Type received and forwarded HTTP request methods as open strings

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Problem

Native and forwarded requests can carry methods such as PROPFIND, but HttpServerRequest.method and HttpClientRequest.method were typed as the closed HttpMethod union. Exhaustive matches could therefore miss values that occur at runtime.

Fix

• Type received and forwarded request methods, including HttpClientRequest.makeWith, as string. Keep route and convenience-constructor methods restricted to HttpMethod.
• Let HttpMethod.hasBody accept strings without narrowing unknown methods to the known-method union. Preserve the type predicate for HttpMethod arguments and the existing runtime body policy.
• Widen AiError.HttpRequestDetails.method to Schema.String so forwarded extension methods can be encoded and decoded. Existing known-method payloads remain valid.
• Keep regression coverage in the corresponding HttpServerRequest.test.ts and HttpClientRequest.test.ts suites, including type equality and server-client-server forwarding.

This changes the public request method types, not method normalization or forwarding behavior. Consumers that exhaustively match request methods need a fallback or HttpMethod.isHttpMethod. The changeset is minor for this type-level compatibility change.

Validation

• nix develop -c pnpm check
• nix develop -c pnpm lint
• Targeted HttpServerRequest, HttpClientRequest, HttpClient, and AiError suites: 166 tests passed.
• Ad hoc runtime audit confirmed the existing hasBody policy and HTTP request-details schema round-trips for all known methods and PROPFIND.
• git diff --check

Closes EFF-1718

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