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Question for a maintainer: is this contract right? A part of an object is its stored bytes, and a whole read stays decoded. No user reported it.

Problem

• A read of s3file.slice(a, b) rejects with S3Error code ZlibError (stderr: Decompression error: ZlibError) when the object has a Content-Encoding.
• S3 sends that header with a range of the stored bytes. The HTTP client decodes it (src/http/lib.rs:5044).

Fix

• The HTTP client gets an opt-in flag, keep_partial_content_encoded. With it, a 206 stays undecoded when Content-Range names a part of a longer object and Content-Length is the length of that part. Only ranged S3 GetObject requests set it.
• Correct because the offsets of a slice count stored bytes, so that part is the slice. Requests do not change.
• Verified: test/js/bun/s3/s3.test.ts (14 new cases fail on main). Also test/js/bun/s3/ and fetch-gzip.test.ts.
• Self-reviewed: 22 concerns raised, 20 addressed. Rejected: stay a draft, a PR for a 200 answer (Notes).

Background

• A slice sends a Range, and S3 answers 206 with Content-Range: bytes 0-9/35.
• Not taken (Notes): Accept-Encoding: identity on a range, because some endpoints return the whole decoded object. Never decode, as the AWS SDKs do, because it changes text().

Downsides

• Parts that main can decode become stored bytes, with no error: whole gzip members, the start of slice(0, n).stream().
• Not fixed: a slice that covers the object is still decoded whole. fetch("s3://...") still decodes a Range, so a cut part rejects. Two rare proxy responses get worse (Notes).
• Size: bun_http release codegen +580 B.

Notes

The rulings that this PR asks for

1. A read of the whole object (text(), bytes(), stream(), a copy). Main decodes it, and this PR keeps that. The AWS SDKs return the stored bytes.
2. A slice that covers the whole object, for example slice(0, 1024) of a 35 B object. Main decodes it, and this PR keeps that. Such a slice returns more bytes than the object holds.
3. fetch("s3://key", { s3, headers: { range } }). It still decodes a range, so a part that is not a complete stream rejects. It can set the same flag. Then the two reads in the first Downsides bullet also change for fetch().

If the answer to 1 is "stored bytes", this flag is not needed. Each GetObject then sets disable_decompression, as #35871 did. That also removes Accept-Encoding from the request.

Where this comes from

I found the defect during the work on #46863. That PR lists it as separate work. No user reported it. Issue searches for S3File slice Content-Encoding and s3 slice ZlibError find no report. An earlier PR, #35871, set disable_decompression on every S3 request. A sweep of stale PRs ended it with no review.

Repro (in-tree S3 server, from the repository root)

import { S3Client } from "bun";
import { serve } from "./test/packages/s3-server/index.ts";
const server = serve({ buckets: ["bucket"] });
const f = new S3Client(server.clientOptions("bucket")).file("a.txt.gz");
await f.write(Bun.gzipSync("hello ".repeat(400)), { contentEncoding: "gzip" });
console.log((await f.stat()).size); // 53
console.log((await f.bytes()).length); // 2400
await f.slice(0, 10).bytes(); // main: S3Error ZlibError. Here: the first 10 stored bytes
await server.stop();

The rule

A request with the flag leaves a response undecoded when all of these hold:

• The status is 206, and the Content-Encoding is one that the client decodes.
• The response is not chunked.
• Content-Range is bytes first-last/complete, complete is a number, and the range is less than the whole.
• Content-Length is last - first + 1.

Each other response decodes as on main. The check is in handle_response_metadata (src/http/lib.rs:5108), which HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 share. The parser is is_stored_part (src/http/HeaderValueIterator.rs:68). fetch() passes false (src/runtime/webcore/fetch/FetchTasklet.rs:2164).

Reads of a gzip object of 35 stored and 600 decoded bytes (debug builds of main 179664e and of this PR)

Read	main	this PR
slice(0, 10), slice(10), slice(10, 20) through bytes(), text(), stream()	rejects	the stored range
text(), stream(), slice(), slice(0), slice(0, 35), slice(0, 1024)	600 decoded B	600 decoded B
stat().size	35	35
Two gzip members (35 + 38 B): slice(0, 35), slice(35)	600 and 900 decoded B	35 and 38 stored B
One gzip stream and then 2000 zero bytes: slice(0, 1024)	600 decoded B	1024 stored B
slice(0, 50688).stream() of a 101,376 B gzip object	3,932,160 B delivered, then rejects	50,688 B
slice(5, 5) and new Request(url, { body: s3file }).body. They send bytes=5-5 and bytes=0-0	rejects	1 stored byte
slice(0, 10) at an endpoint that ignores Range and answers 200	the whole decoded object	the whole decoded object
A br object of 106 stored B: slice(0, 10)	rejects (BrotliDecompressionError)	10 stored B
The same object: text() and slice(0, 106)	67,108,864 B	67,108,864 B

• The seventh row has two defects that main has too. request.body of an S3 file reads 1 byte (see s3: leave the size of an S3 blob unknown in resolve_size #46653), and so does a zero-length slice (see S3: a zero-length slice sends Range: bytes=N-N and reads one byte #43929). An object with no Content-Encoding gives that byte on main.
• stat() does not report the Content-Encoding of an object. A HEAD through fetch("s3://key", { method: "HEAD" }) does, and the docs now say so.

Reads that work on main and change

• A part that the decoder of main can finish was decoded. Now it is the stored bytes. Such parts are:
  • a range of whole gzip members or whole zstd frames
  • a gzip stream and then bytes that do not start a member
  • a deflate or br stream from its start to past its end
• slice(0, n).stream() of a long gzip prefix delivers decoded chunks on main and rejects at the end. A reader that stops early gets decoded data there. Now it gets stored bytes. To read the start of the decoded data, read s3file.stream() and stop. The docs say so, and a test pins it.

Not fixed, or worse

• A slice that covers the object returns the whole decoded object at any size (the last table row).
• An endpoint that answers a Range with 200 gives the whole object as the slice, on main too. All three response paths accept a 200 (simple_request.rs:371, download_stream.rs:97 and :230). That is a defect of its own.
• A part whose 206 has no Content-Length, or is chunked, is decoded as on main. A part that is cut then rejects. A proxy that frames the response again causes this. A 206 with Content-Range: bytes a-b/* also decodes as on main.
• Worse, case 1: a proxy gzips the 206 of an object with no Content-Encoding, keeps Content-Range and sets the new Content-Length. When the gzip output has the length of the range, the slice is the gzip bytes. Main reads that slice correctly. For the text of the tests, a range of 29 B has a gzip output of 29 B. Ranges of 28 B and 30 B are correct.
• Worse, case 2: a cache serves a range of its own gzip copy of an object with no Content-Encoding. The rule cannot tell that response from a part of a gzip object. Main rejects, and this PR returns bytes of the gzip copy. Not measured against a real cache.

Shapes that I did not take

• A rule on the request: no gzip in Accept-Encoding when the request has a Range, and no decoding. Go's net/http does this (transport.go:2755, go1.24.4), and fetch() of node v26.3.0 sends Accept-Encoding: identity with a Range. The first commit of this PR (a427da6) did it for ranged S3 reads. Google Cloud Storage decompresses a gzip object for a request that does not accept gzip. It then serves the whole object, whatever the range is. The source is a comment in storage/http_client.go of its Go client. A 10-byte slice then returns the whole decoded object. A slice that covers the object also changed from decoded to stored bytes.
• disable_decompression with the Accept-Encoding of main. Envoy's compressor filter compresses a 206 when the request accepts gzip (compressor_filter.cc has no check for a 206). A slice of an object with no Content-Encoding then comes back as gzip bytes, and main reads that slice correctly. nginx, Apache mod_deflate, Caddy and gzhttp do not compress a 206.
• Never decode a GetObject, as the AWS SDKs do. @aws-sdk/client-s3 3.1156.0 returns the stored bytes for a whole read and for a range (measured against the same server). It changes what text(), json(), bytes(), stream() and a copy return today for an encoded object. s3: send the contentDisposition given to file() or new S3Client(), and keep contentEncoding on the upload call #46863 builds on the decoded read. For it: bytes() would agree with stat().size, and a whole read would not inflate a coding that the uploader chose.
• The rule for each request of the HTTP client. It changes fetch() for every server.
• Reject a ranged read that gets a 200. An endpoint that ignores Range returns the whole object on main too, so that is a second change of behavior.

rclone v1.76.0 (backend/s3/s3.go) also uses Content-Length to tell the two apart. It decompresses a gzip response only when the response has no Content-Length and the option might_gzip is set. By default it returns the stored bytes.

Not changed

• fetch("s3://key", { s3, headers: { range } }) and fetch(presignedUrl, { headers: { range } }) still decode a range. A part that is cut rejects, and a part that is a whole stream gives decoded data. A test pins both. The docs now point to slice.
• new Response(s3file.slice(a, b)) is a redirect to the whole object.

Measured (debug builds of main 179664e and of this PR, in-tree S3 server)

• Each request has the same bytes as on main. A ranged GetObject head is 473 B on both, and a test compares the Accept-Encoding of both kinds of read.
• Decode attempts over 100 whole reads and 100 slice(0, 10) reads of a gzip object: 100 (main: 300, and 100 of them fail).
• Per read of an uncoded 1 KiB object: 27.7 malloc calls and 3.0 socket syscalls (main: 27.7 and 3.0). Per slice: 30.8 and 3.0 (main: 30.8 and 3.0). From ASAN malloc stats and a gdb syscall catchpoint. strace is not installed here.
• sizeof: bun_http::Flags 20 to 21 B. HTTPClient is 1680 B on both, and async_http::Options is 456 B on both.
• Release codegen of the bun_http crate alone (opt-level 3, one codegen unit, no LTO): .text 244,358 to 244,938 B (+580 B), .rodata +19 B. handle_response_metadata is +15 B, and is_stored_part is 567 B. The three lines in bun_runtime are not in these numbers.
• Whole debug binary: .text +5,616 B, .data +256 B. A linked release binary is not measured.

Suites (debug build of this PR)

• test/js/bun/s3/s3.test.ts: 322 pass, 272 skip (the R2 cases, no credentials here). On the debug build of main the 14 new cases fail. A fifteenth new case passes on both: the start of stream() of the whole object is decoded data.
• The other 21 test files of test/js/bun/s3/ pass, but for one case of s3-list-objects.test.ts. That case also times out on the debug build of main.
• test/js/web/fetch/fetch-gzip.test.ts, fetch.brotli.test.ts, fetch-args.test.ts, headers.test.ts, test/js/bun/http/bun-serve-file.test.ts, proxy.test.ts, test/js/bun/image/image.test.ts and test/integration/bun-types/bun-types.test.ts pass.

Self-review

• A review of the first commit found the two defects of the request rule. This shape is the result.
• The review of this shape raised 22 concerns. Addressed, among others:
  • The rule fails closed on a chunked response and on a Content-Range with no total.
  • The docs no longer name decompress: false for a range.
  • The tests cover each clause of the rule, fetch(), and the parts that main decoded.
• Rejected: keep this PR a draft until a maintainer answers. A draft is not in the review queue, and the question is the first line of this text.
• Rejected: open a PR now for a 200 answer to a Range. It is another change of behavior with no report. It is named above.

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Reproduced on main (179664e) and on the 1.4.3 canary build, with the S3 server of test/packages/s3-server. Run it from the repository root:

import { S3Client } from "bun";
import { serve } from "./test/packages/s3-server/index.ts";
const server = serve({ buckets: ["bucket"] });
const f = new S3Client(server.clientOptions("bucket")).file("a.txt.gz");
await f.write(Bun.gzipSync("hello ".repeat(400)), { contentEncoding: "gzip" });
await f.slice(0, 10).bytes(); // S3Error: code "ZlibError"
await server.stop();

On main the last read rejects with S3Error code ZlibError. With this PR it returns the first 10 stored bytes.

PR: #46955

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S3 range requests can preserve encoded bytes for verified partial responses. The documentation describes stored-byte slice semantics, and tests cover ranged reads, whole-object decoding, and fetch range behavior.

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S3 encoded range reads

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HTTP partial-response encoding src/http/AsyncHTTP.rs, src/http/HeaderValueIterator.rs, src/http/lib.rs, src/runtime/webcore/fetch/FetchTasklet.rs	HTTP options and flags control whether a verified partial compressed response keeps its encoded representation. The response handler checks the status, encoding, transfer encoding, range, and content length.
S3 range wiring and behavior tests src/runtime/webcore/s3/client.rs, src/runtime/webcore/s3/simple_request.rs, test/js/bun/s3/s3.test.ts	S3 range requests enable encoded-byte preservation. Tests cover encoded ranged reads, whole-object decoding, response headers, fetch range behavior, and partial responses with different range and length headers.
Stored-byte API documentation packages/bun-types/s3.d.ts, docs/runtime/s3.mdx	The documentation describes stored-byte sizes and slice offsets, behavior for partial and whole-object slices, and encoded responses from fetch().

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The read behavior appears mergeable, but the documentation should qualify when partial reads reject, and the new tests should follow the repository’s parameterization rule.

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Beyond the inline findings, I checked the mechanics of the shared helper and ruled them out: headers_with_range sizes its buffer at MAX_HEADERS + 2 and writes at most index MAX_HEADERS + 1, Headers::from_pico_http_headers copies into owned storage so the stack buffer never escapes, and the HTTP client's own Accept-Encoding is suppressed both by disable_decompression and by the explicit-header detection at src/http/lib.rs:2586, so no duplicate header is sent. The remaining questions are about the behavior default (what a ranged read of an encoded object should return across providers), which the author also flags as needing a maintainer ruling.

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The change touches the two S3 GetObject paths (buffered in src/runtime/webcore/s3/simple_request.rs and streaming in src/runtime/webcore/s3/client.rs) through one new helper that appends range and accept-encoding: identity after SigV4 signing and sets disable_decompression on ranged requests only; it touches no auth, crypto or injection surface beyond adding unsigned headers, which SigV4 permits. The mechanical refactor is behavior-preserving and bounds-safe, but the inline findings concern a user-visible default change across S3-compatible providers, so a human decision on the intended semantics is still needed.

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