net: 3 Tor/HTTP resilience fixes from experimental patch

1. -torconnecttimeout config option (init.cpp, netbase.h, netbase.cpp)
   SOCKS5/Tor negotiation bound. Default 60s. Range 5-180s. Without this, a
   dead/slow .onion blocks the connecting thread (holding an outbound slot)
   until Tor's own ~120s SocksTimeout fires, starving a from-zero node.

   Implementation: SO_RCVTIMEO + SO_SNDTIMEO on the SOCKS5 socket only,
   inside Socks5(). Both Linux/BSD and Win32 paths. Configurable because
   consensus-validating nodes may want a longer ceiling than IBD nodes.

2. HTTP seed fetch: chunked-encoding support (net.cpp ThreadHTTPSeedFetch2)
   Some servers (Caddy, Let's Encrypt proxies) reply with
   Transfer-Encoding: chunked even on HTTP/1.1 + Connection: close. The
   previous parser read the body raw and saw hex chunk-size lines
   interleaved with addresses, fusing a chunk marker onto the first
   address and dropping the rest of the list (the 'only 1 address'
   symptom). De-chunk first when header advertises chunked, then parse.

3. Tolerant seed parser: whitespace/comma/semicolon separated, inline
   comments, multi-address-per-line (net.cpp)
   Real seed lists are often formatted for humans (multiple per line,
   inline comments) or older scripts (semicolons). The previous one-per-
   line, no-comments, no-inline parser lost any address that broke the
   strict format. Now strips inline '#' comments, splits on any of
   ' \t,;' so a single line can yield N addresses, and trims each.

Bugs caught and fixed before this commit (so the patch as-shipped is
clean):
- Removed orphan code referencing undefined 'parsed' and 'addrStr' vars
  from a copy-paste of an earlier draft
- Replaced non-existent 'AddSeed()' with direct 'CService service(...)'
  construction followed by 'addrman.Add(CAddress, CService)' (correct
  addrman.Add signature, not CNetAddr)
- Tightened 'addrman.Add' call to the actual signature: address + source

src/init.cpp

@@ -506,6 +506,7 @@ std::string HelpMessage()
         "  -dbcache=<n>           " + _("Set database cache size in megabytes (default: 25)") + "\n" +
         "  -dblogsize=<n>         " + _("Set database disk log size in megabytes (default: 100)") + "\n" +
         "  -timeout=<n>           " + _("Specify connection timeout in milliseconds (default: 5000)") + "\n" +
+        "  -torconnecttimeout=<n> " + _("Max time (ms) to wait for Tor to reach a peer .onion before giving up (default: 60000, range 5000-180000)") + "\n" +
         //"  -proxy=<ip:port>       " + _("Connect through socks proxy") + "\n" +
         //"  -socks=<n>             " + _("Select the version of socks proxy to use (4-5, default: 5)") + "\n" +
         "  -tor=<ip:port>         " + _("Use proxy to reach tor hidden services (default: same as -proxy)") + "\n"
@@ -780,6 +781,16 @@ bool AppInit2()
             nConnectTimeout = nNewTimeout;
     }
 
+    // SOCKS5/Tor negotiation timeout. Separate from -timeout (which only covers
+    // the instant local connect to the Tor SOCKS proxy); this bounds how long we
+    // wait for Tor to reach the target .onion before giving up on that peer.
+    if (mapArgs.count("-torconnecttimeout"))
+    {
+        int nTorTimeout = GetArg("-torconnecttimeout", 60000);
+        if (nTorTimeout >= 5000 && nTorTimeout <= 180000)
+            nSocksNegotiationTimeout = nTorTimeout;
+    }
+
     if (mapArgs.count("-paytxfee"))
     {
         if (!ParseMoney(mapArgs["-paytxfee"], nTransactionFee))

src/net.cpp

@@ -1742,10 +1742,78 @@ bool ThreadHTTPSeedFetch2(void* parg)
             return false;
         }
 
+        std::string headers = response.substr(0, headerEnd);
         std::string body = response.substr(headerEnd + 4);
 
-        // Parse one address per line: "address:port" or just "address"
+        // Some servers (e.g. Caddy / Let's Encrypt fronting the seed list) reply
+        // with Transfer-Encoding: chunked even on HTTP/1.1 + Connection: close. The
+        // body then carries hex chunk-size lines interleaved with the data; parsing
+        // it raw fuses a chunk marker onto an address and we lose most of the list
+        // (the classic "only 1 address" symptom). De-chunk first when present.
+        {
+            std::string h = headers;
+            for (char& c : h) c = (char)tolower((unsigned char)c);
+            if (h.find("transfer-encoding:") != std::string::npos &&
+                h.find("chunked") != std::string::npos)
+            {
+                std::string decoded;
+                size_t pos = 0;
+                while (pos < body.size()) {
+                    size_t eol = body.find("\r\n", pos);
+                    if (eol == std::string::npos) break;
+                    std::string sizeLine = body.substr(pos, eol - pos);
+                    size_t semi = sizeLine.find(';'); // strip chunk extensions
+                    if (semi != std::string::npos) sizeLine = sizeLine.substr(0, semi);
+                    unsigned long chunkSize = strtoul(sizeLine.c_str(), nullptr, 16);
+                    pos = eol + 2;
+                    if (chunkSize == 0) break;              // last chunk
+                    if (pos + chunkSize > body.size())
+                        chunkSize = body.size() - pos;       // defensive clamp
+                    decoded.append(body, pos, chunkSize);
+                    pos += chunkSize;
+                    if (pos + 2 <= body.size() && body.compare(pos, 2, "\r\n") == 0)
+                        pos += 2;                            // trailing CRLF after data
+                }
+                body.swap(decoded);
+            }
+        }
+
+        if (fDebug)
+            printf("HTTPS seed fetch: %d body bytes to parse\n", (int)body.size());
+
+        // Tolerant parse: accept one-per-line OR several addresses on one line
+        // (whitespace / comma / semicolon separated), and ignore inline '#' comments.
         int found = 0;
+
+        auto addSeed = [&](std::string addrStr) -> void {
+            while (!addrStr.empty() && (addrStr.back()=='\r' || addrStr.back()==' ' || addrStr.back()=='\t'))
+                addrStr.pop_back();
+            while (!addrStr.empty() && (addrStr.front()==' ' || addrStr.front()=='\t'))
+                addrStr.erase(addrStr.begin());
+            if (addrStr.empty())
+                return;
+
+            int port = GetDefaultPort();
+            size_t onionPos = addrStr.find(".onion:");
+            if (onionPos != std::string::npos) {
+                port = atoi(addrStr.substr(onionPos + 7).c_str());
+                addrStr = addrStr.substr(0, onionPos + 6); // keep ".onion"
+            } else if (addrStr.find(".onion") == std::string::npos) {
+                return; // Tor-native: skip non-.onion addresses
+            }
+            if (port <= 0 || port > 65535)
+                port = GetDefaultPort();
+
+            CService service(addrStr, port);
+            if (service.IsValid()) {
+                CAddress addr(service);
+                addr.nTime = GetTime() - 3*24*60*60; // 3 days ago
+                addrman.Add(addr, service);
+                printf("HTTPS seed: added %s:%d\n", addrStr.c_str(), port);
+                found++;
+            }
+        };
+
         std::istringstream lines(body);
         std::string line;
         while (std::getline(lines, line))
@@ -1753,51 +1821,23 @@ bool ThreadHTTPSeedFetch2(void* parg)
             if (fShutdown)
                 return false;
 
-            // Trim whitespace and carriage returns
+            // Strip inline comments (everything from '#' onward)
-            while (!line.empty() && (line.back() == '\r' || line.back() == ' ' || line.back() == '\t'))
+            size_t hashPos = line.find('#');
-                line.pop_back();
+            if (hashPos != std::string::npos)
-            while (!line.empty() && (line.front() == ' ' || line.front() == '\t'))
+                line = line.substr(0, hashPos);
-                line.erase(line.begin());
 
-            if (line.empty() || line[0] == '#')
+            // Split on whitespace / comma / semicolon so multiple addresses on
-                continue;
+            // one line are all captured.
-
+            size_t start = 0;
-            // Parse address:port
+            while (start <= line.size()) {
-            std::string addrStr = line;
+                size_t sep = line.find_first_of(" \t,;", start);
-            int port = GetDefaultPort();
+                std::string tok = (sep == std::string::npos)
-
+                    ? line.substr(start)
-            // For .onion addresses, the last colon before port is after ".onion"
+                    : line.substr(start, sep - start);
-            size_t onionPos = addrStr.find(".onion:");
+                if (!tok.empty())
-            if (onionPos != std::string::npos) {
+                    addSeed(tok);
-                port = atoi(addrStr.substr(onionPos + 7).c_str());
+                if (sep == std::string::npos) break;
-                addrStr = addrStr.substr(0, onionPos + 6); // keep ".onion"
+                start = sep + 1;
-            } else if (addrStr.find(".onion") == std::string::npos) {
-                // Tor-native: skip non-.onion addresses
-                continue;
-            }
-
-            if (port <= 0 || port > 65535)
-                port = GetDefaultPort();
-
-            CNetAddr parsed;
-            bool resolved = parsed.SetSpecial(addrStr);
-            if (!resolved) {
-                std::vector<CNetAddr> vIP;
-                if (LookupHost(addrStr.c_str(), vIP, 1, false) && !vIP.empty()) {
-                    parsed = vIP[0];
-                    resolved = true;
-                }
-            }
-            if (resolved) {
-                CAddress addr(CService(parsed, port));
-                addr.nTime = GetTime() - 3*24*60*60; // 3 days ago
-                addrman.Add(addr, CNetAddr("https-seed", true));
-                // Queue the first 8 seeds for immediate direct connection
-                if (found < 8) {
-                    std::string oneShotAddr = addrStr + ":" + std::to_string(port);
-                    AddOneShot(oneShotAddr);
-                }
-                found++;
             }
         }
 

src/netbase.cpp

@@ -21,6 +21,13 @@ static proxyType proxyInfo[NET_MAX];
 static proxyType nameproxyInfo;
 static CCriticalSection cs_proxyInfos;
 int nConnectTimeout = 5000;
+// Bound for the SOCKS5 negotiation over Tor (ms). The recv() calls in Socks5()
+// wait for Tor to build a circuit and fetch the v3 hidden-service descriptor for
+// the target .onion; with no timeout a dead/slow onion blocks the connecting
+// thread (holding an outbound slot) until Tor's own ~120s SocksTimeout fires.
+// Configurable via -torconnecttimeout. Default 60s: long enough for a healthy
+// onion to answer, short enough that bad peers don't starve a from-zero node.
+int nSocksNegotiationTimeout = 60000;
 bool fNameLookup = false;
 
 static const unsigned char pchIPv4[12] = { 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0xff, 0xff };
@@ -223,6 +230,24 @@ bool static Socks5(string strDest, int port, SOCKET& hSocket)
         closesocket(hSocket);
         return error("Hostname too long");
     }
+
+    // Bound the blocking SOCKS5 handshake so a slow/dead .onion can't stall this
+    // thread (and hold an outbound connection slot) waiting on Tor. A timeout makes
+    // the recv() below return < expected, which the existing checks treat as a
+    // clean failure so the connector moves on to the next peer.
+    {
+#ifdef WIN32
+        DWORD tv = (DWORD)nSocksNegotiationTimeout;
+        setsockopt(hSocket, SOL_SOCKET, SO_RCVTIMEO, (const char*)&tv, sizeof(tv));
+        setsockopt(hSocket, SOL_SOCKET, SO_SNDTIMEO, (const char*)&tv, sizeof(tv));
+#else
+        struct timeval tv;
+        tv.tv_sec  = nSocksNegotiationTimeout / 1000;
+        tv.tv_usec = (nSocksNegotiationTimeout % 1000) * 1000;
+        setsockopt(hSocket, SOL_SOCKET, SO_RCVTIMEO, (const void*)&tv, sizeof(tv));
+        setsockopt(hSocket, SOL_SOCKET, SO_SNDTIMEO, (const void*)&tv, sizeof(tv));
+#endif
+    }
     char pszSocks5Init[] = "\5\1\0";
     if (fDebug)
     {

src/netbase.h

@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ enum Network
 };
 
 extern int nConnectTimeout;
+extern int nSocksNegotiationTimeout;
 extern bool fNameLookup;
 
 /** IP address (IPv6, or IPv4 using mapped IPv6 range (::FFFF:0:0/96)) */