Implement phase 1 of new HTTP API (PoC)

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See the specification in the design document.

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amended by @oleiade on the 30th of November 2023

The maintainers' team agreed upon the following concrete plan to move forward with the implementation of the new HTTP module's phase 1 (as specified in the design document):

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1. Begin with the implementation of the Streams API.
2. Agree upon most minimal scope for the new HTTP module's client API implementation, as per design document.
3. Implement 👆scope, with a focus on enabling the use of large binary files, leveraging the Streams API, and likely providing a native implementation of FileData

Specifically out of scope for phase 1:
The maintainers agreed that support for TCP, DNS, etc, should be delegated to a future phase.

edit, 30/10/2023: edited the original issue description with a task list based on internal discussion. I had to edit the description to attach a tasklist to this issue.