fix: increase max HTTP header size to 32kb bytes across all environments

[aborovsky]

At the moment, bright-cli fails when the target responds with an HTTP header block larger than 16 KB, which is the default limit enforced by Node.js.

The Bright repeater infrastructure is already capable of handling HTTP response headers up to 32 KB, which creates a mismatch between the repeater and bright-cli behavior. To keep both components aligned and allow bright-cli to process responses normally, the maximum supported HTTP header size should be increased to 32 KB.

If response headers exceed this increased limit, bright-cli will continue to throw HPE_HEADER_OVERFLOW, which matches the current and expected behavior.

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

This PR increases the maximum HTTP header size supported by bright-cli from the default 16 KB to 32 KB to align with the Bright repeater infrastructure. This prevents HPE_HEADER_OVERFLOW errors when the target responds with HTTP headers between 16-32 KB.

Changes:

• Added NODE_OPTIONS environment variable configuration across all execution environments
• Updated test scripts to support larger HTTP headers during testing
• Modified build configuration to embed the setting in packaged executables

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File	Description
package.json	Updated npm scripts (test:e2e, test:smoke, start) to set NODE_OPTIONS=--max-http-header-size=32768 and modified build:pkg to pass the same option to pkg
Dockerfile	Added NODE_OPTIONS environment variable to set max-http-header-size=32768 for containerized deployments

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[aborovsky]

While there is no e2e test for this case, I've tested locally:

npm run build
npm run build:pkg -- -t node22-macos-x64
./bin/cli repeater --log-level 4 --hostname localhost repeater --id ******* --token *****

2026-01-29T15:38:51.680Z [VERBOSE] Executing HTTP request with following params: {"protocol":"http","url":"http://localhost:4444/post-with-huge-headers","body":"","method":"POST","headers":{"host":"localhost:4444","user-agent":"curl/8.7.1","accept":"*/*","x-huge-header":"1384529617f340c...24kb...of...data...here... 2451ca0d77079b7dd6f5"}}

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