docs: explain request header validation#5413
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Closes #1470.
This documents how Undici handles protocol-managed request headers in
options.headers, including theinvalid connection headerpath, unsupportedexpect, rejected hop-by-hop headers, and specialhost/content-lengthhandling. It also removesconnectionfrom the generic header example so it is not presented as an ordinary forwarded header.Verification:
PATH=/mnt/TBT_DATA/nipun/work/tasks/earn-100-legal/workspace/toolchains/node/node-v24.16.0-linux-x64/bin:$PATH npm run lint -- docs/docs/api/Dispatcher.md(exits 0; ESLint reports Markdown file ignored)git diff --check