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Problem

  • A lenient node:http server drops all request trailers when one trailer value holds a control byte. It answers 200, and req.rawTrailers is []. Node v26.3.0 delivers them.
  • It needs --insecure-http-parser or httpValidation, not insecureHTTPParser: true. The review of node:http: honor server.maxHeadersCount above 198 fields #45532 found it, no user did.
  • The trailer section (the fields after the last chunk) is parsed twice. At 'end', Bun__NodeHTTP__parseRequestTrailers parses it again with server.insecureHTTPParser === true (src/js/internal/http.ts:148), which is false there.

Fix

  • The wire parser's verdict (acceptNodeTrailerSection) keeps the fields that it accepts, and req.rawTrailers is built from them. Bun__NodeHTTP__parseRequestTrailers and the flag from JS are deleted.
  • The raw section stays in the parser, and the verdict frees it: a fin with no verdict cannot surface it.
  • Verified: test/js/node/http/node-http-request-trailers.test.ts (main fails 16 of 21, Node v26.3.0 passes 18) and the other files of test/js/node/http/.
  • Self-reviewed: 16 concerns raised, 15 addressed. Not done: a tracking issue for per-listener leniency.

Background

  • Request headers reach JS as [u32 nameLen][u32 valueLen][name][value] records. Accepted trailers now use that form and its builder, Bun__NodeHTTP__buildRawHeadersArray.
  • Considered a fix in JS at 'end'. It keeps the second parse and still drops when server.insecureHTTPParser changes after listen().

Downsides

  • Leniency stays fixed at listen(). When server.insecureHTTPParser becomes false later, the trailers arrive, where Node answers clientError.
  • More than 199 trailer fields now fail the request (HPE_HEADER_OVERFLOW). Main answers 200 with the first 199. Node accepts 1,000 by default, more with server.maxHeadersCount. No option raises Bun's 199.
  • A trailer named like a remembered header (Host, 11 more) costs 1 string allocation per request.
Notes

Repro. server.js:

const http = require("node:http");
http.createServer((req, res) => {
  req.resume().on("end", () => res.end(JSON.stringify(req.rawTrailers)));
}).listen(3000);

Run bun --insecure-http-parser server.js, then send over a raw socket:

POST / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: x\r\nTransfer-Encoding: chunked\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n3\r\nabc\r\n0\r\nT: a\x01b\r\nU: 1\r\n\r\n

Node v26.3.0 answers ["T","a\^Ab","U","1"]. Main answers [].

Who sees it. The request needs all of these:

  • A server that is lenient through --insecure-http-parser, httpValidation: "relaxed" or "insecure", or a truthy insecureHTTPParser that is not true.
  • A chunked request with a trailer section.
  • A byte 0x01-0x08, 0x0B, 0x0C or 0x0E-0x1F in a trailer value. On a relaxed server main answers 200 with no trailers for these 28 bytes. Node v26.3.0 and this PR deliver the trailers for each of them. For every other byte from 0x01 to 0xFF the three agree.

A node:http client cannot send such a byte: addTrailers() throws ERR_INVALID_CHAR in Node and in Bun. No issue reports the drop, and no upstream Node test covers it. The defect has been there since #32488.

Node. Node resolves leniency once per accepted connection (lib/_http_server.js#L779) and hands JS the fields that its one parser accepted (lib/_http_common.js#L143-L152).

Routes. The same request, 12 ways to configure the server. T,U means rawTrailers is ["T","a\^Ab","U","1"].

Server Node v26.3.0 main this PR
insecureHTTPParser: true T,U T,U T,U
httpValidation: "relaxed" T,U [] T,U
httpValidation: "insecure" T,U [] T,U
server.httpValidation = "relaxed" before listen() T,U [] T,U
server.insecureHTTPParser = 1 before listen() T,U [] T,U
insecureHTTPParser: true, set to false in the 'request' listener T,U [] T,U
insecureHTTPParser: true, req.socket.server replaced in the listener T,U [] T,U
--insecure-http-parser T,U [] T,U
--insecure-http-parser and insecureHTTPParser: false clientError clientError clientError
--insecure-http-parser and httpValidation: "strict" clientError clientError clientError
insecureHTTPParser: true, set to false after listen() clientError [] T,U
insecureHTTPParser = true after listen() T,U clientError clientError

The last two rows are the first Downsides bullet. Bun pushes the lenient bits to the listener at listen() (applyServerCustomOptions in src/js/node/_http_server.ts), and again when server.httpAllowHalfOpen is assigned. Node reads them per connection. This PR does not change when the wire parser gets its bits. Request heads have the same timing.

The fin that follows no verdict. The peer's FIN ends the body of an accepted Upgrade request (HttpContext::onEnd). On main the raw section is still in the connection's buffer then, and the parse at 'end' reads it. req.rawTrailers when the FIN reaches the socket of the 'upgrade' listener:

Trailer section after the last chunk, then FIN Node v26.3.0 main this PR
Content-Length: 5 (the parser rejects it) [] ["Content-Length","5"] []
X-Ok: 1, Content-Length: 5 [] 4 entries []
X-Ok: 1, Transfer-Encoding: chunked [] 4 entries []
199 lines and no end of the section [] 398 entries []
5 fields with server.maxHeadersCount = 4 8 entries 10 entries []

In the last row Node v26.3.0 accepts the section and cuts it to 4 fields. Node rejects it from v26.5.1. The test for that row runs in Bun only.

Main's column is for a server with a 'clientError' listener that leaves the socket open, as the test has. With no listener, or with a listener that ends the socket, main gives [] in the four rows where the parser rejects the section. The 199-line row gives 398 entries in all three cases. This PR gives [] in all 15 cases (debug builds of main 3880151 and of this PR).

More than 199 fields. On main the verdict parses into an array of 199 fields, stops when the array is full, and does not read the rest of the section. The array now has one more slot, and a section that fills it fails the request, as a request with more than 198 header fields does (431). The review found this.

Trailer section Node v26.3.0 main this PR
199 fields 199 fields 199 fields 199 fields
200 fields 200 fields 200 OK, 199 fields 431, HPE_HEADER_OVERFLOW
250 fields 250 fields 200 OK, 199 fields 431, HPE_HEADER_OVERFLOW
199 fields and a line that is not a field HPE_INVALID_HEADER_TOKEN 200 OK, 199 fields HPE_INVALID_HEADER_TOKEN
200 fields and a line that is not a field HPE_INVALID_HEADER_TOKEN 200 OK, 199 fields HPE_HEADER_OVERFLOW

The main column of this table is main's native code (3880151) with the JS of this PR. For a strict server the two JS versions pass the same flag.

Node's limit. Node caps the [name, value, ...] array of a trailer section at parser.maxHeaderPairs entries. The default is 2,000 entries (MAX_HEADER_PAIRS), which is 1,000 fields. A number in server.maxHeadersCount sets the limit to that count of fields, and 0 removes the limit (lib/_http_server.js#L795-L797). For a section over the limit, Node v26.3.0 and v26.5.0 answer 200 with the fields up to the limit (parserOnHeaders). Node v26.5.1 and v26.12.1 fail the request with HPE_HEADER_OVERFLOW (TrackHeaderPair).

Trailer fields server.maxHeadersCount Node v26.3.0 and v26.5.0 Node v26.5.1 and v26.12.1 this PR
1,000 not set 1,000 fields 1,000 fields 431, HPE_HEADER_OVERFLOW
1,001 not set 200 OK, 1,000 fields 431, HPE_HEADER_OVERFLOW 431, HPE_HEADER_OVERFLOW
250 200 200 OK, 200 fields 431, HPE_HEADER_OVERFLOW 431, HPE_HEADER_OVERFLOW
2,000 2000 2,000 fields 2,000 fields 431, HPE_HEADER_OVERFLOW
2,001 2000 200 OK, 2,000 fields 431, HPE_HEADER_OVERFLOW 431, HPE_HEADER_OVERFLOW
2,001 0 2,001 fields 2,001 fields 431, HPE_HEADER_OVERFLOW

The fields of these runs are short (t0: v), so that the section stays under maxHeaderSize. The column of this PR is the debug build of c6c9420.

server.maxHeadersCount does not raise the 199 in Bun: the verdict compares the count with MAX_TRAILER_FIELDS first (packages/bun-uws/src/HttpParser.h). A lower value lowers the limit: 5 fields with server.maxHeadersCount = 4 give HPE_HEADER_OVERFLOW. Where the two Node columns differ, this PR does what the newer Node does. It differs from both in two cases: 200 to 1,000 fields with no server.maxHeadersCount, and more than 199 fields under a server.maxHeadersCount that allows them.

This description said before that Node keeps 2,000 fields. That number is the default count of array entries.

Still different from Node, as on main.

  • The peer's FIN on an accepted Upgrade request with a body that did not end: Bun emits 'end' and 'close' on the request with req.complete === true. Node emits nothing on the request. This PR changes only what rawTrailers holds then.
  • A bad trailer line: Node fails the message at the offending byte. Bun fails it when the final CRLF of the section arrives. A peer that never ends the section gets HPE_INVALID_EOF_STATE, HPE_HEADER_OVERFLOW or the request timeout where Node answers HPE_INVALID_HEADER_TOKEN or HPE_INVALID_CONTENT_LENGTH at once.
  • Size: Node counts trailer names and values against maxHeaderSize. Bun bounds the raw section at maxHeaderSize plus 864 bytes. A trailer value of 16,500 bytes is HPE_HEADER_OVERFLOW in Node and is delivered by Bun. node:http: honor server.maxHeadersCount above 198 fields #45532 carries that count.

Where the raw section lives. The chunk iterator captures the section in the parser's private fallback buffer, which held only a request head that came in several reads. The two uses do not overlap: a head is buffered only while no body is in flight, and the section only while one is. Three debug assertions state this where the chunked body starts, where the head block goes back to the parser, and where a partial head is stored. hasBufferedPartialRequestHeaders() now tests for a body in flight, so it answers as on main in every state. None of its four callers can see the difference today. sizeof(uWS::HttpParser) stays 56 and sizeof(uWS::HttpResponseData<SSL, true>) stays 280.

The verdict moves a section with fields into a local and frees it when it returns. The take at the fin uses std::exchange: a move-assignment makes libstdc++ hand the block of the previous take to the connection, which is how main keeps one. After three keep-alive requests that each carry a 16,000-byte trailer value, main holds a 30,720-byte block on the connection and this PR holds none (lldb: capacity of fallback and of nodeHttpRequestTrailers at the dispatch of the next request). A section that the peer does not complete, or that fails before its end, stays in fallback until the socket closes. Main keeps it in nodeHttpRequestTrailers for the same time.

Tests. node-http-request-trailers.test.ts is a new file because it is written for both runtimes, like node-http-maxHeadersCount.test.ts. Its last test runs the file under Node.

  • Bun, this PR: 21 pass (bun bd test, debug build with assertions).
  • Bun, main: 16 fail. The 5 that pass are the insecureHTTPParser: true row, wire names and Latin-1 bytes, a value over 64 KiB, 199 fields, and the run under Node. 14 of the 16 failed on a debug build of main 3880151. The 2 newest (200 fields, and 199 fields with a line that is not a field) failed on main's native code with the JS of this PR.
  • Node v26.3.0: 18 pass, 2 skipped (the maxHeadersCount row and the 200 fields row).
  • One test sends the same two requests on 14 connections and cuts them into reads at other places: in the first head, at 10 places of the last chunk and its trailer section, in the second head, and at two and three places. It takes the verdict in each of the three chunk loops (2, 11 and 1 times, lldb breakpoints). It reads the headers of the request for the first time at 'end'.
  • The helper of the Upgrade tests rejects when a socket closes or fails before the FIN reaches the upgraded socket.
  • All of test/js/node/http/ on release builds at the first head of this PR (1224 tests): this PR 0 fail, main fails only the tests of the new file.
  • At 0b5792c, on the debug build, each of the 40 files alone: 1,230 tests pass and 13 hit the default 5 s timeout. 11 are the tests of a dispatch that throws while an earlier response on the connection is pending in node-http.test.ts, and they pass with --timeout 60000. 2 are tests should run on bun in node-http-connect.test.ts and node-http-proxy-url.test.ts, and their child runs pass in 5.0 s and 8.3 s. A first pass had 11 more timeouts in 4 files that spawn processes. Those files pass when they run again.
  • 30 files of test/js/node/test/parallel/ that cover trailers, upgrade, pipelining, the insecure parser and raw headers exit 0 at 0b5792c (50 at the first head).

Parser check outside Bun. A driver for uWS::HttpParser::consumePostPadded<true> ran main's header and this PR's header, with the assertions on, over the same inputs: 34 request streams with every 1-cut split, all 2-cut splits for 10 of them (117,116 split plans), and 4,000,000 random streams and splits. No assertion fired. The event logs are equal except for the fin from onEnd above (main surfaced a section at 82,356 of those fins in the random runs, this PR at 0).

Measurements. Debug builds of main (017b243) and of this PR for the gdb and lldb counts, release builds of both for sizes and disassembly. Each count is for 5 keep-alive requests. The release numbers and the counts below, except where a commit is named, are from the first head, before the debug assertions, the comment edits and the two review commits.

  • Native calls (host takeRequestTrailers / take at the fin / parse at 'end' / field-line parses / array build), gdb breakpoint hits:
    • chunked without trailers: 5/5/5/5/0 to 5/5/0/0/0
    • with trailers: 5/5/5/10/0 to 5/5/0/5/5
    • GET 0/0/0/0/0 and Content-Length 5/5/0/0/0: no change
  • Allocator calls inside the capture, the verdict, the take at the fin and the take at 'end' (gdb, allocator entry breakpoints), main 3880151 against c5ae096:
    • chunked without trailers: 6 allocations and 5 frees to 0 and 0
    • a 38-byte section with 2 fields: 50 allocations and 46 frees to 46 and 34. At the first head this was 31 and 17: the connection kept the section's block. Now each request grows the buffer again (2 allocations), where main uses the block that the take swapped back.
  • 6,368-byte scratch arrays (199 name and value pairs, 200 from 0b5792c) set up: chunked without trailers 5 to 0, with trailers 10 to 5 (lldb line breakpoints).
  • emitEOFIncomingMessageOuter: 51 to 43 bytecode instructions for each request with a body (BUN_JSC_dumpGeneratedBytecodes=1).
  • Bytes held from the fin until 'end': the repro section 16 to 22, a 38-byte section 38 to 44, no trailers 2 to 0 (gdb, return value of Bun__NodeHTTP__takeRequestTrailerBytes).
  • Release .text: 81,368,037 to 81,367,525 bytes (llvm-size -A). The stripped binary stays 106,911,456 bytes. Bun__NodeHTTP__parseRequestTrailers (1,823 bytes) is gone.
  • Request header capture (assignHeadersFromUWebSocketsForCall): 3,327 bytes and 872 instructions on both. 5 instructions that store the two lengths use other registers. NodeHTTPServer__onRequest_http and _https: 0 differing instructions (llvm-objdump -d). A first shape of the shared writer (a template with a lambda) added 3 calls per header field here, so the writer shares only the two lengths now.
  • Bun.serve parser (consumePostPadded<false>, HttpContext<SSL>::onData<false>): 0 bytes and 0 instructions differ. HttpContext<SSL>::onData<true> (node:http) gains 2 instructions, on the path of a read that leaves a partial head.
  • Remembered header values, for a handler that reads req.rawHeaders: string allocations in takeRawHeaders and takeRequestTrailers are 26 with a trailer X-Checksum: 1 and 30 with a trailer Host: other (gdb). On main a trailer does not touch the remembered values.
  • Block kept by a connection after a trailer section: none at c5ae096, 30,720 bytes on main 3880151 (three requests with a 16,000-byte trailer value, lldb).

After the first review.

Not done. The self-review asked for a tracking issue for the per-listener leniency. None is filed. The difference and its rows are above, and a maintainer can say if it needs one.

Other open PRs that touch these lines.

The wire parser's verdict on the trailer section of a chunked request keeps
the fields that it accepts as field records, the form that request headers
already have. req.rawTrailers is built from those records.

The second parse at 'end' and the leniency flag that JS passed to it are
gone. That flag was server.insecureHTTPParser === true, which is false for
--insecure-http-parser and for httpValidation, so a trailer value with a
control byte dropped every trailer field of the request.

The raw section stays in the parser's own buffer, so a body fin that
follows no verdict cannot hand it to the request.
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The chunked request parser now validates trailer sections and stores accepted fields as length-prefixed records. The Node.js HTTP path transfers those records into request trailer handling and builds rawTrailers from them. A separate trailer-parsing FFI was removed, and compatibility tests were added.

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Request trailer handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Capture and validate chunked trailers
packages/bun-uws/src/ChunkedEncoding.h, packages/bun-uws/src/HttpContext.h, packages/bun-uws/src/HttpParser.h, packages/bun-uws/src/HttpResponseData.h
The parser captures chunked trailer sections in fallback storage, validates accepted fields, and stores them as length-prefixed records. Comments and assertions describe the capture lifecycle and trailer storage.
Transfer records into Node.js request trailers
src/jsc/bindings/NodeHTTP.cpp, src/jsc/bindings/node/JSNodeHTTPServerSocket.*, src/runtime/server/NodeHTTPResponse.*, src/js/internal/http.ts, test/js/node/http/node-http-request-trailers.test.ts
The Node.js HTTP path transfers accepted trailer records and builds raw trailer arrays from them. The separate trailer-parsing FFI and parser-mode argument are removed. Tests cover validation modes, raw trailer values, request isolation, fragmented reads, oversized values, field-count limits, and incomplete upgrades.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner, dylan-conway

Priority: ➖ Normal

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to c6c94

Incomplete Upgrade requests can leave trailer memory allocated on live connections. The impact is bounded per connection, but the cleanup should be fixed before merge if practical.

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@robobun, your commit 111942a is building: #130822

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Status: ready for review.

How I reproduced it. A node:http server whose handler answers with JSON.stringify(req.rawTrailers) at 'end', started as bun --insecure-http-parser server.js. A raw socket sends a chunked POST whose trailer section is T: a\x01b and U: 1. Main answers 200 with []. Node v26.3.0 answers ["T","a\^Ab","U","1"]. The same happens with httpValidation: "relaxed" and "insecure". The server file and the request bytes are in the Notes of the description.

Proof in the tree. bun bd test test/js/node/http/node-http-request-trailers.test.ts: 16 of 21 tests fail on main and all pass with this change. Node v26.3.0 passes the 18 tests that it runs.

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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 findings, I also checked the hasBufferedPartialRequestHeaders() polarity change at HttpParser.h:584 against its callers in HttpContext.h and HttpResponse.h (with a body in flight they already see the same answer as before, since the buffer was empty on main in that state) and the release-build behavior of the new ASSERT(!remainingStreamingBytes) at HttpParser.h:1841 (the partial-head append is only reached after the body loop has drained remainingStreamingBytes, so no path appends read bytes onto a captured trailer section). All three ChunkIterator call sites pass the same fallback buffer and take the verdict through acceptNodeTrailerSection, and nextCapturedHeader bounds-checks each record's total length before slicing the trailer bytes.

Extended reasoning...

The change reuses the uWS parser's fallback buffer for trailer capture in node:http chunked requests, moves the trailer verdict into a single acceptNodeTrailerSection that serializes accepted fields as length-prefixed records, and deletes the second JS-driven parse. It touches the network-facing request parser (untrusted wire bytes), so the record encoder/decoder pair and the assertion-only invariants were the main surfaces checked; the record reader is bounds-checked and the asserted invariants hold on the paths traced. The two inline findings (memory retained in fallback across keep-alive, and the hand-set 60 s test timeout) are what a human should weigh.

Comment thread packages/bun-uws/src/HttpParser.h Resolved
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A note on order with #46137, which frees the capture of a request trailer section when its message is over. On main an idle connection keeps a heap block the size of that section.

This PR captures the raw section in HttpParser::fallback and only clears it. On a build of the two PRs merged, the RSS tests of #46137 fail again: 32 idle connections add 60.5 to 61.8 MiB, the bound is 32 MiB, and main gives the same numbers. The merge conflicts are in comments and in the signature of the take (Bun__NodeHTTP__takeRequestTrailerBytes). The part that matters merges without a conflict: the section is in fallback, and the releases of #46137 do not reach that buffer.

Proposed order: #46137 first. The rebase of this PR then frees fallback where #46137 calls releaseRequestTrailers(): the take, a last chunk with no reader, a parse error, EOF inside a message, an Upgrade body that FIN cuts (with or without a reader), and stopHTTPParsing(). "A connection keeps its last trailer buffer" then leaves the Downsides here. The tests of #46137 are the check.

#46137 also has three tests for a rejected trailer section of an Upgrade request at the peer's FIN. They cover the same flow as an Upgrade request body that the peer's FIN cuts off has no trailer fields in this PR.

The verdict moves a trailer section with fields out of the parser's
buffer and frees it on return. The take at the fin no longer swaps the
block of the previous take into the connection. A connection then holds
no block for a trailer section that is over.

The test that runs the file under Node.js uses the default timeout, like
the other files with that test.
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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

Both points from my earlier review are addressed by the new commit: acceptNodeTrailerSection now moves the section into a frame-local so the connection no longer keeps the grown block, and the hand-set 60 s timeout is gone from the test file.

Beyond the inline findings, I also checked the Bun__NodeHTTP__takeRequestTrailerBytes std::exchange handoff (the Rust side copies the thread-local bytes before anything else runs on the thread), the reuse of Bun__NodeHTTP__buildRawHeadersArray with an undefined headers argument (getObject() yields null, so the sameHeaderValue lookup is skipped), and the sharing of fallback between partial-head buffering and trailer capture (the partial-head append only runs after the head parse falls through with no body in flight, and the reassembled block is cleared before it goes back) — none of these is affected.

Extended reasoning...

The PR reworks node:http request-trailer handling across the uWS parser (HttpParser.h, ChunkedEncoding.h), the C++ bindings, the Rust NodeHTTPResponse and src/js/internal/http.ts, so the wire parser's one verdict produces the field records that req.rawTrailers is built from, and deletes the second JS-driven parse. It touches an untrusted-input parsing surface (chunked trailer section from the peer) with release-build guards on record sizes. The two inline findings (a pre-existing silent cap at 199 trailer fields and a test-helper hang mode) plus the size and memory-safety sensitivity of the parser changes mean a human should still look.

Comment thread packages/bun-uws/src/HttpParser.h Resolved
The verdict accepted a trailer section with more fields than it can hold.
It kept the first 199 and did not read the lines after them. It now fails
the request with HPE_HEADER_OVERFLOW, as the parser does for too many
header fields. A line that is not a field after the 199th field fails the
request with HPE_INVALID_HEADER_TOKEN, as in Node.js.

The helper of the Upgrade tests rejects when a socket closes before the
FIN reaches the upgraded socket.

Each comment that this change edits is one line.

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Code review found no issues

No high-confidence issues detected in this change.

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NodeHTTPResponse is a bindgen schema on main now: takeRequestTrailers takes no argument there.

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🟡 Minor · Release partial trailer storage when an Upgrade body ends at EOF. · HttpParser.h:1535

packages/bun-uws/src/HttpParser.h:1535
🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Release partial trailer storage when an Upgrade body ends at EOF.

ChunkIterator bounds the captured trailer, but onEnd can return a half-open Upgrade socket before the trailer FIN. The completed request then retains fallback until the socket closes. Release it before invoking callbacks in the HTTP_NODE_TUNNEL_AFTER_BODY EOF path.

Suggested fix
             if (httpResponseData->isConnectRequest || (httpResponseData->state & HttpResponseData<SSL>::HTTP_NODE_TUNNEL_AFTER_BODY)) {
+                if (httpResponseData->state & HttpResponseData<SSL>::HTTP_NODE_TUNNEL_AFTER_BODY) {
+                    std::string().swap(httpResponseData->fallback);
+                }
                 if (httpResponseData->socketData && httpContextData->onSocketData) {
                     httpContextData->onSocketData(httpResponseData->socketData, SSL, s, "", 0, true);
                 }
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Review comment at @packages/bun-uws/src/HttpParser.h at line 1535:
In the HTTP_NODE_TUNNEL_AFTER_BODY EOF path, release httpResponseData->fallback
before invoking onSocketData or other callbacks, while leaving the
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HTTP_NODE_TUNNEL_AFTER_BODY and clear the stored trailer buffer there.

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Review comments at @packages/bun-uws/src/HttpParser.h:
- Line 1535: In the HTTP_NODE_TUNNEL_AFTER_BODY EOF path, release
httpResponseData->fallback before invoking onSocketData or other callbacks,
while leaving the isConnectRequest path unchanged. Anchor the change in the
branch checking HTTP_NODE_TUNNEL_AFTER_BODY and clear the stored trailer buffer
there.

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On the CodeRabbit finding about fallback when the peer's FIN ends an Upgrade body:

The flow is real. When the FIN arrives inside the trailer section, the bytes that the parser has of that section stay in fallback until the socket closes. Main also keeps a block of that size on such a connection until it closes, so this PR does not change what the connection holds there. A section that is complete is different: the verdict frees it, where main keeps it.

#46137 frees the capture at this site and at five others (the take, a last chunk with no reader, a parse error, EOF inside a message, stopHTTPParsing()), with RSS tests. The one of the two PRs that merges second frees fallback in that helper, and those tests fail until it does. I did not add one of the six releases here a second time.

Node's default limit is 1000 fields, not 2000. MAX_HEADER_PAIRS = 2000 counts names and values, and server.maxHeadersCount is null until it is set.

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