@WyriHaximus This is very similar to #469, I see what you're planning to do with this PR, but I would again ask the question if it would be better to introduce these changes in your upcoming PRs for HTTP 1.1 and 2. There could be the case where you work on your upcoming PRs and recognize, that this is not needed and then reverse these changes again.

I also would argue that these changes make it more difficult to understand the code. The current behavior ($parser = new RequestHeaderParser($clock);) shows exactly what happens at this point, while the new behavior ($parser = $this->createRequestHeaderParser($clock);) would hide this part behind an additional function call. I agree with you that it would be easier from a developer's perspective to just add changes to one function and avoid going over every line of code, but everything comes with a price.

I want to be honest, if I'd see the suggested part inside a project, I would be tempted to file a PR and go the other way around, to reduce the extra function call. 😅

But this is my opinion, happy to hear what you think about my wall of text ^^

@SimonFrings Alternatively we close this and just keep the wall of text inside #425. It's all about that. This is literally extracted from #425 and if you and @clue don't think it should have been extracted, this comment is a bit weird then as it seems to suggest it should be extracted into a different PR: #425 (comment)