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W3C Trace Context propagation, the identifiers the proxy continues from an
incoming request and forwards to every downstream call so the upstream’s
spans join the same distributed trace (docs/05 §2, OTel).
Shape-only by construction. A TraceContext holds only opaque trace and
span ids, correlation identity, never tenant values, bodies, or secrets. The
ids are derived from the request id (not from request data), so propagation
cannot become a value-leak channel.
Structs§
- Trace
Context - A W3C trace context: the distributed-trace identity the proxy propagates
downstream. Continued from an incoming
traceparentwhen present (preserving thetrace_idso the trace stays connected end-to-end), or minted as a new root when absent. Either way a freshspan_ididentifies this hop, so the upstream call is recorded as a child of the proxy’s span.