rust: default to rustls TLS backend, add native-tls opt-in

[colbylwilliams]

Summary

Fixes #1805.

The Rust crate hard-coded the OpenSSL-backed native-tls stack for its request-handler HTTP and WebSocket clients, with no way to opt into rustls:

reqwest = { version = "0.12", default-features = false, features = ["stream", "http2", "default-tls"] }
tokio-tungstenite = { version = "0.24", default-features = false, features = ["connect", "native-tls"] }

default-tls (reqwest) and native-tls (tokio-tungstenite) both pull in openssl-sys, which links the system OpenSSL on Linux. This breaks *-unknown-linux-musl / fully-static builds (no OpenSSL sysroot) and adds a dynamic libssl.so.3 runtime dependency on glibc.

Change

This implements both shapes the issue proposed: default to rustls and expose a native-tls cargo feature so consumers keep the choice.

• rustls-tls (new, default): reqwest rustls-tls-native-roots + tokio-tungstenite rustls-tls-native-roots — rustls with the ring provider and the OS trust store. OpenSSL-free, so musl/static targets cross-compile without a system OpenSSL sysroot.
• native-tls (new, opt-in): keeps the platform-native stack (OpenSSL on Linux, Secure Transport on macOS, SChannel on Windows) for consumers who want it.
• Base reqwest/tokio-tungstenite deps drop their hard-coded TLS features; TLS is now selected via the cargo features above.

The transport code (copilot_request_handler.rs) is TLS-backend-agnostic (reqwest::Client::builder() + connect_async), so no source changes were required. For wss://, tokio-tungstenite resolves the rustls crypto provider via Cargo feature unification on the shared rustls crate (reqwest pins ring).

Note: default-features = false now drops the default rustls-tls backend along with bundled-cli; re-add rustls-tls or native-tls. This is documented in the README. Cargo features are additive, so enabling both is unnecessary — when both are present (e.g. under --all-features) the transport prefers native-tls.

Validation

• cargo check --locked (default) is OpenSSL-free: openssl-sys no longer appears in the normal dependency graph; ring is the sole rustls crypto provider.
• cargo check --no-default-features --features rustls-tls and --features native-tls both compile.
• Verified at runtime that the default rustls wss:// path resolves the ring crypto provider (reaches the TLS handshake instead of panicking with "no process-level CryptoProvider available").
• cargo +nightly fmt --check, cargo clippy --all-features --all-targets -- -D warnings: clean.
• cargo test --all-features: green (lib + e2e + integration + doctests).
• Request-handler e2e tests pass under the default rustls-only build.

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Supersedes #1806 (which was opened from a fork before I had write access to this repo). This PR is branched directly off main.

Co-authored-by: Copilot 223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

This PR updates the Rust SDK crate’s TLS feature configuration so it defaults to a rustls-based TLS stack (avoiding OpenSSL) while still offering an opt-in native-tls Cargo feature for consumers who prefer the platform TLS backend. This directly addresses the musl/static build pain described in #1805 without requiring transport-layer source changes.

Changes:

• Switch default Rust crate TLS backend to rustls-tls (OpenSSL-free by default) and add an opt-in native-tls feature.
• Remove hard-coded TLS features from the reqwest and tokio-tungstenite dependency declarations and delegate TLS selection to crate features.
• Document the new TLS feature behavior and the default-features = false implications in the Rust README.

Show a summary per file

File	Description
rust/README.md	Documents new rustls-tls (default) and native-tls (opt-in) features and updates dependency examples accordingly.
rust/Cargo.toml	Introduces rustls-tls/native-tls features, defaults to rustls, and removes dependency-level hard-coded TLS selection.
rust/Cargo.lock	Updates the resolved dependency graph to reflect the new rustls-enabled default feature set.

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