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+"""HTTP/COG backend cells against the golden-corpus oracle (issue #1930).
+
+Phase 3 PR 5 of the corpus plan. The HTTP path in ``xrspatial.geotiff``
+is COG-only: ``open_geotiff('http://...')`` routes to
+``_reader._read_cog_http`` which uses range requests to fetch only
+metadata and the tiles a window needs. The plain stripped / tiled
+fixtures in the corpus would require a full-object download to read,
+which is a different code path; this module focuses narrowly on the
+COG fixture.
+
+The in-process HTTP server is the same range-supporting
+``BaseHTTPRequestHandler`` pattern used by
+``test_http_meta_buffer_1718.py`` and friends. It serves the COG
+fixture bytes on a random ``127.0.0.1`` port, and the test reads
+``http://127.0.0.1:<port>/cog.tif`` through ``open_geotiff``. The
+server is bound to localhost, which the HTTPSource's SSRF guard
+normally rejects; the ``XRSPATIAL_GEOTIFF_ALLOW_PRIVATE_HOSTS=1`` env
+var (the same hatch every other in-process HTTP test uses) opens the
+loopback path for tests.
+
+The current corpus has one COG fixture (``cog_internal_overview_uint16``)
+which is not subject to any of the parity gaps the eager / dask / GPU
+modules flag (no integer nodata, EPSG-coded CRS, single band), so this
+module ships without a ``_PARITY_GAPS`` table. If a future COG fixture
+hits one of the shared gaps, mirror the eager module's tables and the
+``_build_param`` plumbing here.
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import http.server
+import pathlib
+import socketserver
+import threading
+
+import pytest
+
+pytest.importorskip("yaml")
+pytest.importorskip("rasterio")
+
+from xrspatial.geotiff import open_geotiff  # noqa: E402
+from xrspatial.geotiff.tests.golden_corpus import generate  # noqa: E402
+from xrspatial.geotiff.tests.golden_corpus._oracle import (  # noqa: E402
+    compare_to_oracle,
+)
+
+
+FIXTURES_DIR = (
+    pathlib.Path(generate.__file__).resolve().parent / "fixtures"
+)
+
+
+def _resolved_fixtures() -> list[dict]:
+    """Return manifest entries with defaults merged, sorted by id."""
+    manifest = generate.load_manifest()
+    entries = generate.validate(manifest)
+    entries.sort(key=lambda e: e["id"])
+    return entries
+
+
+def _cog_fixture_ids() -> list[str]:
+    """Return manifest ids for fixtures the COG HTTP reader can serve.
+
+    Only ``cog: true`` entries qualify. Returns sorted ids for stable
+    parametrize output.
+    """
+    return [e["id"] for e in _resolved_fixtures() if e.get("cog")]
+
+
+def _is_lossy(fixture_id: str) -> bool:
+    """Look up the lossy flag for a fixture id from the manifest."""
+    for e in _resolved_fixtures():
+        if e["id"] == fixture_id:
+            tol = e.get("tolerance") or {}
+            return bool(tol.get("lossy", False))
+    return False
+
+
+class _RangeHandler(http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
+    """Serve a single fixture's bytes with HTTP Range support.
+
+    The bound subclass (built per-test via ``type(...)`` to bind a
+    different payload) is what gets handed to ``socketserver.TCPServer``.
+    """
+
+    payload: bytes = b""
+
+    def do_GET(self):  # noqa: N802
+        rng = self.headers.get("Range")
+        if rng and rng.startswith("bytes="):
+            spec = rng[len("bytes="):]
+            start_s, _, end_s = spec.partition("-")
+            start = int(start_s)
+            end = int(end_s) if end_s else len(self.payload) - 1
+            chunk = self.payload[start:end + 1]
+            self.send_response(206)
+            self.send_header("Content-Type", "application/octet-stream")
+            self.send_header(
+                "Content-Range",
+                f"bytes {start}-{start + len(chunk) - 1}/{len(self.payload)}",
+            )
+            self.send_header("Content-Length", str(len(chunk)))
+            self.end_headers()
+            self.wfile.write(chunk)
+            return
+        self.send_response(200)
+        self.send_header("Content-Type", "application/octet-stream")
+        self.send_header("Content-Length", str(len(self.payload)))
+        self.end_headers()
+        self.wfile.write(self.payload)
+
+    def log_message(self, *_args, **_kwargs):
+        # Quiet the per-request stderr noise that BaseHTTPRequestHandler
+        # otherwise emits.
+        pass
+
+
+def _serve(payload: bytes) -> tuple[socketserver.TCPServer, threading.Thread]:
+    handler_cls = type(
+        "_RangeHandlerBound", (_RangeHandler,), {"payload": payload}
+    )
+    httpd = socketserver.TCPServer(("127.0.0.1", 0), handler_cls)
+    thread = threading.Thread(target=httpd.serve_forever, daemon=True)
+    thread.start()
+    return httpd, thread
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def allow_private_http(monkeypatch):
+    """Open the SSRF guard for loopback addresses for the duration of one test.
+
+    ``_HTTPSource`` normally rejects ``127.0.0.1`` and other private
+    hosts. The same env var that every other in-process HTTP test in
+    the repo uses (``XRSPATIAL_GEOTIFF_ALLOW_PRIVATE_HOSTS``) reopens
+    the loopback path.
+    """
+    monkeypatch.setenv("XRSPATIAL_GEOTIFF_ALLOW_PRIVATE_HOSTS", "1")
+
+
+_COG_IDS = _cog_fixture_ids()
+
+
+@pytest.mark.skipif(
+    not _COG_IDS,
+    reason="no COG fixtures in the manifest; nothing to serve over HTTP",
+)
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("fixture_id", _COG_IDS, ids=_COG_IDS)
+def test_http_cog_parity(fixture_id: str, allow_private_http) -> None:
+    """``open_geotiff(http_url)`` for a COG fixture agrees with the oracle.
+
+    Serves the fixture's bytes on an ephemeral 127.0.0.1 port, reads
+    through the HTTP COG path, and compares against the rasterio
+    reference read of the same on-disk file. The fixture and the
+    served bytes are byte-identical, so any mismatch points at the
+    HTTP plumbing rather than at the codec.
+    """
+    path = FIXTURES_DIR / f"{fixture_id}.tif"
+    if not path.exists():
+        pytest.skip(
+            f"COG fixture {fixture_id!r} has no .tif on disk; run "
+            f"`python -m xrspatial.geotiff.tests.golden_corpus.generate`"
+        )
+
+    with open(path, "rb") as f:
+        payload = f.read()
+
+    httpd, thread = _serve(payload)
+    try:
+        host, port = httpd.server_address
+        url = f"http://{host}:{port}/{fixture_id}.tif"
+        candidate = open_geotiff(url)
+        compare_to_oracle(path, candidate, lossy=_is_lossy(fixture_id))
+    finally:
+        httpd.shutdown()
+        httpd.server_close()
+        # Daemon threads exit on process tear-down, but joining here
+        # makes test-by-test cleanup deterministic and surfaces a hang
+        # if ``shutdown()`` ever stops returning.
+        thread.join(timeout=2.0)
+
+
+def test_at_least_one_cog_fixture_exists() -> None:
+    """Sanity check: the corpus has something for this backend to exercise.
+
+    Today there is exactly one COG fixture (``cog_internal_overview_uint16``,
+    phase 2 PR 7). If a future refactor accidentally drops the only
+    COG entry, this test surfaces it so the HTTP cells do not silently
+    cover nothing.
+    """
+    assert _COG_IDS, (
+        "manifest has no COG fixtures; the HTTP backend has nothing to "
+        "test against"
+    )