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Part of #44732: its file-body fix, which needs no decision.

Problem

Fix

  • The stream only arms the timer, once, at start (resp.reset_timeout()). Its other timer calls, its idleTimeout copy and the same store in StaticRoute::on_writable are deleted.
  • Correct because the response already holds the value, and uWS arms the timer on each write, end and writable event.
  • Verified: test/js/bun/http/bun-serve-file.test.ts (4 new tests, plain TCP and TLS) and serve-http2-lifecycle.test.ts (1). All 5 fail on main.
  • Self-reviewed: 21 concerns raised, 20 addressed. Rejected: a sweep hook for the tests (Notes).

Background

Downsides

  • server.timeout(req, 0) now stays on the kept HTTP/1 connection after a Bun.file response, as after every other body: open at 17 s, before closed at 4.5 s.
  • A GET with Sec-WebSocket-Key that fetch answers with a quiet Bun.file body now closes at 13 s under idleTimeout: 60, as every other body there.
  • server.timeout(req, 1) now ends a Bun.file download that still moves at the next sweep, like a Blob body.
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The report's script

It starts two servers (idleTimeout 4 and 0) with a 48 MiB body. A raw client reads nothing for 14 s, then reads to the end.

cell main this PR test leg
control: idleTimeout 4, Bun.file, no pause whole whole
control: idleTimeout 4, Bun.file, no call cut cut noCall
control: idleTimeout 4, Uint8Array, n = 120 whole whole
control: idleTimeout 0, Uint8Array, n = 4 cut cut
idleTimeout 4, Bun.file, n = 120 cut (wrong) whole call30
idleTimeout 4, Bun.file, n = 0 cut (wrong) whole call0
idleTimeout 0, Bun.file, n = 4 whole (wrong) cut call

The same shape over TLS (idleTimeout 1 and 0, n = 0 and 1): 2 of 5 cells wrong on main, 0 of 5 here.

Script (exit 1 on main, exit 0 here)
// usage: bun a-file-response-ignores-server-timeout.cjs      (about 20 s; loopback only; PAUSE=48 for the long run)
// exit 0 = server.timeout(req, n) is obeyed for a Bun.file body, 1 = it is ignored, 2 = a control failed
// The client lives in this process, the two servers in a child. A client asks, reads nothing for PAUSE seconds, then reads to the end.
const net = require("node:net"), fs = require("node:fs"), os = require("node:os"), path = require("node:path");
const { spawn } = require("node:child_process");
const SIZE = 48 * 1024 * 1024, PAUSE = Number(process.env.PAUSE || 14);
if (process.argv[2] === "server") {
  const file = process.argv[3], bytes = new Uint8Array(SIZE);
  const fetch = (req, server) => {
    const u = new URL(req.url), t = u.searchParams.get("t");
    if (t !== null) server.timeout(req, Number(t));
    return new Response(u.pathname === "/file" ? Bun.file(file) : bytes);
  };
  const a = Bun.serve({ port: 0, hostname: "127.0.0.1", idleTimeout: 4, fetch });
  const b = Bun.serve({ port: 0, hostname: "127.0.0.1", idleTimeout: 0, fetch });
  console.log(JSON.stringify({ short: a.port, off: b.port }));
} else {
  const dir = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), "srvto-")), file = path.join(dir, "big.bin");
  fs.writeFileSync(file, Buffer.alloc(SIZE, 97));
  const child = spawn(process.execPath, [__filename, "server", file], { stdio: ["ignore", "pipe", "inherit"] });
  const ask = (port, url, pause) => new Promise(done => {
    let got = 0, head = -1, buf = [];
    const s = net.connect({ port, host: "127.0.0.1" }, () => { s.write(`GET ${url} HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: localhost\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n`); });
    s.pause();
    setTimeout(() => s.resume(), pause * 1000);
    s.on("data", d => {
      if (head < 0) { buf.push(d); const all = Buffer.concat(buf), i = all.indexOf("\r\n\r\n"); if (i >= 0) { head = i + 4; got = all.length - head; } }
      else got += d.length;
      if (got >= SIZE) s.destroy();
    });
    s.on("error", () => {});
    s.on("close", () => done(got === SIZE ? "whole" : "cut"));
  });
  child.stdout.once("data", async d => {
    const p = JSON.parse(String(d));
    const cells = [
      ["control  idleTimeout 4, Bun.file, no pause                      ", p.short, "/file", 0, "whole"],
      ["control  idleTimeout 4, Bun.file, no server.timeout call        ", p.short, "/file", PAUSE, "cut"],
      ["control  idleTimeout 4, Uint8Array, server.timeout(req, 120)    ", p.short, "/bytes?t=120", PAUSE, "whole"],
      ["control  idleTimeout 0, Uint8Array, server.timeout(req, 4)      ", p.off, "/bytes?t=4", PAUSE, "cut"],
      ["subject  idleTimeout 4, Bun.file, server.timeout(req, 120)      ", p.short, "/file?t=120", PAUSE, "whole"],
      ["subject  idleTimeout 4, Bun.file, server.timeout(req, 0)        ", p.short, "/file?t=0", PAUSE, "whole"],
      ["subject  idleTimeout 0, Bun.file, server.timeout(req, 4)        ", p.off, "/file?t=4", PAUSE, "cut"],
    ];
    const res = await Promise.all(cells.map(c => ask(c[1], c[2], c[3])));
    let bad = 0, ctl = 0;
    cells.forEach((c, i) => {
      const ok = res[i] === c[4];
      if (!ok) c[0].startsWith("control") ? ctl++ : bad++;
      console.log(`${c[0]} client reads nothing for ${c[3]} s: expected ${c[4]}, got ${res[i]}${ok ? "" : "   <--"}`);
    });
    child.kill("SIGKILL");
    fs.rmSync(dir, { recursive: true, force: true });
    console.log(`RESULT: ${ctl ? "a control failed" : bad ? `server.timeout(req, n) is ignored for a Bun.file body in ${bad} of 3 cells` : "obeyed"}`);
    process.exit(ctl ? 2 : bad ? 1 : 0);
  });
}

Why each deletion is safe

  • Every caller of FileResponseStream::start stores the value first: the request entry (mod.rs:799, server_body.rs:2747), FileRoute::on and DirectoryRoute::on. The copy was the same value, or a stale one after server.timeout().
  • The per-chunk call came right before resp.write() or resp.end(). Both arm the timer in uWS (HttpResponse.h:303, :343, :850). The reader never delivers an empty chunk.
  • The per-writable call ran inside HttpContext::onWritable, which disarms the timer before the callback and arms it after (HttpContext.h:936, :1016).
  • StaticRoute::on_writable calls try_end next, which arms the timer. Its store always wrote the value that StaticRoute::on stored.
  • The arm at start stays, for every backend. The timer can be off there: uWS clears it at the last chunk of a request body (HttpContext.h:679), and sendfile(2) passes no uWS write. Without it, a POST that is answered with a large file is never timed out for a client that reads nothing.

Measurements (Linux x64, main 7f3bc6a against this PR)

  • Timer calls by the file stream per response (gdb hit counters on the uWS C shims, debug builds, 20 GETs each, idleTimeout: 30, no server.timeout call). On main each call stores and arms. Here the one call only arms.

    response main PR
    64 KiB, TLS 2 1
    512 KiB, plain TCP 3 1
    8 MiB, TLS 33 1
    8 MiB, HTTP/2 64 1
    4 MiB, plain TCP (sendfile) 1 1
  • Executed instructions per call (gdb stepi, release builds, callee only). Per chunk and per writable event: 22 to 0 on HTTP/1, 49 to 0 on HTTP/2 with one open stream. The call at start: 22 to 21 on HTTP/1, 49 to 26 on HTTP/2.

  • Release .text: 106,511,844 to 106,511,076 bytes (-768). data and bss do not change.

  • Socket timer state after each file-stream write and at each return of HttpContext::onWritable on this PR (gdb, debug build, idleTimeout: 8, slow curl --limit-rate readers): disarmed in 0 of 215 events. Runs: 8 and 32 MiB over TLS, 512 KiB over TCP, 8 and 32 MiB over TCP (sendfile). Also a 32 MiB static route over TCP and TLS.

Behaviour that moves for a server that exists today (raw node:net and raw HTTP/2 clients)

case main PR
idleTimeout: 4, server.timeout(req, 0), 1 KiB Bun.file, then a silent kept connection closed at 4.5 s open at 17 s
the same with a string body open at 17 s open at 17 s
GET with Sec-WebSocket-Key, fetch answers with a quiet Bun.file(fifo), idleTimeout 60 / 0 / 10 open at 17 s / open at 17 s / closed at 12.5 s closed at 13.3 s / 13.0 s / 12.9 s
the same with a quiet ReadableStream closed at 12.6 s / 12.6 s / 12.5 s closed at 13.0 s / 12.9 s / 12.8 s
idleTimeout: 0, server.timeout(req, 1), 256 MiB Bun.file, client reads about 16 MiB/s whole at 16.5 s cut at 4.5 s after 67 MiB
the same with a Blob body cut at 4.5 s after 69 MiB cut at 4.5 s after 71 MiB
the same Bun.file with server.timeout(req, 5) whole whole
HTTP/2, idleTimeout: 8, Bun.file(fifo), stream window closed, first chunk at 5 s closed at 12.8 s closed at 13.0 s

What the tests pin

  • Each test waits one real timeout sweep. A request that is never answered is the clock: the sweep closes it. The four bun-serve-file tests are concurrent and take 4.5 to 6.5 s each on a debug build.
  • On main all four fail by assertion in about 4 s. The HTTP/2 test fails with connection closed before expected frame.
  • With only the per-chunk store put back, or only the per-writable store, the two TLS tests fail. Plain TCP on Linux is sendfile and reaches only the call at start.
  • With the arm at start removed, the plain TCP afterRequestBody leg reads whole.
  • With the entry store of FileRoute::on or DirectoryRoute::on removed, fileRoute or dirRoute reads whole.
  • The noCall, fileRoute, dirRoute and staticRoute legs pass on main too. They show that idleTimeout still closes a body that stalls after writable events.
  • The shorter n test has a noCall leg that expects whole. Under idleTimeout: 0 nothing closes a stalled body without the call.
  • The client pins SO_RCVBUF. Without that the stall depends on the host: Linux 6.16 and later let a receive buffer grow to 32 MiB. The tests pass in a network namespace with larger limits. The tcp_rmem and tcp_wmem maxima were 32 and 4 MiB, 32 and 16 MiB, 64 and 32 MiB.
  • macOS and Windows run in CI only. CI passed on every lane at the first head of this PR. The staticRoute leg is off for plain TCP on Windows, where Winsock takes the first send whole.
  • Bun.serve: do not idle-time-out a response the peer is still reading #41602 would give the cut legs one more period, by its description. Whichever lands second adjusts them.
  • Other suites on the debug build: bun-serve-static, serve-directory-routes, serve-direct-readable-stream, bun-server, serve-http2, and serve.test.ts. In serve.test.ts two tests fail here and on main in this container. One needs a non-root user. One runs 500 TLS requests under a 10 s limit.

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Walkthrough

File response streams no longer receive the server idle timeout or reset the response timeout while reading or resuming writes. Tests cover request timeout overrides for stalled file responses over TCP, TLS, and HTTP/2.

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File response timeout handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Use the response’s stored timeout budget
src/runtime/server/DirectoryRoute.rs, src/runtime/server/FileResponseStream.rs, src/runtime/server/FileRoute.rs, src/runtime/server/RequestContext.rs, src/runtime/server/StaticRoute.rs, src/uws_sys/Response.rs
File response stream options no longer include the server idle timeout. Stream startup calls reset_timeout(), and reader and writable callbacks no longer reset the timeout. Response timeout documentation describes the stored idle budget.
Check timeout overrides over TCP and TLS
test/js/bun/http/bun-serve-file.test.ts
Tests cover stalled Bun.file responses with timeout overrides and without overrides under different idleTimeout settings.
Check timeout behavior over HTTP/2
test/js/bun/http/serve-http2-fixture.ts, test/js/bun/http/serve-http2-lifecycle.test.ts
The fixture adds a file route that sets a request timeout. The lifecycle test compares its response with a regular file response while stream windows are stalled.

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Beyond the inline findings, I also checked the deleted StaticRoute::on_writable re-arm: StaticRoute::on (src/runtime/server/StaticRoute.rs:323) already stores server.config().idle_timeout on the response before the body streams and no handler runs in between, so the removed per-writable timeout() only ever rewrote the same value and try_end re-arms the timer after each writable event.

Extended reasoning...

The change removes the per-chunk and per-writable resp.timeout(idleTimeout) stores from FileResponseStream and StaticRoute and replaces the start-of-stream store with reset_timeout(), so a handler's server.timeout(req, n) survives into a Bun.file body. It touches no security-sensitive surface. The inline findings (WebSocket-upgrade fetch entry never storing a budget, server.timeout(req, 0) outliving the response on keep-alive, the H3 no-op, and two test-reliability issues) are what keep this from an approve; the StaticRoute deletion was independently checked and is behavior-preserving.

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Code review found no issues

No high-confidence issues detected in this change.

FileResponseStream kept a copy of the server's idleTimeout and stored it
on the response at start, on each chunk and on each writable event. That
replaced the value a handler set with server.timeout(req, n), so a
Bun.file body ran under the server-wide value.

The stream now arms the timer once at start with the value the response
already holds, and makes no other timer call. uWS arms the timer on each
write, end and writable event. StaticRoute::on_writable made the same
store and loses it too.
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