diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md
index b1e28b6..06fb8a2 100644
--- a/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/CLAUDE.md
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with co
 - **Stick-table contract**: `python3 scripts/test-stick-table-contract.py` - offline; holds the templates' `store` clauses, `STICK_TABLE_FIELD_CONTRACT`, and every consumer to each other. Run it after touching any `stick-table` line.
 - **Runtime-map contract**: `python3 scripts/test-runtime-map-contract.py` - offline; asserts the runtime map commands are `@1`-prefixed, reference the map by FILE PATH (never `#<id>`), carry the value `1`, and that every captured rejection is classified as a failure. Run it after touching any `add map`/`del map`/`clear map` path.
 - **Certificate destruction safety**: `python3 scripts/test-cert-write-safety.py` - offline; asserts a live `.pem` is never truncated, removed, or its certbot lineage deleted while any configured domain still references it (one bundle serves many names, so `ssl_cert_path` is routinely shared). Run it after touching any `os.remove`/`certbot delete`/PEM-write path.
-- **API thread-pool safety**: `python3 scripts/test-gunicorn-socket-timeouts.py` - runs REAL gunicorn (~30s); asserts a silent/half-written client cannot pin a gthread pool thread (per-connection socket timeout, `HAPROXY_MGR_CLIENT_TIMEOUT`), slow legit requests are not cut off, the wedge watchdog (`HAPROXY_MGR_WEDGE_SECONDS`) replaces a fully stuck worker, and an in-process call to a stalled upstream times out. Run it after touching `haproxy_gunicorn_worker.py`, start-up.sh's gunicorn lines, or upgrading gunicorn (the worker overrides `ThreadWorker.enqueue_req`).
+- **API thread-pool safety**: `python3 scripts/test-gunicorn-socket-timeouts.py` - runs REAL gunicorn (~60s); asserts a silent/half-written client cannot pin a gthread pool thread (per-connection socket timeout, `HAPROXY_MGR_CLIENT_TIMEOUT`), 2050 never-sending connections are reaped (`HAPROXY_MGR_FIRST_BYTE_TIMEOUT`), slowloris header drips are cut (`HAPROXY_MGR_HEADER_DEADLINE`), slow legit requests are not cut off, the wedge watchdog (`HAPROXY_MGR_WEDGE_SECONDS`) replaces a fully stuck worker, and an in-process call to a stalled upstream times out. Run it after touching `haproxy_gunicorn_worker.py`, start-up.sh's gunicorn lines, or upgrading gunicorn (the worker overrides gthread internals: `enqueue_req`, `accept`, `on_client_socket_readable`, `murder_keepalived`, `handle`, `handle_request`).
 - **Manual Testing**: Run `curl` commands against `http://localhost:8000` endpoints as shown in README.md
 
 ### Reading stick tables (and why it is easy to get silently wrong)
@@ -168,6 +168,6 @@ re-reads it on reload, so a failed runtime command must degrade to
 - Stats page on port 8404 (localhost only inside container)
 - Management interface on port 8000 should be firewall-protected in production
 - Dockerfile HEALTHCHECK runs `scripts/healthcheck.sh`: port 8000 `/health` (4s max) AND port 80 (HAProxy). WHP's `lib-edge-container.sh` passes its own `--health-cmd`, which REPLACES the image's; it must call `/haproxy/scripts/healthcheck.sh` or the fleet never probes :8000
-- gunicorn uses `haproxy_gunicorn_worker.TimeoutThreadWorker` (gthread + client socket timeout + wedge watchdog). Stock gthread leaves client sockets blocking with NO timeout; `--timeout` only watches the main thread's heartbeat
+- gunicorn uses `haproxy_gunicorn_worker.TimeoutThreadWorker` (gthread + client socket timeout + first-byte deadline + total header deadline + wedge watchdog). Stock gthread leaves client sockets blocking with NO timeout; `--timeout` only watches the main thread's heartbeat
 - Supports deployment on servers with git directory at `/root/whp` and web file sync via rsync to `/docker/whp/web/`
 - HAProxy is version 3.0.11
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diff --git a/haproxy_gunicorn_worker.py b/haproxy_gunicorn_worker.py
index e497ad1..9b5d1ec 100644
--- a/haproxy_gunicorn_worker.py
+++ b/haproxy_gunicorn_worker.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-"""gunicorn gthread worker that cannot be wedged by a silent client.
+"""gunicorn gthread worker that cannot be wedged by silent or slow clients.
 
 Incident 2026-10-09 (sdbees), and very likely the 2026-07-07 whp01 one too
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -16,11 +16,10 @@ blocked were gunicorn's own reads of the CLIENT socket:
 Once the main loop sees a connection become readable it hands it to a pool
 thread and turns the socket fully blocking -- timeout None -- before parsing
 the request. Any peer that sends a few bytes and then waits (a TLS ClientHello
-sent to this plain-HTTP port, a port scanner, a half-written request, a body
-shorter than its Content-Length) pins that pool thread forever. :8000 is
-published on 0.0.0.0 by the deploy (`-p 8000:8000`, which bypasses firewalld),
-and on sdbees internet scanners were measured connecting to it. Each such
-connection leaks one thread; 4 per worker exhausts the pool.
+sent to this plain-HTTP port, a port scanner, a half-written request) pins
+that pool thread forever. :8000 was published on 0.0.0.0 by the deploy
+(`-p 8000:8000`, which bypasses firewalld) and internet scanners were measured
+connecting to it. 4 such connections exhaust a worker's pool.
 
 gunicorn's --timeout does not catch this: for gthread it only checks that the
 worker's MAIN thread keeps heart-beating, and the main thread keeps polling
@@ -29,39 +28,78 @@ a worker whose threads never finish a request never reaches the limit.
 socket.setdefaulttimeout() does not help: setblocking(True) explicitly resets
 the timeout to None, overriding any default.
 
-What this worker changes (and nothing else)
--------------------------------------------
-1. Every client connection gets an explicit socket timeout
-   (HAPROXY_MGR_CLIENT_TIMEOUT, default 20s) at the exact point gthread makes it
-   blocking. It bounds each recv/send on the client socket -- request line,
-   headers, the body the app reads, and response writes. It does NOT bound how
-   long the app takes to handle a request (a long certbot run is a subprocess
-   with its own timeout and touches the client socket only once it is done).
-   A stalled peer now costs one thread for at most that long, then the
-   connection is closed and the thread is returned to the pool.
+Stock gthread has two more exhaustion paths on the same port (review F1/F2):
 
-2. A per-worker watchdog thread (HAPROXY_MGR_WEDGE_SECONDS, default 1200s; 0
-   disables). If EVERY pool thread has been inside the same request for longer
-   than that -- i.e. the pool has not turned over at all for 20 minutes, longer
-   than the slowest legitimate request (certbot renew, 900s) -- the worker logs
-   every thread's Python stack to the error log and exits. The gunicorn master
-   respawns it in about a second, without touching HAProxy or the edge.
-   This is a backstop for blocking sources we have not found yet; the fix for
-   the known one is (1).
+* A connection that NEVER sends a byte never becomes readable, so it is never
+  handed to a thread and never gets any deadline -- but it holds one of the
+  worker's ``worker_connections`` (1000) slots. At 1000 the run loop stops
+  polling altogether and only waits on futures; none exist, so even the
+  attacker's FINs are never seen and the worker is wedged PERMANENTLY, still
+  heart-beating, with no request in flight for a watchdog to notice.
+* Slowloris: one header byte every <timeout seconds never trips a per-recv
+  timeout, so a socket timeout alone does not bound header-read time.
 
-3. pool_status() exposes busy/total threads and the oldest in-flight age so
+What this worker changes
+------------------------
+1. CLIENT_TIMEOUT (HAPROXY_MGR_CLIENT_TIMEOUT, default 20s): every client
+   socket gets an explicit socket timeout at the exact point gthread makes it
+   blocking (re-applied on every keep-alive reuse). Python applies it to each
+   recv() call and to each WHOLE sendall() call -- gunicorn writes a response
+   chunk with one sendall, so any single chunk that takes longer than this to
+   transmit is cut off. Responses here are KB-sized JSON/PEMs to localhost, so
+   that never happens in practice. It does NOT bound how long the app takes to
+   handle a request (a long certbot run is a subprocess with its own timeout
+   and touches the client socket only once it is done).
+
+2. FIRST_BYTE_TIMEOUT (HAPROXY_MGR_FIRST_BYTE_TIMEOUT, default 10s): an
+   accepted connection that has not become readable within this is closed by
+   the main loop, freeing its slot (review F1).
+
+3. HEADER_DEADLINE (HAPROXY_MGR_HEADER_DEADLINE, default 10s): total time a
+   pool thread may spend reading the request line + headers. Armed when the
+   thread picks the connection up, disarmed in handle_request() (which gunicorn
+   calls only once the parser has returned a complete request). A 1s monitor
+   loop shuts down (SHUT_RDWR, not close -- no fd-reuse race with the blocked
+   recv) the socket of any connection past it; the blocked recv returns EOF and
+   the thread is freed (review F2). Armed in handle(), NOT at accept/enqueue,
+   on purpose: a legit request queued behind busy threads (certbot runs) must
+   not be cut for waiting. A slow client queued behind other slow clients is
+   therefore bounded by (wait for a thread) + HEADER_DEADLINE. Bodies are
+   only read by routes behind require_api_key, so the unauthenticated surface
+   is exactly this phase.
+
+4. Wedge watchdog (HAPROXY_MGR_WEDGE_SECONDS, default 3600s; 0 disables). If
+   EVERY pool thread has been inside the same request for longer than that the
+   worker logs every thread's Python stack to the error log and exits; the
+   gunicorn master respawns it in about a second, without touching HAProxy or
+   the edge. 3600s because a multi-domain /api/certificates/request runs one
+   certbot (up to 180s) per domain; with (1)-(3) closing the known client-side
+   sources, this is only a backstop for blocking sources not yet found.
+
+5. pool_status() exposes busy/total threads and the oldest in-flight age so
    /health can report saturation.
+
+This overrides gthread internals (enqueue_req, accept,
+on_client_socket_readable, murder_keepalived, handle, handle_request) as they
+are in gunicorn 23.0.0, which requirements.txt pins. A warning is logged if a
+different version is loaded; scripts/test-gunicorn-socket-timeouts.py runs
+real gunicorn in the Docker build gate and fails on behavioural drift.
 """
 
 import errno
 import logging
 import os
+import selectors
+import socket
 import sys
 import threading
 import time
 import traceback
+from collections import deque
+from functools import partial
 
-from gunicorn.workers.gthread import ThreadWorker
+import gunicorn
+from gunicorn.workers.gthread import TConn, ThreadWorker
 
 
 def _env_float(name, default):
@@ -72,8 +110,13 @@ def _env_float(name, default):
 
 
 CLIENT_TIMEOUT = _env_float('HAPROXY_MGR_CLIENT_TIMEOUT', 20)
-WEDGE_SECONDS = _env_float('HAPROXY_MGR_WEDGE_SECONDS', 1200)
+FIRST_BYTE_TIMEOUT = _env_float('HAPROXY_MGR_FIRST_BYTE_TIMEOUT', 10)
+HEADER_DEADLINE = _env_float('HAPROXY_MGR_HEADER_DEADLINE', 10)
+WEDGE_SECONDS = _env_float('HAPROXY_MGR_WEDGE_SECONDS', 3600)
 WATCHDOG_INTERVAL = _env_float('HAPROXY_MGR_WATCHDOG_INTERVAL', 15)
+MONITOR_TICK = 1.0
+
+TESTED_GUNICORN_VERSION = '23.0.0'
 
 # Exit status for a watchdog-killed worker. Must NOT be 3 (WORKER_BOOT_ERROR)
 # or 4 (APP_LOAD_ERROR): on those the gunicorn master halts the whole server
@@ -112,13 +155,24 @@ class _QuietClientTimeout(logging.Filter):
         return True
 
 
+class _InFlight:
+    __slots__ = ('conn', 'start', 'header_deadline')
+
+    def __init__(self, conn, start, header_deadline):
+        self.conn = conn
+        self.start = start
+        self.header_deadline = header_deadline
+
+
 class TimeoutThreadWorker(ThreadWorker):
-    """gthread worker whose client sockets always carry a read/write timeout."""
+    """gthread worker with client-socket timeouts, a first-byte deadline, a
+    total header deadline and a wedge watchdog. See module docstring."""
 
     def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
         super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
-        self._inflight = {}          # thread ident -> monotonic start time
+        self._inflight = {}          # thread ident -> _InFlight
         self._inflight_lock = threading.Lock()
+        self._pending = deque()      # accepted, not yet readable (FIFO by deadline)
 
     # -- (1) client socket timeout ------------------------------------------
     def enqueue_req(self, conn):
@@ -132,21 +186,99 @@ class TimeoutThreadWorker(ThreadWorker):
         fs = self.tpool.submit(self.handle, conn)
         self._wrap_future(fs, conn)
 
-    # -- busy tracking --------------------------------------------------------
+    # -- (2) first-byte deadline for never-readable connections ---------------
+    def accept(self, server, listener):
+        # ThreadWorker.accept (23.0.0) plus: a deadline, and the conn is
+        # tracked in self._pending so murder_keepalived() can reap it.
+        try:
+            sock, client = listener.accept()
+            conn = TConn(self.cfg, sock, client, server)
+            conn.timeout = time.time() + FIRST_BYTE_TIMEOUT
+
+            self.nr_conns += 1
+            with self._lock:
+                self._pending.append(conn)
+                self.poller.register(conn.sock, selectors.EVENT_READ,
+                                     partial(self.on_client_socket_readable, conn))
+        except OSError as e:
+            if e.errno not in (errno.EAGAIN, errno.ECONNABORTED,
+                               errno.EWOULDBLOCK):
+                raise
+
+    def on_client_socket_readable(self, conn, client):
+        # ThreadWorker version only knows about self._keep; a first request
+        # comes off self._pending instead.
+        with self._lock:
+            self.poller.unregister(client)
+            queue = self._keep if conn.initialized else self._pending
+            try:
+                queue.remove(conn)
+            except ValueError:
+                # already reaped (race with murder_keepalived)
+                return
+        self.enqueue_req(conn)
+
+    def murder_keepalived(self):
+        # Runs on every pass of ThreadWorker.run() -- including the branch
+        # taken when nr_conns >= worker_connections, where the poller is not
+        # serviced. Reaping here is what breaks that permanent deadlock.
+        super().murder_keepalived()
+        if FIRST_BYTE_TIMEOUT <= 0:
+            return
+        now = time.time()
+        while True:
+            with self._lock:
+                if not self._pending or self._pending[0].timeout > now:
+                    break
+                conn = self._pending.popleft()
+                try:
+                    self.poller.unregister(conn.sock)
+                except (OSError, KeyError, ValueError):
+                    pass
+            self.nr_conns -= 1
+            conn.close()
+
+    # -- (3) header deadline + busy tracking ----------------------------------
     def handle(self, conn):
         ident = threading.get_ident()
+        now = time.monotonic()
+        entry = _InFlight(conn, now, now + HEADER_DEADLINE if HEADER_DEADLINE > 0 else None)
         with self._inflight_lock:
-            self._inflight[ident] = time.monotonic()
+            self._inflight[ident] = entry
         try:
             return super().handle(conn)
         finally:
             with self._inflight_lock:
                 self._inflight.pop(ident, None)
 
+    def handle_request(self, req, conn):
+        # The parser has produced a complete request line + headers.
+        entry = self._inflight.get(threading.get_ident())
+        if entry is not None:
+            entry.header_deadline = None
+        return super().handle_request(req, conn)
+
+    def _sweep_header_deadlines(self):
+        now = time.monotonic()
+        with self._inflight_lock:
+            late = [e for e in self._inflight.values()
+                    if e.header_deadline is not None and e.header_deadline < now]
+        for e in late:
+            e.header_deadline = None   # one shutdown per connection
+            try:
+                # shutdown, not close: wakes the blocked recv() with EOF
+                # without releasing the fd while another thread is in it.
+                e.conn.sock.shutdown(socket.SHUT_RDWR)
+            except OSError:
+                pass
+        if late:
+            self.log.info('Cut %d client connection(s) still sending request headers '
+                          'after %ss (HAPROXY_MGR_HEADER_DEADLINE)', len(late), HEADER_DEADLINE)
+
     def pool_status(self):
         now = time.monotonic()
         with self._inflight_lock:
-            starts = list(self._inflight.values())
+            starts = [e.start for e in self._inflight.values()]
         return {
             'pid': os.getpid(),
             'threads': self.cfg.threads,
@@ -155,13 +287,13 @@ class TimeoutThreadWorker(ThreadWorker):
             'client_timeout_seconds': CLIENT_TIMEOUT,
         }
 
-    # -- (2) watchdog ---------------------------------------------------------
+    # -- (4) watchdog ---------------------------------------------------------
     def _wedged_for(self):
         """Seconds the pool has been completely wedged (every thread busy in
         its current request), measured from the YOUNGEST in-flight request.
         0 when at least one thread is free."""
         with self._inflight_lock:
-            starts = list(self._inflight.values())
+            starts = [e.start for e in self._inflight.values()]
         if len(starts) < self.cfg.threads:
             return 0.0
         return time.monotonic() - max(starts)
@@ -175,11 +307,10 @@ class TimeoutThreadWorker(ThreadWorker):
                 ident, names.get(ident, '?'), ''.join(traceback.format_stack(frame))))
         return '\n'.join(out)
 
-    def _watchdog(self):
-        while self.alive:
-            time.sleep(WATCHDOG_INTERVAL)
-            wedged = self._wedged_for()
-            if wedged > WEDGE_SECONDS:
+    def _check_wedged(self):
+        wedged = self._wedged_for()
+        if WEDGE_SECONDS > 0 and wedged > WEDGE_SECONDS:
+            try:
                 self.log.critical(
                     'WEDGED WORKER (pid %s): all %s threads busy in the same request '
                     'for %.0fs > HAPROXY_MGR_WEDGE_SECONDS=%s. Exiting so the master '
@@ -191,11 +322,30 @@ class TimeoutThreadWorker(ThreadWorker):
                         h.flush()
                     except Exception:
                         pass
+            finally:
                 # os._exit, not SIGTERM: a graceful exit joins the (stuck,
                 # non-daemon) pool threads at interpreter shutdown and would
                 # hang until the master's --timeout escalates to SIGKILL.
                 os._exit(WEDGED_EXIT_CODE)
 
+    def _monitor(self):
+        """One daemon thread: header-deadline sweep every second, wedge check
+        every WATCHDOG_INTERVAL. Never allowed to die silently."""
+        last_wedge_check = time.monotonic()
+        while self.alive:
+            time.sleep(MONITOR_TICK)
+            try:
+                if HEADER_DEADLINE > 0:
+                    self._sweep_header_deadlines()
+                if time.monotonic() - last_wedge_check >= WATCHDOG_INTERVAL:
+                    last_wedge_check = time.monotonic()
+                    self._check_wedged()
+            except Exception:
+                try:
+                    self.log.exception('haproxy_gunicorn_worker monitor error (continuing)')
+                except Exception:
+                    pass
+
     def init_process(self):
         global _current_worker
         _current_worker = self
@@ -203,7 +353,11 @@ class TimeoutThreadWorker(ThreadWorker):
             self.log.error_log.addFilter(_QuietClientTimeout())
         except AttributeError:
             pass
-        if WEDGE_SECONDS > 0:
-            threading.Thread(target=self._watchdog, name='wedge-watchdog',
-                             daemon=True).start()
+        if gunicorn.__version__ != TESTED_GUNICORN_VERSION:
+            self.log.warning(
+                'haproxy_gunicorn_worker overrides gthread internals as of gunicorn %s; '
+                'running %s -- re-run scripts/test-gunicorn-socket-timeouts.py',
+                TESTED_GUNICORN_VERSION, gunicorn.__version__)
+        threading.Thread(target=self._monitor, name='worker-monitor',
+                         daemon=True).start()
         super().init_process()   # runs the event loop; does not return
diff --git a/haproxy_manager.py b/haproxy_manager.py
index 8d0bb00..91a9c15 100644
--- a/haproxy_manager.py
+++ b/haproxy_manager.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import jinja2
 import socket
 import psutil
 import functools
+import hmac
 import logging
 from datetime import datetime, timedelta
 import json
@@ -165,7 +166,12 @@ def require_api_key(f):
     def decorated_function(*args, **kwargs):
         if API_KEY:
             auth_header = request.headers.get('Authorization')
-            if not auth_header or auth_header != f'Bearer {API_KEY}':
+            # Constant-time comparison so response timing doesn't leak how
+            # much of a guessed key matched. Compared as bytes because
+            # compare_digest rejects non-ASCII str.
+            if not auth_header or not hmac.compare_digest(
+                    auth_header.encode('utf-8', 'surrogateescape'),
+                    f'Bearer {API_KEY}'.encode('utf-8', 'surrogateescape')):
                 return jsonify({'error': 'Unauthorized - Invalid or missing API key'}), 401
         return f(*args, **kwargs)
     return decorated_function
diff --git a/scripts/start-up.sh b/scripts/start-up.sh
index a700b3b..170dd26 100755
--- a/scripts/start-up.sh
+++ b/scripts/start-up.sh
@@ -94,11 +94,15 @@ MAX_REQ_JITTER="${HAPROXY_MGR_MAX_REQUESTS_JITTER:-100}"
 # Worker class (incident 2026-10-09): stock gthread makes every client socket
 # fully blocking with NO timeout, so any peer that sends a few bytes and goes
 # quiet (TLS hello on this plain-HTTP port, scanners -- :8000 is published on
-# 0.0.0.0) pins a pool thread forever; 4 of them wedge a worker. This subclass
-# sets a per-connection socket timeout (HAPROXY_MGR_CLIENT_TIMEOUT, default
-# 20s) and runs a watchdog that exits a worker whose threads have ALL been
-# stuck for HAPROXY_MGR_WEDGE_SECONDS (default 1200) so the master respawns it.
-# See haproxy_gunicorn_worker.py. --timeout below does NOT cover either case:
+# 0.0.0.0) pins a pool thread forever; 4 of them wedge a worker. Stock gthread
+# also never reaps connections that send nothing (2x1000 of them wedge it
+# permanently) and has no total header-read bound (slowloris). This subclass
+# adds: a per-connection socket timeout (HAPROXY_MGR_CLIENT_TIMEOUT, 20s), a
+# first-byte deadline (HAPROXY_MGR_FIRST_BYTE_TIMEOUT, 10s), a total
+# request-line+headers deadline (HAPROXY_MGR_HEADER_DEADLINE, 10s), and a
+# watchdog that exits a worker whose threads have ALL been stuck for
+# HAPROXY_MGR_WEDGE_SECONDS (3600) so the master respawns it.
+# See haproxy_gunicorn_worker.py. --timeout below does NOT cover any of these:
 # for gthread it only watches the main thread's heartbeat.
 WORKER_CLASS="haproxy_gunicorn_worker.TimeoutThreadWorker"
 
diff --git a/scripts/test-gunicorn-socket-timeouts.py b/scripts/test-gunicorn-socket-timeouts.py
index 438b6c4..243eebf 100644
--- a/scripts/test-gunicorn-socket-timeouts.py
+++ b/scripts/test-gunicorn-socket-timeouts.py
@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ pin:
   * that a legitimately SLOW request (handling time > client timeout) is not
     cut off -- the timeout bounds socket I/O, not request duration;
   * the watchdog: a worker whose every thread is stuck is replaced;
+  * review round 1, at production shape (2 workers x 4 threads): 2050
+    connections that never send a byte are reaped (F1, stock gthread wedges
+    permanently), and slowloris drip connections are cut by the total header
+    deadline while /health stays responsive (F2);
   * the timeout is logged as one line, not a traceback per scanner;
   * haproxy_manager's socket.setdefaulttimeout: an in-process client call to a
     stalled upstream (accepts, never replies) times out instead of hanging;
@@ -29,7 +33,7 @@ Running
     python3 scripts/test-gunicorn-socket-timeouts.py
 
 stdlib unittest, like the other scripts/test-*.py; needs only the app's own
-requirements (gunicorn, Flask...). Runs in the Docker build gate. ~25s.
+requirements (gunicorn, Flask...). Runs in the Docker build gate. ~70s.
 """
 
 import os
@@ -89,7 +93,7 @@ def http_get(port, path='/', timeout=5):
 class Gunicorn:
     """A real gunicorn master on a free port, with its output captured."""
 
-    def __init__(self, worker_class, threads=1, env=None):
+    def __init__(self, worker_class, threads=1, env=None, workers=1):
         self.tmp = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix='gunicorn-timeout-test-')
         with open(os.path.join(self.tmp, 'tapp.py'), 'w') as fh:
             fh.write(WSGI_APP)
@@ -101,7 +105,7 @@ class Gunicorn:
         self.proc = subprocess.Popen(
             [sys.executable, '-m', 'gunicorn',
              '--bind', '127.0.0.1:%d' % self.port,
-             '--workers', '1', '--threads', str(threads),
+             '--workers', str(workers), '--threads', str(threads),
              '--worker-class', worker_class,
              '--timeout', '120', '--graceful-timeout', '2',
              '--log-level', 'info', '--error-logfile', '-',
@@ -290,6 +294,128 @@ class TimeoutWorkerTests(unittest.TestCase):
             pass
 
 
+def raise_nofile(n):
+    try:
+        import resource
+        soft, hard = resource.getrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_NOFILE)
+        if soft < n:
+            resource.setrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_NOFILE, (min(n, hard), hard))
+        return resource.getrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_NOFILE)[0]
+    except (ImportError, ValueError, OSError):
+        return None
+
+
+class ProductionShapeExhaustion(unittest.TestCase):
+    """Review round 1 (F1/F2), at the production shape: 2 workers x 4 threads,
+    default worker_connections=1000."""
+
+    def start(self, env):
+        g = Gunicorn(FIXED, threads=4, workers=2, env=env)
+        self.addCleanup(g.stop)
+        return g
+
+    def test_f1_2050_idle_conns_reaped_and_health_recovers(self):
+        # Stock gthread: 2x1000 never-readable conns fill every slot, the run
+        # loop stops polling, and the worker stays dead even after the
+        # attacker closes everything. Here they must be reaped after
+        # FIRST_BYTE_TIMEOUT -- even while the attacker still holds them open.
+        if (raise_nofile(4500) or 0) < 4300:
+            self.skipTest('RLIMIT_NOFILE too low for 2050 client sockets')
+        g = self.start({'HAPROXY_MGR_FIRST_BYTE_TIMEOUT': '3'})
+        socks = []
+        self.addCleanup(lambda: [x.close() for x in socks])
+        for _ in range(2050):
+            s = socket.socket()
+            s.settimeout(2)
+            s.connect(('127.0.0.1', g.port))
+            socks.append(s)
+        # Attacker keeps every socket open. Within FIRST_BYTE_TIMEOUT plus the
+        # time to drain the backlog, the API must answer again.
+        deadline = time.time() + 20
+        ok = None
+        while time.time() < deadline:
+            try:
+                ok = http_get(g.port, '/', timeout=3)
+                break
+            except Exception:
+                time.sleep(0.5)
+        self.assertIsNotNone(ok, '/health never recovered while idle conns were held')
+        held = time.time()
+        # The reaped sockets were closed by the server.
+        closed = sum(1 for x in socks[:1500] if wait_closed_by_server(x, 0.01))
+        self.assertGreater(closed, 1000, 'server did not close idle conns (%d)' % closed)
+        for x in socks:
+            x.close()
+        socks.clear()
+        time.sleep(1)
+        for _ in range(5):
+            self.assertTrue(http_get(g.port, '/', timeout=3).startswith('pid='))
+        self.assertLess(held, time.time())
+
+    def test_f2_drip_connections_cut_and_health_responsive_throughout(self):
+        # 8 connections (= every thread at production shape) each drip one
+        # header byte per second -- far under the 20s per-recv timeout, so only
+        # the total HEADER_DEADLINE can cut them.
+        g = self.start({'HAPROXY_MGR_HEADER_DEADLINE': '3'})   # CLIENT_TIMEOUT stays 20
+        stop = threading.Event()
+        cut_after = []
+
+        def drip():
+            s = socket.create_connection(('127.0.0.1', g.port))
+            t0 = time.time()
+            req = b'GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nX-a: ' + b'a' * 1000
+            try:
+                for i in range(len(req)):
+                    if stop.is_set():
+                        return
+                    s.send(req[i:i + 1])
+                    time.sleep(1.0)
+                    s.settimeout(0.01)
+                    try:
+                        if s.recv(1) == b'':
+                            raise ConnectionResetError
+                    except socket.timeout:
+                        pass
+            except OSError:
+                cut_after.append(time.time() - t0)
+            finally:
+                s.close()
+
+        drippers = [threading.Thread(target=drip, daemon=True) for _ in range(8)]
+        for t in drippers:
+            t.start()
+        self.addCleanup(stop.set)
+        time.sleep(0.5)
+        worst = 0.0
+        t_end = time.time() + 12
+        while time.time() < t_end:
+            t0 = time.time()
+            self.assertTrue(http_get(g.port, '/', timeout=6).startswith('pid='))
+            worst = max(worst, time.time() - t0)
+            time.sleep(0.5)
+        stop.set()
+        self.assertEqual(len(cut_after), 8, 'not every drip connection was cut: %r' % cut_after)
+        # The deadline is armed when a THREAD picks the connection up, not at
+        # accept: a request queued behind busy threads (e.g. legit certbot
+        # runs) must not be cut for waiting. So a drip conn that was queued
+        # (the 2 workers rarely split 8 conns 4/4) is cut at up to about
+        # 2 x deadline; one that got a thread at once within ~deadline + 1s.
+        self.assertLessEqual(min(cut_after), 3 + 2, cut_after)
+        self.assertTrue(all(c < 2 * 3 + 2 for c in cut_after), cut_after)
+        self.assertLess(worst, 5.0)
+        self.assertIn('HAPROXY_MGR_HEADER_DEADLINE', g.output())
+
+    def test_f2_slow_but_complete_headers_within_deadline_are_served(self):
+        g = self.start({'HAPROXY_MGR_HEADER_DEADLINE': '4'})
+        s = socket.create_connection(('127.0.0.1', g.port))
+        self.addCleanup(s.close)
+        for part in (b'GET / HTTP/1.1\r\n', b'Host: x\r\n', b'\r\n'):
+            s.sendall(part)
+            time.sleep(1)
+        s.settimeout(5)
+        self.assertIn(b'200 OK', s.recv(4096))
+
+
 class StalledUpstreamDefaultTimeout(unittest.TestCase):
     """haproxy_manager sets socket.setdefaulttimeout() at import. An in-process
     client call to an upstream that accepts and never replies must time out."""