProxy at its
default, so a client resolves HttpClient.DefaultProxy, which on Unix reads
http_proxy and bypasses loopback only where no_proxy says to. A machine configured
that way would send these loopback requests to a proxy, which is the environment
dependence #452 exists to remove, so the test assembly disables the ambient proxy.
Declined: the finding that the HISTORY.md v3.5 entry is an out-of-scope edit to a
shipped release record. That edit is #427's deliverable, not incidental churn.
Not fixed here, and raised for a separate decision: Download.DownloadFile and
DownloadFileAsync open the destination with File.OpenWrite, which does not
truncate, so downloading over a longer existing file leaves trailing bytes from the
previous content. It is a pre-existing defect in shipped code, outside all three
issues this branch closes.
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Close the Defects the Second Local Review Found
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A second adversarial pass over the previous commit found that its own fix had
introduced a regression, and a fuzz over the corrected model then found a third
defect neither pass had reached.
StringHistory. The previous commit tracked one flag for two different questions,
so entering the unrestricted mode reset the head counter while leaving the
discarded flag set, and the next limit assignment read a partition that no longer
described the stored lines. A history limited to 2 and 2, cleared to unrestricted,
then given two more lines and limited again, discarded the two most recent lines
and kept nothing. A fuzz over the corrected model then found the deeper case: a
history that had only ever kept a tail could have a head limit raised, which
relabeled tail lines as first lines and left a window that was neither a prefix
nor a suffix of the stream. Both are the same root cause, a head that could grow
into lines that are not the stream's first, so the head is now closed absolutely:
once a line has been discarded the head is trimmed but never refilled, by an
append or by a re-partition. The unrestricted mode extends the tail rather than
the head once anything has been discarded, so what is retained stays a prefix
followed by a suffix. Four tests cover the two cases above, the tail-only history,
and a head that cannot be rebuilt. A 300000-history fuzz over random append and
limit sequences now holds that prefix-plus-suffix contract across four and a half
million states, where the previous model failed it within five iterations.
LoopbackServer. Connections are served concurrently rather than one at a time, so
the thirty-second slow route cannot block a later request, and Dispose waits for
the in-flight connections along with the accept loop under the same bounded,
never-rethrowing wait. The server also counts the requests it routes.
Tests. The cancellation test waited on a signal that nothing could ever fault or
cancel, so a server-side failure before the slow route was reached hung the test
rather than failing it, with no deadline anywhere to end the run; the wait is now
bounded. Both not-found tests asserted only that the call returned false, which a
refused connection produces just as well, so each now asserts the server routed
the request. A new test proves two concurrent requests to one server both complete.
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Make downloads offline and enforce StringHistory limit semantics
🐞 Bug fix🧪 Tests📝 Documentation🕐 40+ Minutes
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• Enforces StringHistory limits immediately, rejects negatives, and preserves prefix-plus-suffix
retention.
• Replaces external download endpoints with deterministic loopback HTTP scenarios.
• Documents clarified limit semantics and adds comprehensive regression coverage.

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graph TD
HistoryTests["History tests"] -->|verifies| StringHistory["StringHistory"] -->|maintains| RetainedLines["Retained lines"]
DownloadTests["Download tests"] -->|calls| DownloadAPI["Download API"] -->|requests| LoopbackServer["Loopback server"]
HttpDefaults["HTTP defaults"] -->|disables proxy| DownloadAPI

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The following are alternative approaches to this PR:
1. Atomic limit update API
  • ➕ Avoids order-dependent discards when changing both limits
  • ➕ Expresses two-limit repartitioning as one operation
  • ➖ Expands the public API
  • ➖ Existing property setters still need defined behavior
  • ➖ Does not recover lines already discarded
2. Injectable HTTP handler seam
  • ➕ Produces smaller and faster unit tests
  • ➕ Avoids implementing an HTTP parser and socket lifecycle
  • ➖ Changes production design solely for tests
  • ➖ Bypasses real networking and streaming behavior
  • ➖ Conflicts with the shared Lazy contract
Recommendation: Keep the current approach: in-place repartitioning preserves API compatibility, and the loopback TCP server provides deterministic offline coverage through the real HTTP stack. An atomic two-limit method could be considered separately if callers frequently need to change both limits without setter-order loss.
 Files changed (9)  +742 / -36 

Bug fix (1)  +115 / -9 
StringHistory.csEnforce mutable head-tail limits safely+115/-9
Enforce mutable head-tail limits safely
• Validates constructor and property limits, repartitions retained lines whenever a limit changes, and tracks whether the stream head has closed after a discard. Appends now preserve prefix-plus-suffix semantics across unrestricted and reconfigured states.

Utilities/StringHistory.cs
Tests (3)  +344 / -26 
DownloadAsyncTests.csRun asynchronous download tests against loopback HTTP+68/-22
Run asynchronous download tests against loopback HTTP
• Replaces public internet dependencies with deterministic success, 404, concurrent, and cancellation scenarios. Assertions now verify exact local content, request routing, and prompt cancellation.

UtilitiesTests/DownloadAsyncTests.cs
DownloadTests.csRun synchronous download tests against loopback HTTP+18/-4
Run synchronous download tests against loopback HTTP
• Uses the local server for successful metadata retrieval and a routed 404 failure, including exact content-length and request-count assertions.

UtilitiesTests/DownloadTests.cs
StringHistoryTests.csCover StringHistory validation and repartitioning invariants+258/-0
Cover StringHistory validation and repartitioning invariants
• Adds regression tests for negative limits, post-append limit changes, head trimming, unrestricted transitions, and append behavior after discards. The cases verify that retained lines remain a stream prefix followed by its suffix without rebuilding a closed head.

UtilitiesTests/StringHistoryTests.cs
Documentation (3)  +4 / -1 
ARCHITECTURE.mdDefine the StringHistory retention contract+1/-0
Define the StringHistory retention contract
• Documents zero-limit semantics, negative-value rejection, immediate repartitioning, and the rule that discarded head lines are never recovered.

ARCHITECTURE.md
HISTORY.mdRecord StringHistory behavioral changes+2/-1
Record StringHistory behavioral changes
• Adds the tightened limit contract to the v4.0 release history and removes an unrelated upstream-template reference from v3.5 wording.

HISTORY.md
README.mdAdvertise revised StringHistory limit behavior+1/-0
Advertise revised StringHistory limit behavior
• Highlights immediate repartitioning and negative-limit validation among the release changes.

README.md
Other (2)  +279 / -0 
LoopbackServer.csAdd an ephemeral TCP HTTP test server+255/-0
Add an ephemeral TCP HTTP test server
• Introduces a parallel-capable loopback server with success, missing, and delayed routes. It binds an ephemeral port, writes HTTP/1.1 responses directly to sockets, exposes synchronization signals, and bounds teardown.

UtilitiesTests/LoopbackServer.cs
TestHttpDefaults.csDisable ambient proxies for HTTP tests+24/-0
Disable ambient proxies for HTTP tests
• Adds a module initializer that replaces the process-wide default proxy, ensuring loopback requests cannot be redirected by developer or CI environment variables.

UtilitiesTests/TestHttpDefaults.cs
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StringHistory now validates and reapplies retention limits. File downloads now truncate destinations correctly. Download tests now use a deterministic local HTTP server. Documentation and version metadata describe the 4.1 changes.
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History and download behavior
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StringHistory retention and repartitioning
Utilities/StringHistory.cs, UtilitiesTests/StringHistoryTests.cs		StringHistory rejects negative limits, applies zero-limit semantics, repartitions stored lines, and preserves discard state across later limit changes.
Download destination handling
Utilities/Download.cs, UtilitiesTests/DownloadTests.cs, UtilitiesTests/DownloadAsyncTests.cs		Synchronous and asynchronous downloads truncate existing destinations before copying. Tests verify replacement, failure preservation, and unusable destinations.
Deterministic download test infrastructure
UtilitiesTests/LoopbackServer.cs, UtilitiesTests/TestHttpDefaults.cs, UtilitiesTests/DownloadTests.cs, UtilitiesTests/DownloadAsyncTests.cs		Tests use local success, missing, and delayed routes. Coverage includes metadata, request counts, concurrent requests, cancellation, and proxy isolation.
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ARCHITECTURE.md, HISTORY.md, README.md, version.json		Documentation and release metadata describe the updated contracts and version 4.1 changes.
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes
Merge Risk:🔵 Low · up to aabeb
The PR tightens StringHistory limit handling, makes download tests offline, and safely replaces downloaded files; the remaining README wording omits the special unrestricted (0, 0) case, creating a bounded public-contract documentation mismatch. The change is otherwise mergeable with explicit owner follow-up to correct the README.
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The remaining findings are minor clarity/grammar improvements and do not affect the correctness or determinism goals of the change.
Pull request overview
This pull request removes external network dependencies from the Download test suite by introducing a local loopback HTTP server, and tightens/clarifies StringHistory’s public limit-contract (zero semantics, negative rejection, and post-append re-partitioning) in both code and documentation.
Changes:
  • Replace online Download/DownloadAsync tests with deterministic loopback-server scenarios (success, 404, cancellation, concurrency) and disable ambient proxies for the test process.
  • Update StringHistory to validate negative limits eagerly, re-partition stored history when limits change, and document the “head+tail only, discards-only” behavior across code and architecture docs.
  • Refresh release notes to reflect the clarified StringHistory contract.
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UtilitiesTests/TestHttpDefaults.csSets test-process HTTP defaults to keep loopback HTTP calls offline/deterministic under proxy-configured environments.
UtilitiesTests/LoopbackServer.csAdds a minimal loopback HTTP server used by download-related tests.
UtilitiesTests/DownloadTests.csMoves sync download tests to loopback endpoints and asserts deterministic sizes/failures.
UtilitiesTests/DownloadAsyncTests.csMoves async download tests to loopback endpoints and adds deterministic cancellation/concurrency coverage.
UtilitiesTests/StringHistoryTests.csAdds/extends coverage for negative validation, re-partitioning behavior, and head-closure semantics.
Utilities/StringHistory.csImplements the clarified limit contract: negative rejection, re-partitioning on setters, and “discards-only/head-closure” logic.
README.mdNotes the StringHistory contract change as part of v4.0 breaking-change summary.
HISTORY.mdUpdates v4.0 and v3.5 release notes to remove private-template attribution and record the StringHistory contract clarification.
ARCHITECTURE.mdRecords the updated StringHistory behavioral contract in the public API conventions.
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  • Grammar in the XML docs: “both limits at 0 retains every line” should be “retain every line”.
 /// <summary>
/// Gets or sets the maximum number of last lines to retain.
/// Set to 0 to retain no last lines; both limits at 0 retains every line.
/// </summary>

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  • Minor grammar in the comment: “Both limits at zero is …” should be “Both limits at zero are …”.
 // Both limits at zero is the unrestricted mode, which retains every line.
// Nothing is discarded here, so the counters already describe the stored list.

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+- **`StringHistory`** retains at most `MaxFirstLines` from the head and `MaxLastLines` from the tail. Both limits at zero is the one unrestricted mode, and zero on a single side retains no lines on that side. Either limit rejects a negative value, and assigning one re-partitions the lines already stored, so the history never holds more than the limits then in force allow. Re-partitioning only discards: once a line has been dropped the head is closed, so a later, larger `MaxFirstLines` never promotes a retained tail line into it.
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Replace the Destination File on a Download Instead of Overwriting It
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DownloadFile and DownloadFileAsync opened the destination with File.OpenWrite,
which is FileMode.OpenOrCreate and does not truncate, so a download over a longer
existing file left that file's trailing bytes after the downloaded content and
returned true. A 16-byte body written over a 200-byte file produced a 200-byte
file. Both now create the file instead.
Both local review passes raised this against the download tests rather than the
library, since the rewritten test exercises the path for real but seeds it with
Path.GetTempFileName's empty file, so its length assertion passed either way. Two
tests now seed a file four times the body's length first, and both fail against
the previous behavior and pass against this one.
The maintainer asked for it here rather than as a separate issue, so
ARCHITECTURE.md records the contract and README.md and HISTORY.md carry the fix.
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Replace a Downloaded File Only Once the Whole Body Is on Disk
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Answers the first review round on the pull request and a third local pass.
Download. The previous commit fixed the destination not being truncated by
creating the file instead of opening it, which traded one defect for a worse one:
GetStreamAsync returns once the headers arrive, so the destination was emptied
before a single body byte existed and a download that then failed left a 0-byte
file where the old code left the original content. File.Create also asks for
FileAccess.ReadWrite, so a destination the process may write but not read stopped
working at all. Both methods now write beside the destination and move the result
into place, so the destination is replaced whole on success and left untouched on
failure, and the temporary file is removed when a download fails. Two tests cover
the failure case, alongside the two covering the overwrite.
ARCHITECTURE.md said Download reads with HttpCompletionOption.ResponseHeadersRead
so a large response streams rather than buffering whole. That is true only of
GetContentInfo, which discards the body; DownloadString calls GetStringAsync and
buffers the whole response. The entry now says which method does which.
StringHistory. The constructor assigns the backing fields rather than the
properties, since both limits apply as one pair and the setters would apply them
one at a time and re-partition an empty history twice. The XML documentation and
the comments drop the "both limits at zero is" construction that four findings
across three files objected to. HISTORY.md now also records the AppendLine
behavior that shipped with the setters, which it described only as a limit set
after appending being honored.
LoopbackServer. The 404 route has its own case rather than reaching the default
arm, so the route contract is stated rather than incidental. A peer that connects
and sends nothing is no longer counted as a routed request, which the exact-count
assertions depend on. Dispose waits for the accept loop before reading the
connection set, so the set is final rather than a snapshot that could miss a
connection started but not yet registered.
The 300000-history fuzz continues to hold the prefix-plus-suffix contract, the
count bound, no duplicates, and that an assignment never adds a line, across four
and a half million states.
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Answering the two suppressed low-confidence findings from the round on 1932b4e, which open no thread and so have nowhere to be resolved.
Utilities/StringHistory.cs:134 Grammar in the XML docs: "both limits at 0 retains every line" should be "retain every line".
Utilities/StringHistory.cs:166 Minor grammar in the comment: "Both limits at zero is ..." should be "Both limits at zero are ...".
Both are fixed in 6935b65, by the same change that answered the four threaded findings objecting to the same construction. Rather than correcting the agreement in six places, the construction is gone: the property summaries read "Set to 0 to retain no last lines. Every line is retained only when both limits are 0.", the class remarks read "Zero on a single side retains no lines on that side, and zero on both is the one unrestricted mode", and the comment in Repartition reads "Zero on both limits is the unrestricted mode". Six findings against one phrasing is the phrasing's problem rather than six separate ones.
For the record, since a suppressed finding is counted once raised and never uncounted: status now reports suppressed=2 (on_head=0 earlier=2), so nothing is outstanding against the current head.
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DownloadFile/DownloadFileAsync currently compute the temp path outside the try/catch (so they can throw) and can overwrite/delete unrelated files on rare temp-name collisions. 
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Utilities/Download.cs:162
  • High: Make DownloadFileAsync handle invalid destination paths and temp-name collisions safely. CreateTemporaryPath(fileName) currently runs before the try block (so it can throw and break the "return bool, don’t throw" contract), and FileMode.Create with a random name can overwrite an existing file on collision. Move temp-name generation inside the try, create the temp file with FileMode.CreateNew and retry on collision, and only delete the temp path when this call created it.
 string tempFileName = CreateTemporaryPath(fileName);
try
{
Stream httpStream = await GetHttpClient()
.GetStreamAsync(uri, cancellationToken)
.ConfigureAwait(false);
await using (httpStream.ConfigureAwait(false))
{
FileStream fileStream = new(
tempFileName,
FileMode.Create,
FileAccess.Write,
FileShare.None
);
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and DownloadFileAsync.
The temporary file was opened with FileMode.Create under a name from
Path.GetRandomFileName, so a name that happened to exist in the destination
directory was overwritten, and the failure path then deleted that unrelated file.
The file is now created with FileMode.CreateNew, which fails rather than
overwrites, and a collision retries under a fresh name. The path is assigned to
the caller's variable only once the file behind it exists, so the failure path
deletes a file this call actually created and nothing else. Any other I/O failure,
a missing destination directory among them, is left to the caller to report rather
than retried.
The same finding also asked that the temporary path be named inside the try, since
Path.GetDirectoryName can throw on invalid path characters and would otherwise
break the bool-returning contract. Naming now happens inside the try, so the point
is moot either way, but the premise does not hold on this target framework: on
net10.0 Path.GetDirectoryName and Path.Combine return normally for an embedded
null character, a pipe, and a 5000-character path alike. That rejection is .NET
Framework behavior.
Two tests cover a destination whose directory does not exist, one per method,
asserting the call reports failure rather than throwing and leaves no file behind.
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Truncate and Rewrite a Downloaded File in Place
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The maintainer chose write-in-place over the temporary-file-and-move approach the
two previous commits built, after a local review pass established what that
approach cost.
Moving a temporary file into place replaces the destination's identity rather
than its contents, which a probe confirmed on Linux: a destination at mode 0600
came back at 0664, a symlink destination was replaced by a regular file leaving
its target stale, a second hard link kept the old content, and a read-only
destination was silently overwritten, because rename consults the directory's
permission and ignores the file's. Windows refuses that same move, so the two
platforms disagreed on whether the download succeeded. A killed process also
orphaned an unnamed temporary in the destination's own directory.
Both methods now open the destination with FileMode.Create and FileAccess.Write.
Create is what fixes the original defect, since OpenWrite does not truncate and
left a longer file's trailing bytes after the body. Write rather than the
ReadWrite that File.Create requests, so a destination the process may write but
not read still works. A probe against this build confirms the four properties the
documentation now claims: mode 0600 survives with the file truncated to the body's
length, a hard link sees the new content, a symlink is written through rather than
replaced, and a read-only destination is refused with the file left intact.
The cost, stated in ARCHITECTURE.md rather than left implicit: the destination is
opened once the response is accepted, so a failure during the body can leave a
partial file. A request that fails before that leaves it untouched, which is what
the two renamed tests pin, and they now assert the server served the request so a
connection failure cannot pass for the file behaving correctly.
CreateTemporaryFile and DeleteTemporary are gone with the approach that needed them.
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Answering the suppressed finding from the round on 6935b65, which opens no thread and so has nowhere to be resolved.
Utilities/Download.cs:162 High: Make DownloadFileAsync handle invalid destination paths and temp-name collisions safely. CreateTemporaryPath(fileName) currently runs before the try block (so it can throw and break the "return bool, don't throw" contract), and FileMode.Create with a random name can overwrite an existing file on collision. Move temp-name generation inside the try, create the temp file with FileMode.CreateNew and retry on collision, and only delete the temp path when this call created it.
Same finding as the threaded one on DownloadFile, answered there. In short: the collision half was real and was fixed in 7aac102, the escape half does not hold on net10.0 (probed: Path.GetDirectoryName and Path.Combine return normally for an embedded null character, a pipe, and a 5000-character path, that rejection being .NET Framework behavior), and the whole temporary-file approach is gone as of 2bc77c0 in favor of writing in place.
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The prose gate run over whole files, rather than over changed lines, reports
seven unclassified non-ASCII characters in AppendLine_UnicodeCharacters_ShouldPreserve:
four CJK ideographs and three astral-plane emoji, sitting literally in the source.
The test's subject is that a non-ASCII string round-trips, so the string stays and
the source loses the characters instead. The escapes compile to the identical
string, verified against the original bytes, so the assertion is unchanged.
Found by running the gate without --diff over every file this branch edits. The
gate's own help states the policy the default hides: --diff "matches the repo
policy: fix as each file is next edited, not swept", so a violation on an unchanged
line belongs to whoever next edits that file.
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Raise the Version Floor to 4.1 and Record the v4.1 Release Notes
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version.json carries the Nerdbank.GitVersioning floor, raised on develop so the
promotion carries it to main, per OPERATIONS.md "Bumping the version floor".
HISTORY.md gains a v4.1 section holding the two library fixes this branch ships,
moved out of v4.0 where they were first written: the Download destination
corruption and the StringHistory limit contract. The offline download tests and
the coordination-reference removal stay out of both files, since neither ships in
the package.
README.md's release notes drop the Breaking Changes and Summary headings for one
short line per fix under Version 4.1. That also drops four v4.0-era lines,
including the only place the README named HttpClientFactory; HISTORY.md still
carries all of it under v4.0.
Method names in both files now end in (), so a method reads as one rather than as
a property, and the four v4.0-era instances that predate this change are corrected
with them. The StringHistory line no longer reads as though a negative value is
accepted, which is what it said while listing the defects being fixed. Five prose
semicolons in shipped v4.0 entries go with them, found by running the prose gate
over whole files rather than changed lines.
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README/HISTORY currently overstate the atomicity of download failures and one new cancellation test should be bounded to avoid hanging CI. 
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  • The cancellation test awaits download with no timeout, so a regression where Download.DownloadStringAsync stops observing cancellation could hang the entire test run. Consider bounding the await (similar to the other uses of WaitAsync) so the test fails fast instead of hanging.
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long startedAt = Stopwatch.GetTimestamp();
await cts.CancelAsync();
(bool success, string _) = await download;
TimeSpan elapsed = Stopwatch.GetElapsedTime(startedAt);

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🔵 Needs a closer look
The README/HISTORY release notes currently describe an atomic “write beside + move into place / untouched on failure” behavior that does not match the in-place truncation rewrite implemented in Utilities/Download.cs.
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README.md:37
  • The README claims the Download fix now "replaced whole on success and left untouched on failure", but DownloadFile/DownloadFileAsync currently truncate and rewrite the destination in place (and can leave a partial file on mid-body failure). Please update this release-note bullet to match the current contract (see ARCHITECTURE.md’s Download bullet and Utilities/Download.cs).
- Added `HttpClientFactory`, a reusable resilient HTTP client factory (Polly retry and circuit breaker) with an AOT safe `AssemblyInfo` identity helper and a tunable `HttpClientOptions`.
- Fixed `Download.DownloadFile` and `DownloadFileAsync` corrupting the destination when downloading over a longer existing file. The destination is now replaced whole on success and left untouched on failure.

HISTORY.md:8
  • This v4.0 HISTORY entry says downloads now "write beside the destination and move the result into place" and that the destination is "left untouched when a download fails partway", but the implementation rewrites the destination in place (Utilities/Download.cs) and ARCHITECTURE.md notes that a mid-body failure can leave a partial file. Please align this release-history bullet with the actual behavior.
 - Fixed `Download.DownloadFile` and `DownloadFileAsync` corrupting the destination file: both opened it with `File.OpenWrite`, which does not truncate, so a download over a longer existing file left that file's trailing bytes after the downloaded content and reported success. Both now write beside the destination and move the result into place, so the destination is replaced whole on success and left untouched when a download fails partway.

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Correct What the Release Notes and the Contract Claim About a Download
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A local pass over the release notes found three claims that did not match the
code, and one behavior difference the notes did not mention at all.
HISTORY.md credited v4.1 with opening the destination only once the response is
accepted, so a failed request leaves it untouched. v4.0 already did that: it
called GetStreamAsync before File.OpenWrite, so a request that failed never
reached the file. The entry claimed unchanged behavior as a fix.
The same entry omitted what did change. Truncating at open means a download that
fails partway now leaves a short file, where OpenWrite left the original bytes
behind the newly written ones. That is a real loss of content for a consumer whose
download is interrupted, it is the cost of the fix rather than a detail, and
HISTORY.md is where a consumer would look for it. Both it and README.md now say so.
Windows refuses FileMode.Create against a hidden file, where the FileMode.OpenOrCreate
that OpenWrite used does not, so a download over a hidden destination would have
started failing on a supported platform, contradicting the claim that the
destination's own attributes survive. Both methods now open with OpenOrCreate and
truncate with SetLength, which is what fixes the original defect without changing
which destinations can be opened. Re-probed on Linux: mode 0600 survives with the
file truncated to the body's length, a hard link sees the new content, a symlink is
written through, and a read-only destination is still refused with the file intact.
The Windows half is documented behavior rather than something this host can run.
ARCHITECTURE.md named a public type Extensions that v4.0 renamed to
CompressExtensions, so the contract list described a type consumers cannot
reference, and it attributed the logger helpers to it rather than to the internal
LogExtensions. It also named FileEx's options as Options rather than the static
FileEx.Options, and wrote its own method names without the parentheses the same
change had just standardized on in HISTORY.md and README.md.
Two test comments said the body is fetched before the destination is opened.
GetStreamAsync completes on the response headers, so only those have been read and
the body streams after the file is open.
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Answering the three findings from the round on 3a6dde5 that open no thread.
README.md:37 The README claims the Download fix now "replaced whole on success and left untouched on failure", but DownloadFile/DownloadFileAsync currently truncate and rewrite the destination in place (and can leave a partial file on mid-body failure).
HISTORY.md:8 This v4.0 HISTORY entry says downloads now "write beside the destination and move the result into place" and that the destination is "left untouched when a download fails partway", but the implementation rewrites the destination in place.
Both correct, both fixed in 6f73755 and aabeb0c, which landed after this round read the branch. The two entries moved into a new v4.1 section and now describe truncate-and-rewrite-in-place, and both carry the caveat the earlier wording omitted: a download that fails partway leaves a short file, where File.OpenWrite() left the original bytes behind the newly written ones. That is a real loss of content for an interrupted download and belongs in the release notes rather than only in ARCHITECTURE.md.
Worth recording, since these two findings track a fix that changed shape three times: the temporary-file-and-move approach they describe was itself reverted, because moving a file into place replaces the destination's identity rather than its contents. Probed on Linux: a 0600 destination came back 0664, a symlink was replaced by a regular file leaving its target stale, a hard link kept the old content, and a read-only destination was silently overwritten, where Windows refuses the same move.
PR title exceeds limit
Stale. The title was 76 characters when first raised and has been Fix the StringHistory Limits and Make the Download Tests Offline at 64 since, well inside the 72-character limit GOVERNANCE.md sets. Verified against the live title rather than the badge.
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README.md/HISTORY.md and the PR description currently describe an atomic “write-beside then move” behavior, but the implementation truncates and rewrites in place and can leave partial files on mid-body failure.
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  • README release-notes bullet claims the download destination is “replaced whole on success and left untouched on failure”, but DownloadFile/DownloadFileAsync now open the destination with FileMode.Create and stream the body into it. That truncates immediately and can leave a partial file if the body copy fails; please align the README text with the actual behavior (and ARCHITECTURE.md’s Download contract).
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The changes are internally consistent across implementation, tests, and documentation, and the updated tests remove external network/environment dependencies while adding coverage for the newly defined behaviors. 
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State the Both-Zero Exception in the README Limit Summary
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The README said zero retains no lines on that side, without the exception that
ARCHITECTURE.md and HISTORY.md both carry: zero on both sides at once is the one
unrestricted mode. Read alone, the short summary described a StringHistory that
retains nothing by default, which is the opposite of what a default-constructed
one does.
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The implementation changes are consistent with the updated documented contracts and are backed by expanded deterministic, offline test coverage for the new behaviors.
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Closes#427. Closes#452. Closes#454.
Promotes `develop` at `f2a8f62` to `main`. One squashed pull request,
#455, which closed the three open issues and fixed one defect found
while doing so.
The issue-closing keywords sit here rather than on #455, since GitHub
only closes an issue when the pull request merges into the default
branch, and #455 merged into `develop`.
## What is being promoted
- **#454, the `StringHistory` limit properties.** `MaxFirstLines` and
`MaxLastLines` were each documented `Set to 0 for no limit`, which holds
only when both are zero. Zero on one side is now documented as retaining
no lines on that side, both the constructor and the setters reject a
negative value, and assigning a limit re-partitions the lines already
stored instead of being ignored. Re-partitioning only ever discards, so
what is retained is always a prefix of the appended lines followed by a
suffix of them, and once a line has been dropped the head is trimmed but
never refilled.
- **#452, the download tests.** They reached `www.google.com` and
`httpstat.us`, so the unit-test gate depended on outbound DNS and on two
third parties, and paid a five-second sleep on every run. They now drive
a loopback HTTP server on an ephemeral port, and the test assembly
disables the ambient proxy so a machine with `http_proxy` set does not
send loopback requests through it. `Download`'s public surface is
unchanged.
- **#427, the coordination reference.** `HISTORY.md` named the template
repository in its v3.5 entry and no longer does.
- **A `Download` defect found during the above.** `DownloadFile()` and
`DownloadFileAsync()` opened the destination with `File.OpenWrite()`,
which does not truncate, so a download over a longer existing file left
that file's trailing bytes after the downloaded content and returned
`true`. Both now open with `FileMode.OpenOrCreate` and truncate with
`SetLength(0)`, rewriting in place so the destination's permissions,
ownership, and any links to it survive.
- **The version floor**, raised to 4.1, with the two shipped fixes
recorded in `HISTORY.md` and `README.md`.
## Verification
The merge is clean and `git write-tree` on it equals `git rev-parse
origin/develop^{tree}` exactly (`0cfd271c`), so `main` ends up with
`develop`'s tree and nothing else.
`develop` carried 206 tests green, the `.NET Format` clean-compile chain
with zero warnings under `AnalysisMode=All` and `TreatWarningsAsErrors`,
markdownlint, CSpell, actionlint, `editorconfig-checker`, shellcheck and
shfmt clean, and the hub's prose and repository gates clean. #455 went
through eight review rounds; every thread was resolved and every
suppressed finding answered, with `suppressed on_head=0` at the merge.
## Releases stay blocked, and this does not unblock them
`publish-release.yml` still fails at the NuGet OIDC token exchange,
because the hub-hosted release chain makes the `job_workflow_ref` claim
name the hub rather than this repository
([ProjectTemplate#1126](ptr727/ProjectTemplate#1126)).
The fix moves the token exchange and the push back into the calling
repository, which needs new content in this repository's
`publish-release.yml` plus a re-pin, and cannot land until that hub
change reaches its `main`. That is a follow-up pull request, so merging
this one leaves the latest release at 4.0.38.
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## Summary by CodeRabbit
* **Bug Fixes**
* Downloads now fully replace existing files, preventing stale or
corrupted trailing content.
* Failed downloads preserve existing destination files and handle
unavailable destinations safely.
* `StringHistory` now validates limits, preserves discarded-content
rules, repartitions stored lines correctly, and supports atomic limit
updates.
* **Documentation**
* Clarified download buffering, truncation, partial-download outcomes,
file options, and `StringHistory` behavior.
* Updated terminology and retry-behavior documentation.
* **Release**
* Updated the project version to 4.1.
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Closes#427. Closes#452. Closes#454.
#454, the StringHistory limit properties
MaxFirstLines and MaxLastLines were each documented Set to 0 for no limit, which holds only when both are zero, the one branch AppendLine treats as unrestricted. Set individually, zero retains none on that side. The maintainer chose the smaller of the two directions the issue offered, so the documentation now says what the code does rather than the code changing to match the documentation.
Three behavioral changes on top of that:
  • The constructor and both setters reject a negative value with ArgumentOutOfRangeException, rather than letting it reach RemoveAt and throw after entries have already been taken. The constructor validates its own parameters, so the exception names maxFirstLines or maxLastLines rather than value.
  • Each setter re-partitions the lines already stored, so a limit assigned after appending is honored instead of ignored.
  • Re-partitioning only ever discards. Once a line has been dropped the head is closed: it can be trimmed but never refilled, by a later append or by a later, larger MaxFirstLines. What is retained is therefore always a prefix of the stream followed by a suffix of it, which is exactly the head-and-tail contract ARCHITECTURE.md states.
That third point is the one worth reviewing closely, and it is the one two local review passes and a fuzz each found a different defect in before it settled. A 300000-history fuzz over random append and limit sequences holds the prefix-plus-suffix contract, the count bound, and no-duplicates across four and a half million intermediate states.
#452, the download tests
DownloadTests and DownloadAsyncTests reached www.google.com and httpstat.us, so the unit-test gate depended on outbound DNS and on two third parties it does not control, and paid a five-second sleep on every run to exercise the timeout path.
They now drive a loopback HTTP server bound to an ephemeral port. Download's public surface is unchanged, so the Lazy<HttpClient> contract in ARCHITECTURE.md still holds and the seam the issue offered as the larger alternative was not needed.
  • The server writes HTTP/1.1 onto a TcpListener socket rather than using HttpListener, which on Windows resolves an explicit-address prefix through http.sys and needs a URL reservation an unelevated developer does not have. CI is Linux-only, so nothing here would have caught that.
  • Binding port 0 and reading the port back removes the probe-then-bind race a first draft had.
  • The negative case is a 404 from that server rather than a hostname expected never to resolve, which a wildcard registration or a captive-portal resolver would have silently inverted.
  • The cancellation test waits for the server to signal that it holds the request, cancels only then, and asserts the call returned well inside the route's own delay. Asserting only that the call returned false would have passed just as well if the server had never started.
  • Both not-found tests assert the server actually routed the request, for the same reason.
  • The test assembly disables the ambient proxy. HttpClientFactory leaves SocketsHttpHandler.UseProxy at its default, so a client resolves HttpClient.DefaultProxy, which on Unix is read from http_proxy and bypasses loopback only where no_proxy says to. A machine configured that way would send every loopback request to a proxy, which is the environment dependence this issue exists to remove.
The suite is 200 tests and runs in about one second, against 193 tests and roughly six seconds before. Twenty consecutive runs were clean.
#427, the coordination reference
HISTORY.md named the template repository in its v3.5 entry. It now states what changed without naming where it came from. .github/copilot-instructions.md, the other file the issue named, was already clear, and the hub's own audit reports this repository clean.
A reviewer may read the HISTORY.md hunk as an out-of-scope edit to a shipped release record. It is #427's deliverable rather than incidental churn.
Verification
.NET Format (CSharpier, build, dotnet format style --verify-no-changes) clean, zero warnings under AnalysisMode=All and TreatWarningsAsErrors. markdownlint, CSpell, actionlint, editorconfig-checker, shellcheck and shfmt clean. The hub's prose gate and repository gate both clean.
One thing beyond the three issues
Download.DownloadFile() and DownloadFileAsync() opened the destination with File.OpenWrite(), which is FileMode.OpenOrCreate and does not truncate, so a download over a longer existing file left that file's trailing bytes after the downloaded content and returned true. A local review pass raised it, and the maintainer asked for it here rather than as a separate issue.
The fix changed shape twice before settling, so read the current behavior here rather than in the commit history. Both methods now open the destination with FileMode.OpenOrCreate and truncate it with SetLength(0), rewriting it in place. Its permissions, ownership, and any hard links or symlinks to it survive, which a probe confirms on Linux: mode 0600 stays 0600 with the file truncated to the body's length, a hard link sees the new content, a symlink is written through rather than replaced, and a read-only destination is refused with the file intact.
The cost, which the release notes now state rather than leave implicit: truncation happens once the response headers are accepted, so a download that fails partway leaves a short file, where File.OpenWrite() left the original bytes behind the newly written ones.
Two approaches were tried and rejected on the way, both by local review passes:
  • FileMode.Create, which empties the destination before a single body byte exists, and which Windows refuses outright against a hidden file where OpenOrCreate succeeds.
  • Writing beside the destination and moving the result into place. That gives the strongest failure guarantee, an untouched destination, but it replaces the file's identity rather than its contents. Probed on Linux: a 0600 destination came back 0664, a symlink was replaced by a regular file leaving its target stale, a hard link kept the old content, and a read-only destination was silently overwritten, since rename(2) consults the directory's permission and not the file's, while Windows refuses that same move. The maintainer chose in-place rewriting over that trade.
Six tests cover it: two for the overwrite, two for a request that fails before the response is accepted, and two for a destination that cannot be opened.
Not in this change
  • The failing Publish project release run is the NuGet OIDC job_workflow_ref claim, ProjectTemplate#1126. The fix moves the token exchange and the push into the calling repository, so this repository's publish-release.yml needs new content plus a re-pin. That cannot merge usefully until the hub fix reaches its main, so it is a follow-up rather than part of this change.
Summary by CodeRabbit
  • New Features
    • StringHistory now repartitions retained lines when limits change and preserves consistent first- and last-line behavior.
    • Zero limits support unrestricted retention; negative limits are rejected.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Downloads correctly replace oversized existing files without leaving stale content.
    • Failed downloads preserve existing files and handle unusable destinations gracefully.
  • Documentation
    • Updated architecture, README, and release history documentation.
  • Tests
    • Expanded coverage for history limits, downloads, concurrency, cancellation, and failure scenarios.
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Make the Download Tests Offline and Tighten the StringHistory Limit C…
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Closes the three open issues on this repository.
#454, StringHistory limit properties. MaxFirstLines and MaxLastLines were each
documented "Set to 0 for no limit", which holds only when both are zero, the one
branch AppendLine treats as unrestricted. Set individually, zero retains none on
that side, so the documentation now says that. Both the constructor and the two
setters reject a negative value with ArgumentOutOfRangeException, rather than
letting it reach RemoveAt and throw after entries have already been taken. Each
setter re-partitions the stored entries and resets the counters, so a limit
assigned after appending is honored instead of ignored. ARCHITECTURE.md "Public
API Conventions" records the contract, and README.md and HISTORY.md carry the
behavioral change.
#452, download tests. DownloadTests and DownloadAsyncTests reached real hosts,
so the unit-test gate depended on outbound DNS and on two third parties. They now
drive a loopback HttpListener bound to an ephemeral port, which makes success,
not-found, and cancellation deterministic and offline, and drops the five-second
sleep the timeout case paid on every run. The negative case is a 404 from that
server rather than a name expected never to resolve, which a wildcard or a
captive-portal resolver would have silently inverted. Download's public surface
is unchanged, so the Lazy<HttpClient> contract in ARCHITECTURE.md still holds.
#427, coordination reference. HISTORY.md named the template repository in its
v3.5 entry. The entry now states what changed without naming where it came from.
.github/copilot-instructions.md was already clear.
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Close the Defects the Local Review Found
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A local adversarial pass over the previous commit raised seven findings against it.
Six are fixed here and one is declined.
StringHistory. Raising MaxFirstLines on a history that had already dropped a line
promoted retained tail lines into the head, where they could never roll out again,
so [L0,L1,L8,L9] with the limit raised to 5 kept L8 and L9 as first lines forever.
That contradicted the head and tail contract this change had just written into
ARCHITECTURE.md. The head is now closed once anything has been discarded: it only
shrinks from there, re-partitioning trims the head and the tail separately rather
than re-slicing a list that has a gap in it, and the roll indexes the stored head
rather than the limit, which a widened limit would otherwise index past the end of
the list. Three tests cover the closed head, the still-open head, and the head-only
case, and a 200000-history fuzz over random append and limit sequences held the
ordering, bound, and no-duplicate invariants across three million assertions.
LoopbackServer. Rewritten onto a TcpListener rather than HttpListener, which fixes
three findings at once. Binding port 0 and reading the port back removes the
probe-then-release window that failed 6 constructions in 4800 concurrent ones.
Writing the response onto the socket removes the http.sys URL reservation that an
explicit-address prefix needs on Windows, where GOVERNANCE.md declares Windows a
supported development platform and CI is Linux-only. Serving the connection with a
catch-all removes the unexpected exception that escaped the accept loop, faulted
the task Dispose waits on, and reddened a test whose assertions had all passed.
Dispose is also idempotent now and its wait is bounded, and the fixture reports the
content's byte length rather than its UTF-16 char count.
Cancellation test. It asserted only that the call returned false, which any failure
produces, so it could not tell a cancelled request from a server that never
started. It now waits for the server to signal that the slow route has the request,
cancels only then, and asserts the call returned well inside the route's own delay.
Proxy independence. HttpClientFactory leaves SocketsHttpHandler.UseProxy at its
default, so a client resolves HttpClient.DefaultProxy, which on Unix reads
http_proxy and bypasses loopback only where no_proxy says to. A machine configured
that way would send these loopback requests to a proxy, which is the environment
dependence #452 exists to remove, so the test assembly disables the ambient proxy.
Declined: the finding that the HISTORY.md v3.5 entry is an out-of-scope edit to a
shipped release record. That edit is #427's deliverable, not incidental churn.
Not fixed here, and raised for a separate decision: Download.DownloadFile and
DownloadFileAsync open the destination with File.OpenWrite, which does not
truncate, so downloading over a longer existing file leaves trailing bytes from the
previous content. It is a pre-existing defect in shipped code, outside all three
issues this branch closes.
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Close the Defects the Second Local Review Found
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A second adversarial pass over the previous commit found that its own fix had
introduced a regression, and a fuzz over the corrected model then found a third
defect neither pass had reached.
StringHistory. The previous commit tracked one flag for two different questions,
so entering the unrestricted mode reset the head counter while leaving the
discarded flag set, and the next limit assignment read a partition that no longer
described the stored lines. A history limited to 2 and 2, cleared to unrestricted,
then given two more lines and limited again, discarded the two most recent lines
and kept nothing. A fuzz over the corrected model then found the deeper case: a
history that had only ever kept a tail could have a head limit raised, which
relabeled tail lines as first lines and left a window that was neither a prefix
nor a suffix of the stream. Both are the same root cause, a head that could grow
into lines that are not the stream's first, so the head is now closed absolutely:
once a line has been discarded the head is trimmed but never refilled, by an
append or by a re-partition. The unrestricted mode extends the tail rather than
the head once anything has been discarded, so what is retained stays a prefix
followed by a suffix. Four tests cover the two cases above, the tail-only history,
and a head that cannot be rebuilt. A 300000-history fuzz over random append and
limit sequences now holds that prefix-plus-suffix contract across four and a half
million states, where the previous model failed it within five iterations.
LoopbackServer. Connections are served concurrently rather than one at a time, so
the thirty-second slow route cannot block a later request, and Dispose waits for
the in-flight connections along with the accept loop under the same bounded,
never-rethrowing wait. The server also counts the requests it routes.
Tests. The cancellation test waited on a signal that nothing could ever fault or
cancel, so a server-side failure before the slow route was reached hung the test
rather than failing it, with no deadline anywhere to end the run; the wait is now
bounded. Both not-found tests asserted only that the call returned false, which a
refused connection produces just as well, so each now asserts the server routed
the request. A new test proves two concurrent requests to one server both complete.
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Make downloads offline and enforce StringHistory limit semantics
🐞 Bug fix🧪 Tests📝 Documentation🕐 40+ Minutes
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• Enforces StringHistory limits immediately, rejects negatives, and preserves prefix-plus-suffix
retention.
• Replaces external download endpoints with deterministic loopback HTTP scenarios.
• Documents clarified limit semantics and adds comprehensive regression coverage.

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graph TD
HistoryTests["History tests"] -->|verifies| StringHistory["StringHistory"] -->|maintains| RetainedLines["Retained lines"]
DownloadTests["Download tests"] -->|calls| DownloadAPI["Download API"] -->|requests| LoopbackServer["Loopback server"]
HttpDefaults["HTTP defaults"] -->|disables proxy| DownloadAPI

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The following are alternative approaches to this PR:
1. Atomic limit update API
  • ➕ Avoids order-dependent discards when changing both limits
  • ➕ Expresses two-limit repartitioning as one operation
  • ➖ Expands the public API
  • ➖ Existing property setters still need defined behavior
  • ➖ Does not recover lines already discarded
2. Injectable HTTP handler seam
  • ➕ Produces smaller and faster unit tests
  • ➕ Avoids implementing an HTTP parser and socket lifecycle
  • ➖ Changes production design solely for tests
  • ➖ Bypasses real networking and streaming behavior
  • ➖ Conflicts with the shared Lazy contract
Recommendation: Keep the current approach: in-place repartitioning preserves API compatibility, and the loopback TCP server provides deterministic offline coverage through the real HTTP stack. An atomic two-limit method could be considered separately if callers frequently need to change both limits without setter-order loss.
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Bug fix (1)  +115 / -9 
StringHistory.csEnforce mutable head-tail limits safely+115/-9
Enforce mutable head-tail limits safely
• Validates constructor and property limits, repartitions retained lines whenever a limit changes, and tracks whether the stream head has closed after a discard. Appends now preserve prefix-plus-suffix semantics across unrestricted and reconfigured states.

Utilities/StringHistory.cs
Tests (3)  +344 / -26 
DownloadAsyncTests.csRun asynchronous download tests against loopback HTTP+68/-22
Run asynchronous download tests against loopback HTTP
• Replaces public internet dependencies with deterministic success, 404, concurrent, and cancellation scenarios. Assertions now verify exact local content, request routing, and prompt cancellation.

UtilitiesTests/DownloadAsyncTests.cs
DownloadTests.csRun synchronous download tests against loopback HTTP+18/-4
Run synchronous download tests against loopback HTTP
• Uses the local server for successful metadata retrieval and a routed 404 failure, including exact content-length and request-count assertions.

UtilitiesTests/DownloadTests.cs
StringHistoryTests.csCover StringHistory validation and repartitioning invariants+258/-0
Cover StringHistory validation and repartitioning invariants
• Adds regression tests for negative limits, post-append limit changes, head trimming, unrestricted transitions, and append behavior after discards. The cases verify that retained lines remain a stream prefix followed by its suffix without rebuilding a closed head.

UtilitiesTests/StringHistoryTests.cs
Documentation (3)  +4 / -1 
ARCHITECTURE.mdDefine the StringHistory retention contract+1/-0
Define the StringHistory retention contract
• Documents zero-limit semantics, negative-value rejection, immediate repartitioning, and the rule that discarded head lines are never recovered.

ARCHITECTURE.md
HISTORY.mdRecord StringHistory behavioral changes+2/-1
Record StringHistory behavioral changes
• Adds the tightened limit contract to the v4.0 release history and removes an unrelated upstream-template reference from v3.5 wording.

HISTORY.md
README.mdAdvertise revised StringHistory limit behavior+1/-0
Advertise revised StringHistory limit behavior
• Highlights immediate repartitioning and negative-limit validation among the release changes.

README.md
Other (2)  +279 / -0 
LoopbackServer.csAdd an ephemeral TCP HTTP test server+255/-0
Add an ephemeral TCP HTTP test server
• Introduces a parallel-capable loopback server with success, missing, and delayed routes. It binds an ephemeral port, writes HTTP/1.1 responses directly to sockets, exposes synchronization signals, and bounds teardown.

UtilitiesTests/LoopbackServer.cs
TestHttpDefaults.csDisable ambient proxies for HTTP tests+24/-0
Disable ambient proxies for HTTP tests
• Adds a module initializer that replaces the process-wide default proxy, ensuring loopback requests cannot be redirected by developer or CI environment variables.

UtilitiesTests/TestHttpDefaults.cs
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StringHistory now validates and reapplies retention limits. File downloads now truncate destinations correctly. Download tests now use a deterministic local HTTP server. Documentation and version metadata describe the 4.1 changes.
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History and download behavior
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StringHistory retention and repartitioning
Utilities/StringHistory.cs, UtilitiesTests/StringHistoryTests.cs		StringHistory rejects negative limits, applies zero-limit semantics, repartitions stored lines, and preserves discard state across later limit changes.
Download destination handling
Utilities/Download.cs, UtilitiesTests/DownloadTests.cs, UtilitiesTests/DownloadAsyncTests.cs		Synchronous and asynchronous downloads truncate existing destinations before copying. Tests verify replacement, failure preservation, and unusable destinations.
Deterministic download test infrastructure
UtilitiesTests/LoopbackServer.cs, UtilitiesTests/TestHttpDefaults.cs, UtilitiesTests/DownloadTests.cs, UtilitiesTests/DownloadAsyncTests.cs		Tests use local success, missing, and delayed routes. Coverage includes metadata, request counts, concurrent requests, cancellation, and proxy isolation.
API and release documentation
ARCHITECTURE.md, HISTORY.md, README.md, version.json		Documentation and release metadata describe the updated contracts and version 4.1 changes.
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes
Merge Risk:🔵 Low · up to aabeb
The PR tightens StringHistory limit handling, makes download tests offline, and safely replaces downloaded files; the remaining README wording omits the special unrestricted (0, 0) case, creating a bounded public-contract documentation mismatch. The change is otherwise mergeable with explicit owner follow-up to correct the README.
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Linked Issues check✅ PassedThe changes satisfy all linked issues: HISTORY.md removes the private template reference [#427]; download tests use deterministic loopback responses and disable ambient proxy use [#452]; StringHistory…
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The changes satisfy all linked issues: HISTORY.md removes the private template reference [#427]; download tests use deterministic loopback responses and disable ambient proxy use [#452]; StringHistory validates limits, documents zero-limit behavior, and re-partitions existing content without restoring discarded lines [#454].
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The remaining findings are minor clarity/grammar improvements and do not affect the correctness or determinism goals of the change.
Pull request overview
This pull request removes external network dependencies from the Download test suite by introducing a local loopback HTTP server, and tightens/clarifies StringHistory’s public limit-contract (zero semantics, negative rejection, and post-append re-partitioning) in both code and documentation.
Changes:
  • Replace online Download/DownloadAsync tests with deterministic loopback-server scenarios (success, 404, cancellation, concurrency) and disable ambient proxies for the test process.
  • Update StringHistory to validate negative limits eagerly, re-partition stored history when limits change, and document the “head+tail only, discards-only” behavior across code and architecture docs.
  • Refresh release notes to reflect the clarified StringHistory contract.
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UtilitiesTests/TestHttpDefaults.csSets test-process HTTP defaults to keep loopback HTTP calls offline/deterministic under proxy-configured environments.
UtilitiesTests/LoopbackServer.csAdds a minimal loopback HTTP server used by download-related tests.
UtilitiesTests/DownloadTests.csMoves sync download tests to loopback endpoints and asserts deterministic sizes/failures.
UtilitiesTests/DownloadAsyncTests.csMoves async download tests to loopback endpoints and adds deterministic cancellation/concurrency coverage.
UtilitiesTests/StringHistoryTests.csAdds/extends coverage for negative validation, re-partitioning behavior, and head-closure semantics.
Utilities/StringHistory.csImplements the clarified limit contract: negative rejection, re-partitioning on setters, and “discards-only/head-closure” logic.
README.mdNotes the StringHistory contract change as part of v4.0 breaking-change summary.
HISTORY.mdUpdates v4.0 and v3.5 release notes to remove private-template attribution and record the StringHistory contract clarification.
ARCHITECTURE.mdRecords the updated StringHistory behavioral contract in the public API conventions.
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  • Minor grammar in the comment: “Both limits at zero is …” should be “Both limits at zero are …”.
 // Both limits at zero is the unrestricted mode, which retains every line.
// Nothing is discarded here, so the counters already describe the stored list.

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+- **`StringHistory`** retains at most `MaxFirstLines` from the head and `MaxLastLines` from the tail. Both limits at zero is the one unrestricted mode, and zero on a single side retains no lines on that side. Either limit rejects a negative value, and assigning one re-partitions the lines already stored, so the history never holds more than the limits then in force allow. Re-partitioning only discards: once a line has been dropped the head is closed, so a later, larger `MaxFirstLines` never promotes a retained tail line into it.
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Replace the Destination File on a Download Instead of Overwriting It
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DownloadFile and DownloadFileAsync opened the destination with File.OpenWrite,
which is FileMode.OpenOrCreate and does not truncate, so a download over a longer
existing file left that file's trailing bytes after the downloaded content and
returned true. A 16-byte body written over a 200-byte file produced a 200-byte
file. Both now create the file instead.
Both local review passes raised this against the download tests rather than the
library, since the rewritten test exercises the path for real but seeds it with
Path.GetTempFileName's empty file, so its length assertion passed either way. Two
tests now seed a file four times the body's length first, and both fail against
the previous behavior and pass against this one.
The maintainer asked for it here rather than as a separate issue, so
ARCHITECTURE.md records the contract and README.md and HISTORY.md carry the fix.
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Replace a Downloaded File Only Once the Whole Body Is on Disk
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Answers the first review round on the pull request and a third local pass.
Download. The previous commit fixed the destination not being truncated by
creating the file instead of opening it, which traded one defect for a worse one:
GetStreamAsync returns once the headers arrive, so the destination was emptied
before a single body byte existed and a download that then failed left a 0-byte
file where the old code left the original content. File.Create also asks for
FileAccess.ReadWrite, so a destination the process may write but not read stopped
working at all. Both methods now write beside the destination and move the result
into place, so the destination is replaced whole on success and left untouched on
failure, and the temporary file is removed when a download fails. Two tests cover
the failure case, alongside the two covering the overwrite.
ARCHITECTURE.md said Download reads with HttpCompletionOption.ResponseHeadersRead
so a large response streams rather than buffering whole. That is true only of
GetContentInfo, which discards the body; DownloadString calls GetStringAsync and
buffers the whole response. The entry now says which method does which.
StringHistory. The constructor assigns the backing fields rather than the
properties, since both limits apply as one pair and the setters would apply them
one at a time and re-partition an empty history twice. The XML documentation and
the comments drop the "both limits at zero is" construction that four findings
across three files objected to. HISTORY.md now also records the AppendLine
behavior that shipped with the setters, which it described only as a limit set
after appending being honored.
LoopbackServer. The 404 route has its own case rather than reaching the default
arm, so the route contract is stated rather than incidental. A peer that connects
and sends nothing is no longer counted as a routed request, which the exact-count
assertions depend on. Dispose waits for the accept loop before reading the
connection set, so the set is final rather than a snapshot that could miss a
connection started but not yet registered.
The 300000-history fuzz continues to hold the prefix-plus-suffix contract, the
count bound, no duplicates, and that an assignment never adds a line, across four
and a half million states.
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Answering the two suppressed low-confidence findings from the round on 1932b4e, which open no thread and so have nowhere to be resolved.
Utilities/StringHistory.cs:134 Grammar in the XML docs: "both limits at 0 retains every line" should be "retain every line".
Utilities/StringHistory.cs:166 Minor grammar in the comment: "Both limits at zero is ..." should be "Both limits at zero are ...".
Both are fixed in 6935b65, by the same change that answered the four threaded findings objecting to the same construction. Rather than correcting the agreement in six places, the construction is gone: the property summaries read "Set to 0 to retain no last lines. Every line is retained only when both limits are 0.", the class remarks read "Zero on a single side retains no lines on that side, and zero on both is the one unrestricted mode", and the comment in Repartition reads "Zero on both limits is the unrestricted mode". Six findings against one phrasing is the phrasing's problem rather than six separate ones.
For the record, since a suppressed finding is counted once raised and never uncounted: status now reports suppressed=2 (on_head=0 earlier=2), so nothing is outstanding against the current head.
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DownloadFile/DownloadFileAsync currently compute the temp path outside the try/catch (so they can throw) and can overwrite/delete unrelated files on rare temp-name collisions. 
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  • High: Make DownloadFileAsync handle invalid destination paths and temp-name collisions safely. CreateTemporaryPath(fileName) currently runs before the try block (so it can throw and break the "return bool, don’t throw" contract), and FileMode.Create with a random name can overwrite an existing file on collision. Move temp-name generation inside the try, create the temp file with FileMode.CreateNew and retry on collision, and only delete the temp path when this call created it.
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Answers the review round on 6935b65, which raised this against both DownloadFile
and DownloadFileAsync.
The temporary file was opened with FileMode.Create under a name from
Path.GetRandomFileName, so a name that happened to exist in the destination
directory was overwritten, and the failure path then deleted that unrelated file.
The file is now created with FileMode.CreateNew, which fails rather than
overwrites, and a collision retries under a fresh name. The path is assigned to
the caller's variable only once the file behind it exists, so the failure path
deletes a file this call actually created and nothing else. Any other I/O failure,
a missing destination directory among them, is left to the caller to report rather
than retried.
The same finding also asked that the temporary path be named inside the try, since
Path.GetDirectoryName can throw on invalid path characters and would otherwise
break the bool-returning contract. Naming now happens inside the try, so the point
is moot either way, but the premise does not hold on this target framework: on
net10.0 Path.GetDirectoryName and Path.Combine return normally for an embedded
null character, a pipe, and a 5000-character path alike. That rejection is .NET
Framework behavior.
Two tests cover a destination whose directory does not exist, one per method,
asserting the call reports failure rather than throwing and leaves no file behind.
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Truncate and Rewrite a Downloaded File in Place
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The maintainer chose write-in-place over the temporary-file-and-move approach the
two previous commits built, after a local review pass established what that
approach cost.
Moving a temporary file into place replaces the destination's identity rather
than its contents, which a probe confirmed on Linux: a destination at mode 0600
came back at 0664, a symlink destination was replaced by a regular file leaving
its target stale, a second hard link kept the old content, and a read-only
destination was silently overwritten, because rename consults the directory's
permission and ignores the file's. Windows refuses that same move, so the two
platforms disagreed on whether the download succeeded. A killed process also
orphaned an unnamed temporary in the destination's own directory.
Both methods now open the destination with FileMode.Create and FileAccess.Write.
Create is what fixes the original defect, since OpenWrite does not truncate and
left a longer file's trailing bytes after the body. Write rather than the
ReadWrite that File.Create requests, so a destination the process may write but
not read still works. A probe against this build confirms the four properties the
documentation now claims: mode 0600 survives with the file truncated to the body's
length, a hard link sees the new content, a symlink is written through rather than
replaced, and a read-only destination is refused with the file left intact.
The cost, stated in ARCHITECTURE.md rather than left implicit: the destination is
opened once the response is accepted, so a failure during the body can leave a
partial file. A request that fails before that leaves it untouched, which is what
the two renamed tests pin, and they now assert the server served the request so a
connection failure cannot pass for the file behaving correctly.
CreateTemporaryFile and DeleteTemporary are gone with the approach that needed them.
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Answering the suppressed finding from the round on 6935b65, which opens no thread and so has nowhere to be resolved.
Utilities/Download.cs:162 High: Make DownloadFileAsync handle invalid destination paths and temp-name collisions safely. CreateTemporaryPath(fileName) currently runs before the try block (so it can throw and break the "return bool, don't throw" contract), and FileMode.Create with a random name can overwrite an existing file on collision. Move temp-name generation inside the try, create the temp file with FileMode.CreateNew and retry on collision, and only delete the temp path when this call created it.
Same finding as the threaded one on DownloadFile, answered there. In short: the collision half was real and was fixed in 7aac102, the escape half does not hold on net10.0 (probed: Path.GetDirectoryName and Path.Combine return normally for an embedded null character, a pipe, and a 5000-character path, that rejection being .NET Framework behavior), and the whole temporary-file approach is gone as of 2bc77c0 in favor of writing in place.
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Escape the Unicode Test Literal So the Source Stays ASCII
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The prose gate run over whole files, rather than over changed lines, reports
seven unclassified non-ASCII characters in AppendLine_UnicodeCharacters_ShouldPreserve:
four CJK ideographs and three astral-plane emoji, sitting literally in the source.
The test's subject is that a non-ASCII string round-trips, so the string stays and
the source loses the characters instead. The escapes compile to the identical
string, verified against the original bytes, so the assertion is unchanged.
Found by running the gate without --diff over every file this branch edits. The
gate's own help states the policy the default hides: --diff "matches the repo
policy: fix as each file is next edited, not swept", so a violation on an unchanged
line belongs to whoever next edits that file.
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Raise the Version Floor to 4.1 and Record the v4.1 Release Notes
6f73755
version.json carries the Nerdbank.GitVersioning floor, raised on develop so the
promotion carries it to main, per OPERATIONS.md "Bumping the version floor".
HISTORY.md gains a v4.1 section holding the two library fixes this branch ships,
moved out of v4.0 where they were first written: the Download destination
corruption and the StringHistory limit contract. The offline download tests and
the coordination-reference removal stay out of both files, since neither ships in
the package.
README.md's release notes drop the Breaking Changes and Summary headings for one
short line per fix under Version 4.1. That also drops four v4.0-era lines,
including the only place the README named HttpClientFactory; HISTORY.md still
carries all of it under v4.0.
Method names in both files now end in (), so a method reads as one rather than as
a property, and the four v4.0-era instances that predate this change are corrected
with them. The StringHistory line no longer reads as though a negative value is
accepted, which is what it said while listing the defects being fixed. Five prose
semicolons in shipped v4.0 entries go with them, found by running the prose gate
over whole files rather than changed lines.
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README/HISTORY currently overstate the atomicity of download failures and one new cancellation test should be bounded to avoid hanging CI. 
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UtilitiesTests/DownloadAsyncTests.cs:223
  • The cancellation test awaits download with no timeout, so a regression where Download.DownloadStringAsync stops observing cancellation could hang the entire test run. Consider bounding the await (similar to the other uses of WaitAsync) so the test fails fast instead of hanging.
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long startedAt = Stopwatch.GetTimestamp();
await cts.CancelAsync();
(bool success, string _) = await download;
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🔵 Needs a closer look
The README/HISTORY release notes currently describe an atomic “write beside + move into place / untouched on failure” behavior that does not match the in-place truncation rewrite implemented in Utilities/Download.cs.
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README.md:37
  • The README claims the Download fix now "replaced whole on success and left untouched on failure", but DownloadFile/DownloadFileAsync currently truncate and rewrite the destination in place (and can leave a partial file on mid-body failure). Please update this release-note bullet to match the current contract (see ARCHITECTURE.md’s Download bullet and Utilities/Download.cs).
- Added `HttpClientFactory`, a reusable resilient HTTP client factory (Polly retry and circuit breaker) with an AOT safe `AssemblyInfo` identity helper and a tunable `HttpClientOptions`.
- Fixed `Download.DownloadFile` and `DownloadFileAsync` corrupting the destination when downloading over a longer existing file. The destination is now replaced whole on success and left untouched on failure.

HISTORY.md:8
  • This v4.0 HISTORY entry says downloads now "write beside the destination and move the result into place" and that the destination is "left untouched when a download fails partway", but the implementation rewrites the destination in place (Utilities/Download.cs) and ARCHITECTURE.md notes that a mid-body failure can leave a partial file. Please align this release-history bullet with the actual behavior.
 - Fixed `Download.DownloadFile` and `DownloadFileAsync` corrupting the destination file: both opened it with `File.OpenWrite`, which does not truncate, so a download over a longer existing file left that file's trailing bytes after the downloaded content and reported success. Both now write beside the destination and move the result into place, so the destination is replaced whole on success and left untouched when a download fails partway.

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Correct What the Release Notes and the Contract Claim About a Download
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A local pass over the release notes found three claims that did not match the
code, and one behavior difference the notes did not mention at all.
HISTORY.md credited v4.1 with opening the destination only once the response is
accepted, so a failed request leaves it untouched. v4.0 already did that: it
called GetStreamAsync before File.OpenWrite, so a request that failed never
reached the file. The entry claimed unchanged behavior as a fix.
The same entry omitted what did change. Truncating at open means a download that
fails partway now leaves a short file, where OpenWrite left the original bytes
behind the newly written ones. That is a real loss of content for a consumer whose
download is interrupted, it is the cost of the fix rather than a detail, and
HISTORY.md is where a consumer would look for it. Both it and README.md now say so.
Windows refuses FileMode.Create against a hidden file, where the FileMode.OpenOrCreate
that OpenWrite used does not, so a download over a hidden destination would have
started failing on a supported platform, contradicting the claim that the
destination's own attributes survive. Both methods now open with OpenOrCreate and
truncate with SetLength, which is what fixes the original defect without changing
which destinations can be opened. Re-probed on Linux: mode 0600 survives with the
file truncated to the body's length, a hard link sees the new content, a symlink is
written through, and a read-only destination is still refused with the file intact.
The Windows half is documented behavior rather than something this host can run.
ARCHITECTURE.md named a public type Extensions that v4.0 renamed to
CompressExtensions, so the contract list described a type consumers cannot
reference, and it attributed the logger helpers to it rather than to the internal
LogExtensions. It also named FileEx's options as Options rather than the static
FileEx.Options, and wrote its own method names without the parentheses the same
change had just standardized on in HISTORY.md and README.md.
Two test comments said the body is fetched before the destination is opened.
GetStreamAsync completes on the response headers, so only those have been read and
the body streams after the file is open.
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Answering the three findings from the round on 3a6dde5 that open no thread.
README.md:37 The README claims the Download fix now "replaced whole on success and left untouched on failure", but DownloadFile/DownloadFileAsync currently truncate and rewrite the destination in place (and can leave a partial file on mid-body failure).
HISTORY.md:8 This v4.0 HISTORY entry says downloads now "write beside the destination and move the result into place" and that the destination is "left untouched when a download fails partway", but the implementation rewrites the destination in place.
Both correct, both fixed in 6f73755 and aabeb0c, which landed after this round read the branch. The two entries moved into a new v4.1 section and now describe truncate-and-rewrite-in-place, and both carry the caveat the earlier wording omitted: a download that fails partway leaves a short file, where File.OpenWrite() left the original bytes behind the newly written ones. That is a real loss of content for an interrupted download and belongs in the release notes rather than only in ARCHITECTURE.md.
Worth recording, since these two findings track a fix that changed shape three times: the temporary-file-and-move approach they describe was itself reverted, because moving a file into place replaces the destination's identity rather than its contents. Probed on Linux: a 0600 destination came back 0664, a symlink was replaced by a regular file leaving its target stale, a hard link kept the old content, and a read-only destination was silently overwritten, where Windows refuses the same move.
PR title exceeds limit
Stale. The title was 76 characters when first raised and has been Fix the StringHistory Limits and Make the Download Tests Offline at 64 since, well inside the 72-character limit GOVERNANCE.md sets. Verified against the live title rather than the badge.
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README.md/HISTORY.md and the PR description currently describe an atomic “write-beside then move” behavior, but the implementation truncates and rewrites in place and can leave partial files on mid-body failure.
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  • README release-notes bullet claims the download destination is “replaced whole on success and left untouched on failure”, but DownloadFile/DownloadFileAsync now open the destination with FileMode.Create and stream the body into it. That truncates immediately and can leave a partial file if the body copy fails; please align the README text with the actual behavior (and ARCHITECTURE.md’s Download contract).
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unrestricted mode. Read alone, the short summary described a StringHistory that
retains nothing by default, which is the opposite of what a default-constructed
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## What is being promoted
- **#454, the `StringHistory` limit properties.** `MaxFirstLines` and
`MaxLastLines` were each documented `Set to 0 for no limit`, which holds
only when both are zero. Zero on one side is now documented as retaining
no lines on that side, both the constructor and the setters reject a
negative value, and assigning a limit re-partitions the lines already
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suffix of them, and once a line has been dropped the head is trimmed but
never refilled.
- **#452, the download tests.** They reached `www.google.com` and
`httpstat.us`, so the unit-test gate depended on outbound DNS and on two
third parties, and paid a five-second sleep on every run. They now drive
a loopback HTTP server on an ephemeral port, and the test assembly
disables the ambient proxy so a machine with `http_proxy` set does not
send loopback requests through it. `Download`'s public surface is
unchanged.
- **#427, the coordination reference.** `HISTORY.md` named the template
repository in its v3.5 entry and no longer does.
- **A `Download` defect found during the above.** `DownloadFile()` and
`DownloadFileAsync()` opened the destination with `File.OpenWrite()`,
which does not truncate, so a download over a longer existing file left
that file's trailing bytes after the downloaded content and returned
`true`. Both now open with `FileMode.OpenOrCreate` and truncate with
`SetLength(0)`, rewriting in place so the destination's permissions,
ownership, and any links to it survive.
- **The version floor**, raised to 4.1, with the two shipped fixes
recorded in `HISTORY.md` and `README.md`.
## Verification
The merge is clean and `git write-tree` on it equals `git rev-parse
origin/develop^{tree}` exactly (`0cfd271c`), so `main` ends up with
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`develop` carried 206 tests green, the `.NET Format` clean-compile chain
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shfmt clean, and the hub's prose and repository gates clean. #455 went
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## Releases stay blocked, and this does not unblock them
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name the hub rather than this repository
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repository, which needs new content in this repository's
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## Summary by CodeRabbit
* **Bug Fixes**
* Downloads now fully replace existing files, preventing stale or
corrupted trailing content.
* Failed downloads preserve existing destination files and handle
unavailable destinations safely.
* `StringHistory` now validates limits, preserves discarded-content
rules, repartitions stored lines correctly, and supports atomic limit
updates.
* **Documentation**
* Clarified download buffering, truncation, partial-download outcomes,
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* Updated terminology and retry-behavior documentation.
* **Release**
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Closes#427. Closes#452. Closes#454.
#454, the StringHistory limit properties
MaxFirstLines and MaxLastLines were each documented Set to 0 for no limit, which holds only when both are zero, the one branch AppendLine treats as unrestricted. Set individually, zero retains none on that side. The maintainer chose the smaller of the two directions the issue offered, so the documentation now says what the code does rather than the code changing to match the documentation.
Three behavioral changes on top of that:
  • The constructor and both setters reject a negative value with ArgumentOutOfRangeException, rather than letting it reach RemoveAt and throw after entries have already been taken. The constructor validates its own parameters, so the exception names maxFirstLines or maxLastLines rather than value.
  • Each setter re-partitions the lines already stored, so a limit assigned after appending is honored instead of ignored.
  • Re-partitioning only ever discards. Once a line has been dropped the head is closed: it can be trimmed but never refilled, by a later append or by a later, larger MaxFirstLines. What is retained is therefore always a prefix of the stream followed by a suffix of it, which is exactly the head-and-tail contract ARCHITECTURE.md states.
That third point is the one worth reviewing closely, and it is the one two local review passes and a fuzz each found a different defect in before it settled. A 300000-history fuzz over random append and limit sequences holds the prefix-plus-suffix contract, the count bound, and no-duplicates across four and a half million intermediate states.
#452, the download tests
DownloadTests and DownloadAsyncTests reached www.google.com and httpstat.us, so the unit-test gate depended on outbound DNS and on two third parties it does not control, and paid a five-second sleep on every run to exercise the timeout path.
They now drive a loopback HTTP server bound to an ephemeral port. Download's public surface is unchanged, so the Lazy<HttpClient> contract in ARCHITECTURE.md still holds and the seam the issue offered as the larger alternative was not needed.
  • The server writes HTTP/1.1 onto a TcpListener socket rather than using HttpListener, which on Windows resolves an explicit-address prefix through http.sys and needs a URL reservation an unelevated developer does not have. CI is Linux-only, so nothing here would have caught that.
  • Binding port 0 and reading the port back removes the probe-then-bind race a first draft had.
  • The negative case is a 404 from that server rather than a hostname expected never to resolve, which a wildcard registration or a captive-portal resolver would have silently inverted.
  • The cancellation test waits for the server to signal that it holds the request, cancels only then, and asserts the call returned well inside the route's own delay. Asserting only that the call returned false would have passed just as well if the server had never started.
  • Both not-found tests assert the server actually routed the request, for the same reason.
  • The test assembly disables the ambient proxy. HttpClientFactory leaves SocketsHttpHandler.UseProxy at its default, so a client resolves HttpClient.DefaultProxy, which on Unix is read from http_proxy and bypasses loopback only where no_proxy says to. A machine configured that way would send every loopback request to a proxy, which is the environment dependence this issue exists to remove.
The suite is 200 tests and runs in about one second, against 193 tests and roughly six seconds before. Twenty consecutive runs were clean.
#427, the coordination reference
HISTORY.md named the template repository in its v3.5 entry. It now states what changed without naming where it came from. .github/copilot-instructions.md, the other file the issue named, was already clear, and the hub's own audit reports this repository clean.
A reviewer may read the HISTORY.md hunk as an out-of-scope edit to a shipped release record. It is #427's deliverable rather than incidental churn.
Verification
.NET Format (CSharpier, build, dotnet format style --verify-no-changes) clean, zero warnings under AnalysisMode=All and TreatWarningsAsErrors. markdownlint, CSpell, actionlint, editorconfig-checker, shellcheck and shfmt clean. The hub's prose gate and repository gate both clean.
One thing beyond the three issues
Download.DownloadFile() and DownloadFileAsync() opened the destination with File.OpenWrite(), which is FileMode.OpenOrCreate and does not truncate, so a download over a longer existing file left that file's trailing bytes after the downloaded content and returned true. A local review pass raised it, and the maintainer asked for it here rather than as a separate issue.
The fix changed shape twice before settling, so read the current behavior here rather than in the commit history. Both methods now open the destination with FileMode.OpenOrCreate and truncate it with SetLength(0), rewriting it in place. Its permissions, ownership, and any hard links or symlinks to it survive, which a probe confirms on Linux: mode 0600 stays 0600 with the file truncated to the body's length, a hard link sees the new content, a symlink is written through rather than replaced, and a read-only destination is refused with the file intact.
The cost, which the release notes now state rather than leave implicit: truncation happens once the response headers are accepted, so a download that fails partway leaves a short file, where File.OpenWrite() left the original bytes behind the newly written ones.
Two approaches were tried and rejected on the way, both by local review passes:
  • FileMode.Create, which empties the destination before a single body byte exists, and which Windows refuses outright against a hidden file where OpenOrCreate succeeds.
  • Writing beside the destination and moving the result into place. That gives the strongest failure guarantee, an untouched destination, but it replaces the file's identity rather than its contents. Probed on Linux: a 0600 destination came back 0664, a symlink was replaced by a regular file leaving its target stale, a hard link kept the old content, and a read-only destination was silently overwritten, since rename(2) consults the directory's permission and not the file's, while Windows refuses that same move. The maintainer chose in-place rewriting over that trade.
Six tests cover it: two for the overwrite, two for a request that fails before the response is accepted, and two for a destination that cannot be opened.
Not in this change
  • The failing Publish project release run is the NuGet OIDC job_workflow_ref claim, ProjectTemplate#1126. The fix moves the token exchange and the push into the calling repository, so this repository's publish-release.yml needs new content plus a re-pin. That cannot merge usefully until the hub fix reaches its main, so it is a follow-up rather than part of this change.
Summary by CodeRabbit
  • New Features
    • StringHistory now repartitions retained lines when limits change and preserves consistent first- and last-line behavior.
    • Zero limits support unrestricted retention; negative limits are rejected.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Downloads correctly replace oversized existing files without leaving stale content.
    • Failed downloads preserve existing files and handle unusable destinations gracefully.
  • Documentation
    • Updated architecture, README, and release history documentation.
  • Tests
    • Expanded coverage for history limits, downloads, concurrency, cancellation, and failure scenarios.
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Closes the three open issues on this repository.
#454, StringHistory limit properties. MaxFirstLines and MaxLastLines were each
documented "Set to 0 for no limit", which holds only when both are zero, the one
branch AppendLine treats as unrestricted. Set individually, zero retains none on
that side, so the documentation now says that. Both the constructor and the two
setters reject a negative value with ArgumentOutOfRangeException, rather than
letting it reach RemoveAt and throw after entries have already been taken. Each
setter re-partitions the stored entries and resets the counters, so a limit
assigned after appending is honored instead of ignored. ARCHITECTURE.md "Public
API Conventions" records the contract, and README.md and HISTORY.md carry the
behavioral change.
#452, download tests. DownloadTests and DownloadAsyncTests reached real hosts,
so the unit-test gate depended on outbound DNS and on two third parties. They now
drive a loopback HttpListener bound to an ephemeral port, which makes success,
not-found, and cancellation deterministic and offline, and drops the five-second
sleep the timeout case paid on every run. The negative case is a 404 from that
server rather than a name expected never to resolve, which a wildcard or a
captive-portal resolver would have silently inverted. Download's public surface
is unchanged, so the Lazy<HttpClient> contract in ARCHITECTURE.md still holds.
#427, coordination reference. HISTORY.md named the template repository in its
v3.5 entry. The entry now states what changed without naming where it came from.
.github/copilot-instructions.md was already clear.
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Close the Defects the Local Review Found
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A local adversarial pass over the previous commit raised seven findings against it.
Six are fixed here and one is declined.
StringHistory. Raising MaxFirstLines on a history that had already dropped a line
promoted retained tail lines into the head, where they could never roll out again,
so [L0,L1,L8,L9] with the limit raised to 5 kept L8 and L9 as first lines forever.
That contradicted the head and tail contract this change had just written into
ARCHITECTURE.md. The head is now closed once anything has been discarded: it only
shrinks from there, re-partitioning trims the head and the tail separately rather
than re-slicing a list that has a gap in it, and the roll indexes the stored head
rather than the limit, which a widened limit would otherwise index past the end of
the list. Three tests cover the closed head, the still-open head, and the head-only
case, and a 200000-history fuzz over random append and limit sequences held the
ordering, bound, and no-duplicate invariants across three million assertions.
LoopbackServer. Rewritten onto a TcpListener rather than HttpListener, which fixes
three findings at once. Binding port 0 and reading the port back removes the
probe-then-release window that failed 6 constructions in 4800 concurrent ones.
Writing the response onto the socket removes the http.sys URL reservation that an
explicit-address prefix needs on Windows, where GOVERNANCE.md declares Windows a
supported development platform and CI is Linux-only. Serving the connection with a
catch-all removes the unexpected exception that escaped the accept loop, faulted
the task Dispose waits on, and reddened a test whose assertions had all passed.
Dispose is also idempotent now and its wait is bounded, and the fixture reports the
content's byte length rather than its UTF-16 char count.
Cancellation test. It asserted only that the call returned false, which any failure
produces, so it could not tell a cancelled request from a server that never
started. It now waits for the server to signal that the slow route has the request,
cancels only then, and asserts the call returned well inside the route's own delay.
Proxy independence. HttpClientFactory leaves SocketsHttpHandler.UseProxy at its
default, so a client resolves HttpClient.DefaultProxy, which on Unix reads
http_proxy and bypasses loopback only where no_proxy says to. A machine configured
that way would send these loopback requests to a proxy, which is the environment
dependence #452 exists to remove, so the test assembly disables the ambient proxy.
Declined: the finding that the HISTORY.md v3.5 entry is an out-of-scope edit to a
shipped release record. That edit is #427's deliverable, not incidental churn.
Not fixed here, and raised for a separate decision: Download.DownloadFile and
DownloadFileAsync open the destination with File.OpenWrite, which does not
truncate, so downloading over a longer existing file leaves trailing bytes from the
previous content. It is a pre-existing defect in shipped code, outside all three
issues this branch closes.
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Close the Defects the Second Local Review Found
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A second adversarial pass over the previous commit found that its own fix had
introduced a regression, and a fuzz over the corrected model then found a third
defect neither pass had reached.
StringHistory. The previous commit tracked one flag for two different questions,
so entering the unrestricted mode reset the head counter while leaving the
discarded flag set, and the next limit assignment read a partition that no longer
described the stored lines. A history limited to 2 and 2, cleared to unrestricted,
then given two more lines and limited again, discarded the two most recent lines
and kept nothing. A fuzz over the corrected model then found the deeper case: a
history that had only ever kept a tail could have a head limit raised, which
relabeled tail lines as first lines and left a window that was neither a prefix
nor a suffix of the stream. Both are the same root cause, a head that could grow
into lines that are not the stream's first, so the head is now closed absolutely:
once a line has been discarded the head is trimmed but never refilled, by an
append or by a re-partition. The unrestricted mode extends the tail rather than
the head once anything has been discarded, so what is retained stays a prefix
followed by a suffix. Four tests cover the two cases above, the tail-only history,
and a head that cannot be rebuilt. A 300000-history fuzz over random append and
limit sequences now holds that prefix-plus-suffix contract across four and a half
million states, where the previous model failed it within five iterations.
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Make downloads offline and enforce StringHistory limit semantics
🐞 Bug fix🧪 Tests📝 Documentation🕐 40+ Minutes
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• Enforces StringHistory limits immediately, rejects negatives, and preserves prefix-plus-suffix
retention.
• Replaces external download endpoints with deterministic loopback HTTP scenarios.
• Documents clarified limit semantics and adds comprehensive regression coverage.

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graph TD
HistoryTests["History tests"] -->|verifies| StringHistory["StringHistory"] -->|maintains| RetainedLines["Retained lines"]
DownloadTests["Download tests"] -->|calls| DownloadAPI["Download API"] -->|requests| LoopbackServer["Loopback server"]
HttpDefaults["HTTP defaults"] -->|disables proxy| DownloadAPI

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The following are alternative approaches to this PR:
1. Atomic limit update API
  • ➕ Avoids order-dependent discards when changing both limits
  • ➕ Expresses two-limit repartitioning as one operation
  • ➖ Expands the public API
  • ➖ Existing property setters still need defined behavior
  • ➖ Does not recover lines already discarded
2. Injectable HTTP handler seam
  • ➕ Produces smaller and faster unit tests
  • ➕ Avoids implementing an HTTP parser and socket lifecycle
  • ➖ Changes production design solely for tests
  • ➖ Bypasses real networking and streaming behavior
  • ➖ Conflicts with the shared Lazy contract
Recommendation: Keep the current approach: in-place repartitioning preserves API compatibility, and the loopback TCP server provides deterministic offline coverage through the real HTTP stack. An atomic two-limit method could be considered separately if callers frequently need to change both limits without setter-order loss.
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Bug fix (1)  +115 / -9 
StringHistory.csEnforce mutable head-tail limits safely+115/-9
Enforce mutable head-tail limits safely
• Validates constructor and property limits, repartitions retained lines whenever a limit changes, and tracks whether the stream head has closed after a discard. Appends now preserve prefix-plus-suffix semantics across unrestricted and reconfigured states.

Utilities/StringHistory.cs
Tests (3)  +344 / -26 
DownloadAsyncTests.csRun asynchronous download tests against loopback HTTP+68/-22
Run asynchronous download tests against loopback HTTP
• Replaces public internet dependencies with deterministic success, 404, concurrent, and cancellation scenarios. Assertions now verify exact local content, request routing, and prompt cancellation.

UtilitiesTests/DownloadAsyncTests.cs
DownloadTests.csRun synchronous download tests against loopback HTTP+18/-4
Run synchronous download tests against loopback HTTP
• Uses the local server for successful metadata retrieval and a routed 404 failure, including exact content-length and request-count assertions.

UtilitiesTests/DownloadTests.cs
StringHistoryTests.csCover StringHistory validation and repartitioning invariants+258/-0
Cover StringHistory validation and repartitioning invariants
• Adds regression tests for negative limits, post-append limit changes, head trimming, unrestricted transitions, and append behavior after discards. The cases verify that retained lines remain a stream prefix followed by its suffix without rebuilding a closed head.

UtilitiesTests/StringHistoryTests.cs
Documentation (3)  +4 / -1 
ARCHITECTURE.mdDefine the StringHistory retention contract+1/-0
Define the StringHistory retention contract
• Documents zero-limit semantics, negative-value rejection, immediate repartitioning, and the rule that discarded head lines are never recovered.

ARCHITECTURE.md
HISTORY.mdRecord StringHistory behavioral changes+2/-1
Record StringHistory behavioral changes
• Adds the tightened limit contract to the v4.0 release history and removes an unrelated upstream-template reference from v3.5 wording.

HISTORY.md
README.mdAdvertise revised StringHistory limit behavior+1/-0
Advertise revised StringHistory limit behavior
• Highlights immediate repartitioning and negative-limit validation among the release changes.

README.md
Other (2)  +279 / -0 
LoopbackServer.csAdd an ephemeral TCP HTTP test server+255/-0
Add an ephemeral TCP HTTP test server
• Introduces a parallel-capable loopback server with success, missing, and delayed routes. It binds an ephemeral port, writes HTTP/1.1 responses directly to sockets, exposes synchronization signals, and bounds teardown.

UtilitiesTests/LoopbackServer.cs
TestHttpDefaults.csDisable ambient proxies for HTTP tests+24/-0
Disable ambient proxies for HTTP tests
• Adds a module initializer that replaces the process-wide default proxy, ensuring loopback requests cannot be redirected by developer or CI environment variables.

UtilitiesTests/TestHttpDefaults.cs
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StringHistory now validates and reapplies retention limits. File downloads now truncate destinations correctly. Download tests now use a deterministic local HTTP server. Documentation and version metadata describe the 4.1 changes.
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History and download behavior
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StringHistory retention and repartitioning
Utilities/StringHistory.cs, UtilitiesTests/StringHistoryTests.cs		StringHistory rejects negative limits, applies zero-limit semantics, repartitions stored lines, and preserves discard state across later limit changes.
Download destination handling
Utilities/Download.cs, UtilitiesTests/DownloadTests.cs, UtilitiesTests/DownloadAsyncTests.cs		Synchronous and asynchronous downloads truncate existing destinations before copying. Tests verify replacement, failure preservation, and unusable destinations.
Deterministic download test infrastructure
UtilitiesTests/LoopbackServer.cs, UtilitiesTests/TestHttpDefaults.cs, UtilitiesTests/DownloadTests.cs, UtilitiesTests/DownloadAsyncTests.cs		Tests use local success, missing, and delayed routes. Coverage includes metadata, request counts, concurrent requests, cancellation, and proxy isolation.
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ARCHITECTURE.md, HISTORY.md, README.md, version.json		Documentation and release metadata describe the updated contracts and version 4.1 changes.
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes
Merge Risk:🔵 Low · up to aabeb
The PR tightens StringHistory limit handling, makes download tests offline, and safely replaces downloaded files; the remaining README wording omits the special unrestricted (0, 0) case, creating a bounded public-contract documentation mismatch. The change is otherwise mergeable with explicit owner follow-up to correct the README.
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The remaining findings are minor clarity/grammar improvements and do not affect the correctness or determinism goals of the change.
Pull request overview
This pull request removes external network dependencies from the Download test suite by introducing a local loopback HTTP server, and tightens/clarifies StringHistory’s public limit-contract (zero semantics, negative rejection, and post-append re-partitioning) in both code and documentation.
Changes:
  • Replace online Download/DownloadAsync tests with deterministic loopback-server scenarios (success, 404, cancellation, concurrency) and disable ambient proxies for the test process.
  • Update StringHistory to validate negative limits eagerly, re-partition stored history when limits change, and document the “head+tail only, discards-only” behavior across code and architecture docs.
  • Refresh release notes to reflect the clarified StringHistory contract.
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UtilitiesTests/TestHttpDefaults.csSets test-process HTTP defaults to keep loopback HTTP calls offline/deterministic under proxy-configured environments.
UtilitiesTests/LoopbackServer.csAdds a minimal loopback HTTP server used by download-related tests.
UtilitiesTests/DownloadTests.csMoves sync download tests to loopback endpoints and asserts deterministic sizes/failures.
UtilitiesTests/DownloadAsyncTests.csMoves async download tests to loopback endpoints and adds deterministic cancellation/concurrency coverage.
UtilitiesTests/StringHistoryTests.csAdds/extends coverage for negative validation, re-partitioning behavior, and head-closure semantics.
Utilities/StringHistory.csImplements the clarified limit contract: negative rejection, re-partitioning on setters, and “discards-only/head-closure” logic.
README.mdNotes the StringHistory contract change as part of v4.0 breaking-change summary.
HISTORY.mdUpdates v4.0 and v3.5 release notes to remove private-template attribution and record the StringHistory contract clarification.
ARCHITECTURE.mdRecords the updated StringHistory behavioral contract in the public API conventions.
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Utilities/StringHistory.cs:134
  • Grammar in the XML docs: “both limits at 0 retains every line” should be “retain every line”.
 /// <summary>
/// Gets or sets the maximum number of last lines to retain.
/// Set to 0 to retain no last lines; both limits at 0 retains every line.
/// </summary>

Utilities/StringHistory.cs:166
  • Minor grammar in the comment: “Both limits at zero is …” should be “Both limits at zero are …”.
 // Both limits at zero is the unrestricted mode, which retains every line.
// Nothing is discarded here, so the counters already describe the stored list.

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In `@Utilities/StringHistory.cs`:
- Around line 30-36: Update the StringHistory constructor to assign the
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and Repartition calls while preserving the validated limit values as an atomic
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- Around line 153-154: Update the request-counting logic near
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+- **`StringHistory`** retains at most `MaxFirstLines` from the head and `MaxLastLines` from the tail. Both limits at zero is the one unrestricted mode, and zero on a single side retains no lines on that side. Either limit rejects a negative value, and assigning one re-partitions the lines already stored, so the history never holds more than the limits then in force allow. Re-partitioning only discards: once a line has been dropped the head is closed, so a later, larger `MaxFirstLines` never promotes a retained tail line into it.
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Replace the Destination File on a Download Instead of Overwriting It
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DownloadFile and DownloadFileAsync opened the destination with File.OpenWrite,
which is FileMode.OpenOrCreate and does not truncate, so a download over a longer
existing file left that file's trailing bytes after the downloaded content and
returned true. A 16-byte body written over a 200-byte file produced a 200-byte
file. Both now create the file instead.
Both local review passes raised this against the download tests rather than the
library, since the rewritten test exercises the path for real but seeds it with
Path.GetTempFileName's empty file, so its length assertion passed either way. Two
tests now seed a file four times the body's length first, and both fail against
the previous behavior and pass against this one.
The maintainer asked for it here rather than as a separate issue, so
ARCHITECTURE.md records the contract and README.md and HISTORY.md carry the fix.
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Replace a Downloaded File Only Once the Whole Body Is on Disk
6935b65
Answers the first review round on the pull request and a third local pass.
Download. The previous commit fixed the destination not being truncated by
creating the file instead of opening it, which traded one defect for a worse one:
GetStreamAsync returns once the headers arrive, so the destination was emptied
before a single body byte existed and a download that then failed left a 0-byte
file where the old code left the original content. File.Create also asks for
FileAccess.ReadWrite, so a destination the process may write but not read stopped
working at all. Both methods now write beside the destination and move the result
into place, so the destination is replaced whole on success and left untouched on
failure, and the temporary file is removed when a download fails. Two tests cover
the failure case, alongside the two covering the overwrite.
ARCHITECTURE.md said Download reads with HttpCompletionOption.ResponseHeadersRead
so a large response streams rather than buffering whole. That is true only of
GetContentInfo, which discards the body; DownloadString calls GetStringAsync and
buffers the whole response. The entry now says which method does which.
StringHistory. The constructor assigns the backing fields rather than the
properties, since both limits apply as one pair and the setters would apply them
one at a time and re-partition an empty history twice. The XML documentation and
the comments drop the "both limits at zero is" construction that four findings
across three files objected to. HISTORY.md now also records the AppendLine
behavior that shipped with the setters, which it described only as a limit set
after appending being honored.
LoopbackServer. The 404 route has its own case rather than reaching the default
arm, so the route contract is stated rather than incidental. A peer that connects
and sends nothing is no longer counted as a routed request, which the exact-count
assertions depend on. Dispose waits for the accept loop before reading the
connection set, so the set is final rather than a snapshot that could miss a
connection started but not yet registered.
The 300000-history fuzz continues to hold the prefix-plus-suffix contract, the
count bound, no duplicates, and that an assignment never adds a line, across four
and a half million states.
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Answering the two suppressed low-confidence findings from the round on 1932b4e, which open no thread and so have nowhere to be resolved.
Utilities/StringHistory.cs:134 Grammar in the XML docs: "both limits at 0 retains every line" should be "retain every line".
Utilities/StringHistory.cs:166 Minor grammar in the comment: "Both limits at zero is ..." should be "Both limits at zero are ...".
Both are fixed in 6935b65, by the same change that answered the four threaded findings objecting to the same construction. Rather than correcting the agreement in six places, the construction is gone: the property summaries read "Set to 0 to retain no last lines. Every line is retained only when both limits are 0.", the class remarks read "Zero on a single side retains no lines on that side, and zero on both is the one unrestricted mode", and the comment in Repartition reads "Zero on both limits is the unrestricted mode". Six findings against one phrasing is the phrasing's problem rather than six separate ones.
For the record, since a suppressed finding is counted once raised and never uncounted: status now reports suppressed=2 (on_head=0 earlier=2), so nothing is outstanding against the current head.
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DownloadFile/DownloadFileAsync currently compute the temp path outside the try/catch (so they can throw) and can overwrite/delete unrelated files on rare temp-name collisions. 
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  • High: Make DownloadFileAsync handle invalid destination paths and temp-name collisions safely. CreateTemporaryPath(fileName) currently runs before the try block (so it can throw and break the "return bool, don’t throw" contract), and FileMode.Create with a random name can overwrite an existing file on collision. Move temp-name generation inside the try, create the temp file with FileMode.CreateNew and retry on collision, and only delete the temp path when this call created it.
 string tempFileName = CreateTemporaryPath(fileName);
try
{
Stream httpStream = await GetHttpClient()
.GetStreamAsync(uri, cancellationToken)
.ConfigureAwait(false);
await using (httpStream.ConfigureAwait(false))
{
FileStream fileStream = new(
tempFileName,
FileMode.Create,
FileAccess.Write,
FileShare.None
);
await using (fileStream.ConfigureAwait(false))

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Create the Download Temporary File Without Overwriting a Name in Use
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Answers the review round on 6935b65, which raised this against both DownloadFile
and DownloadFileAsync.
The temporary file was opened with FileMode.Create under a name from
Path.GetRandomFileName, so a name that happened to exist in the destination
directory was overwritten, and the failure path then deleted that unrelated file.
The file is now created with FileMode.CreateNew, which fails rather than
overwrites, and a collision retries under a fresh name. The path is assigned to
the caller's variable only once the file behind it exists, so the failure path
deletes a file this call actually created and nothing else. Any other I/O failure,
a missing destination directory among them, is left to the caller to report rather
than retried.
The same finding also asked that the temporary path be named inside the try, since
Path.GetDirectoryName can throw on invalid path characters and would otherwise
break the bool-returning contract. Naming now happens inside the try, so the point
is moot either way, but the premise does not hold on this target framework: on
net10.0 Path.GetDirectoryName and Path.Combine return normally for an embedded
null character, a pipe, and a 5000-character path alike. That rejection is .NET
Framework behavior.
Two tests cover a destination whose directory does not exist, one per method,
asserting the call reports failure rather than throwing and leaves no file behind.
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Truncate and Rewrite a Downloaded File in Place
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The maintainer chose write-in-place over the temporary-file-and-move approach the
two previous commits built, after a local review pass established what that
approach cost.
Moving a temporary file into place replaces the destination's identity rather
than its contents, which a probe confirmed on Linux: a destination at mode 0600
came back at 0664, a symlink destination was replaced by a regular file leaving
its target stale, a second hard link kept the old content, and a read-only
destination was silently overwritten, because rename consults the directory's
permission and ignores the file's. Windows refuses that same move, so the two
platforms disagreed on whether the download succeeded. A killed process also
orphaned an unnamed temporary in the destination's own directory.
Both methods now open the destination with FileMode.Create and FileAccess.Write.
Create is what fixes the original defect, since OpenWrite does not truncate and
left a longer file's trailing bytes after the body. Write rather than the
ReadWrite that File.Create requests, so a destination the process may write but
not read still works. A probe against this build confirms the four properties the
documentation now claims: mode 0600 survives with the file truncated to the body's
length, a hard link sees the new content, a symlink is written through rather than
replaced, and a read-only destination is refused with the file left intact.
The cost, stated in ARCHITECTURE.md rather than left implicit: the destination is
opened once the response is accepted, so a failure during the body can leave a
partial file. A request that fails before that leaves it untouched, which is what
the two renamed tests pin, and they now assert the server served the request so a
connection failure cannot pass for the file behaving correctly.
CreateTemporaryFile and DeleteTemporary are gone with the approach that needed them.
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Answering the suppressed finding from the round on 6935b65, which opens no thread and so has nowhere to be resolved.
Utilities/Download.cs:162 High: Make DownloadFileAsync handle invalid destination paths and temp-name collisions safely. CreateTemporaryPath(fileName) currently runs before the try block (so it can throw and break the "return bool, don't throw" contract), and FileMode.Create with a random name can overwrite an existing file on collision. Move temp-name generation inside the try, create the temp file with FileMode.CreateNew and retry on collision, and only delete the temp path when this call created it.
Same finding as the threaded one on DownloadFile, answered there. In short: the collision half was real and was fixed in 7aac102, the escape half does not hold on net10.0 (probed: Path.GetDirectoryName and Path.Combine return normally for an embedded null character, a pipe, and a 5000-character path, that rejection being .NET Framework behavior), and the whole temporary-file approach is gone as of 2bc77c0 in favor of writing in place.
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Escape the Unicode Test Literal So the Source Stays ASCII
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The prose gate run over whole files, rather than over changed lines, reports
seven unclassified non-ASCII characters in AppendLine_UnicodeCharacters_ShouldPreserve:
four CJK ideographs and three astral-plane emoji, sitting literally in the source.
The test's subject is that a non-ASCII string round-trips, so the string stays and
the source loses the characters instead. The escapes compile to the identical
string, verified against the original bytes, so the assertion is unchanged.
Found by running the gate without --diff over every file this branch edits. The
gate's own help states the policy the default hides: --diff "matches the repo
policy: fix as each file is next edited, not swept", so a violation on an unchanged
line belongs to whoever next edits that file.
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Raise the Version Floor to 4.1 and Record the v4.1 Release Notes
6f73755
version.json carries the Nerdbank.GitVersioning floor, raised on develop so the
promotion carries it to main, per OPERATIONS.md "Bumping the version floor".
HISTORY.md gains a v4.1 section holding the two library fixes this branch ships,
moved out of v4.0 where they were first written: the Download destination
corruption and the StringHistory limit contract. The offline download tests and
the coordination-reference removal stay out of both files, since neither ships in
the package.
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The README/HISTORY release notes currently describe an atomic “write beside + move into place / untouched on failure” behavior that does not match the in-place truncation rewrite implemented in Utilities/Download.cs.
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  • The README claims the Download fix now "replaced whole on success and left untouched on failure", but DownloadFile/DownloadFileAsync currently truncate and rewrite the destination in place (and can leave a partial file on mid-body failure). Please update this release-note bullet to match the current contract (see ARCHITECTURE.md’s Download bullet and Utilities/Download.cs).
- Added `HttpClientFactory`, a reusable resilient HTTP client factory (Polly retry and circuit breaker) with an AOT safe `AssemblyInfo` identity helper and a tunable `HttpClientOptions`.
- Fixed `Download.DownloadFile` and `DownloadFileAsync` corrupting the destination when downloading over a longer existing file. The destination is now replaced whole on success and left untouched on failure.

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  • This v4.0 HISTORY entry says downloads now "write beside the destination and move the result into place" and that the destination is "left untouched when a download fails partway", but the implementation rewrites the destination in place (Utilities/Download.cs) and ARCHITECTURE.md notes that a mid-body failure can leave a partial file. Please align this release-history bullet with the actual behavior.
 - Fixed `Download.DownloadFile` and `DownloadFileAsync` corrupting the destination file: both opened it with `File.OpenWrite`, which does not truncate, so a download over a longer existing file left that file's trailing bytes after the downloaded content and reported success. Both now write beside the destination and move the result into place, so the destination is replaced whole on success and left untouched when a download fails partway.

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A local pass over the release notes found three claims that did not match the
code, and one behavior difference the notes did not mention at all.
HISTORY.md credited v4.1 with opening the destination only once the response is
accepted, so a failed request leaves it untouched. v4.0 already did that: it
called GetStreamAsync before File.OpenWrite, so a request that failed never
reached the file. The entry claimed unchanged behavior as a fix.
The same entry omitted what did change. Truncating at open means a download that
fails partway now leaves a short file, where OpenWrite left the original bytes
behind the newly written ones. That is a real loss of content for a consumer whose
download is interrupted, it is the cost of the fix rather than a detail, and
HISTORY.md is where a consumer would look for it. Both it and README.md now say so.
Windows refuses FileMode.Create against a hidden file, where the FileMode.OpenOrCreate
that OpenWrite used does not, so a download over a hidden destination would have
started failing on a supported platform, contradicting the claim that the
destination's own attributes survive. Both methods now open with OpenOrCreate and
truncate with SetLength, which is what fixes the original defect without changing
which destinations can be opened. Re-probed on Linux: mode 0600 survives with the
file truncated to the body's length, a hard link sees the new content, a symlink is
written through, and a read-only destination is still refused with the file intact.
The Windows half is documented behavior rather than something this host can run.
ARCHITECTURE.md named a public type Extensions that v4.0 renamed to
CompressExtensions, so the contract list described a type consumers cannot
reference, and it attributed the logger helpers to it rather than to the internal
LogExtensions. It also named FileEx's options as Options rather than the static
FileEx.Options, and wrote its own method names without the parentheses the same
change had just standardized on in HISTORY.md and README.md.
Two test comments said the body is fetched before the destination is opened.
GetStreamAsync completes on the response headers, so only those have been read and
the body streams after the file is open.
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Answering the three findings from the round on 3a6dde5 that open no thread.
README.md:37 The README claims the Download fix now "replaced whole on success and left untouched on failure", but DownloadFile/DownloadFileAsync currently truncate and rewrite the destination in place (and can leave a partial file on mid-body failure).
HISTORY.md:8 This v4.0 HISTORY entry says downloads now "write beside the destination and move the result into place" and that the destination is "left untouched when a download fails partway", but the implementation rewrites the destination in place.
Both correct, both fixed in 6f73755 and aabeb0c, which landed after this round read the branch. The two entries moved into a new v4.1 section and now describe truncate-and-rewrite-in-place, and both carry the caveat the earlier wording omitted: a download that fails partway leaves a short file, where File.OpenWrite() left the original bytes behind the newly written ones. That is a real loss of content for an interrupted download and belongs in the release notes rather than only in ARCHITECTURE.md.
Worth recording, since these two findings track a fix that changed shape three times: the temporary-file-and-move approach they describe was itself reverted, because moving a file into place replaces the destination's identity rather than its contents. Probed on Linux: a 0600 destination came back 0664, a symlink was replaced by a regular file leaving its target stale, a hard link kept the old content, and a read-only destination was silently overwritten, where Windows refuses the same move.
PR title exceeds limit
Stale. The title was 76 characters when first raised and has been Fix the StringHistory Limits and Make the Download Tests Offline at 64 since, well inside the 72-character limit GOVERNANCE.md sets. Verified against the live title rather than the badge.
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README.md/HISTORY.md and the PR description currently describe an atomic “write-beside then move” behavior, but the implementation truncates and rewrites in place and can leave partial files on mid-body failure.
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  • README release-notes bullet claims the download destination is “replaced whole on success and left untouched on failure”, but DownloadFile/DownloadFileAsync now open the destination with FileMode.Create and stream the body into it. That truncates immediately and can leave a partial file if the body copy fails; please align the README text with the actual behavior (and ARCHITECTURE.md’s Download contract).
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retains nothing by default, which is the opposite of what a default-constructed
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Closes#427. Closes#452. Closes#454.
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The issue-closing keywords sit here rather than on #455, since GitHub
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## What is being promoted
- **#454, the `StringHistory` limit properties.** `MaxFirstLines` and
`MaxLastLines` were each documented `Set to 0 for no limit`, which holds
only when both are zero. Zero on one side is now documented as retaining
no lines on that side, both the constructor and the setters reject a
negative value, and assigning a limit re-partitions the lines already
stored instead of being ignored. Re-partitioning only ever discards, so
what is retained is always a prefix of the appended lines followed by a
suffix of them, and once a line has been dropped the head is trimmed but
never refilled.
- **#452, the download tests.** They reached `www.google.com` and
`httpstat.us`, so the unit-test gate depended on outbound DNS and on two
third parties, and paid a five-second sleep on every run. They now drive
a loopback HTTP server on an ephemeral port, and the test assembly
disables the ambient proxy so a machine with `http_proxy` set does not
send loopback requests through it. `Download`'s public surface is
unchanged.
- **#427, the coordination reference.** `HISTORY.md` named the template
repository in its v3.5 entry and no longer does.
- **A `Download` defect found during the above.** `DownloadFile()` and
`DownloadFileAsync()` opened the destination with `File.OpenWrite()`,
which does not truncate, so a download over a longer existing file left
that file's trailing bytes after the downloaded content and returned
`true`. Both now open with `FileMode.OpenOrCreate` and truncate with
`SetLength(0)`, rewriting in place so the destination's permissions,
ownership, and any links to it survive.
- **The version floor**, raised to 4.1, with the two shipped fixes
recorded in `HISTORY.md` and `README.md`.
## Verification
The merge is clean and `git write-tree` on it equals `git rev-parse
origin/develop^{tree}` exactly (`0cfd271c`), so `main` ends up with
`develop`'s tree and nothing else.
`develop` carried 206 tests green, the `.NET Format` clean-compile chain
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markdownlint, CSpell, actionlint, `editorconfig-checker`, shellcheck and
shfmt clean, and the hub's prose and repository gates clean. #455 went
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## Releases stay blocked, and this does not unblock them
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name the hub rather than this repository
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* **Bug Fixes**
* Downloads now fully replace existing files, preventing stale or
corrupted trailing content.
* Failed downloads preserve existing destination files and handle
unavailable destinations safely.
* `StringHistory` now validates limits, preserves discarded-content
rules, repartitions stored lines correctly, and supports atomic limit
updates.
* **Documentation**
* Clarified download buffering, truncation, partial-download outcomes,
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* Updated terminology and retry-behavior documentation.
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Closes#427. Closes#452. Closes#454.
#454, the StringHistory limit properties
MaxFirstLines and MaxLastLines were each documented Set to 0 for no limit, which holds only when both are zero, the one branch AppendLine treats as unrestricted. Set individually, zero retains none on that side. The maintainer chose the smaller of the two directions the issue offered, so the documentation now says what the code does rather than the code changing to match the documentation.
Three behavioral changes on top of that:
  • The constructor and both setters reject a negative value with ArgumentOutOfRangeException, rather than letting it reach RemoveAt and throw after entries have already been taken. The constructor validates its own parameters, so the exception names maxFirstLines or maxLastLines rather than value.
  • Each setter re-partitions the lines already stored, so a limit assigned after appending is honored instead of ignored.
  • Re-partitioning only ever discards. Once a line has been dropped the head is closed: it can be trimmed but never refilled, by a later append or by a later, larger MaxFirstLines. What is retained is therefore always a prefix of the stream followed by a suffix of it, which is exactly the head-and-tail contract ARCHITECTURE.md states.
That third point is the one worth reviewing closely, and it is the one two local review passes and a fuzz each found a different defect in before it settled. A 300000-history fuzz over random append and limit sequences holds the prefix-plus-suffix contract, the count bound, and no-duplicates across four and a half million intermediate states.
#452, the download tests
DownloadTests and DownloadAsyncTests reached www.google.com and httpstat.us, so the unit-test gate depended on outbound DNS and on two third parties it does not control, and paid a five-second sleep on every run to exercise the timeout path.
They now drive a loopback HTTP server bound to an ephemeral port. Download's public surface is unchanged, so the Lazy<HttpClient> contract in ARCHITECTURE.md still holds and the seam the issue offered as the larger alternative was not needed.
  • The server writes HTTP/1.1 onto a TcpListener socket rather than using HttpListener, which on Windows resolves an explicit-address prefix through http.sys and needs a URL reservation an unelevated developer does not have. CI is Linux-only, so nothing here would have caught that.
  • Binding port 0 and reading the port back removes the probe-then-bind race a first draft had.
  • The negative case is a 404 from that server rather than a hostname expected never to resolve, which a wildcard registration or a captive-portal resolver would have silently inverted.
  • The cancellation test waits for the server to signal that it holds the request, cancels only then, and asserts the call returned well inside the route's own delay. Asserting only that the call returned false would have passed just as well if the server had never started.
  • Both not-found tests assert the server actually routed the request, for the same reason.
  • The test assembly disables the ambient proxy. HttpClientFactory leaves SocketsHttpHandler.UseProxy at its default, so a client resolves HttpClient.DefaultProxy, which on Unix is read from http_proxy and bypasses loopback only where no_proxy says to. A machine configured that way would send every loopback request to a proxy, which is the environment dependence this issue exists to remove.
The suite is 200 tests and runs in about one second, against 193 tests and roughly six seconds before. Twenty consecutive runs were clean.
#427, the coordination reference
HISTORY.md named the template repository in its v3.5 entry. It now states what changed without naming where it came from. .github/copilot-instructions.md, the other file the issue named, was already clear, and the hub's own audit reports this repository clean.
A reviewer may read the HISTORY.md hunk as an out-of-scope edit to a shipped release record. It is #427's deliverable rather than incidental churn.
Verification
.NET Format (CSharpier, build, dotnet format style --verify-no-changes) clean, zero warnings under AnalysisMode=All and TreatWarningsAsErrors. markdownlint, CSpell, actionlint, editorconfig-checker, shellcheck and shfmt clean. The hub's prose gate and repository gate both clean.
One thing beyond the three issues
Download.DownloadFile() and DownloadFileAsync() opened the destination with File.OpenWrite(), which is FileMode.OpenOrCreate and does not truncate, so a download over a longer existing file left that file's trailing bytes after the downloaded content and returned true. A local review pass raised it, and the maintainer asked for it here rather than as a separate issue.
The fix changed shape twice before settling, so read the current behavior here rather than in the commit history. Both methods now open the destination with FileMode.OpenOrCreate and truncate it with SetLength(0), rewriting it in place. Its permissions, ownership, and any hard links or symlinks to it survive, which a probe confirms on Linux: mode 0600 stays 0600 with the file truncated to the body's length, a hard link sees the new content, a symlink is written through rather than replaced, and a read-only destination is refused with the file intact.
The cost, which the release notes now state rather than leave implicit: truncation happens once the response headers are accepted, so a download that fails partway leaves a short file, where File.OpenWrite() left the original bytes behind the newly written ones.
Two approaches were tried and rejected on the way, both by local review passes:
  • FileMode.Create, which empties the destination before a single body byte exists, and which Windows refuses outright against a hidden file where OpenOrCreate succeeds.
  • Writing beside the destination and moving the result into place. That gives the strongest failure guarantee, an untouched destination, but it replaces the file's identity rather than its contents. Probed on Linux: a 0600 destination came back 0664, a symlink was replaced by a regular file leaving its target stale, a hard link kept the old content, and a read-only destination was silently overwritten, since rename(2) consults the directory's permission and not the file's, while Windows refuses that same move. The maintainer chose in-place rewriting over that trade.
Six tests cover it: two for the overwrite, two for a request that fails before the response is accepted, and two for a destination that cannot be opened.
Not in this change
  • The failing Publish project release run is the NuGet OIDC job_workflow_ref claim, ProjectTemplate#1126. The fix moves the token exchange and the push into the calling repository, so this repository's publish-release.yml needs new content plus a re-pin. That cannot merge usefully until the hub fix reaches its main, so it is a follow-up rather than part of this change.
Summary by CodeRabbit
  • New Features
    • StringHistory now repartitions retained lines when limits change and preserves consistent first- and last-line behavior.
    • Zero limits support unrestricted retention; negative limits are rejected.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Downloads correctly replace oversized existing files without leaving stale content.
    • Failed downloads preserve existing files and handle unusable destinations gracefully.
  • Documentation
    • Updated architecture, README, and release history documentation.
  • Tests
    • Expanded coverage for history limits, downloads, concurrency, cancellation, and failure scenarios.
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Make the Download Tests Offline and Tighten the StringHistory Limit C…
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Closes the three open issues on this repository.
#454, StringHistory limit properties. MaxFirstLines and MaxLastLines were each
documented "Set to 0 for no limit", which holds only when both are zero, the one
branch AppendLine treats as unrestricted. Set individually, zero retains none on
that side, so the documentation now says that. Both the constructor and the two
setters reject a negative value with ArgumentOutOfRangeException, rather than
letting it reach RemoveAt and throw after entries have already been taken. Each
setter re-partitions the stored entries and resets the counters, so a limit
assigned after appending is honored instead of ignored. ARCHITECTURE.md "Public
API Conventions" records the contract, and README.md and HISTORY.md carry the
behavioral change.
#452, download tests. DownloadTests and DownloadAsyncTests reached real hosts,
so the unit-test gate depended on outbound DNS and on two third parties. They now
drive a loopback HttpListener bound to an ephemeral port, which makes success,
not-found, and cancellation deterministic and offline, and drops the five-second
sleep the timeout case paid on every run. The negative case is a 404 from that
server rather than a name expected never to resolve, which a wildcard or a
captive-portal resolver would have silently inverted. Download's public surface
is unchanged, so the Lazy<HttpClient> contract in ARCHITECTURE.md still holds.
#427, coordination reference. HISTORY.md named the template repository in its
v3.5 entry. The entry now states what changed without naming where it came from.
.github/copilot-instructions.md was already clear.
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Close the Defects the Local Review Found
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A local adversarial pass over the previous commit raised seven findings against it.
Six are fixed here and one is declined.
StringHistory. Raising MaxFirstLines on a history that had already dropped a line
promoted retained tail lines into the head, where they could never roll out again,
so [L0,L1,L8,L9] with the limit raised to 5 kept L8 and L9 as first lines forever.
That contradicted the head and tail contract this change had just written into
ARCHITECTURE.md. The head is now closed once anything has been discarded: it only
shrinks from there, re-partitioning trims the head and the tail separately rather
than re-slicing a list that has a gap in it, and the roll indexes the stored head
rather than the limit, which a widened limit would otherwise index past the end of
the list. Three tests cover the closed head, the still-open head, and the head-only
case, and a 200000-history fuzz over random append and limit sequences held the
ordering, bound, and no-duplicate invariants across three million assertions.
LoopbackServer. Rewritten onto a TcpListener rather than HttpListener, which fixes
three findings at once. Binding port 0 and reading the port back removes the
probe-then-release window that failed 6 constructions in 4800 concurrent ones.
Writing the response onto the socket removes the http.sys URL reservation that an
explicit-address prefix needs on Windows, where GOVERNANCE.md declares Windows a
supported development platform and CI is Linux-only. Serving the connection with a
catch-all removes the unexpected exception that escaped the accept loop, faulted
the task Dispose waits on, and reddened a test whose assertions had all passed.
Dispose is also idempotent now and its wait is bounded, and the fixture reports the
content's byte length rather than its UTF-16 char count.
Cancellation test. It asserted only that the call returned false, which any failure
produces, so it could not tell a cancelled request from a server that never
started. It now waits for the server to signal that the slow route has the request,
cancels only then, and asserts the call returned well inside the route's own delay.
Proxy independence. HttpClientFactory leaves SocketsHttpHandler.UseProxy at its
default, so a client resolves HttpClient.DefaultProxy, which on Unix reads
http_proxy and bypasses loopback only where no_proxy says to. A machine configured
that way would send these loopback requests to a proxy, which is the environment
dependence #452 exists to remove, so the test assembly disables the ambient proxy.
Declined: the finding that the HISTORY.md v3.5 entry is an out-of-scope edit to a
shipped release record. That edit is #427's deliverable, not incidental churn.
Not fixed here, and raised for a separate decision: Download.DownloadFile and
DownloadFileAsync open the destination with File.OpenWrite, which does not
truncate, so downloading over a longer existing file leaves trailing bytes from the
previous content. It is a pre-existing defect in shipped code, outside all three
issues this branch closes.
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Close the Defects the Second Local Review Found
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A second adversarial pass over the previous commit found that its own fix had
introduced a regression, and a fuzz over the corrected model then found a third
defect neither pass had reached.
StringHistory. The previous commit tracked one flag for two different questions,
so entering the unrestricted mode reset the head counter while leaving the
discarded flag set, and the next limit assignment read a partition that no longer
described the stored lines. A history limited to 2 and 2, cleared to unrestricted,
then given two more lines and limited again, discarded the two most recent lines
and kept nothing. A fuzz over the corrected model then found the deeper case: a
history that had only ever kept a tail could have a head limit raised, which
relabeled tail lines as first lines and left a window that was neither a prefix
nor a suffix of the stream. Both are the same root cause, a head that could grow
into lines that are not the stream's first, so the head is now closed absolutely:
once a line has been discarded the head is trimmed but never refilled, by an
append or by a re-partition. The unrestricted mode extends the tail rather than
the head once anything has been discarded, so what is retained stays a prefix
followed by a suffix. Four tests cover the two cases above, the tail-only history,
and a head that cannot be rebuilt. A 300000-history fuzz over random append and
limit sequences now holds that prefix-plus-suffix contract across four and a half
million states, where the previous model failed it within five iterations.
LoopbackServer. Connections are served concurrently rather than one at a time, so
the thirty-second slow route cannot block a later request, and Dispose waits for
the in-flight connections along with the accept loop under the same bounded,
never-rethrowing wait. The server also counts the requests it routes.
Tests. The cancellation test waited on a signal that nothing could ever fault or
cancel, so a server-side failure before the slow route was reached hung the test
rather than failing it, with no deadline anywhere to end the run; the wait is now
bounded. Both not-found tests asserted only that the call returned false, which a
refused connection produces just as well, so each now asserts the server routed
the request. A new test proves two concurrent requests to one server both complete.
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Make downloads offline and enforce StringHistory limit semantics
🐞 Bug fix🧪 Tests📝 Documentation🕐 40+ Minutes
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• Enforces StringHistory limits immediately, rejects negatives, and preserves prefix-plus-suffix
retention.
• Replaces external download endpoints with deterministic loopback HTTP scenarios.
• Documents clarified limit semantics and adds comprehensive regression coverage.

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graph TD
HistoryTests["History tests"] -->|verifies| StringHistory["StringHistory"] -->|maintains| RetainedLines["Retained lines"]
DownloadTests["Download tests"] -->|calls| DownloadAPI["Download API"] -->|requests| LoopbackServer["Loopback server"]
HttpDefaults["HTTP defaults"] -->|disables proxy| DownloadAPI

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The following are alternative approaches to this PR:
1. Atomic limit update API
  • ➕ Avoids order-dependent discards when changing both limits
  • ➕ Expresses two-limit repartitioning as one operation
  • ➖ Expands the public API
  • ➖ Existing property setters still need defined behavior
  • ➖ Does not recover lines already discarded
2. Injectable HTTP handler seam
  • ➕ Produces smaller and faster unit tests
  • ➕ Avoids implementing an HTTP parser and socket lifecycle
  • ➖ Changes production design solely for tests
  • ➖ Bypasses real networking and streaming behavior
  • ➖ Conflicts with the shared Lazy contract
Recommendation: Keep the current approach: in-place repartitioning preserves API compatibility, and the loopback TCP server provides deterministic offline coverage through the real HTTP stack. An atomic two-limit method could be considered separately if callers frequently need to change both limits without setter-order loss.
 Files changed (9)  +742 / -36 

Bug fix (1)  +115 / -9 
StringHistory.csEnforce mutable head-tail limits safely+115/-9
Enforce mutable head-tail limits safely
• Validates constructor and property limits, repartitions retained lines whenever a limit changes, and tracks whether the stream head has closed after a discard. Appends now preserve prefix-plus-suffix semantics across unrestricted and reconfigured states.

Utilities/StringHistory.cs
Tests (3)  +344 / -26 
DownloadAsyncTests.csRun asynchronous download tests against loopback HTTP+68/-22
Run asynchronous download tests against loopback HTTP
• Replaces public internet dependencies with deterministic success, 404, concurrent, and cancellation scenarios. Assertions now verify exact local content, request routing, and prompt cancellation.

UtilitiesTests/DownloadAsyncTests.cs
DownloadTests.csRun synchronous download tests against loopback HTTP+18/-4
Run synchronous download tests against loopback HTTP
• Uses the local server for successful metadata retrieval and a routed 404 failure, including exact content-length and request-count assertions.

UtilitiesTests/DownloadTests.cs
StringHistoryTests.csCover StringHistory validation and repartitioning invariants+258/-0
Cover StringHistory validation and repartitioning invariants
• Adds regression tests for negative limits, post-append limit changes, head trimming, unrestricted transitions, and append behavior after discards. The cases verify that retained lines remain a stream prefix followed by its suffix without rebuilding a closed head.

UtilitiesTests/StringHistoryTests.cs
Documentation (3)  +4 / -1 
ARCHITECTURE.mdDefine the StringHistory retention contract+1/-0
Define the StringHistory retention contract
• Documents zero-limit semantics, negative-value rejection, immediate repartitioning, and the rule that discarded head lines are never recovered.

ARCHITECTURE.md
HISTORY.mdRecord StringHistory behavioral changes+2/-1
Record StringHistory behavioral changes
• Adds the tightened limit contract to the v4.0 release history and removes an unrelated upstream-template reference from v3.5 wording.

HISTORY.md
README.mdAdvertise revised StringHistory limit behavior+1/-0
Advertise revised StringHistory limit behavior
• Highlights immediate repartitioning and negative-limit validation among the release changes.

README.md
Other (2)  +279 / -0 
LoopbackServer.csAdd an ephemeral TCP HTTP test server+255/-0
Add an ephemeral TCP HTTP test server
• Introduces a parallel-capable loopback server with success, missing, and delayed routes. It binds an ephemeral port, writes HTTP/1.1 responses directly to sockets, exposes synchronization signals, and bounds teardown.

UtilitiesTests/LoopbackServer.cs
TestHttpDefaults.csDisable ambient proxies for HTTP tests+24/-0
Disable ambient proxies for HTTP tests
• Adds a module initializer that replaces the process-wide default proxy, ensuring loopback requests cannot be redirected by developer or CI environment variables.

UtilitiesTests/TestHttpDefaults.cs
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StringHistory now validates and reapplies retention limits. File downloads now truncate destinations correctly. Download tests now use a deterministic local HTTP server. Documentation and version metadata describe the 4.1 changes.
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History and download behavior
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StringHistory retention and repartitioning
Utilities/StringHistory.cs, UtilitiesTests/StringHistoryTests.cs		StringHistory rejects negative limits, applies zero-limit semantics, repartitions stored lines, and preserves discard state across later limit changes.
Download destination handling
Utilities/Download.cs, UtilitiesTests/DownloadTests.cs, UtilitiesTests/DownloadAsyncTests.cs		Synchronous and asynchronous downloads truncate existing destinations before copying. Tests verify replacement, failure preservation, and unusable destinations.
Deterministic download test infrastructure
UtilitiesTests/LoopbackServer.cs, UtilitiesTests/TestHttpDefaults.cs, UtilitiesTests/DownloadTests.cs, UtilitiesTests/DownloadAsyncTests.cs		Tests use local success, missing, and delayed routes. Coverage includes metadata, request counts, concurrent requests, cancellation, and proxy isolation.
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ARCHITECTURE.md, HISTORY.md, README.md, version.json		Documentation and release metadata describe the updated contracts and version 4.1 changes.
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes
Merge Risk:🔵 Low · up to aabeb
The PR tightens StringHistory limit handling, makes download tests offline, and safely replaces downloaded files; the remaining README wording omits the special unrestricted (0, 0) case, creating a bounded public-contract documentation mismatch. The change is otherwise mergeable with explicit owner follow-up to correct the README.
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The remaining findings are minor clarity/grammar improvements and do not affect the correctness or determinism goals of the change.
Pull request overview
This pull request removes external network dependencies from the Download test suite by introducing a local loopback HTTP server, and tightens/clarifies StringHistory’s public limit-contract (zero semantics, negative rejection, and post-append re-partitioning) in both code and documentation.
Changes:
  • Replace online Download/DownloadAsync tests with deterministic loopback-server scenarios (success, 404, cancellation, concurrency) and disable ambient proxies for the test process.
  • Update StringHistory to validate negative limits eagerly, re-partition stored history when limits change, and document the “head+tail only, discards-only” behavior across code and architecture docs.
  • Refresh release notes to reflect the clarified StringHistory contract.
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UtilitiesTests/TestHttpDefaults.csSets test-process HTTP defaults to keep loopback HTTP calls offline/deterministic under proxy-configured environments.
UtilitiesTests/LoopbackServer.csAdds a minimal loopback HTTP server used by download-related tests.
UtilitiesTests/DownloadTests.csMoves sync download tests to loopback endpoints and asserts deterministic sizes/failures.
UtilitiesTests/DownloadAsyncTests.csMoves async download tests to loopback endpoints and adds deterministic cancellation/concurrency coverage.
UtilitiesTests/StringHistoryTests.csAdds/extends coverage for negative validation, re-partitioning behavior, and head-closure semantics.
Utilities/StringHistory.csImplements the clarified limit contract: negative rejection, re-partitioning on setters, and “discards-only/head-closure” logic.
README.mdNotes the StringHistory contract change as part of v4.0 breaking-change summary.
HISTORY.mdUpdates v4.0 and v3.5 release notes to remove private-template attribution and record the StringHistory contract clarification.
ARCHITECTURE.mdRecords the updated StringHistory behavioral contract in the public API conventions.
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Utilities/StringHistory.cs:134
  • Grammar in the XML docs: “both limits at 0 retains every line” should be “retain every line”.
 /// <summary>
/// Gets or sets the maximum number of last lines to retain.
/// Set to 0 to retain no last lines; both limits at 0 retains every line.
/// </summary>

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  • Minor grammar in the comment: “Both limits at zero is …” should be “Both limits at zero are …”.
 // Both limits at zero is the unrestricted mode, which retains every line.
// Nothing is discarded here, so the counters already describe the stored list.

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- Around line 30-36: Update the StringHistory constructor to assign the
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and Repartition calls while preserving the validated limit values as an atomic
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+- **`StringHistory`** retains at most `MaxFirstLines` from the head and `MaxLastLines` from the tail. Both limits at zero is the one unrestricted mode, and zero on a single side retains no lines on that side. Either limit rejects a negative value, and assigning one re-partitions the lines already stored, so the history never holds more than the limits then in force allow. Re-partitioning only discards: once a line has been dropped the head is closed, so a later, larger `MaxFirstLines` never promotes a retained tail line into it.
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Replace the Destination File on a Download Instead of Overwriting It
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DownloadFile and DownloadFileAsync opened the destination with File.OpenWrite,
which is FileMode.OpenOrCreate and does not truncate, so a download over a longer
existing file left that file's trailing bytes after the downloaded content and
returned true. A 16-byte body written over a 200-byte file produced a 200-byte
file. Both now create the file instead.
Both local review passes raised this against the download tests rather than the
library, since the rewritten test exercises the path for real but seeds it with
Path.GetTempFileName's empty file, so its length assertion passed either way. Two
tests now seed a file four times the body's length first, and both fail against
the previous behavior and pass against this one.
The maintainer asked for it here rather than as a separate issue, so
ARCHITECTURE.md records the contract and README.md and HISTORY.md carry the fix.
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Make the Download Tests Offline and Tighten the StringHistory Limit ContractFix the StringHistory Limits and Make the Download Tests OfflineSep 1, 2026
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Replace a Downloaded File Only Once the Whole Body Is on Disk
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Answers the first review round on the pull request and a third local pass.
Download. The previous commit fixed the destination not being truncated by
creating the file instead of opening it, which traded one defect for a worse one:
GetStreamAsync returns once the headers arrive, so the destination was emptied
before a single body byte existed and a download that then failed left a 0-byte
file where the old code left the original content. File.Create also asks for
FileAccess.ReadWrite, so a destination the process may write but not read stopped
working at all. Both methods now write beside the destination and move the result
into place, so the destination is replaced whole on success and left untouched on
failure, and the temporary file is removed when a download fails. Two tests cover
the failure case, alongside the two covering the overwrite.
ARCHITECTURE.md said Download reads with HttpCompletionOption.ResponseHeadersRead
so a large response streams rather than buffering whole. That is true only of
GetContentInfo, which discards the body; DownloadString calls GetStringAsync and
buffers the whole response. The entry now says which method does which.
StringHistory. The constructor assigns the backing fields rather than the
properties, since both limits apply as one pair and the setters would apply them
one at a time and re-partition an empty history twice. The XML documentation and
the comments drop the "both limits at zero is" construction that four findings
across three files objected to. HISTORY.md now also records the AppendLine
behavior that shipped with the setters, which it described only as a limit set
after appending being honored.
LoopbackServer. The 404 route has its own case rather than reaching the default
arm, so the route contract is stated rather than incidental. A peer that connects
and sends nothing is no longer counted as a routed request, which the exact-count
assertions depend on. Dispose waits for the accept loop before reading the
connection set, so the set is final rather than a snapshot that could miss a
connection started but not yet registered.
The 300000-history fuzz continues to hold the prefix-plus-suffix contract, the
count bound, no duplicates, and that an assignment never adds a line, across four
and a half million states.
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Answering the two suppressed low-confidence findings from the round on 1932b4e, which open no thread and so have nowhere to be resolved.
Utilities/StringHistory.cs:134 Grammar in the XML docs: "both limits at 0 retains every line" should be "retain every line".
Utilities/StringHistory.cs:166 Minor grammar in the comment: "Both limits at zero is ..." should be "Both limits at zero are ...".
Both are fixed in 6935b65, by the same change that answered the four threaded findings objecting to the same construction. Rather than correcting the agreement in six places, the construction is gone: the property summaries read "Set to 0 to retain no last lines. Every line is retained only when both limits are 0.", the class remarks read "Zero on a single side retains no lines on that side, and zero on both is the one unrestricted mode", and the comment in Repartition reads "Zero on both limits is the unrestricted mode". Six findings against one phrasing is the phrasing's problem rather than six separate ones.
For the record, since a suppressed finding is counted once raised and never uncounted: status now reports suppressed=2 (on_head=0 earlier=2), so nothing is outstanding against the current head.
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DownloadFile/DownloadFileAsync currently compute the temp path outside the try/catch (so they can throw) and can overwrite/delete unrelated files on rare temp-name collisions. 
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Utilities/Download.cs:162
  • High: Make DownloadFileAsync handle invalid destination paths and temp-name collisions safely. CreateTemporaryPath(fileName) currently runs before the try block (so it can throw and break the "return bool, don’t throw" contract), and FileMode.Create with a random name can overwrite an existing file on collision. Move temp-name generation inside the try, create the temp file with FileMode.CreateNew and retry on collision, and only delete the temp path when this call created it.
 string tempFileName = CreateTemporaryPath(fileName);
try
{
Stream httpStream = await GetHttpClient()
.GetStreamAsync(uri, cancellationToken)
.ConfigureAwait(false);
await using (httpStream.ConfigureAwait(false))
{
FileStream fileStream = new(
tempFileName,
FileMode.Create,
FileAccess.Write,
FileShare.None
);
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Answers the review round on 6935b65, which raised this against both DownloadFile
and DownloadFileAsync.
The temporary file was opened with FileMode.Create under a name from
Path.GetRandomFileName, so a name that happened to exist in the destination
directory was overwritten, and the failure path then deleted that unrelated file.
The file is now created with FileMode.CreateNew, which fails rather than
overwrites, and a collision retries under a fresh name. The path is assigned to
the caller's variable only once the file behind it exists, so the failure path
deletes a file this call actually created and nothing else. Any other I/O failure,
a missing destination directory among them, is left to the caller to report rather
than retried.
The same finding also asked that the temporary path be named inside the try, since
Path.GetDirectoryName can throw on invalid path characters and would otherwise
break the bool-returning contract. Naming now happens inside the try, so the point
is moot either way, but the premise does not hold on this target framework: on
net10.0 Path.GetDirectoryName and Path.Combine return normally for an embedded
null character, a pipe, and a 5000-character path alike. That rejection is .NET
Framework behavior.
Two tests cover a destination whose directory does not exist, one per method,
asserting the call reports failure rather than throwing and leaves no file behind.
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Truncate and Rewrite a Downloaded File in Place
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The maintainer chose write-in-place over the temporary-file-and-move approach the
two previous commits built, after a local review pass established what that
approach cost.
Moving a temporary file into place replaces the destination's identity rather
than its contents, which a probe confirmed on Linux: a destination at mode 0600
came back at 0664, a symlink destination was replaced by a regular file leaving
its target stale, a second hard link kept the old content, and a read-only
destination was silently overwritten, because rename consults the directory's
permission and ignores the file's. Windows refuses that same move, so the two
platforms disagreed on whether the download succeeded. A killed process also
orphaned an unnamed temporary in the destination's own directory.
Both methods now open the destination with FileMode.Create and FileAccess.Write.
Create is what fixes the original defect, since OpenWrite does not truncate and
left a longer file's trailing bytes after the body. Write rather than the
ReadWrite that File.Create requests, so a destination the process may write but
not read still works. A probe against this build confirms the four properties the
documentation now claims: mode 0600 survives with the file truncated to the body's
length, a hard link sees the new content, a symlink is written through rather than
replaced, and a read-only destination is refused with the file left intact.
The cost, stated in ARCHITECTURE.md rather than left implicit: the destination is
opened once the response is accepted, so a failure during the body can leave a
partial file. A request that fails before that leaves it untouched, which is what
the two renamed tests pin, and they now assert the server served the request so a
connection failure cannot pass for the file behaving correctly.
CreateTemporaryFile and DeleteTemporary are gone with the approach that needed them.
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Answering the suppressed finding from the round on 6935b65, which opens no thread and so has nowhere to be resolved.
Utilities/Download.cs:162 High: Make DownloadFileAsync handle invalid destination paths and temp-name collisions safely. CreateTemporaryPath(fileName) currently runs before the try block (so it can throw and break the "return bool, don't throw" contract), and FileMode.Create with a random name can overwrite an existing file on collision. Move temp-name generation inside the try, create the temp file with FileMode.CreateNew and retry on collision, and only delete the temp path when this call created it.
Same finding as the threaded one on DownloadFile, answered there. In short: the collision half was real and was fixed in 7aac102, the escape half does not hold on net10.0 (probed: Path.GetDirectoryName and Path.Combine return normally for an embedded null character, a pipe, and a 5000-character path, that rejection being .NET Framework behavior), and the whole temporary-file approach is gone as of 2bc77c0 in favor of writing in place.
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seven unclassified non-ASCII characters in AppendLine_UnicodeCharacters_ShouldPreserve:
four CJK ideographs and three astral-plane emoji, sitting literally in the source.
The test's subject is that a non-ASCII string round-trips, so the string stays and
the source loses the characters instead. The escapes compile to the identical
string, verified against the original bytes, so the assertion is unchanged.
Found by running the gate without --diff over every file this branch edits. The
gate's own help states the policy the default hides: --diff "matches the repo
policy: fix as each file is next edited, not swept", so a violation on an unchanged
line belongs to whoever next edits that file.
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Raise the Version Floor to 4.1 and Record the v4.1 Release Notes
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version.json carries the Nerdbank.GitVersioning floor, raised on develop so the
promotion carries it to main, per OPERATIONS.md "Bumping the version floor".
HISTORY.md gains a v4.1 section holding the two library fixes this branch ships,
moved out of v4.0 where they were first written: the Download destination
corruption and the StringHistory limit contract. The offline download tests and
the coordination-reference removal stay out of both files, since neither ships in
the package.
README.md's release notes drop the Breaking Changes and Summary headings for one
short line per fix under Version 4.1. That also drops four v4.0-era lines,
including the only place the README named HttpClientFactory; HISTORY.md still
carries all of it under v4.0.
Method names in both files now end in (), so a method reads as one rather than as
a property, and the four v4.0-era instances that predate this change are corrected
with them. The StringHistory line no longer reads as though a negative value is
accepted, which is what it said while listing the defects being fixed. Five prose
semicolons in shipped v4.0 entries go with them, found by running the prose gate
over whole files rather than changed lines.
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README/HISTORY currently overstate the atomicity of download failures and one new cancellation test should be bounded to avoid hanging CI. 
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  • The cancellation test awaits download with no timeout, so a regression where Download.DownloadStringAsync stops observing cancellation could hang the entire test run. Consider bounding the await (similar to the other uses of WaitAsync) so the test fails fast instead of hanging.
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long startedAt = Stopwatch.GetTimestamp();
await cts.CancelAsync();
(bool success, string _) = await download;
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🔵 Needs a closer look
The README/HISTORY release notes currently describe an atomic “write beside + move into place / untouched on failure” behavior that does not match the in-place truncation rewrite implemented in Utilities/Download.cs.
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README.md:37
  • The README claims the Download fix now "replaced whole on success and left untouched on failure", but DownloadFile/DownloadFileAsync currently truncate and rewrite the destination in place (and can leave a partial file on mid-body failure). Please update this release-note bullet to match the current contract (see ARCHITECTURE.md’s Download bullet and Utilities/Download.cs).
- Added `HttpClientFactory`, a reusable resilient HTTP client factory (Polly retry and circuit breaker) with an AOT safe `AssemblyInfo` identity helper and a tunable `HttpClientOptions`.
- Fixed `Download.DownloadFile` and `DownloadFileAsync` corrupting the destination when downloading over a longer existing file. The destination is now replaced whole on success and left untouched on failure.

HISTORY.md:8
  • This v4.0 HISTORY entry says downloads now "write beside the destination and move the result into place" and that the destination is "left untouched when a download fails partway", but the implementation rewrites the destination in place (Utilities/Download.cs) and ARCHITECTURE.md notes that a mid-body failure can leave a partial file. Please align this release-history bullet with the actual behavior.
 - Fixed `Download.DownloadFile` and `DownloadFileAsync` corrupting the destination file: both opened it with `File.OpenWrite`, which does not truncate, so a download over a longer existing file left that file's trailing bytes after the downloaded content and reported success. Both now write beside the destination and move the result into place, so the destination is replaced whole on success and left untouched when a download fails partway.

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Correct What the Release Notes and the Contract Claim About a Download
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A local pass over the release notes found three claims that did not match the
code, and one behavior difference the notes did not mention at all.
HISTORY.md credited v4.1 with opening the destination only once the response is
accepted, so a failed request leaves it untouched. v4.0 already did that: it
called GetStreamAsync before File.OpenWrite, so a request that failed never
reached the file. The entry claimed unchanged behavior as a fix.
The same entry omitted what did change. Truncating at open means a download that
fails partway now leaves a short file, where OpenWrite left the original bytes
behind the newly written ones. That is a real loss of content for a consumer whose
download is interrupted, it is the cost of the fix rather than a detail, and
HISTORY.md is where a consumer would look for it. Both it and README.md now say so.
Windows refuses FileMode.Create against a hidden file, where the FileMode.OpenOrCreate
that OpenWrite used does not, so a download over a hidden destination would have
started failing on a supported platform, contradicting the claim that the
destination's own attributes survive. Both methods now open with OpenOrCreate and
truncate with SetLength, which is what fixes the original defect without changing
which destinations can be opened. Re-probed on Linux: mode 0600 survives with the
file truncated to the body's length, a hard link sees the new content, a symlink is
written through, and a read-only destination is still refused with the file intact.
The Windows half is documented behavior rather than something this host can run.
ARCHITECTURE.md named a public type Extensions that v4.0 renamed to
CompressExtensions, so the contract list described a type consumers cannot
reference, and it attributed the logger helpers to it rather than to the internal
LogExtensions. It also named FileEx's options as Options rather than the static
FileEx.Options, and wrote its own method names without the parentheses the same
change had just standardized on in HISTORY.md and README.md.
Two test comments said the body is fetched before the destination is opened.
GetStreamAsync completes on the response headers, so only those have been read and
the body streams after the file is open.
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Answering the three findings from the round on 3a6dde5 that open no thread.
README.md:37 The README claims the Download fix now "replaced whole on success and left untouched on failure", but DownloadFile/DownloadFileAsync currently truncate and rewrite the destination in place (and can leave a partial file on mid-body failure).
HISTORY.md:8 This v4.0 HISTORY entry says downloads now "write beside the destination and move the result into place" and that the destination is "left untouched when a download fails partway", but the implementation rewrites the destination in place.
Both correct, both fixed in 6f73755 and aabeb0c, which landed after this round read the branch. The two entries moved into a new v4.1 section and now describe truncate-and-rewrite-in-place, and both carry the caveat the earlier wording omitted: a download that fails partway leaves a short file, where File.OpenWrite() left the original bytes behind the newly written ones. That is a real loss of content for an interrupted download and belongs in the release notes rather than only in ARCHITECTURE.md.
Worth recording, since these two findings track a fix that changed shape three times: the temporary-file-and-move approach they describe was itself reverted, because moving a file into place replaces the destination's identity rather than its contents. Probed on Linux: a 0600 destination came back 0664, a symlink was replaced by a regular file leaving its target stale, a hard link kept the old content, and a read-only destination was silently overwritten, where Windows refuses the same move.
PR title exceeds limit
Stale. The title was 76 characters when first raised and has been Fix the StringHistory Limits and Make the Download Tests Offline at 64 since, well inside the 72-character limit GOVERNANCE.md sets. Verified against the live title rather than the badge.
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README.md/HISTORY.md and the PR description currently describe an atomic “write-beside then move” behavior, but the implementation truncates and rewrites in place and can leave partial files on mid-body failure.
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  • README release-notes bullet claims the download destination is “replaced whole on success and left untouched on failure”, but DownloadFile/DownloadFileAsync now open the destination with FileMode.Create and stream the body into it. That truncates immediately and can leave a partial file if the body copy fails; please align the README text with the actual behavior (and ARCHITECTURE.md’s Download contract).
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The changes are internally consistent across implementation, tests, and documentation, and the updated tests remove external network/environment dependencies while adding coverage for the newly defined behaviors. 
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State the Both-Zero Exception in the README Limit Summary
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The README said zero retains no lines on that side, without the exception that
ARCHITECTURE.md and HISTORY.md both carry: zero on both sides at once is the one
unrestricted mode. Read alone, the short summary described a StringHistory that
retains nothing by default, which is the opposite of what a default-constructed
one does.
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The implementation changes are consistent with the updated documented contracts and are backed by expanded deterministic, offline test coverage for the new behaviors.
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Closes#427. Closes#452. Closes#454.
Promotes `develop` at `f2a8f62` to `main`. One squashed pull request,
#455, which closed the three open issues and fixed one defect found
while doing so.
The issue-closing keywords sit here rather than on #455, since GitHub
only closes an issue when the pull request merges into the default
branch, and #455 merged into `develop`.
## What is being promoted
- **#454, the `StringHistory` limit properties.** `MaxFirstLines` and
`MaxLastLines` were each documented `Set to 0 for no limit`, which holds
only when both are zero. Zero on one side is now documented as retaining
no lines on that side, both the constructor and the setters reject a
negative value, and assigning a limit re-partitions the lines already
stored instead of being ignored. Re-partitioning only ever discards, so
what is retained is always a prefix of the appended lines followed by a
suffix of them, and once a line has been dropped the head is trimmed but
never refilled.
- **#452, the download tests.** They reached `www.google.com` and
`httpstat.us`, so the unit-test gate depended on outbound DNS and on two
third parties, and paid a five-second sleep on every run. They now drive
a loopback HTTP server on an ephemeral port, and the test assembly
disables the ambient proxy so a machine with `http_proxy` set does not
send loopback requests through it. `Download`'s public surface is
unchanged.
- **#427, the coordination reference.** `HISTORY.md` named the template
repository in its v3.5 entry and no longer does.
- **A `Download` defect found during the above.** `DownloadFile()` and
`DownloadFileAsync()` opened the destination with `File.OpenWrite()`,
which does not truncate, so a download over a longer existing file left
that file's trailing bytes after the downloaded content and returned
`true`. Both now open with `FileMode.OpenOrCreate` and truncate with
`SetLength(0)`, rewriting in place so the destination's permissions,
ownership, and any links to it survive.
- **The version floor**, raised to 4.1, with the two shipped fixes
recorded in `HISTORY.md` and `README.md`.
## Verification
The merge is clean and `git write-tree` on it equals `git rev-parse
origin/develop^{tree}` exactly (`0cfd271c`), so `main` ends up with
`develop`'s tree and nothing else.
`develop` carried 206 tests green, the `.NET Format` clean-compile chain
with zero warnings under `AnalysisMode=All` and `TreatWarningsAsErrors`,
markdownlint, CSpell, actionlint, `editorconfig-checker`, shellcheck and
shfmt clean, and the hub's prose and repository gates clean. #455 went
through eight review rounds; every thread was resolved and every
suppressed finding answered, with `suppressed on_head=0` at the merge.
## Releases stay blocked, and this does not unblock them
`publish-release.yml` still fails at the NuGet OIDC token exchange,
because the hub-hosted release chain makes the `job_workflow_ref` claim
name the hub rather than this repository
([ProjectTemplate#1126](ptr727/ProjectTemplate#1126)).
The fix moves the token exchange and the push back into the calling
repository, which needs new content in this repository's
`publish-release.yml` plus a re-pin, and cannot land until that hub
change reaches its `main`. That is a follow-up pull request, so merging
this one leaves the latest release at 4.0.38.
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## Summary by CodeRabbit
* **Bug Fixes**
* Downloads now fully replace existing files, preventing stale or
corrupted trailing content.
* Failed downloads preserve existing destination files and handle
unavailable destinations safely.
* `StringHistory` now validates limits, preserves discarded-content
rules, repartitions stored lines correctly, and supports atomic limit
updates.
* **Documentation**
* Clarified download buffering, truncation, partial-download outcomes,
file options, and `StringHistory` behavior.
* Updated terminology and retry-behavior documentation.
* **Release**
* Updated the project version to 4.1.
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## What's Changed
* Bump DavidAnson/markdownlint-cli2-action from 24.0.0 to 24.1.0 in the
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* Bump the nuget-deps group with 1 update by @​dependabot[bot] in
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* Bump actions/checkout from 7.0.0 to 7.0.1 in the actions-deps group by
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* Re-vendor the carried hub files to the current canonical by @​ptr727
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* Bump DavidAnson/markdownlint-cli2-action from 24.1.0 to 24.2.0 in the
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* Migrate Test Project to Native Microsoft.Testing.Platform by @​ptr727
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* Bump AwesomeAssertions and 3 others by @​dependabot[bot] in
ptr727/Utilities#449
* Resync the Repository with the Hub and Normalize Line Endings to LF by
@​ptr727 in ptr727/Utilities#451
* Promote Develop to Main by @​ptr727 in
ptr727/Utilities#453
* Fix the StringHistory Limits and Make the Download Tests Offline by
@​ptr727 in ptr727/Utilities#455
* Apply Both StringHistory Limits in One Re-Partition by @​ptr727 in
ptr727/Utilities#457
* Push the NuGet Package From This Repository Rather Than the Hub Task
by @​ptr727 in ptr727/Utilities#458
* Promote Develop to Main by @​ptr727 in
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**Full Changelog**:
ptr727/Utilities@4.0.38...4.1.4
## What's Changed
* Bump DavidAnson/markdownlint-cli2-action from 24.0.0 to 24.1.0 in the
actions-deps group by @​dependabot[bot] in
ptr727/Utilities#428
* Bump the nuget-deps group with 1 update by @​dependabot[bot] in
ptr727/Utilities#430
* Bump actions/checkout from 7.0.0 to 7.0.1 in the actions-deps group by
@​dependabot[bot] in ptr727/Utilities#433
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Closes#427. Closes#452. Closes#454.
#454, the StringHistory limit properties
MaxFirstLines and MaxLastLines were each documented Set to 0 for no limit, which holds only when both are zero, the one branch AppendLine treats as unrestricted. Set individually, zero retains none on that side. The maintainer chose the smaller of the two directions the issue offered, so the documentation now says what the code does rather than the code changing to match the documentation.
Three behavioral changes on top of that:
  • The constructor and both setters reject a negative value with ArgumentOutOfRangeException, rather than letting it reach RemoveAt and throw after entries have already been taken. The constructor validates its own parameters, so the exception names maxFirstLines or maxLastLines rather than value.
  • Each setter re-partitions the lines already stored, so a limit assigned after appending is honored instead of ignored.
  • Re-partitioning only ever discards. Once a line has been dropped the head is closed: it can be trimmed but never refilled, by a later append or by a later, larger MaxFirstLines. What is retained is therefore always a prefix of the stream followed by a suffix of it, which is exactly the head-and-tail contract ARCHITECTURE.md states.
That third point is the one worth reviewing closely, and it is the one two local review passes and a fuzz each found a different defect in before it settled. A 300000-history fuzz over random append and limit sequences holds the prefix-plus-suffix contract, the count bound, and no-duplicates across four and a half million intermediate states.
#452, the download tests
DownloadTests and DownloadAsyncTests reached www.google.com and httpstat.us, so the unit-test gate depended on outbound DNS and on two third parties it does not control, and paid a five-second sleep on every run to exercise the timeout path.
They now drive a loopback HTTP server bound to an ephemeral port. Download's public surface is unchanged, so the Lazy<HttpClient> contract in ARCHITECTURE.md still holds and the seam the issue offered as the larger alternative was not needed.
  • The server writes HTTP/1.1 onto a TcpListener socket rather than using HttpListener, which on Windows resolves an explicit-address prefix through http.sys and needs a URL reservation an unelevated developer does not have. CI is Linux-only, so nothing here would have caught that.
  • Binding port 0 and reading the port back removes the probe-then-bind race a first draft had.
  • The negative case is a 404 from that server rather than a hostname expected never to resolve, which a wildcard registration or a captive-portal resolver would have silently inverted.
  • The cancellation test waits for the server to signal that it holds the request, cancels only then, and asserts the call returned well inside the route's own delay. Asserting only that the call returned false would have passed just as well if the server had never started.
  • Both not-found tests assert the server actually routed the request, for the same reason.
  • The test assembly disables the ambient proxy. HttpClientFactory leaves SocketsHttpHandler.UseProxy at its default, so a client resolves HttpClient.DefaultProxy, which on Unix is read from http_proxy and bypasses loopback only where no_proxy says to. A machine configured that way would send every loopback request to a proxy, which is the environment dependence this issue exists to remove.
The suite is 200 tests and runs in about one second, against 193 tests and roughly six seconds before. Twenty consecutive runs were clean.
#427, the coordination reference
HISTORY.md named the template repository in its v3.5 entry. It now states what changed without naming where it came from. .github/copilot-instructions.md, the other file the issue named, was already clear, and the hub's own audit reports this repository clean.
A reviewer may read the HISTORY.md hunk as an out-of-scope edit to a shipped release record. It is #427's deliverable rather than incidental churn.
Verification
.NET Format (CSharpier, build, dotnet format style --verify-no-changes) clean, zero warnings under AnalysisMode=All and TreatWarningsAsErrors. markdownlint, CSpell, actionlint, editorconfig-checker, shellcheck and shfmt clean. The hub's prose gate and repository gate both clean.
One thing beyond the three issues
Download.DownloadFile() and DownloadFileAsync() opened the destination with File.OpenWrite(), which is FileMode.OpenOrCreate and does not truncate, so a download over a longer existing file left that file's trailing bytes after the downloaded content and returned true. A local review pass raised it, and the maintainer asked for it here rather than as a separate issue.
The fix changed shape twice before settling, so read the current behavior here rather than in the commit history. Both methods now open the destination with FileMode.OpenOrCreate and truncate it with SetLength(0), rewriting it in place. Its permissions, ownership, and any hard links or symlinks to it survive, which a probe confirms on Linux: mode 0600 stays 0600 with the file truncated to the body's length, a hard link sees the new content, a symlink is written through rather than replaced, and a read-only destination is refused with the file intact.
The cost, which the release notes now state rather than leave implicit: truncation happens once the response headers are accepted, so a download that fails partway leaves a short file, where File.OpenWrite() left the original bytes behind the newly written ones.
Two approaches were tried and rejected on the way, both by local review passes:
  • FileMode.Create, which empties the destination before a single body byte exists, and which Windows refuses outright against a hidden file where OpenOrCreate succeeds.
  • Writing beside the destination and moving the result into place. That gives the strongest failure guarantee, an untouched destination, but it replaces the file's identity rather than its contents. Probed on Linux: a 0600 destination came back 0664, a symlink was replaced by a regular file leaving its target stale, a hard link kept the old content, and a read-only destination was silently overwritten, since rename(2) consults the directory's permission and not the file's, while Windows refuses that same move. The maintainer chose in-place rewriting over that trade.
Six tests cover it: two for the overwrite, two for a request that fails before the response is accepted, and two for a destination that cannot be opened.
Not in this change
  • The failing Publish project release run is the NuGet OIDC job_workflow_ref claim, ProjectTemplate#1126. The fix moves the token exchange and the push into the calling repository, so this repository's publish-release.yml needs new content plus a re-pin. That cannot merge usefully until the hub fix reaches its main, so it is a follow-up rather than part of this change.
Summary by CodeRabbit
  • New Features
    • StringHistory now repartitions retained lines when limits change and preserves consistent first- and last-line behavior.
    • Zero limits support unrestricted retention; negative limits are rejected.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Downloads correctly replace oversized existing files without leaving stale content.
    • Failed downloads preserve existing files and handle unusable destinations gracefully.
  • Documentation
    • Updated architecture, README, and release history documentation.
  • Tests
    • Expanded coverage for history limits, downloads, concurrency, cancellation, and failure scenarios.
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Make the Download Tests Offline and Tighten the StringHistory Limit C…
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Closes the three open issues on this repository.
#454, StringHistory limit properties. MaxFirstLines and MaxLastLines were each
documented "Set to 0 for no limit", which holds only when both are zero, the one
branch AppendLine treats as unrestricted. Set individually, zero retains none on
that side, so the documentation now says that. Both the constructor and the two
setters reject a negative value with ArgumentOutOfRangeException, rather than
letting it reach RemoveAt and throw after entries have already been taken. Each
setter re-partitions the stored entries and resets the counters, so a limit
assigned after appending is honored instead of ignored. ARCHITECTURE.md "Public
API Conventions" records the contract, and README.md and HISTORY.md carry the
behavioral change.
#452, download tests. DownloadTests and DownloadAsyncTests reached real hosts,
so the unit-test gate depended on outbound DNS and on two third parties. They now
drive a loopback HttpListener bound to an ephemeral port, which makes success,
not-found, and cancellation deterministic and offline, and drops the five-second
sleep the timeout case paid on every run. The negative case is a 404 from that
server rather than a name expected never to resolve, which a wildcard or a
captive-portal resolver would have silently inverted. Download's public surface
is unchanged, so the Lazy<HttpClient> contract in ARCHITECTURE.md still holds.
#427, coordination reference. HISTORY.md named the template repository in its
v3.5 entry. The entry now states what changed without naming where it came from.
.github/copilot-instructions.md was already clear.
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Close the Defects the Local Review Found
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A local adversarial pass over the previous commit raised seven findings against it.
Six are fixed here and one is declined.
StringHistory. Raising MaxFirstLines on a history that had already dropped a line
promoted retained tail lines into the head, where they could never roll out again,
so [L0,L1,L8,L9] with the limit raised to 5 kept L8 and L9 as first lines forever.
That contradicted the head and tail contract this change had just written into
ARCHITECTURE.md. The head is now closed once anything has been discarded: it only
shrinks from there, re-partitioning trims the head and the tail separately rather
than re-slicing a list that has a gap in it, and the roll indexes the stored head
rather than the limit, which a widened limit would otherwise index past the end of
the list. Three tests cover the closed head, the still-open head, and the head-only
case, and a 200000-history fuzz over random append and limit sequences held the
ordering, bound, and no-duplicate invariants across three million assertions.
LoopbackServer. Rewritten onto a TcpListener rather than HttpListener, which fixes
three findings at once. Binding port 0 and reading the port back removes the
probe-then-release window that failed 6 constructions in 4800 concurrent ones.
Writing the response onto the socket removes the http.sys URL reservation that an
explicit-address prefix needs on Windows, where GOVERNANCE.md declares Windows a
supported development platform and CI is Linux-only. Serving the connection with a
catch-all removes the unexpected exception that escaped the accept loop, faulted
the task Dispose waits on, and reddened a test whose assertions had all passed.
Dispose is also idempotent now and its wait is bounded, and the fixture reports the
content's byte length rather than its UTF-16 char count.
Cancellation test. It asserted only that the call returned false, which any failure
produces, so it could not tell a cancelled request from a server that never
started. It now waits for the server to signal that the slow route has the request,
cancels only then, and asserts the call returned well inside the route's own delay.
Proxy independence. HttpClientFactory leaves SocketsHttpHandler.UseProxy at its
default, so a client resolves HttpClient.DefaultProxy, which on Unix reads
http_proxy and bypasses loopback only where no_proxy says to. A machine configured
that way would send these loopback requests to a proxy, which is the environment
dependence #452 exists to remove, so the test assembly disables the ambient proxy.
Declined: the finding that the HISTORY.md v3.5 entry is an out-of-scope edit to a
shipped release record. That edit is #427's deliverable, not incidental churn.
Not fixed here, and raised for a separate decision: Download.DownloadFile and
DownloadFileAsync open the destination with File.OpenWrite, which does not
truncate, so downloading over a longer existing file leaves trailing bytes from the
previous content. It is a pre-existing defect in shipped code, outside all three
issues this branch closes.
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Close the Defects the Second Local Review Found
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A second adversarial pass over the previous commit found that its own fix had
introduced a regression, and a fuzz over the corrected model then found a third
defect neither pass had reached.
StringHistory. The previous commit tracked one flag for two different questions,
so entering the unrestricted mode reset the head counter while leaving the
discarded flag set, and the next limit assignment read a partition that no longer
described the stored lines. A history limited to 2 and 2, cleared to unrestricted,
then given two more lines and limited again, discarded the two most recent lines
and kept nothing. A fuzz over the corrected model then found the deeper case: a
history that had only ever kept a tail could have a head limit raised, which
relabeled tail lines as first lines and left a window that was neither a prefix
nor a suffix of the stream. Both are the same root cause, a head that could grow
into lines that are not the stream's first, so the head is now closed absolutely:
once a line has been discarded the head is trimmed but never refilled, by an
append or by a re-partition. The unrestricted mode extends the tail rather than
the head once anything has been discarded, so what is retained stays a prefix
followed by a suffix. Four tests cover the two cases above, the tail-only history,
and a head that cannot be rebuilt. A 300000-history fuzz over random append and
limit sequences now holds that prefix-plus-suffix contract across four and a half
million states, where the previous model failed it within five iterations.
LoopbackServer. Connections are served concurrently rather than one at a time, so
the thirty-second slow route cannot block a later request, and Dispose waits for
the in-flight connections along with the accept loop under the same bounded,
never-rethrowing wait. The server also counts the requests it routes.
Tests. The cancellation test waited on a signal that nothing could ever fault or
cancel, so a server-side failure before the slow route was reached hung the test
rather than failing it, with no deadline anywhere to end the run; the wait is now
bounded. Both not-found tests asserted only that the call returned false, which a
refused connection produces just as well, so each now asserts the server routed
the request. A new test proves two concurrent requests to one server both complete.
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Make downloads offline and enforce StringHistory limit semantics
🐞 Bug fix🧪 Tests📝 Documentation🕐 40+ Minutes
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• Enforces StringHistory limits immediately, rejects negatives, and preserves prefix-plus-suffix
retention.
• Replaces external download endpoints with deterministic loopback HTTP scenarios.
• Documents clarified limit semantics and adds comprehensive regression coverage.

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graph TD
HistoryTests["History tests"] -->|verifies| StringHistory["StringHistory"] -->|maintains| RetainedLines["Retained lines"]
DownloadTests["Download tests"] -->|calls| DownloadAPI["Download API"] -->|requests| LoopbackServer["Loopback server"]
HttpDefaults["HTTP defaults"] -->|disables proxy| DownloadAPI

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The following are alternative approaches to this PR:
1. Atomic limit update API
  • ➕ Avoids order-dependent discards when changing both limits
  • ➕ Expresses two-limit repartitioning as one operation
  • ➖ Expands the public API
  • ➖ Existing property setters still need defined behavior
  • ➖ Does not recover lines already discarded
2. Injectable HTTP handler seam
  • ➕ Produces smaller and faster unit tests
  • ➕ Avoids implementing an HTTP parser and socket lifecycle
  • ➖ Changes production design solely for tests
  • ➖ Bypasses real networking and streaming behavior
  • ➖ Conflicts with the shared Lazy contract
Recommendation: Keep the current approach: in-place repartitioning preserves API compatibility, and the loopback TCP server provides deterministic offline coverage through the real HTTP stack. An atomic two-limit method could be considered separately if callers frequently need to change both limits without setter-order loss.
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Bug fix (1)  +115 / -9 
StringHistory.csEnforce mutable head-tail limits safely+115/-9
Enforce mutable head-tail limits safely
• Validates constructor and property limits, repartitions retained lines whenever a limit changes, and tracks whether the stream head has closed after a discard. Appends now preserve prefix-plus-suffix semantics across unrestricted and reconfigured states.

Utilities/StringHistory.cs
Tests (3)  +344 / -26 
DownloadAsyncTests.csRun asynchronous download tests against loopback HTTP+68/-22
Run asynchronous download tests against loopback HTTP
• Replaces public internet dependencies with deterministic success, 404, concurrent, and cancellation scenarios. Assertions now verify exact local content, request routing, and prompt cancellation.

UtilitiesTests/DownloadAsyncTests.cs
DownloadTests.csRun synchronous download tests against loopback HTTP+18/-4
Run synchronous download tests against loopback HTTP
• Uses the local server for successful metadata retrieval and a routed 404 failure, including exact content-length and request-count assertions.

UtilitiesTests/DownloadTests.cs
StringHistoryTests.csCover StringHistory validation and repartitioning invariants+258/-0
Cover StringHistory validation and repartitioning invariants
• Adds regression tests for negative limits, post-append limit changes, head trimming, unrestricted transitions, and append behavior after discards. The cases verify that retained lines remain a stream prefix followed by its suffix without rebuilding a closed head.

UtilitiesTests/StringHistoryTests.cs
Documentation (3)  +4 / -1 
ARCHITECTURE.mdDefine the StringHistory retention contract+1/-0
Define the StringHistory retention contract
• Documents zero-limit semantics, negative-value rejection, immediate repartitioning, and the rule that discarded head lines are never recovered.

ARCHITECTURE.md
HISTORY.mdRecord StringHistory behavioral changes+2/-1
Record StringHistory behavioral changes
• Adds the tightened limit contract to the v4.0 release history and removes an unrelated upstream-template reference from v3.5 wording.

HISTORY.md
README.mdAdvertise revised StringHistory limit behavior+1/-0
Advertise revised StringHistory limit behavior
• Highlights immediate repartitioning and negative-limit validation among the release changes.

README.md
Other (2)  +279 / -0 
LoopbackServer.csAdd an ephemeral TCP HTTP test server+255/-0
Add an ephemeral TCP HTTP test server
• Introduces a parallel-capable loopback server with success, missing, and delayed routes. It binds an ephemeral port, writes HTTP/1.1 responses directly to sockets, exposes synchronization signals, and bounds teardown.

UtilitiesTests/LoopbackServer.cs
TestHttpDefaults.csDisable ambient proxies for HTTP tests+24/-0
Disable ambient proxies for HTTP tests
• Adds a module initializer that replaces the process-wide default proxy, ensuring loopback requests cannot be redirected by developer or CI environment variables.

UtilitiesTests/TestHttpDefaults.cs
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StringHistory now validates and reapplies retention limits. File downloads now truncate destinations correctly. Download tests now use a deterministic local HTTP server. Documentation and version metadata describe the 4.1 changes.
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StringHistory retention and repartitioning
Utilities/StringHistory.cs, UtilitiesTests/StringHistoryTests.cs		StringHistory rejects negative limits, applies zero-limit semantics, repartitions stored lines, and preserves discard state across later limit changes.
Download destination handling
Utilities/Download.cs, UtilitiesTests/DownloadTests.cs, UtilitiesTests/DownloadAsyncTests.cs		Synchronous and asynchronous downloads truncate existing destinations before copying. Tests verify replacement, failure preservation, and unusable destinations.
Deterministic download test infrastructure
UtilitiesTests/LoopbackServer.cs, UtilitiesTests/TestHttpDefaults.cs, UtilitiesTests/DownloadTests.cs, UtilitiesTests/DownloadAsyncTests.cs		Tests use local success, missing, and delayed routes. Coverage includes metadata, request counts, concurrent requests, cancellation, and proxy isolation.
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ARCHITECTURE.md, HISTORY.md, README.md, version.json		Documentation and release metadata describe the updated contracts and version 4.1 changes.
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The PR tightens StringHistory limit handling, makes download tests offline, and safely replaces downloaded files; the remaining README wording omits the special unrestricted (0, 0) case, creating a bounded public-contract documentation mismatch. The change is otherwise mergeable with explicit owner follow-up to correct the README.
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The remaining findings are minor clarity/grammar improvements and do not affect the correctness or determinism goals of the change.
Pull request overview
This pull request removes external network dependencies from the Download test suite by introducing a local loopback HTTP server, and tightens/clarifies StringHistory’s public limit-contract (zero semantics, negative rejection, and post-append re-partitioning) in both code and documentation.
Changes:
  • Replace online Download/DownloadAsync tests with deterministic loopback-server scenarios (success, 404, cancellation, concurrency) and disable ambient proxies for the test process.
  • Update StringHistory to validate negative limits eagerly, re-partition stored history when limits change, and document the “head+tail only, discards-only” behavior across code and architecture docs.
  • Refresh release notes to reflect the clarified StringHistory contract.
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UtilitiesTests/TestHttpDefaults.csSets test-process HTTP defaults to keep loopback HTTP calls offline/deterministic under proxy-configured environments.
UtilitiesTests/LoopbackServer.csAdds a minimal loopback HTTP server used by download-related tests.
UtilitiesTests/DownloadTests.csMoves sync download tests to loopback endpoints and asserts deterministic sizes/failures.
UtilitiesTests/DownloadAsyncTests.csMoves async download tests to loopback endpoints and adds deterministic cancellation/concurrency coverage.
UtilitiesTests/StringHistoryTests.csAdds/extends coverage for negative validation, re-partitioning behavior, and head-closure semantics.
Utilities/StringHistory.csImplements the clarified limit contract: negative rejection, re-partitioning on setters, and “discards-only/head-closure” logic.
README.mdNotes the StringHistory contract change as part of v4.0 breaking-change summary.
HISTORY.mdUpdates v4.0 and v3.5 release notes to remove private-template attribution and record the StringHistory contract clarification.
ARCHITECTURE.mdRecords the updated StringHistory behavioral contract in the public API conventions.
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  • Grammar in the XML docs: “both limits at 0 retains every line” should be “retain every line”.
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/// Set to 0 to retain no last lines; both limits at 0 retains every line.
/// </summary>

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  • Minor grammar in the comment: “Both limits at zero is …” should be “Both limits at zero are …”.
 // Both limits at zero is the unrestricted mode, which retains every line.
// Nothing is discarded here, so the counters already describe the stored list.

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+- **`StringHistory`** retains at most `MaxFirstLines` from the head and `MaxLastLines` from the tail. Both limits at zero is the one unrestricted mode, and zero on a single side retains no lines on that side. Either limit rejects a negative value, and assigning one re-partitions the lines already stored, so the history never holds more than the limits then in force allow. Re-partitioning only discards: once a line has been dropped the head is closed, so a later, larger `MaxFirstLines` never promotes a retained tail line into it.
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Replace the Destination File on a Download Instead of Overwriting It
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DownloadFile and DownloadFileAsync opened the destination with File.OpenWrite,
which is FileMode.OpenOrCreate and does not truncate, so a download over a longer
existing file left that file's trailing bytes after the downloaded content and
returned true. A 16-byte body written over a 200-byte file produced a 200-byte
file. Both now create the file instead.
Both local review passes raised this against the download tests rather than the
library, since the rewritten test exercises the path for real but seeds it with
Path.GetTempFileName's empty file, so its length assertion passed either way. Two
tests now seed a file four times the body's length first, and both fail against
the previous behavior and pass against this one.
The maintainer asked for it here rather than as a separate issue, so
ARCHITECTURE.md records the contract and README.md and HISTORY.md carry the fix.
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Replace a Downloaded File Only Once the Whole Body Is on Disk
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Answers the first review round on the pull request and a third local pass.
Download. The previous commit fixed the destination not being truncated by
creating the file instead of opening it, which traded one defect for a worse one:
GetStreamAsync returns once the headers arrive, so the destination was emptied
before a single body byte existed and a download that then failed left a 0-byte
file where the old code left the original content. File.Create also asks for
FileAccess.ReadWrite, so a destination the process may write but not read stopped
working at all. Both methods now write beside the destination and move the result
into place, so the destination is replaced whole on success and left untouched on
failure, and the temporary file is removed when a download fails. Two tests cover
the failure case, alongside the two covering the overwrite.
ARCHITECTURE.md said Download reads with HttpCompletionOption.ResponseHeadersRead
so a large response streams rather than buffering whole. That is true only of
GetContentInfo, which discards the body; DownloadString calls GetStringAsync and
buffers the whole response. The entry now says which method does which.
StringHistory. The constructor assigns the backing fields rather than the
properties, since both limits apply as one pair and the setters would apply them
one at a time and re-partition an empty history twice. The XML documentation and
the comments drop the "both limits at zero is" construction that four findings
across three files objected to. HISTORY.md now also records the AppendLine
behavior that shipped with the setters, which it described only as a limit set
after appending being honored.
LoopbackServer. The 404 route has its own case rather than reaching the default
arm, so the route contract is stated rather than incidental. A peer that connects
and sends nothing is no longer counted as a routed request, which the exact-count
assertions depend on. Dispose waits for the accept loop before reading the
connection set, so the set is final rather than a snapshot that could miss a
connection started but not yet registered.
The 300000-history fuzz continues to hold the prefix-plus-suffix contract, the
count bound, no duplicates, and that an assignment never adds a line, across four
and a half million states.
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Answering the two suppressed low-confidence findings from the round on 1932b4e, which open no thread and so have nowhere to be resolved.
Utilities/StringHistory.cs:134 Grammar in the XML docs: "both limits at 0 retains every line" should be "retain every line".
Utilities/StringHistory.cs:166 Minor grammar in the comment: "Both limits at zero is ..." should be "Both limits at zero are ...".
Both are fixed in 6935b65, by the same change that answered the four threaded findings objecting to the same construction. Rather than correcting the agreement in six places, the construction is gone: the property summaries read "Set to 0 to retain no last lines. Every line is retained only when both limits are 0.", the class remarks read "Zero on a single side retains no lines on that side, and zero on both is the one unrestricted mode", and the comment in Repartition reads "Zero on both limits is the unrestricted mode". Six findings against one phrasing is the phrasing's problem rather than six separate ones.
For the record, since a suppressed finding is counted once raised and never uncounted: status now reports suppressed=2 (on_head=0 earlier=2), so nothing is outstanding against the current head.
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DownloadFile/DownloadFileAsync currently compute the temp path outside the try/catch (so they can throw) and can overwrite/delete unrelated files on rare temp-name collisions. 
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  • High: Make DownloadFileAsync handle invalid destination paths and temp-name collisions safely. CreateTemporaryPath(fileName) currently runs before the try block (so it can throw and break the "return bool, don’t throw" contract), and FileMode.Create with a random name can overwrite an existing file on collision. Move temp-name generation inside the try, create the temp file with FileMode.CreateNew and retry on collision, and only delete the temp path when this call created it.
 string tempFileName = CreateTemporaryPath(fileName);
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.ConfigureAwait(false);
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tempFileName,
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and DownloadFileAsync.
The temporary file was opened with FileMode.Create under a name from
Path.GetRandomFileName, so a name that happened to exist in the destination
directory was overwritten, and the failure path then deleted that unrelated file.
The file is now created with FileMode.CreateNew, which fails rather than
overwrites, and a collision retries under a fresh name. The path is assigned to
the caller's variable only once the file behind it exists, so the failure path
deletes a file this call actually created and nothing else. Any other I/O failure,
a missing destination directory among them, is left to the caller to report rather
than retried.
The same finding also asked that the temporary path be named inside the try, since
Path.GetDirectoryName can throw on invalid path characters and would otherwise
break the bool-returning contract. Naming now happens inside the try, so the point
is moot either way, but the premise does not hold on this target framework: on
net10.0 Path.GetDirectoryName and Path.Combine return normally for an embedded
null character, a pipe, and a 5000-character path alike. That rejection is .NET
Framework behavior.
Two tests cover a destination whose directory does not exist, one per method,
asserting the call reports failure rather than throwing and leaves no file behind.
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Truncate and Rewrite a Downloaded File in Place
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The maintainer chose write-in-place over the temporary-file-and-move approach the
two previous commits built, after a local review pass established what that
approach cost.
Moving a temporary file into place replaces the destination's identity rather
than its contents, which a probe confirmed on Linux: a destination at mode 0600
came back at 0664, a symlink destination was replaced by a regular file leaving
its target stale, a second hard link kept the old content, and a read-only
destination was silently overwritten, because rename consults the directory's
permission and ignores the file's. Windows refuses that same move, so the two
platforms disagreed on whether the download succeeded. A killed process also
orphaned an unnamed temporary in the destination's own directory.
Both methods now open the destination with FileMode.Create and FileAccess.Write.
Create is what fixes the original defect, since OpenWrite does not truncate and
left a longer file's trailing bytes after the body. Write rather than the
ReadWrite that File.Create requests, so a destination the process may write but
not read still works. A probe against this build confirms the four properties the
documentation now claims: mode 0600 survives with the file truncated to the body's
length, a hard link sees the new content, a symlink is written through rather than
replaced, and a read-only destination is refused with the file left intact.
The cost, stated in ARCHITECTURE.md rather than left implicit: the destination is
opened once the response is accepted, so a failure during the body can leave a
partial file. A request that fails before that leaves it untouched, which is what
the two renamed tests pin, and they now assert the server served the request so a
connection failure cannot pass for the file behaving correctly.
CreateTemporaryFile and DeleteTemporary are gone with the approach that needed them.
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Answering the suppressed finding from the round on 6935b65, which opens no thread and so has nowhere to be resolved.
Utilities/Download.cs:162 High: Make DownloadFileAsync handle invalid destination paths and temp-name collisions safely. CreateTemporaryPath(fileName) currently runs before the try block (so it can throw and break the "return bool, don't throw" contract), and FileMode.Create with a random name can overwrite an existing file on collision. Move temp-name generation inside the try, create the temp file with FileMode.CreateNew and retry on collision, and only delete the temp path when this call created it.
Same finding as the threaded one on DownloadFile, answered there. In short: the collision half was real and was fixed in 7aac102, the escape half does not hold on net10.0 (probed: Path.GetDirectoryName and Path.Combine return normally for an embedded null character, a pipe, and a 5000-character path, that rejection being .NET Framework behavior), and the whole temporary-file approach is gone as of 2bc77c0 in favor of writing in place.
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Escape the Unicode Test Literal So the Source Stays ASCII
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The prose gate run over whole files, rather than over changed lines, reports
seven unclassified non-ASCII characters in AppendLine_UnicodeCharacters_ShouldPreserve:
four CJK ideographs and three astral-plane emoji, sitting literally in the source.
The test's subject is that a non-ASCII string round-trips, so the string stays and
the source loses the characters instead. The escapes compile to the identical
string, verified against the original bytes, so the assertion is unchanged.
Found by running the gate without --diff over every file this branch edits. The
gate's own help states the policy the default hides: --diff "matches the repo
policy: fix as each file is next edited, not swept", so a violation on an unchanged
line belongs to whoever next edits that file.
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Raise the Version Floor to 4.1 and Record the v4.1 Release Notes
6f73755
version.json carries the Nerdbank.GitVersioning floor, raised on develop so the
promotion carries it to main, per OPERATIONS.md "Bumping the version floor".
HISTORY.md gains a v4.1 section holding the two library fixes this branch ships,
moved out of v4.0 where they were first written: the Download destination
corruption and the StringHistory limit contract. The offline download tests and
the coordination-reference removal stay out of both files, since neither ships in
the package.
README.md's release notes drop the Breaking Changes and Summary headings for one
short line per fix under Version 4.1. That also drops four v4.0-era lines,
including the only place the README named HttpClientFactory; HISTORY.md still
carries all of it under v4.0.
Method names in both files now end in (), so a method reads as one rather than as
a property, and the four v4.0-era instances that predate this change are corrected
with them. The StringHistory line no longer reads as though a negative value is
accepted, which is what it said while listing the defects being fixed. Five prose
semicolons in shipped v4.0 entries go with them, found by running the prose gate
over whole files rather than changed lines.
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README/HISTORY currently overstate the atomicity of download failures and one new cancellation test should be bounded to avoid hanging CI. 
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UtilitiesTests/DownloadAsyncTests.cs:223
  • The cancellation test awaits download with no timeout, so a regression where Download.DownloadStringAsync stops observing cancellation could hang the entire test run. Consider bounding the await (similar to the other uses of WaitAsync) so the test fails fast instead of hanging.
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long startedAt = Stopwatch.GetTimestamp();
await cts.CancelAsync();
(bool success, string _) = await download;
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🔵 Needs a closer look
The README/HISTORY release notes currently describe an atomic “write beside + move into place / untouched on failure” behavior that does not match the in-place truncation rewrite implemented in Utilities/Download.cs.
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README.md:37
  • The README claims the Download fix now "replaced whole on success and left untouched on failure", but DownloadFile/DownloadFileAsync currently truncate and rewrite the destination in place (and can leave a partial file on mid-body failure). Please update this release-note bullet to match the current contract (see ARCHITECTURE.md’s Download bullet and Utilities/Download.cs).
- Added `HttpClientFactory`, a reusable resilient HTTP client factory (Polly retry and circuit breaker) with an AOT safe `AssemblyInfo` identity helper and a tunable `HttpClientOptions`.
- Fixed `Download.DownloadFile` and `DownloadFileAsync` corrupting the destination when downloading over a longer existing file. The destination is now replaced whole on success and left untouched on failure.

HISTORY.md:8
  • This v4.0 HISTORY entry says downloads now "write beside the destination and move the result into place" and that the destination is "left untouched when a download fails partway", but the implementation rewrites the destination in place (Utilities/Download.cs) and ARCHITECTURE.md notes that a mid-body failure can leave a partial file. Please align this release-history bullet with the actual behavior.
 - Fixed `Download.DownloadFile` and `DownloadFileAsync` corrupting the destination file: both opened it with `File.OpenWrite`, which does not truncate, so a download over a longer existing file left that file's trailing bytes after the downloaded content and reported success. Both now write beside the destination and move the result into place, so the destination is replaced whole on success and left untouched when a download fails partway.

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Correct What the Release Notes and the Contract Claim About a Download
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A local pass over the release notes found three claims that did not match the
code, and one behavior difference the notes did not mention at all.
HISTORY.md credited v4.1 with opening the destination only once the response is
accepted, so a failed request leaves it untouched. v4.0 already did that: it
called GetStreamAsync before File.OpenWrite, so a request that failed never
reached the file. The entry claimed unchanged behavior as a fix.
The same entry omitted what did change. Truncating at open means a download that
fails partway now leaves a short file, where OpenWrite left the original bytes
behind the newly written ones. That is a real loss of content for a consumer whose
download is interrupted, it is the cost of the fix rather than a detail, and
HISTORY.md is where a consumer would look for it. Both it and README.md now say so.
Windows refuses FileMode.Create against a hidden file, where the FileMode.OpenOrCreate
that OpenWrite used does not, so a download over a hidden destination would have
started failing on a supported platform, contradicting the claim that the
destination's own attributes survive. Both methods now open with OpenOrCreate and
truncate with SetLength, which is what fixes the original defect without changing
which destinations can be opened. Re-probed on Linux: mode 0600 survives with the
file truncated to the body's length, a hard link sees the new content, a symlink is
written through, and a read-only destination is still refused with the file intact.
The Windows half is documented behavior rather than something this host can run.
ARCHITECTURE.md named a public type Extensions that v4.0 renamed to
CompressExtensions, so the contract list described a type consumers cannot
reference, and it attributed the logger helpers to it rather than to the internal
LogExtensions. It also named FileEx's options as Options rather than the static
FileEx.Options, and wrote its own method names without the parentheses the same
change had just standardized on in HISTORY.md and README.md.
Two test comments said the body is fetched before the destination is opened.
GetStreamAsync completes on the response headers, so only those have been read and
the body streams after the file is open.
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Answering the three findings from the round on 3a6dde5 that open no thread.
README.md:37 The README claims the Download fix now "replaced whole on success and left untouched on failure", but DownloadFile/DownloadFileAsync currently truncate and rewrite the destination in place (and can leave a partial file on mid-body failure).
HISTORY.md:8 This v4.0 HISTORY entry says downloads now "write beside the destination and move the result into place" and that the destination is "left untouched when a download fails partway", but the implementation rewrites the destination in place.
Both correct, both fixed in 6f73755 and aabeb0c, which landed after this round read the branch. The two entries moved into a new v4.1 section and now describe truncate-and-rewrite-in-place, and both carry the caveat the earlier wording omitted: a download that fails partway leaves a short file, where File.OpenWrite() left the original bytes behind the newly written ones. That is a real loss of content for an interrupted download and belongs in the release notes rather than only in ARCHITECTURE.md.
Worth recording, since these two findings track a fix that changed shape three times: the temporary-file-and-move approach they describe was itself reverted, because moving a file into place replaces the destination's identity rather than its contents. Probed on Linux: a 0600 destination came back 0664, a symlink was replaced by a regular file leaving its target stale, a hard link kept the old content, and a read-only destination was silently overwritten, where Windows refuses the same move.
PR title exceeds limit
Stale. The title was 76 characters when first raised and has been Fix the StringHistory Limits and Make the Download Tests Offline at 64 since, well inside the 72-character limit GOVERNANCE.md sets. Verified against the live title rather than the badge.
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🟡 Changes recommended
README.md/HISTORY.md and the PR description currently describe an atomic “write-beside then move” behavior, but the implementation truncates and rewrites in place and can leave partial files on mid-body failure.
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  • README release-notes bullet claims the download destination is “replaced whole on success and left untouched on failure”, but DownloadFile/DownloadFileAsync now open the destination with FileMode.Create and stream the body into it. That truncates immediately and can leave a partial file if the body copy fails; please align the README text with the actual behavior (and ARCHITECTURE.md’s Download contract).
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🟢 Approval recommended
The changes are internally consistent across implementation, tests, and documentation, and the updated tests remove external network/environment dependencies while adding coverage for the newly defined behaviors. 
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State the Both-Zero Exception in the README Limit Summary
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The README said zero retains no lines on that side, without the exception that
ARCHITECTURE.md and HISTORY.md both carry: zero on both sides at once is the one
unrestricted mode. Read alone, the short summary described a StringHistory that
retains nothing by default, which is the opposite of what a default-constructed
one does.
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🟢 Approval recommended
The changes are cohesive, maintain backward compatibility on public surfaces, and are backed by deterministic offline tests covering the corrected behaviors. 
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🟢 Approval recommended
The implementation changes are consistent with the updated documented contracts and are backed by expanded deterministic, offline test coverage for the new behaviors.
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Promote Develop to Main (#456)
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Closes#427. Closes#452. Closes#454.
Promotes `develop` at `f2a8f62` to `main`. One squashed pull request,
#455, which closed the three open issues and fixed one defect found
while doing so.
The issue-closing keywords sit here rather than on #455, since GitHub
only closes an issue when the pull request merges into the default
branch, and #455 merged into `develop`.
## What is being promoted
- **#454, the `StringHistory` limit properties.** `MaxFirstLines` and
`MaxLastLines` were each documented `Set to 0 for no limit`, which holds
only when both are zero. Zero on one side is now documented as retaining
no lines on that side, both the constructor and the setters reject a
negative value, and assigning a limit re-partitions the lines already
stored instead of being ignored. Re-partitioning only ever discards, so
what is retained is always a prefix of the appended lines followed by a
suffix of them, and once a line has been dropped the head is trimmed but
never refilled.
- **#452, the download tests.** They reached `www.google.com` and
`httpstat.us`, so the unit-test gate depended on outbound DNS and on two
third parties, and paid a five-second sleep on every run. They now drive
a loopback HTTP server on an ephemeral port, and the test assembly
disables the ambient proxy so a machine with `http_proxy` set does not
send loopback requests through it. `Download`'s public surface is
unchanged.
- **#427, the coordination reference.** `HISTORY.md` named the template
repository in its v3.5 entry and no longer does.
- **A `Download` defect found during the above.** `DownloadFile()` and
`DownloadFileAsync()` opened the destination with `File.OpenWrite()`,
which does not truncate, so a download over a longer existing file left
that file's trailing bytes after the downloaded content and returned
`true`. Both now open with `FileMode.OpenOrCreate` and truncate with
`SetLength(0)`, rewriting in place so the destination's permissions,
ownership, and any links to it survive.
- **The version floor**, raised to 4.1, with the two shipped fixes
recorded in `HISTORY.md` and `README.md`.
## Verification
The merge is clean and `git write-tree` on it equals `git rev-parse
origin/develop^{tree}` exactly (`0cfd271c`), so `main` ends up with
`develop`'s tree and nothing else.
`develop` carried 206 tests green, the `.NET Format` clean-compile chain
with zero warnings under `AnalysisMode=All` and `TreatWarningsAsErrors`,
markdownlint, CSpell, actionlint, `editorconfig-checker`, shellcheck and
shfmt clean, and the hub's prose and repository gates clean. #455 went
through eight review rounds; every thread was resolved and every
suppressed finding answered, with `suppressed on_head=0` at the merge.
## Releases stay blocked, and this does not unblock them
`publish-release.yml` still fails at the NuGet OIDC token exchange,
because the hub-hosted release chain makes the `job_workflow_ref` claim
name the hub rather than this repository
([ProjectTemplate#1126](ptr727/ProjectTemplate#1126)).
The fix moves the token exchange and the push back into the calling
repository, which needs new content in this repository's
`publish-release.yml` plus a re-pin, and cannot land until that hub
change reaches its `main`. That is a follow-up pull request, so merging
this one leaves the latest release at 4.0.38.
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## Summary by CodeRabbit
* **Bug Fixes**
* Downloads now fully replace existing files, preventing stale or
corrupted trailing content.
* Failed downloads preserve existing destination files and handle
unavailable destinations safely.
* `StringHistory` now validates limits, preserves discarded-content
rules, repartitions stored lines correctly, and supports atomic limit
updates.
* **Documentation**
* Clarified download buffering, truncation, partial-download outcomes,
file options, and `StringHistory` behavior.
* Updated terminology and retry-behavior documentation.
* **Release**
* Updated the project version to 4.1.
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