test: move the image verification assertions into a test suite

[fzipi]

Closes #461, requested by @theseion in #458 (comment).

Based on #458, which the Content-Type assertion comes from — review the last commit only, or merge #458 first.

The suite

tests/verify-image.sh talks to a running container over HTTP and nothing else, so it runs the same way locally and in CI:

tests/verify-image.sh --variant nginx --url http://localhost:8080 --tls-url https://localhost:8443

It waits for the container itself, then prints one line per check:

ok   attack request is blocked
ok   403 Content-Type
FAIL 403 Access-Control-Max-Age
       expected: 3600
       actual:   1234

Every assertion reports the value it actually received, which the grep -q chain in the workflow never did. The workflow keeps starting the container and now calls the suite; the HTTP/3 opt-in step calls it with --expect-h3-port, so the duplicated startup wait is gone, and a new Container logs step dumps the logs on failure.

Plain script rather than bats: no install step on the runner or a developer machine, it fits the existing shellcheck and shfmt tooling, and nothing in the coreruleset organisation uses bats today. bats is the upgrade path if the suite grows past one file or we want JUnit output in the checks UI — noted in #461.

Two of the ported checks were not testing anything

wc -l out2.txt | grep -qoP "\d+" | xargs -I % test % -eq 2

grep -q exits on the first match and writes nothing, so xargs received no input, never ran test, and exited 0. The count was never compared. The pattern feeding it could not match either: it looked for < 101 Switching Protocols, while curl prints < HTTP/1.1 101 Switching Protocols.

Written as real assertions, the two servers differ:

• apache accepts the Upgrade: h2c request and answers 101 Switching Protocols followed by an HTTP/2 response
• nginx removed that mechanism in 1.25.1, so cleartext HTTP/2 is reachable only through prior knowledge

The suite asserts each, per variant.

Verification

Ran against locally built images:

	result
nginx, HTTP/3 unset	9 checks pass
apache	5 checks pass
nginx, HTTP3=on with --expect-h3-port	9 checks pass

And confirmed the assertions fail when they should: a container started with CORS_HEADER_403_CONTENT_TYPE=text/plain and CORS_HEADER_403_MAX_AGE=1234 reports both mismatches with their actual values and exits 1.

shellcheck and shfmt -i 2 are clean on the script, actionlint and zizmor on the workflow.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Tests
  • Improved automated validation for Apache and Nginx container images.
  • Added checks for service availability, blocked traversal requests, CORS headers, HTTP/2 behavior, and HTTP/3 support.
  • Enhanced failure diagnostics by collecting container logs when verification fails.

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Image verification

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Verification suite interface and readiness tests/verify-image.sh	Adds option parsing, variant validation, helper functions, readiness polling, timeout handling, and cleanup.
Protocol and response assertions tests/verify-image.sh	Checks traversal blocking, Nginx CORS headers, HTTP/3 Alt-Svc, HTTP/2 negotiation, and failure reporting.
Workflow integration and failure diagnostics .github/workflows/verifyimage.yml, tests/verify-image.sh	The workflow calls the shared suite for standard and HTTP/3 containers and collects logs on failure.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 44b35

Malformed command-line options can produce an unbound-variable error instead of clear usage guidance and exit status 2, making the verification script less predictable for users and CI troubleshooting. The issue is localized and mergeable with explicit owner follow-up.

Possibly related PRs

• coreruleset/modsecurity-crs-docker#457: Refactors HTTP/3 verification in verifyimage.yml into tests/verify-image.sh.
• coreruleset/modsecurity-crs-docker#458: Modifies verification of Nginx 403 CORS Content-Type behavior.

Suggested reviewers: theseion

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Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The script and workflow changes satisfy issue #461 by centralizing assertions, supporting local runs, reporting failures, and covering required checks.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes remain within scope and support the linked issue by refactoring image verification into a reusable test suite.
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