`secrets.compare_digest()` needs to take `bytes` or a `str` that only contains ASCII characters (the ones in English), this means it wouldn't work with characters like `á`, as in `Sebastián`.

To handle that, we first convert the `username` and `password` to `bytes` encoding them with UTF-8.

Then we can use `secrets.compare_digest()` to ensure that `credentials.username` is `"stanleyjobson"`, and that `credentials.password` is `"swordfish"`.

  HttpUrl baseUrl = server.url("/v1/chat/");

  // Exercise your application code, which should make those HTTP requests.
  // Responses are returned in the same order that they are enqueued.
  Chat chat = new Chat(baseUrl);

  chat.loadMore();
  assertEquals("hello, world!", chat.messages());

  chat.loadMore();
  chat.loadMore();
  assertEquals(""
      + "hello, world!\n"
      + "sup, bra?\n"

You probably want to test the external provider once, but not necessarily call it for every test that runs.

In this case, you can override the dependency that calls that provider, and use a custom dependency that returns a mock user, only for your tests.

### Use the `app.dependency_overrides` attribute

//
// <decimalSI>       ::= m | "" | k | M | G | T | P | E
//
// 	(Note that 1024 = 1Ki but 1000 = 1k; I didn't choose the capitalization.)
//
// <decimalExponent> ::= "e" <signedNumber> | "E" <signedNumber>
// ```
//
// No matter which of the three exponent forms is used, no quantity may represent
// a number greater than 2^63-1 in magnitude, nor may it have more than 3 decimal
// places. Numbers larger or more precise will be capped or rounded up.

   * there's no way to assign a {@code @Nullable T} to a field {@code T foo;} and instruct the
   * analysis that that means "plain {@code T}" rather than the inferred type {@code @Nullable T}.
   * (Even if supported added {@code @NonNull}, that would not help, since the problem case
   * addressed by this method is the case in which {@code T} has parametric nullness -- and thus its
   * value may be legitimately {@code null}.)
   */

You could create an API with a *path operation* that could trigger a request to an *external API* created by someone else (probably the same developer that would be *using* your API).

The process that happens when your API app calls the *external API* is named a "callback". Because the software that the external developer wrote sends a request to your API and then your API *calls back*, sending a request to an *external API* (that was probably created by the same developer).

   * there's no way to assign a {@code @Nullable T} to a field {@code T foo;} and instruct the
   * analysis that that means "plain {@code T}" rather than the inferred type {@code @Nullable T}.
   * (Even if supported added {@code @NonNull}, that would not help, since the problem case
   * addressed by this method is the case in which {@code T} has parametric nullness -- and thus its
   * value may be legitimately {@code null}.)
   */

## Wildcards

It's also possible to declare the list as `"*"` (a "wildcard") to say that all are allowed.

But that will only allow certain types of communication, excluding everything that involves credentials: Cookies, Authorization headers like those used with Bearer Tokens, etc.

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This means that it will **always have a value**, it's just that sometimes the value could be `None` (or `null` in JSON).

That means that, clients using your API don't have to check if the value exists or not, they can **assume the field will always be there**, but just that in some cases it will have the default value of `None`.

  If we operated at L3 we could just start processing packets in the new Ztunnel.
* We do not operate at L7, so we cannot signal to the application, in any way, that it should reconnect (to the new Ztunnel).

Realistically, that means the best we can do is:
* Ensure that, at any point in time, any _new_ connections will succeed. There is no period where new connections are dropped.