[robobun]

Problem

• idleTimeout never closes an HTTP/1 connection whose client sends a body and never reads a large response sent from memory. The client keeps the socket, the Request and server.pendingRequests with no bound.
• Two lines turn the idle timer off while that write is blocked: HttpResponse::pause() (packages/bun-uws/src/HttpResponse.h:554) and the last body chunk (packages/bun-uws/src/HttpContext.h:665).

Fix

• pause() no longer touches the timer.
• The last body chunk still clears it, except when a Bun.serve write is blocked (last_write_failed). Then it calls resetTimeout().
• A body that arrives whole and is answered after idleTimeout still gets its 200. Bun.serve: keep idleTimeout armed after the request body completes #33612 can later drop the last_write_failed test.
• Verified: one new test in test/js/bun/http/serve.test.ts, over TCP and TLS. It fails on main. Other suites are in the Notes.

Background

• uWS has one idle timer per socket. Bytes in either direction restart it.
• Bun.serve stops reading a request body when 1 MiB waits for the handler (Bun.serve: apply TCP backpressure to a request body the handler reads slowly #36006).
• Considered: a re-arm in RequestContext.rs (1 of 4 pause() callers), and Bun.serve: keep idleTimeout armed after the request body completes #33612's ungated line (resets a POST answered after 15 s).

Downsides

• A client that sends over 1 MiB before it reads now gets a reset at idleTimeout (a hang on main). So does one that reads the blocked response slowly (Bun.serve: do not idle-time-out a response the peer is still reading #41602).
• Each body chunk pays 1 instruction, the last one 2. .text size does not change.
• Not fixed: HTTP/2 and HTTP/3. Two maintainer questions are in the Notes.

Notes

How it was found. By measurement, not from a user report. No issue describes it.

Trigger. All of these must hold:

• HTTP/1 on Bun.serve: plain TCP, a unix socket, or TLS.
• The response is written from memory (Blob, typed array, string), or a stream writes it in the read that also holds the end of the body.
• That write blocks before the last body chunk is parsed, or before the body reaches the 1 MiB pause. So the handler answers without reading the body first.
• The client then reads nothing.

Already closed on main: a handler that reads the body first, Bun.file, static routes. The 64 MiB in the test is what loopback needs to block a write with margin.

Repro (release builds of main 620b50f and of this PR at that base, idleTimeout: 8, raw clients that never read). Debug builds of main 5866b5f and of the rebased PR give the same TCP results:

const big = new Uint8Array(64 * 1024 * 1024);
const server = Bun.serve({
  port: 0,
  idleTimeout: 8,
  fetch: req => new Response(big),
});
// Each client is a raw socket that sends one request and never reads:
//   GET /
//   POST / with Content-Length: 4194304 and the body
//   POST / with Content-Length: 10 and the body

request, 64 MiB response, client never reads	main	this PR
GET	closed at 8.1 s	closed at 8.1 s
POST 4 MiB, handler does not read the body	open at 18 s	closed at 8.1 s
POST 4 MiB, handler reads once and stops	open at 18 s	closed at 8.1 s
POST 10 B, POST 512 KB	open at 18 s	closed at 8.1 s
chunked POST, 1 MiB crossed and terminator in one read	open at 18 s	closed at 8.1 s

Node v26.3.0 with server.timeout = 2000 closes all six at 4.2 s.

A wider table has 28 rows with clients that never read, on TCP, routes and a unix socket, 5 runs each. Main closes 9 of 28. This PR closes 28 of 28. server.pendingRequests at the end: main 21, this PR 2 (the two rows below that must stay open).

What does not change (same result on both builds):

• POST 10 B or 600 KB answered after 15 s at the default idleTimeout: 200. GET answered after 15 s: ECONNRESET at 12 s.
• POST 10 B whose handler never answers, and a stream that goes quiet with a client that reads: open in 5 of 5 runs.
• idleTimeout: 0: 0 of 31 rows close. server.timeout(req, 0) keeps a stalled row open (a row of the test).
• A handler that waits 11 s and then reads a 4 MiB or 32 MiB body (idleTimeout: 5, client reads): ECONNRESET at 8.0 s on 1.4.2, main and this PR. 1.3.14 gave 200. A 512 KB body gives 200 everywhere. server.timeout(req, 60) avoids the reset. On main this reset comes from the writable event that follows us_socket_pause. After this PR it comes from the timer that pause() no longer clears.

Clients that read, and change:

• Upload, then read. A client sends its whole body before it reads (Python urllib and others). The handler answers a 64 MiB upload with 64 MiB and does not read the body. 1.3.14 answers 200 in 0.8 s. Main stops reading the body at 1 MiB, both sides wait, and the client has no answer after 40 s. This PR resets the connection at 12 s (default idleTimeout). A change that drops the unread body when the handler answers would give 200 again. That is a separate change.
• Slow reader. A client sends POST 10 B and reads the 64 MiB response at 16 KB/s (idleTimeout: 8). Main does not abort it in 26 s. This PR aborts it at 8.0 s. A GET in that state is aborted at 7.9 s on both. Bun.serve: do not idle-time-out a response the peer is still reading #41602 fixes both: it gives the timer one more period when the peer took bytes. The new line arms through resetTimeout(), where Bun.serve: do not idle-time-out a response the peer is still reading #41602 records that progress. If Bun.serve: do not idle-time-out a response the peer is still reading #41602 lands first or in the same release, no client sees the new cut.

Why each line is needed (debug builds, an earlier form of the test):

• main: the POST rows stay open.
• pause() edit alone: the rows with a body under 1 MiB and the chunked row stay open.
• Last-chunk line without the last_write_failed test: every row closes, and the control (/post-answered-late) gets ECONNRESET where it gets 200 today.

Why pause() does not re-arm. A pause is not activity. The timer keeps the deadline of the last byte that moved. In every case but a blocked write, the writable event that follows us_socket_pause arms it again one loop turn later, on main and with this PR. resume() still restarts it.

Costs (release bun-profile, main 620b50f against this PR at that base, same build directory):

• Body chunk of a Bun.serve HTTP/1 request, from the last-chunk test to the body handler call. A chunk that is not the last: 14 to 15 instructions, 3 to 4 loads. The last chunk with nothing blocked: 10 to 12 instructions, 2 to 3 loads, 1 to 2 conditional branches. TCP and TLS are the same. Requests without a body: 0.
• The extra instruction on the other chunks is a reload that the compiler now shares between paths. A line that reads idleTimeout directly avoids it (10 to 13 on the last chunk, 0 elsewhere). I kept resetTimeout() because Bun.serve: do not idle-time-out a response the peer is still reading #41602 records its send progress there and Bun.serve: end a server.timeout(req, N) override with its response #44732 renames the field.
• AnyResponse::pause, HTTP/1 arm: 18 to 13 instructions, 1 to 0 timer stores.
• llvm-size: text 89,003,143 and data 110,728 on both. The two Bun.serve body lambdas grow 58 bytes each (365 to 423, 368 to 426), and the total does not change.
• node:http: the two onData<true> body lambdas have identical instruction streams. pause() returned with the timer off in 5 of 5 calls (lldb).
• How often the lines run (lldb breakpoint counts, an earlier build of this PR): pause() 0 times in 1000 GET, 1000 POST of 1 KB and 5 fast 8 MiB uploads. The last-chunk line runs once per request with a body. Its armed branch ran 0 times in those requests and once for a write-blocked 10 B POST.
• Syscalls on the accepted fd for one paused 4 MiB POST (LD_PRELOAD shim): epoll_ctl 5, send 1, recv 10 or 13 on both.

The four callers of HttpResponse::pause(): RequestContext::pause_request_body_socket (Bun.serve), NodeHTTPResponse::pause_socket and pause_socket_reads, and the pipelined flood guard in HttpContext.h. The three node:http callers store idleTimeout: 0 and use JS timers, so their timer byte stays off.

TLS. #44618 is merged and makes a fired idle timeout close a TLS socket at once. On main with it, a TLS row still stays open when the pause or the last body chunk comes in a later read than the first one: the chunked row in 2 of 2 runs, a 10 B body in a later write in 1 of 2. With this PR all 13 TLS rows close 7.0 to 7.5 s after their request. The test has a TLS variant for this.

Not fixed here:

• HTTP/2. Http2Response::pause() sets the stream's timeout to 0, and the connection takes the most permissive stream. A connection with four responses stalled at a zero window closes at 8.0 s. The same connection plus one POST whose handler read once and stopped is open at 26 s. The test "a paused (slowly read) request body does not idle out the connection" depends on that rule. This PR only corrects the comment that said HTTP/1 does the same. No tracker exists yet.
• HTTP/3. Not examined.
• A slow reader of the request body on HTTP/1. A handler that takes one chunk every 700 ms is reset at 12 s with the default idleTimeout (12 MiB upload, about 1 MiB taken). ByteStream::on_pull signals the drain only when its buffer is empty, and only resume() restarts the timer while the socket is paused. Same result on main and here. No tracker exists yet.

Order with other open PRs:

• Bun.serve: keep idleTimeout armed after the request body completes #33612 owns the same line with the opposite rule for a silent handler. This PR goes first. Bun.serve: keep idleTimeout armed after the request body completes #33612 then becomes: remove the last_write_failed test and change the control row of the new test.
• Bun.serve: do not idle-time-out a response the peer is still reading #41602: first, or in the same release. If not, the slow reader above is cut until it lands.
• usockets: stop pause() from arming writable interest it never had #37099 removes the writable event after us_socket_pause. Alone on main it would leave every paused HTTP/1 body without an idle timer. After this PR it cannot.
• Bun.serve: end a server.timeout(req, N) override with its response #44732 renames HttpResponseData::idleTimeout. The new line does not read it.
• tls: consolidate the open TLS fixes (both engines, node:tls, node:https, WebSocket, SQL) #44618 is merged. This PR is rebased on it.

Questions for a maintainer:

1. Does a POST whose body arrived whole idle out while its handler is silent? The docs say yes ("in-flight requests where your handler is still running but hasn't written any bytes"). Main says no, and this PR keeps that. Bun.serve: keep idleTimeout armed after the request body completes #33612 changes it.
2. Is it the design that an HTTP/1 paused body idles out and an HTTP/2 paused stream does not? HTTP/1 never had the exemption in practice, because of the writable event above.

Test notes. The idle timers fire from a 4 s sweep, so the test needs real seconds: about 8 s to pass, 24 s to fail. That is why it has its own timeout, like the other idle timer tests in the file. It runs twice, over TCP and over TLS. With idleTimeout: 8 a timer fires 4 to 8 s after a request arms it, and the test asserts that no row closed earlier than 3 s after its request. It skips Windows, where the first write of a response is taken whole and never blocks (serve-direct-readable-stream.test.ts has the same note), so the libuv backend has no row. On macOS only CI ran it: it passes on x64 and aarch64.

Suites (debug build of the rebased PR): serve.test.ts 332 pass, 1 fail. The failure is the root port test (#7187), which also fails on main because this container runs as root. serve-http2-lifecycle.test.ts 23 pass and node-http.test.ts 292 pass, both with --timeout 90000. With the default 5 s, tests that start a debug-build fixture can time out on main as well.

Self-review. 18 concerns raised, 16 addressed. Rejected:

• An it.failing row for the HTTP/2 hold. It would declare a rule from Bun.serve: HTTP/2 support via http2: true #40137 a defect before a maintainer answers question 2.
• Two stream rows that already pass on main. After this PR the new line covers them.

Not done: trackers for the holds that remain. This session could not create issues.

Credit. #33612 found the last-chunk line. #38128 already keeps a response's timeout armed across a pause, at one call site.

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no test proof · iteration 0 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/js/bun/http/serve.test.ts

[robobun]

Status

How I reproduced it, on release builds of main (620b50f) and 1.4.3-canary.1, and again on a debug build of main (5866b5f):

• Bun.serve with idleTimeout: 8 and fetch: () => new Response(new Uint8Array(64 << 20)).
• Each client is a raw socket that sends one request and never reads.
• The GET closes at about 8 s. A POST with a 4 MiB, 512 KB or 10 B body is still open at 18 s.

With this PR every one of them closes at about 8 s, over TCP and over TLS. The test is "idleTimeout closes a connection whose response write is blocked, with a paused or complete request body" in test/js/bun/http/serve.test.ts.

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Walkthrough

Bun HTTP response handling now keeps the idle timeout active during pauses and resets it after a failed final write. The HTTP/2 pause comment clarifies its timeout behavior. A new test covers stalled connections, timeout overrides, and completed responses.

Changes

HTTP idle-timeout handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Response idle-timeout behavior packages/bun-uws/src/HttpResponse.h, packages/bun-uws/src/Http2Context.h, packages/bun-uws/src/HttpContext.h, test/js/bun/http/serve.test.ts	Pausing an HTTP response no longer disables its idle timeout. Bun.serve resets the timeout when the final body chunk arrives after a failed socket write; otherwise, it disables the timeout. The test covers stalled clients, timeout overrides, and complete response delivery.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner

Priority: ➖ Normal

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 9c2b3

The HTTP/1 fix has no established production blocker, but its regression test needs a guideline-compliant timeout solution before the test can run reliably without an override.

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[claude]

Beyond the inline findings, I also checked the node:http side of the HttpResponse::pause() change: its three callers (NodeHTTPResponse pause_socket/pause_socket_reads and the pipelined flood guard) run on sockets whose idleTimeout is 0, so dropping Super::timeout(0) there leaves no timer armed to fire mid-pause, and the !IsNodeHttp gate on the last-chunk path keeps node:http on the old disable behaviour.

Extended reasoning...

The change edits the vendored uWS HTTP/1 idle-timer handling in two places (pause() no longer zeroes the timer; the final body chunk re-arms it via resetTimeout() when us_socket_t::flags.last_write_failed is set on non-node:http contexts), updates an HTTP/2 comment, and adds one 40 s raw-socket test in serve.test.ts. It touches no auth, crypto or parsing surface, but it changes connection-lifetime behaviour for clients that upload then read slowly, and the inline findings cover the resulting regressions plus the HTTP/2 and TLS siblings that remain unbounded. The node:http pause callers were checked separately and are unaffected because their idleTimeout stays 0.

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[claude]

I re-reviewed the re-pushed version and found no new bugs; since the change alters when Bun.serve resets a live connection (the trade-off listed under Downsides) a maintainer should still make that call.

What was reviewed:

• last_write_failed as the "write blocked" signal: traced to its setters in packages/bun-usockets/src/socket.c (plain and raw-write paths) and crypto/openssl.c, and its clears on the writable event (loop.c) and on open (context.c), so it is live for both SSL and non-SSL contexts; node:http stays on the old clear-timer path via the IsNodeHttp gate.
• The new TLS row of the test is valid on this base: HttpContext::onTimeout now ends with us_socket_close_now (landed in main before this push), so the armed timer actually closes a silent TLS peer. The PR description's "the test has no TLS row" sentence is stale relative to the code.
• server.timeout(req, 0) row: resetTimeout() re-arms with idleTimeout == 0, which us_socket_timeout maps to disabled, so the gated row stays open as asserted; the early filter cannot trip because an 8 s timeout rounds to two 4 s sweeps, so no close lands under 3 s of the request's own start.

Extended reasoning...

The change touches the vendored uWebSockets HTTP/1 idle-timer logic in packages/bun-uws/src (HttpResponse.h pause() no longer disables the timer; HttpContext.h re-arms instead of clearing it at the last body chunk when a Bun.serve write is blocked) plus a comment in Http2Context.h and one new ~190-line concurrent test in test/js/bun/http/serve.test.ts covering tcp and tls. It touches no auth, crypto or injection surface, but it changes when the server resets client connections, which the author documents as a behavioral downside for slow readers. The native edit is small and the flag it gates on is live on every path I traced, yet the policy trade-off and the acknowledged interaction with other open PRs are a maintainer decision, so I deferred rather than approved.