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fix(stdlib): enable base64 for turnloop-http-client so fetch programs get a stripped runtime #11116

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13 changes: 13 additions & 0 deletions changelog.d/11116-turnloop-client-base64-feature.md
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Fix `perry-stdlib` failing to compile for any feature set that enables `turnloop-http-client` without `crypto`, which silently put every fetch program onto the full prebuilt runtime.

`turnloop_client::decode_basic` (proxy `Basic` credentials) uses the `base64` crate, but the `turnloop-http-client` feature never enabled `dep:base64` — only `crypto` did. The function is not `cfg`-gated, so it compiles whenever `turnloop-http-client` is on. Full builds enable `crypto` and compiled fine, which is why nothing caught it; the break landed with #10354.

The consequence was larger than a compile error. Auto-optimize builds a feature-stripped runtime per program, and a program using `fetch` resolves to `async-runtime,web-fetch`. That set failed to compile, and auto-optimize's recovery is to print a warning, fall back to the prebuilt full-feature archive, and exit 0 — so the program still built and ran, just linked against everything. Measured on main (macOS arm64, auto-optimize path, bytes from the linker map): a baseline program is 7.43 MB. The same program plus `fetch` came out at **23.63 MB** before this fix, carrying code it has no use for — sqlite, the SWC parser, Temporal, ICU. With the fix it gets its own stripped runtime and is **11.96 MB**, with sqlite, SWC and Temporal at zero. That is about 11.7 MB, roughly half, off every program that uses `fetch`.

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Limit the binary-size claim to the measured program.

The measurements cover one baseline program and the same program with fetch. Auto-optimize rebuilds runtimes per feature set, and dead stripping depends on the program’s referenced code. The reported 11.7 MB reduction is not established for every program that uses fetch.

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In `@changelog.d/11116-turnloop-client-base64-feature.md` at line 5, Revise the
binary-size claim in the changelog to apply only to the measured baseline
program and its fetch-enabled variant. Do not generalize the 11.7 MB reduction
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Note that the fallback did print a warning, but the build succeeded and the binary ran correctly, so nothing downstream treated it as a failure. The measurement that exposed this only did so because it asserted the stripped runtime was actually built, rather than trusting the exit code.

The fix adds `dep:base64` to `turnloop-http-client`. It belongs there rather than on `web-fetch` because the use site compiles under `turnloop-http-client` alone, which the module documents as a supported combination.

Verified by reproducing the failure on main (`error[E0432]: unresolved import base64`) for `--features async-runtime,web-fetch`, then confirming it compiles with the fix. `Cargo.lock` is unchanged, since `base64` was already resolved.

Not addressed here: `--features turnloop-http-client` on its own still fails, with a different error (`cannot find async_bridge in common`). No real configuration reaches it — only `web-fetch` enables `turnloop-http-client`, and `web-fetch` already includes `async-runtime` — and resolving it by adding `async-runtime` would pull tokio into the turnloop client path.
2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion crates/perry-stdlib/Cargo.toml
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#
# #5174: `http-client` decomposes into `web-fetch` (the Web Fetch API).
# Node HTTP is provided only by perry-ext-http.
turnloop-http-client = ["dep:turnloop-http", "dep:turnloop-tls", "dep:perry-tls-session", "dep:url", "dep:http"]
turnloop-http-client = ["dep:turnloop-http", "dep:turnloop-tls", "dep:perry-tls-session", "dep:url", "dep:http", "dep:base64"]
# The global `fetch` runs on the turnloop client engine only (tokio lane G
# removed its reqwest fallback); `async-runtime` is still needed for the
# promise bridge it settles through.
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