api: harden Connect transports over TLS and h2c

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Exercise every supported RPC transport through exporter-toolkit TLS and plaintext h2c, preserve HTTP/2 ALPN across reloads, and isolate mutable server state per listener.

Part of #5478

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[BUGFIX] API: Preserve HTTP/2 ALPN for ConnectRPC with reloadable TLS and isolate multiple listener servers.

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Walkthrough

The change adds configurable ConnectRPC admission, timeouts, message limits, metrics, and shutdown handling. It adds per-listener HTTP servers, TLS-aware HTTP/2 setup, CLI configuration, documentation, and TLS/h2c end-to-end coverage.

Changes

ConnectRPC lifecycle and serving

Layer / File(s)	Summary
ConnectRPC API and admission control api/api.go, api/connect/connect.go	The ConnectRPC API now tracks exact procedures, limits unary and streaming RPCs, records metrics, enforces deadlines and message sizes, and cancels active RPCs during shutdown.
ConnectRPC behavior validation api/api_test.go, api/connect/*_test.go	Tests cover exact procedure instrumentation, constructor errors, admission limits, stream expiry, metrics, request sizes, and shutdown cancellation.
Application configuration and per-listener serving app/options.go, app/app.go, app/listen.go, app/lifecycle.go, cmd/alertmanager/main.go, README.md, docs/https.md	Application options and CLI flags expose ConnectRPC settings. Each listener receives an HTTP server with configurable HTTP/2 ALPN behavior and coordinated shutdown.
TLS and transport integration tests test/e2e/harness_test.go, test/e2e/routing_test.go, test/e2e/status_test.go	The end-to-end harness and tests cover TLS and h2c routing, Connect, gRPC-Web, native gRPC, health, reflection, HTTP/2 negotiation, and stream cancellation.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 2be44

The new RPC timeout and shutdown behavior can incorrectly fail completed requests and may leave timed-out streams consuming admission capacity until clients disconnect. These lifecycle issues should be resolved before merging.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant Listener
  participant HTTPServer
  participant ConnectAPI
  participant RPCHandler
  Client->>Listener: Connect, gRPC-Web, or native gRPC request
  Listener->>HTTPServer: Accept configured HTTP/2 or h2c connection
  HTTPServer->>ConnectAPI: Route procedure request
  ConnectAPI->>RPCHandler: Admit and execute RPC
  RPCHandler-->>ConnectAPI: Response or cancellation
  ConnectAPI-->>Client: RPC result

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Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 29.41% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 17 functions across 15 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the primary change: hardening Connect transports over TLS and h2c. It is concise, specific, and uses the expected area prefix.

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Inline comments:
In `@api/connect/connect.go`:
- Around line 379-386: Update normalizeContextError to return immediately when
err is nil, before inspecting context.Cause(ctx) or converting
deadline/cancellation causes; preserve existing normalization for non-nil errors
so successful unary and streaming RPC responses remain successful.
- Around line 265-272: The deadline calls in the controller block must record
errors from SetReadDeadline and SetWriteDeadline, including
http.ErrNotSupported, instead of discarding them. Update the stream and
decoded-state branches around l.controller so each failed deadline operation is
reported through the existing logging or error-recording mechanism, while
preserving the current deadline conditions and timing.

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