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Problem

• A node:http request without a body that is paused before its first read never emits 'end' or 'close'. Since 1.4.3 (node:http: the server follows Node (request body, framing, response finish, lifecycle) #43557), req.pause() in 'close' of the response is enough.
• hapi 21.4.10 adds Connection: close to each 401 for an empty POST: req._readableState.ended is false.
• The server sets req.complete with no EOF (src/js/node/_http_server.ts:1115), and _read() queues it late. Not fixed: a chunked request with an empty body.

Fix

• After the listeners, the server does Node's parserOnMessageComplete: complete, push(null), readStart(). With stream: avoid duplicated endReadableNT scheduling nodejs/node#65310 and stream: skip unobserved 'readable' emission at EOF nodejs/node#65749: no extra tick, and a later 'readable' listener gets the EOF.
• An aborted request gets ECONNRESET also with no 'error' listener, as in Node. Otherwise a later pipeline(req, dst) never calls back.
• Verified: test/js/node/http/node-http-req-complete.test.ts (66 of 93 new cases fail on main), test/js/node/http/, ws, express, 2,588 vendored Node tests.
• Self-reviewed: 24 concerns raised, 23 addressed. Rejected: one message-complete function for both server paths (refactor).

Background

• 'end' comes only after a read() finds the EOF, and pause() stops the reads. Message-complete is the parser event at the end of a request.
• Considered a repair in _read(): ended stays false, so hapi still closes. Same call sites as node:http: run nextTicks and promise jobs where Node's parser does #43736.

Downsides

• A response left open until the client closes: 144 to 155 µs CPU per connection, was 128 (the abort Error, one socket resume).
• Without a body, a pipeline(req, dst) that starts after req.destroy() never calls back, as in Node (main: ERR_STREAM_PREMATURE_CLOSE).
• Every Readable: a 'readable' listener added after an unobserved EOF now gets 'readable' before 'end' (Node v26.9.0).

Notes

Origin. A fuzzer found the req.pause() case. No user reported it. #43455 (flow 4) tracked the late EOF and was closed as not planned, because no user ran into it. New since then: the hapi result, and the count of 20 arrangements.

The parts are one unit. Without the two stream changes the push costs 11 tick entries for a request that nothing reads, where main has 9. With them it costs 7. Without nodejs/node#65749 a 'readable' listener that comes after an await never gets the EOF (Node v26.3.0 has that fault). Without abortIncoming a stream.pipeline(req, dst) that starts after the client went away never calls back.

Repro.

import http from "node:http";
import net from "node:net";
const events = [];
const server = http.createServer((req, res) => {
  for (const e of ["end", "close"]) req.on(e, () => events.push("req." + e));
  for (const e of ["finish", "close"]) res.on(e, () => events.push("res." + e));
  res.on("close", () => req.pause());
  req.socket.on("close", () =>
    setImmediate(() => {
      console.log(events.join(" "));
      server.close();
    }),
  );
  res.end("ok");
});
server.listen(0, "127.0.0.1", () => {
  const client = net.connect(server.address().port, "127.0.0.1", () => client.write("GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: t\r\n\r\n"));
  client.once("data", () => client.destroy());
});

Runtime	Output
Node v26.3.0, Bun 1.4.2, this PR	res.finish res.close req.end req.close
Bun 1.4.3, main	res.finish res.close
Node v26.11.1	res.finish req.end res.close req.close

How many arrangements. 24 arrangements of a request without a body: 9 ways to pause or read, for a GET and for a POST with Content-Length: 0, and 3 for each of 'upgrade' and 'connect'. Arrangements with no 'end': Node v26.3.0 and v26.11.1 0, Bun 1.4.2 16, Bun 1.4.3 and main 20, this PR 0. The 4 that 1.4.3 added are req.pause() in 'close' of the response, with the response ended in the listener or later, for the GET and for the empty POST.

hapi. lib/request.js:34 sets _isPayloadPending from req.headers['content-length'], and the string "0" is truthy. lib/transmit.js:96-99 then sends connection: close unless req._readableState.ended is true. With an auth scheme that rejects, 3 requests from one keep-alive client:

Request	Node v26.3.0	Bun 1.4.2, 1.4.3, main	This PR
POST, PUT, DELETE with Content-Length: 0	1 connection	3 connections	1 connection
POST, chunked, empty	1 connection	3 connections	3 connections

What changes, by site.

• completeIncomingMessage (src/js/internal/http.ts) is the old emitEOFIncomingMessageOuter: complete, the trailers, push(null). The dispatcher calls it after the listeners of 'request', 'checkContinue', 'checkExpectation' and 'dropRequest', before 'connect', and before 'upgrade' of a request without a body. _read() makes no EOF for such a request.
• readStart() follows after the 'request' family, as in Node: a socket that the listener paused reads the next request. The path of server.emit('connection', socket), which the HTTP/1.1 clients of http2 allowHTTP1 also use, gets the same line. On 1.4.2 and main a req.socket.pause() in a listener stalled such a connection.
• User code that throws in the dispatch. A 'readable' listener that throws under the push is an uncaught exception, as in Node, and not a failed dispatch. A listener that ends the response and then throws, or a shouldUpgradeCallback that throws, skips message-complete. The parser of Node is dead after that. Here the connection goes on, so the request still gets its EOF (at 'finish' of the response, or in the catch), as on main.
• socket.parser.incoming follows Node's clearIncoming: the parser lets go at 'finish' of the response when the request has ended, and at 'end' if not. One deviation: it also lets go at 'finish' of a request that does not flow and has no 'readable' listener. Node keeps such a request, with its buffered body, until the next request (200 idle connections after a 60 KB POST that read 4 bytes: Node keeps 200 requests, main and this PR keep 0). A request with a body that user code pauses in 'finish' or 'close' of its response stays until the next request, as in Node (200 of 200). main let go of it.
• abortIncoming replaces three copies of if (req.listenerCount("error") > 0) req.destroy(new ConnResetException("aborted")); else req.destroy();. The sites are the close of the connection, the requests of queued pipelined responses, and the close path of emit('connection') sockets.

The listenerCount("error") check. It came with #18539 and #19527, after ConnResetException: aborted reached applications as an uncaught exception (#18531). It did two things. It kept the error from a request with no 'error' listener: onError() of IncomingMessage does that now, as in Node. And it kept IncomingMessage._destroy from passing the error on to a socket that was still open, which makes a 'clientError'. Node runs abortIncoming from 'close' of the socket, so its socket is destroyed by then. abortIncoming here destroys an open socket first, with no error, as req.destroy() did. A dispatch that throws with no answer now gives no 'clientError', also when the request has an 'error' listener (main gave one).

Relation to other work.

• node:http: the server follows Node (request body, framing, response finish, lifecycle) #43557 set complete at these sites and kept the EOF late ("EOF stays lazy (_read)"). node:http server: req.complete and request completion still differ from Node (flows 4, 8 and 9 remain) #43455 gave two reasons. "A difference in _readableState only": the 20 arrangements and hapi show more. "It would add a process.nextTick and a 'readable' emit to every request": true for the push alone. The two stream changes remove both.
• node:http: run nextTicks and promise jobs where Node's parser does #43736 calls the same helper at the same three sites, and also moves the native tick checkpoints and the EOF of the last body chunk. Its review asks for full alignment with Node. This PR takes the three sites only. The empty chunked body and the order of two requests in one read need the rest. The 7 test.todo rows are its acceptance test.
• node:http: complete CONNECT and Upgrade requests at dispatch, deliver HEAD and TRACE bodies, clear parser.incoming on finish #43461: its three changes are on main through node:http: the server follows Node (request body, framing, response finish, lifecycle) #43557.
• node:http: remove the dispatch promise so that a 'close' emitted by user code acts as in Node.js #44347 adds a second abortIncoming, for a 'close' that user code emits, with the listenerCount("error") check and a call with httpMessage?.req. The form here has the check for req inside and must stay the one without the listener check.
• node:http: run a response's 'finish' connection step on the socket the dispatcher detached it from #44457, node:http: closeIdleConnections() reads req.complete, and a destroyed request sets it #44310, node:http: complete a chunked request body before its last chunk is delivered #44984 and node:http: frame the response body by the value of Transfer-Encoding #33871 touch the same functions or the same test file.
• Not in this PR: Node's resOnFinish queues 'close' of the response after req._dump(), so req 'resume' comes before res 'close'. That order is a follow-up on top of node:http: remove the dispatch promise so that a 'close' emitted by user code acts as in Node.js #44347.

Not fixed.

• A chunked request whose body is empty (0\r\n\r\n behind the head): 7 of 8 arrangements lose 'end' (6 on 1.4.2, which ended req.pause() in 'close' of the response). They are test.todo rows. The dispatcher sees a body, and the end of the body reaches JavaScript after the ticks of the dispatch ran.
• optimizeEmptyRequests: req._consuming is false, Node has true.
• Node from v26.9.0 calls read(0) in _dump() (http: fast-forward teardown of unread messages nodejs/node#65732). It is not ported.
• req.socket.pause() after the message: Node gives the next request to its listener only after socket.resume(). Bun gives it at once, because the native side reads again when the response ends.
• The response of a queued pipelined request is destroyed with no error when the connection closes. Node gives it ECONNRESET. Only res.errored shows it.

Behavior that changes.

• Same as Node v26.3.0 and later: req.errored is the ECONNRESET error after the connection closed under a request in flight, also with no 'error' listener, also for a request with a body. Readers that start later get it. main gives them ERR_STREAM_PREMATURE_CLOSE.
• Same as Node: the Downsides row about req.destroy(). stream.finished() gives no error in that case.
• Same as Node from v26.9.0, for every Readable: the Downsides row about 'readable'. The 'readable' tick of an EOF that nothing observes is gone. One line is not in Node: endReadable() drops the 'readable' that is owed when it queues 'end'. After resume() and pause() on a stream with autoDestroy: false, Node v26.11.1 emits 'readable' behind 'end'. Here 'end' is the last event, as on main. The other side of the same change in Node: after a read() that takes the EOF, a 'readable' listener that is added in the same tick gets 'end' only. main and Node v26.3.0 emit 'readable' first there. 'end' and 'close' of a request that nothing reads stay in the AsyncLocalStorage store of the listener, as on main. Node v26.3.0 loses the store there.
• optimizeEmptyRequests: a req.socket.pause() in the listener no longer stalls the connection. The first request of a connection resumes its socket once (1 tick, 2 calls into native).

Measurements. Release builds of the merge base and of this PR, linux x64. perf, valgrind, strace and bloaty are not available in the container. CPU time is process.cpuUsage() of the server, pinned to one core, medians of interleaved runs, with a second run of main as the noise floor.

Per request	main	This PR	Node v26.3.0	Node v26.11.1
nextTick entries, GET on a keep-alive connection: nothing reads / resume() / 'data' / 'readable' / response ends later	9 / 9 / 9 / 9 / 9	7 / 8 / 8 / 8 / 7	10 / 10 / 10 / 8 / 9	4 / 6 / 6 / 6 / 4
nextTick entries, POST of 5 bytes that nothing reads	9	8	6	5
nextTick entries, optimizeEmptyRequests (first request of a connection)	3 (3)	3 (4)	2 (2)	2 (2)
nextTick entries, response left open (first request of a connection)	1 (1)	1 (2)	3 (3)	2 (2)
nextTick entries, 'upgrade' and 'connect'	0	0	1	0
'end' listeners on a request that nothing reads	0	1
calls into native resume, 20 keep-alive GETs (optimizeEmptyRequests)	21 (0)	2 (2)
heap cells, GET that nothing reads, GC off	52.8	44.5
CPU µs, hello server, 200,000 keep-alive GETs	27.53 (again: 26.73)	26.51
CPU µs, express, 100,000 keep-alive GETs	66.28 (again: 71.28)	68.11
CPU µs, response left open, one connection per request, 30,000, two sets of runs	128.9 (again: 128.6), 127.5 (again: 128.4)	154.6, 143.8

• The hold-open CPU cost has two parts. The Error of abortIncoming: the synchronous part of req.destroy() at the abort takes 1.3 to 2.1 µs on main and 10.6 to 16.4 µs here, and most of it is the stack string, which destroy(err) of a stream always reads (checkError in internal/streams/destroy.ts). And the readStart() of a socket that never flowed: one tick and two calls into native. In the second set of runs: this PR 143.8 µs, with Error.stackTraceLimit = 0 137.0 µs, with no readStart() 138.2 µs, with both 127.5 µs. In the first set, main with an 'error' listener on each request, which makes the same Error, takes 152.7 µs.
• libc calls over 10,000 keep-alive GETs are equal (recv 10000, send 10000, epoll_ctl 4), and equal over 2,000 hold-open connections (epoll_ctl 6001, recv 3999, send 2000).
• size: text 89,151,860 to 89,152,577 bytes (+717). The file size is equal. No host function is added.
• Rows equal to Node v26.3.0 in six probe sets (24, 24, 5, 6, 13 and 6 rows): main 4, 8, 2, 1, 5, 0. This PR 24, 15, 5, 6, 9, 0. No row that was equal on main differs now. Of the 19 rows that differ, 14 are the order of res 'close' and req 'resume', 2 are the 'readable' listener that comes later (equal to Node v26.11.1), 2 are the empty chunked body, and 1 is optimizeEmptyRequests.

Tests.

• node-http-req-complete.test.ts has 120 cases, 93 of them new. This PR: 113 pass, 7 todo. main: 66 fail. Node v26.3.0 runs 110 of them: 103 pass, 7 todo. Under Node v26.11.1, 2 older cases fail (res.end(chunk) after the client went away, from node:http: the server follows Node (request body, framing, response finish, lifecycle) #43557).
• The 10 cases that only Bun runs: user code that throws (a process of its own), the 'readable' listener that comes later and the AsyncLocalStorage store (Node v26.3.0 differs), the release of socket.parser.incoming, and the two clauses of the readStart() gate.
• node-stream.test.js: 9 cases for the two stream changes. 5 of them are the cases of Node's test-stream-readable-unobserved-eof-readable.js (stream: skip unobserved 'readable' emission at EOF nodejs/node#65749). The vendored suite stays at Node v26.3.0, so that file is not added. stream: avoid duplicated endReadableNT scheduling nodejs/node#65310 has no test of its own in Node.
• test-http-chunked-encoding-must-be-valid-after-flushHeaders.ts waited 10 ms for the client to read the headers. It now waits for the first 'data' of the client.
• Debug build, before the rebase onto WebSocket: real closing handshake, one failure path, ws rewritten on native transports (consolidates the open WebSocket PRs) #45223 (the ws rewrite): every file in test/js/node/http/, the ws and express suites, the stream tests, 2,588 vendored Node tests (http, https, http2, stream, net, tls, fs, zlib, child_process and others) and test/js/bun/test/parallel/test-http*. Each failure also fails with the JavaScript of the merge base in the same container.
• Debug build, after that rebase: the three changed test files, all 21 files of test/js/first_party/ws/, and 5 files of test/js/node/http/ (connect, server-abort-events, req-socket-pause, displaced-response, uaf). The other 30 files of test/js/node/http/ did not run again. node-http-req-complete.test.ts against main at 0ffddcd: 66 fail.
• One of 12 runs of ws-server-compat-handshake.test.ts had a timeout in accepts 8-bit windows and compresses in both directions. It did not come back in 52 more runs with this PR, 4 at a time, or in 58 runs with the JavaScript of main.

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Reproduced on Bun 1.4.3 and on main with the script in the PR body: req.pause() in 'close' of the response of a GET prints res.finish res.close. Node v26.3.0 and Bun 1.4.2 also print req.end req.close. Of 24 arrangements of a request without a body, 20 have no 'end' on main and 0 on this branch.

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Readable-stream EOF handling and HTTP request completion now coordinate event timing, bodyless requests, aborts, and parser cleanup. Tests add coverage for these paths across HTTP, HTTPS, and stream scenarios. A chunked-response test now waits for client confirmation of flushed headers.

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HTTP and readable-stream completion

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Readable stream EOF handling src/js/internal/streams/readable.ts, test/js/node/stream/node-stream.test.js	Readable streams track pending EOF readable events and scheduled end callbacks. Tests cover EOF event timing, repeated reads, and unshift() after EOF.
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Request abort and parser cleanup src/js/node/_http_server.ts, src/js/internal/http1_server_fallback.ts, test/js/node/http/node-http-req-complete.test.ts	Server and fallback paths use abortIncoming. Parser references clear according to request state, and the fallback resumes readable, unpaused sockets after message completion.

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Review comments at @src/js/node/_http_server.ts:
- Around line 478-484: In #onClose, destroy the server socket with #closeError
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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

Beyond the inline finding, I also checked two things and ruled them out: abortIncoming destroying the socket before req.destroy(ConnResetException) means the request error no longer reaches the socket's _destroy(err) path (src/js/node/_http_incoming.ts:374) — that matches Node, where abortIncoming runs from socket 'close', and the old error-listener-gated propagation was a Bun-only artifact; and the dropped bodyReadState === none EOF trigger in _read is covered because noBodySymbol is set from the native hasBody at construction (src/js/node/_http_incoming.ts:85), so a body-less request now gets its EOF from completeWithoutBody at every dispatch site (request, CONNECT, declined upgrade, shouldUpgradeCallback throw, and response 'finish').

Extended reasoning...

The change touches the core node:stream Readable (two new kState bits altering when 'readable' is emitted for an unobserved EOF and de-duplicating endReadableNT scheduling) and the node:http server dispatch, abort, and parser.incoming lifecycle, with no auth, crypto, or injection surface. One confirmed finding on the readable.ts EOF-pending bit is posted inline; the remaining abortIncoming and _read changes were traced through _destroy and the native hasBody flag and behave as the description claims.

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

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The merge-risk note in the review summary repeats the two findings of the first review. Both threads are resolved, and the reviewer withdrew each finding there. No code change follows from the note.

• The socket error at close (thread). A peer reset reaches #onClose while the socket is inside its own destroy(). abortIncoming() finds socket.destroyed and leaves the socket. _destroy() of the socket then passes the recorded error on. A probe with client.resetAndDestroy() under a request in flight gives the same socket events on main and on this branch.
• The per-test timeout (thread). The option applies only to a local debug or ASAN build, where the child needs about 4 s to start. In CI it is undefined. node-http-displaced-response.test.ts:18 and node-http.test.ts:3426 have the same line.