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perf(moq-api): reuse pooled connections for origin lookups - #200

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moq-api's HTTP client is constructed with reqwest::Client::new(), i.e. reqwest's defaults. That includes a 90 second pool_idle_timeout, so whenever origin lookups are spaced further apart than that, the pooled connection has already been closed and the next lookup pays for a TCP connect and a TLS handshake before the request is even sent. These lookups sit on the critical path of a subscribe for a namespace the relay does not serve locally, which makes those two extra round trips directly user-visible.

This builds the client explicitly with a longer idle timeout, a small per-host idle pool, and TCP keepalive so a connection idling in the pool is not silently dropped by a NAT or load balancer. The values are module constants with doc comments, the public API of Client is unchanged, and a unit test covers the new construction path.

The API client was built with reqwest's defaults, whose 90s
pool_idle_timeout closes the pooled connection whenever lookups are
spaced further apart than that. Origin lookups sit on the critical path
of a subscribe for a namespace the relay does not serve locally, so the
next lookup then re-pays a TCP connect and a TLS handshake before the
request is sent.

Build the client explicitly with a longer idle timeout, a small
per-host idle pool, and TCP keepalive so an idle connection is not
silently dropped by an intermediary. The public API is unchanged.
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