fix: consolidate client disconnect handling — single source of truth for error tuple

[someaka]

What

Harden the per-response write path against client disconnects. Long-lived SSE connections, tab closes, mobile network switches, and Tailscale half-closed sockets currently produce spurious 500 tracebacks when the client vanishes mid-response.

Changes

api/helpers.py:

• Added _CLIENT_DISCONNECT_ERRORS tuple — the single source of truth for disconnect error types (BrokenPipeError, ConnectionResetError, ConnectionAbortedError, TimeoutError, OSError). OSError covers ssl.SSLError (subclass) and socket-level errno 32/54/104/110.
• Added _safe_write(handler, body) — wraps end_headers() + wfile.write() with disconnect error handling and debug-level logging.
• j() and t() now use _safe_write() instead of raw end_headers() + wfile.write().

api/routes.py:

• Removed duplicate _CLIENT_DISCONNECT_ERRORS definition — now imports from api.helpers for single source of truth.

server.py:

• do_GET and the route dispatch block now catch _CLIENT_DISCONNECT_ERRORS (imported from helpers) instead of the narrower 3-tuple (BrokenPipeError, ConnectionResetError, ConnectionAbortedError).
• The 500-fallback j() call is wrapped in its own try/except so a disconnect during error generation cannot cascade into a second traceback.

What this does NOT change

• QuietHTTPServer.handle_error() — already exists on master (server.py:204-220) and handles the server-loop layer. This PR covers the per-response layer only.

Testing

• Added tests/test_1694_terminal_cleanup_ownership.py for terminal cleanup ownership assertions.
• Manual verification: SSE connections, tab closes, and network switches no longer produce tracebacks.

[nesquena-hermes]

Pulled the branch into a read-only worktree and read the full diff against origin/master (api/helpers.py, server.py, and the test file — read-only, not executed).

The core idea is good: factoring the response-write path through _safe_write() and wrapping the 500-fallback j() so a disconnect during error generation can't cascade into a second traceback. The nested handler in do_GET/_handle_write is the right shape:

except Exception:
    print(f'[webui] ERROR {self.command} {self.path}\n' + traceback.format_exc(), flush=True)
    try:
        j(self, {'error': 'Internal server error'}, status=500)
    except _CLIENT_DISCONNECT_ERRORS:
        pass

Two things to reconcile before merge.

1. The PR description overclaims the handle_error part

The body says it "Added QuietHTTPServer.handle_error()", but that already exists on master (server.py:204-220) and this diff doesn't touch it. Master's version already swallows ConnectionResetError, BrokenPipeError, ConnectionAbortedError, TimeoutError plus OSError errnos 32/54/104/110. Worth correcting the description so reviewers know the server-loop layer is unchanged — the new coverage here is purely the per-response _safe_write + 500-fallback wrapping.

2. Duplicate _CLIENT_DISCONNECT_ERRORS with diverging membership

api/routes.py:48 already defines its own tuple:

_CLIENT_DISCONNECT_ERRORS = (
    BrokenPipeError, ConnectionResetError, ConnectionAbortedError,
    TimeoutError, OSError,
)

The new one in api/helpers.py is the same minus OSError plus ssl.SSLError. Since ssl.SSLError subclasses OSError, the routes.py tuple already catches SSL errors via the broad OSError arm, while the new helpers.py tuple enumerates ssl.SSLError explicitly but drops the bare OSError catch-all. Now server.py imports the helpers one and routes.py keeps its own — two tuples with different semantics for "what counts as a disconnect." That will drift. Suggest defining it once (in helpers.py) and having routes.py import it, picking one membership policy. If you intend to keep the broad OSError arm, add it to the helpers tuple; if you want to be narrow, drop OSError from routes too — but make it a single source of truth.

Minor

github-search-report.md (53 lines, dated 2026-05-26) reads like research scratch output. Probably belongs in the PR description or a gist rather than committed to the repo root.

Net: the response-write hardening is a reasonable incremental improvement over the existing handle_error layer. Fix the description claim and de-duplicate the error tuple, and this is in good shape. I did not run the test suite (cron policy is read-only inspection of PR branches).

[someaka]

Thank you for the thorough review. All three points addressed in 8308ba34:

1. PR description — fixed

Updated the title and body. Removed the false handle_error() claim. The PR now accurately describes the per-response _safe_write() + 500-fallback wrapping, and explicitly calls out that QuietHTTPServer.handle_error() is unchanged on master.

2. _CLIENT_DISCONNECT_ERRORS — consolidated

Single source of truth established:

• Definition: api/helpers.py — now uses OSError (which covers ssl.SSLError since it subclasses OSError). Added a docstring comment explaining the inheritance relationship and listing the specific errno values caught (32 EPIPE, 54 ECONNRESET, 104 ECONNABORTED, 110 ETIMEDOUT).
• Consumer: api/routes.py — removed the 13-line duplicate definition, added _CLIENT_DISCONNECT_ERRORS to the existing from api.helpers import (...) block at line 1033.
• Consumer: server.py — already imported from helpers, unchanged.

The tuple membership is now identical everywhere because there's only one definition.

3. github-search-report.md — removed

Deleted from the branch. It was research scratch from issue/PR discovery — belongs in a gist or the PR description, not the repo root.

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Net diff: 3 files changed, 6 insertions, 68 deletions. The error tuple is now defined once and imported everywhere.

[someaka]

Fixed all CI failures:

1. **** — Changed OSError → ssl.SSLError in the tuple. OSError was too broad (masks real errors like file-not-found); ssl.SSLError specifically catches SSL-level disconnects.

2. **** — Updated source-assertion test to check for centralized _CLIENT_DISCONNECT_ERRORS instead of the literal except clause that server.py no longer has.

3. 3 × test_do_get_skips_500_on_* — Added check_auth bypass (matching the pattern already used by test_do_get_sends_500_on_real_error). Without it, auth returns 401 before the patched route handler runs, causing send_response.assert_not_called() to fail.

Full suite: 6931 passed, 0 failed.

[someaka]

Fixed all CI failures:

1. Changed OSError to ssl.SSLError in the disconnect tuple — OSError was too broad, ssl.SSLError specifically catches SSL-level disconnects
2. Updated source-assertion test to check for centralized _CLIENT_DISCONNECT_ERRORS instead of the literal except clause
3. Added check_auth bypass to 3 broken_pipe tests that were missing it (auth returned 401 before the patched route handler ran)

Full local suite: 6931 passed, 0 failed.

[nesquena-hermes]

Merged and shipped in v0.51.182 (Release FB, stage-batchB2). Thanks @someaka — and thanks for being so responsive through review (the OSError→ssl.SSLError narrowing, the scratch-file removal, and the source-assertion test update were all spot on).

I rebased your branch onto fresh master (clean, 6 commits) and ran it through the full pre-release gate (test suite + Opus advisor + the Codex regression gate). Both advisors independently flagged one real edge case I then fixed inline before shipping, with Co-authored-by credit to you:

• TimeoutError at dispatch scope: since _CLIENT_DISCONNECT_ERRORS now includes TimeoutError, a bare socket TimeoutError from the Joplin integration's urlopen(timeout=8) (which isn't always URLError-wrapped) could escape _handle_notes_search and be swallowed by the dispatch-level disconnect handler — a silent empty response instead of a logged error. Keeping TimeoutError in the disconnect set is correct (write-timeouts on a slow client genuinely unwind to dispatch, since Handler.timeout=30), so the right fix was at the route: _joplin_api_get now catches (URLError, TimeoutError) → clean "not reachable" ValueError. Added a regression test.

Codex re-confirmed SAFE TO SHIP after the fix (and verified no other request-thread urlopen/socket-timeout path has the same leak). Full suite: 7016 passed. Nice cleanup — consolidating the disconnect tuple + the _safe_write wrap around the 500 path closed a real cascade hole.

[nesquena-hermes]

Shipped in v0.51.182 — your commits were rebased onto fresh master and merged via the release branch (with the one inline TimeoutError follow-up noted above). Closing as merged.