Add an option to enforce stricter HTTP conformance

This is a first stab, the checks will likely have to be revised.
For now, we check

 * if the request line contains control characters
 * if the request uri has fragment or username/password
 * that the request method is standard or registered with RegisterHttpMethod
 * that the request protocol is of the form HTTP/[1-9]+.[0-9]+,
   or missing for 0.9
 * if there is garbage in the request line after the protocol
 * if any request header contains control characters
 * if any request header has an empty name
 * for the host name in the URL or Host header:
   - if an IPv4 dotted decimal address: Reject octal or hex values, require
     exactly four parts
   - if a DNS host name: Reject non-alphanumeric characters besides '.' and
     '-'. As a side effect, this rejects multiple Host headers.
 * if any response header contains control characters
 * if any response header has an empty name
 * that the Location response header (if present) has a valid scheme and is
   absolute

If we have a host name both from the URL and the Host header, we replace the
Host header with the value from the URL to enforce RFC conformance.

There is a log-only mode, but the loglevels of the logged messages need some
thought/work. Currently, the  checks for incoming data log for 'core' and the
checks for outgoing data log for 'http'. Maybe we need a way to configure the
loglevels separately from the core/http loglevels.



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                                                          -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 Changes with Apache 2.5.0
 
+  *) core, http: Extend HttpProtocol with an option to enforce stricter HTTP
+     conformance or to only log the found problems. [Stefan Fritsch]
+
   *) core: Correctly parse an IPv6 literal host specification in an absolute
      URL in the request line. [Stefan Fritsch]