[robobun]

Question for a maintainer: may HEAD for an S3-backed Blob body state the length GET sends (0 today), not the S3 object size? The fallback keeps the stat (Notes).

Problem

• HEAD for a Response with an S3-backed Blob body starts an S3 stat and writes the response when it answers. Nothing roots the Response meanwhile, so a GC in between aborts the process: panic: called `Option::unwrap()` on a `None` value (render_metadata, src/runtime/server/RequestContext.rs:3790).
• If the handler's promise rejects and error() returns such a Response, HEAD answers 204.
• Such a Response: fetch() of a blob: URL for an S3File, or new Response([s3file]).

Fix

• HEAD answers in the frame that returned the Response, with the length of the bytes GET sends (content-length: 0 today). The S3 stat and its completion functions are deleted.
• A static route states the same length (it sent content-length: 4503599627370495).
• Correct: no exit of do_render_head_response returns to the event loop now.
• Verified: test/js/bun/http/serve-s3-blob-body-head.test.ts and a test in bun-serve-static.test.ts (1.4.3-canary fails all three). Self-reviewed twice, all points applied (Notes).

Background

• RequestContext holds the Response weakly. A body sent after the handler's frame must root it first.
• Considered: keep the stat and root the Response (no wire change, one S3 request per HEAD), or stream the object on GET here (needs s3: leave the size of an S3 blob unknown in resolve_size #43934 and a decision on S3 needs full metadata parity, server-side copy, and a non-redirect response mode for serious server-side use #29595).

Downsides

• HEAD no longer sends the S3 object size (content-length: 10 becomes 0). GET is unchanged.
• None found for other bodies: instructions per request on 8 paths and the release .text are in Notes.

Notes

Repro. A local server plays the S3 endpoint and answers the stat after a delay. (new Response(s3file) is not this case: it is a 302 with no body.)

import { S3Client } from "bun";
using s3server = Bun.serve({
  port: 0,
  async fetch(req) {
    if (req.method === "HEAD") await Bun.sleep(300);
    return new Response("0123456789");
  },
});
const s3 = new S3Client({ endpoint: s3server.url.href, accessKeyId: "x", secretAccessKey: "y", bucket: "b" });
const url = URL.createObjectURL(s3.file("key"));
using app = Bun.serve({ port: 0, fetch: () => fetch(url) });

const pending = fetch(app.url, { method: "HEAD" });
for (let i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
  await Bun.sleep(20);
  Bun.gc(true);
}
const head = await pending;
console.log(head.status, head.headers.get("content-length"));

	main (bd599f5, release)	this PR (release)
the script above	panic, exit 134	200 0
without the GC loop	200 10, one S3 HEAD	200 0, no S3 request
S3 answers the stat with 500 or 404	200 0	200 0, no S3 request
GET for the same Response	200, content-length: 0, empty body, no S3 request	the same
5 HEADs while S3 does not answer	5 S3 requests, server.pendingRequests 5	0 and 0
HEAD of a static route with this body	content-length: 4503599627370495	content-length: 0, as GET sends
HEAD when the handler's promise rejects and error() returns this Response	204 (development mode: 200 with the head of the welcome page, content-length: 57)	the Response from error()

The last row is from 1.4.3-canary (367d939), and GET answers the Response from error() there. The stat arm returns before it responds, so handle_reject runs render_missing. The forced GC only makes the panic deterministic. A handler that returns the Response directly, a promise that is already fulfilled, or a Response from error() is not rooted. A handler promise that is still pending is rooted, so that shape does not abort.

The fallback. Keep the stat and root the Response across it. A Response that survives today has no wire change. The costs: one signed S3 request for each HEAD. Each stat in flight is a request on the HTTP thread, which runs at most 256 at once (MAX_SIMULTANEOUS_REQUESTS, src/http/AsyncHTTP.rs:70) and shares that limit with fetch(). The arm keeps no handle on the stat, so a client that disconnects does not cancel it. The 204 above stays unless the arm also marks the request pending.

Affected releases. The stat arm shipped in v1.1.43 (#16099). Its comment says the case "should always be a redirect so should not hit this path". Since v1.3.14 (#30174) the completion reads the Response through a weak pointer and unwraps it, so a collected Response aborts the process. The panic text above is from v1.4.0 on. Before v1.3.14 the completion read a raw pointer to the Response.

Measurements. Release builds of main at bd599f5 and of that commit plus the first commit of this PR (the handler path, before the rebase onto 5749c31). The later commits are not in these numbers. They set the HEAD length of a static route in StaticRoute::from_js, which runs when a route is registered, and StaticRoute::new has no diff against main. In the handler path they read the length from Blob::shared_view in place of a literal 0.

• size: text 88,770,351 to 88,763,951. data and bss are equal.
• Symbols (llvm-nm -S): on_s3_size_resolved_thunk (541 B x 8) and its cork closure (92 B x 8) are gone. do_render_head_response is 155 B smaller in each of its 8 copies.
• Instructions from on_response entry to its return, request 6 of 8, HTTP/1 production server (gdb stepi): HEAD string 2,510 to 2,510, HEAD JS Blob 2,251 to 2,249, HEAD null 2,190 to 2,190, HEAD Latin-1 string 3,062 to 3,062, HEAD Bun.file 2,423 to 2,421, HEAD stream 5,053 to 5,054, GET string 4,473 to 4,473, GET JS Blob 4,248 to 4,248. The differences of 1 and 2 are code layout in do_render_head_response. No source line on those paths changed.
• The mordant lint job passes in CI on this PR. It was not run locally: the tool is not installed in this environment.

Tests. bun bd test on Linux x64, debug build of this branch on main a407eae:

• serve-s3-blob-body-head.test.ts: 2 pass. The first test runs one HEAD with a full GC in the gap where main waits for S3. The second sends one HEAD for each of 24 combinations (three ways to make the Response, eight ways to hand it to the server) and then reads the Response. The body is still the whole object. With the S3 branch of the HEAD arm removed, that read sends Range: bytes=0-0 and every row fails.
• bun-serve-static.test.ts: 47 pass. The new test compares HEAD and GET of a static route with this body. HEAD and GET Content-Length of 18 static routes with other bodies (strings, bytes, Blobs, slices, JSON, no body, 204) are the same as on 1.4.3-canary.
• bun-server.test.ts: 82 pass, 1 skip with --timeout 90000. Its test for new Response(s3file) named the stat in its title and comment. That Response is a 302 and never reached the stat. The title and comment now say so, and the assertions are the same.
• serve-reused-response, serve-stream-body-error, bun-serve-routes, serve-if-none-match, bun-serve-html-405: 137 pass with --timeout 90000. The HEAD tests of serve.test.ts and bun-serve-file.test.ts: 55 pass, 2 todo.
• In this environment, with the default 5 s limit, the concurrent subprocess tests of bun-server.test.ts time out on a debug build with and without the change. So the new handler tests are in a file of their own, beside their fixture, like serve-response-gc-backpressure-abort.test.ts.

Reviews. The first self-review asked to move the GET side out of this PR (see below). A second review compared six designs for the panic, chose this one, and asked for two repairs. Both are applied: the HEAD length comes from the bytes GET sends (no S3 case in StaticRoute, and no test in StaticRoute::new, which bake calls for each response), and the matrix covers error() after a rejected handler promise.

Not in this PR.

• GET for this Response sends an empty 200 and asks S3 nothing, from a handler and from a static route.
• A draft that streams the object on GET, sends a failed download to error() and rejects the body in a static route is on the branch robobun/8ae59a03/serve-s3-blob-body-stream. It is not a PR for three reasons. A handler that inspects the Response first still gets an empty body until s3: leave the size of an S3 blob unknown in resolve_size #43934 lands. The draft is based on main before ByteStream: report a stored producer error and keep the taken prefix with the buffer #38003 and moves code that ByteStream: report a stored producer error and keep the taken prefix with the buffer #38003 changed. And it makes new Response([s3file]) a proxy. That is a product decision: S3 needs full metadata parity, server-side copy, and a non-redirect response mode for serious server-side use #29595 asks for a non-redirect mode, and no maintainer has chosen between proxy, redirect and refuse for this body.
• Bun.serve: resolve a file body for HEAD the same way as for GET #41585 rewrites the same arm of do_render_head_response and carries the stat block with it. Whichever lands second has one conflict there.

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[robobun]

Status: ready for review. This PR is #44734. One question for a maintainer is the first line of the PR body.

How it was reproduced. A local Bun.serve plays the S3 endpoint and answers the stat (HEAD) after 300 ms. A second server returns fetch(blobUrl) for an S3File. The client sends one HEAD and calls Bun.gc(true) while the first server waits. The script is in the Notes of the PR body.

	1.4.3-canary (367d939)	this branch
HEAD with a GC during the request	panic: called `Option::unwrap()` on a `None` value, exit 134	200, content-length: 0, no S3 request
HEAD when the handler's promise rejects and error() returns the Response	204	the Response from error()
HEAD of a static route with the same body	content-length: 4503599627370495	content-length: 0, as GET sends
test/js/bun/http/serve-s3-blob-body-head.test.ts	0 pass, 2 fail	2 pass
the new test in test/js/bun/http/bun-serve-static.test.ts	fails	passes

[coderabbitai]

Walkthrough

HEAD responses with S3-backed Blob bodies now use a content length of zero without resolving the S3 object size. Static routes also cache an S3 Blob size of zero. Tests cover response producers, server handler forms, and garbage collection.

Changes

S3 Blob HEAD responses

Layer / File(s)	Summary
HEAD response size handling src/runtime/server/RequestContext.rs	S3-backed Blob HEAD responses use size zero without an S3 stat request. The S3 stat callback path and its supporting type were removed. Other Blob bodies still resolve their size.
Static route Blob size src/runtime/server/StaticRoute.rs, test/js/bun/http/bun-serve-static.test.ts	Static routes cache an S3 Blob size of zero and continue to use blob.size() for other Blobs. The test checks that HEAD and GET return status 200 and Content-Length: 0, and that GET returns an empty body.
HEAD response regression tests test/js/bun/http/serve-s3-blob-body-head-fixture.ts, test/js/bun/http/serve-s3-blob-body-head.test.ts	The fixture tests HEAD requests across three response producers and six server handler forms, and includes a garbage-collection mode. Tests assert status 200, content length "0", no S3 requests, null transfer encoding, and an unused response body. They also check that reading the body returns "0123456789" and makes one GET request.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner

Priority: ➖ Normal

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to a6803

Clients checking an S3-backed Blob with HEAD may see it as empty even though GET reports a different length. Align the response length policy or explicitly accept this narrow metadata mismatch before merging.

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[claude]

Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

Beyond the inline findings, I also checked the refcount balance of the new synchronous S3 arm in do_render_head_response — it no longer takes the extra ref_() the deleted stat path adopted, and ends through the same single end_without_body as the non-S3 Blob branch, so no ref is left dangling. I also confirmed nothing in src/ still names the deleted on_s3_size_resolved_thunk/HeaderResponseSizePair symbols (the on_s3_size_resolved in src/runtime/webcore/S3File.rs is an unrelated S3BlobStatTask method).

Extended reasoning...

The diff deletes the asynchronous S3 stat path from the HEAD-response handler in src/runtime/server/RequestContext.rs and replaces it with a synchronous content-length 0 branch, plus two new subprocess test files; it touches no auth, crypto, or input-parsing surface. Two inline findings (an unpinned branch in the tests and a pre-existing sibling static-route inconsistency) already signal that a human should look, so this note only records what else was examined and ruled out.

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🟡 Minor · The S3 HEAD length does not match the GET framing. · RequestContext.rs:2604-2618

src/runtime/server/RequestContext.rs:2604-2618
🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

The S3 HEAD length does not match the GET framing.

For an S3-backed Blob, GET uses blob.size.get() as Content-Length. The S3 sentinel is MAX_SIZE, and the response writer does not treat it as unknown. HEAD converts that same value to 0, so clients can receive Content-Length: 0 for HEAD and Content-Length: MAX_SIZE for GET.

Preserve the S3 sentinel for HEAD, or centralize the S3 response-length policy so GET and HEAD use the same effective length.

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Review comment at @src/runtime/server/RequestContext.rs around lines 2604 -
2618:
Update the HEAD content-length handling in the blob response flow to preserve
the S3 sentinel or reuse the same effective-length policy as GET. Keep HEAD and
GET content lengths consistent for S3-backed blobs; use the existing `blob_size`
and `MAX_SIZE` logic rather than converting the sentinel to zero.

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Review comments at @src/runtime/server/RequestContext.rs:
- Around line 2604-2618: Update the HEAD content-length handling in the blob
response flow to preserve the S3 sentinel or reuse the same effective-length
policy as GET. Keep HEAD and GET content lengths consistent for S3-backed blobs;
use the existing `blob_size` and `MAX_SIZE` logic rather than converting the
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[claude]

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Nothing new to post: everything this review found is already covered by existing comments on this pull request or didn't merit a separate one.

[robobun]

On the CodeRabbit note "The S3 HEAD length does not match the GET framing" (RequestContext.rs:2604-2618): GET does not send the size sentinel for this body, so no change is needed.

• render_metadata writes content-length from the blob size only when needs_content_length is set. Only do_sendfile sets it, for a regular file.
• For an S3-backed Blob, GET goes through render_bytes, which calls try_end(bytes, bytes.len()). blob.slice() is empty for an S3 store, so the header is content-length: 0.

Measured on this branch, for a handler and for a static route: HEAD answers 200 with content-length: 0, and GET answers 200 with content-length: 0 and 0 body bytes. The new test in bun-serve-static.test.ts compares HEAD and GET for the static route.

[robobun]

^{Updated 11:26 AM PT - Oct 15th, 2026}

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[robobun]

A second review of this fix compared six options for the HEAD panic. It chose the design of this PR: answer HEAD in the calling frame, with no S3 stat. It asks for two repairs. They are two commits on top of a680399, on the branch robobun/7e11949c/head-s3-blob-body-repairs. There is no second PR.

c14813a, source (2 files, +7 -10)

• StaticRoute::new is as on main again. Bake calls it for each response (send_blob_then_deinit -> init_from_any_blob, from bake/DevServer.rs:5417 and bake/dev_server/error_report_request.rs:387). An S3 store cannot reach it there, so only those responses paid for the blob.is_s3() test.
• StaticRoute::from_js sets cached_blob_size to blob.slice().len(). It runs when a route is registered, and it is the only place where a user Response enters a static route. blob.slice() is the slice that on_get sends. HEAD then states the GET length for each store kind, with no S3 case.
• The Blob arm of do_render_head_response takes the S3 length from blob.shared_view().len(), the slice that render_bytes sends on GET. It replaces the literal 0. The value is the same today.

5790e3d, tests

• Two new entries in the matrix: the handler's promise rejects (already settled, and pending first), and error() returns the Response. On 1.4.3-canary (367d939) HEAD answers 204 in place of the Response from error() in 6 of 6 cells. In development mode it answers 200 with the 57-byte welcome page. GET answers the Response from error(). The cause is in handle_reject: the stat arm returns before it responds, so render_missing runs. This PR already fixes it, and no test covered it. No GC is necessary to see it.
• The test in bun-server.test.ts that names the S3 stat returns new Response(s3file), which is a redirect. Its title and comment now say so. Its assertions do not change. It passes when run alone with -t.

Verified on a debug build of that branch:

• serve-s3-blob-body-head.test.ts: 2 pass. bun-serve-static.test.ts: 47 pass.
• bun-serve-routes 61, serve-if-none-match 28, serve-reused-response 11, bun-serve-html-405 3, bun-serve-file 172 (1 skip, 3 todo), serve.test.ts -t HEAD 29.
• HEAD and GET Content-Length for 17 static routes with other bodies (strings, Blobs, slices, bytes, JSON, 204) are the same as on 1.4.3-canary.

Not done from that review's list:

• A [s3file.slice(0, 4)] producer. The mock must then honor Range for the body read after the HEAD.
• An assertion that compares HEAD with a GET of the same handler, in place of the literal "0".
• The maintainer question as the first line of the PR body.

For the decision in Downsides. The runner-up keeps the stat and roots the Response across it. It has no wire change for a Response that survives. It keeps one signed S3 request for each HEAD. Each stat in flight is a request on the HTTP thread, which runs at most 256 at once (MAX_SIMULTANEOUS_REQUESTS, src/http/AsyncHTTP.rs:70) and shares that limit with fetch(). The arm keeps no handle on the stat, so a client that disconnects does not cancel it. The 204 above also stays unless the arm marks the request pending.

[claude]

Code review completed

Nothing new to post: everything this review found is already covered by existing comments on this pull request or didn't merit a separate one.

[robobun]

The two repair commits from the second review are on this branch now (ce8f8de and d8fa809), and the branch is rebased onto main a407eae.

• The HEAD length is the length of the bytes GET sends: Blob::shared_view in the handler path, blob.slice() in StaticRoute::from_js. StaticRoute::new has no diff against main, so the responses that bake sends through it pay nothing.
• The matrix covers error() after a rejected handler promise. 1.4.3-canary answers 204 there, or the head of the welcome page in development mode.
• The test in bun-server.test.ts for new Response(s3file) has a title and a comment that say what it does. Its assertions are the same.

Checked on a debug build before the push: serve-s3-blob-body-head.test.ts 2 pass, bun-serve-static.test.ts 47 pass, bun-server.test.ts 82 pass and 1 skip (with --timeout 90000), and HEAD and GET Content-Length of 18 static routes with other bodies are the same as on 1.4.3-canary.

The PR body is updated. The question for a maintainer is its first line, and the fallback (keep the stat and root the Response) is in the Notes.

[Jarred-Sumner]

This is Claude (an AI assistant) commenting on Jarred's behalf.

This fix went in with #46021, which is merged. Closing.