Log HTTP Request and Response Trailers

[jkotalik]

As a follow up to #31816, we should log Http Request and Response trailers if available.

I see a few potential issues:

• Making sure the trailers are committed before the body is written
• Having a delimiter between headers and trailers?

[JamesNK]

@Tratcher @halter73 @davidfowl

The trick here will be logging them when they are all available and before they disappear. This will be especially true with response trailers. With them you'll need to wait until the response body has finished writing (someone could add a trailer at any time while the response is writing) but before the response ends.

[Tratcher]

Logging the response trailers as the middleware exits should be adequate, it will capture trailers added by anything after it. That does leave a window between this middleware and the start of the pipeline where someone else could add trailers, but that seems like a tradeoff people would be able to understand. In theory you could have the same problem with response headers when there's no body.

Request trailers could be logged when the end of the request body is read (we'll be wrapping the body so we'll know), or when the middleware exits.

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[adityamandaleeka]

@wtgodbe @Tratcher Have we seen any demand for this? I'm inclined to move it back to backlog.

[Tratcher]

gRPC would be the main scenario. @JamesNK?

[JamesNK]

gRPC uses response trailers. Important information - grpc-status (i.e. did the RPC succeed) - is sent via trailers.

[JamesNK]

(I think it should be left here for .NET 8) I think it should be moved to .NET 8 planning.

[adityamandaleeka]

Done.