[robobun]

Problem

• idleTimeout stops applying to a pending Bun.serve HTTP/1.1 request when its last body byte arrives. req.signal never aborts and server.pendingRequests stays above 0. The same request without a body closes.
• A synchronous server.timeout(req, N) has no effect on it.
• Cause: HttpContext::onData (packages/bun-uws/src/HttpContext.h:665) clears the socket timer at the last body byte, after the handler armed it (src/runtime/server/mod.rs:788).

Fix

• At the last body byte, resetTimeout() arms the timer with the stored per-response value.
• Correct because the route or server.timeout(req, N) stored that value. A stored 0 still means no timer.
• Verified: the new test in test/js/bun/http/serve.test.ts fails on main. Also node-http.test.ts.

Background

• uWS has one idle timer per socket, in 4 s steps. setTimeout(n) stores n and arms it. resetTimeout() arms it with the stored value.
• uWS clears the timer at request start. Each Bun.serve route arms it before its handler runs.
• Considered a re-arm in Rust at body end: uWS still clears the timer. Considered a re-arm at every uWS clear: +13 instructions per writable event.

Downsides

• Behaviour change: a handler slower than idleTimeout now loses a request with a body, like a GET. At the default 10 s, a POST answered after 15 s got 200 and now closes at 12 s.
• Cost at the last body byte, response pending: +13 instructions, +3 loads, +1 branch, 0 calls. Other requests run none of it. Release .text grows 256 bytes.
• Not fixed, also on main: a body paused above 1 MiB behind a backpressured response. Bun.file responses ignore server.timeout().

Notes

Repro

Bun.serve({ port: 0, idleTimeout: 2, fetch: () => new Promise(() => {}) })
// GET /                                   closed after about 4 s
// POST, Content-Length: 1, "x"            never closed
// POST, chunked, 1 byte                   never closed
// POST + server.timeout(req, 6)           never closed

Behaviour, release builds of main 95690fc and of this PR (Linux x64, raw node:net client)

idleTimeout: 2. A tick is one 4 s sweep of the timer wheel.

request	main	this PR
GET, no body	closed, tick 1	closed, tick 1
POST Content-Length, body in the head's segment	open at 20 s	closed, tick 1
POST Content-Length, body in a later write	open at 20 s	closed, tick 1
POST chunked	open at 20 s	closed, tick 1
POST through routes	open at 20 s	closed, tick 1
POST, await req.text(), then no response	open at 20 s	closed, tick 1
POST, streamed response goes quiet, last body byte after its last write	open at 20 s	closed, tick 1
POST + server.timeout(req, 6)	open at 20 s	closed, tick 2 (8.0 s)
POST + server.timeout(req, 0)	open at 20 s	open at 20 s
GET, handler answers after 6 s	closed, tick 1	closed, tick 1
POST, handler answers after 6 s	200 at 6.0 s	closed, tick 1
GET, handler answers after 15 s, default idleTimeout	closed at 12.0 s	closed at 12.0 s
POST, handler answers after 15 s, default idleTimeout	200 at 15.0 s	closed at 12.0 s

The last two POST rows are the behaviour change. The documented contract is docs/runtime/http/server.mdx, section idleTimeout: "A connection is idle when no data is being sent or received. That includes in-flight requests where your handler is still running but hasn't written any bytes to the response yet." In development mode the server prints once: Bun.serve() timed out a request after 10 seconds. Pass idleTimeout to configure.

Other transports (same builds)

• TLS, body in the same record as the head: closed at tick 1 on main and here. Something after the read arms the timer again on main. I did not trace what.
• TLS, last body byte in a later write: open on main, closed at tick 1 here.
• Unix socket, POST 1 byte: open on main, closed at tick 1 here.
• POST 1 byte with a 64 MiB response to a peer that never reads: open on main, closed at tick 1 here.
• HTTP/2 POST and node:http with server.timeout = 2000: closed on 1.4.3-canary.1 already. HTTP/2 keeps its timer per connection. node:http stores 0 in uWS and uses JS timers, so the new call arms nothing there.

Cost, measured on ThinLTO release builds of main 95690fc and of this PR

• Body fin, response pending: +13 instructions, +3 loads, +1 conditional branch, 0 calls (Bun.serve, stored value not 0). +4 instructions, +1 load, +1 branch, 0 calls when the stored value is 0 (node:http). From llvm-objdump -d of the four body-lambda instantiations. The one store mov byte ptr [rbx+0x10], -1 becomes the inlined us_socket_timeout(s, idleTimeout).
• Release .text: +204 bytes in the 4 body-lambda instantiations (+47, +47, +55, +55), +256 with alignment. 0 new symbols (llvm-nm -S, llvm-size). The stripped binary has the same file size, 80,844,360 bytes.
• The re-arm ran 0 / 0 / 40 times for 40 GET / 40 POST answered synchronously / 40 POST answered after req.text() (gdb breakpoint hit count on its first instruction).
• Syscalls and allocations per POST: not measured. strace and perf are not installed in the container. The added code has no call instruction.
• New test: 4.02 s on the release build (median of 5), 4.6 s on debug + ASAN (median of 8, one run at 5.6 s). Its per-test timeout is 15000 ms.

The test

• A request without a body is the clock. The timer wheel closes it on its next sweep. Each request with a body has its last byte in the kernel before that request connects, so its timer is armed no later. When the clock request closes, the abort list must hold every request that idleTimeout covers. Main fails there with 8 paths missing, after about 4 s. No sleep.
• server.timeout(req, 2) runs on a server with idleTimeout: 255, so only the per-request value can close it. server.timeout(req, 0) and server.timeout(req, 60) must stay open and still answer 200.
• The TLS abort is awaited separately: a TLS close waits for the client's close_notify.
• One sweep takes up to 4 s, which does not fit the 5 s default. The test sets a timeout, like its neighbours. Bun.serve: make idleTimeout a floor so it never fires early #33610 would move the sweep for idleTimeout: 2 to between 4 and 8 s. The timeout covers that too.

Other places that clear the timer of a pending response (not changed)

• HttpContext.h:457, request start. Each route arms the timer again.
• HttpContext.h:932, before the writable callback. The tail of onWritable arms it again.
• HttpContext.h:1069, node:http body that ends at EOF. node:http stores 0.
• HttpResponse::pause() (HttpResponse.h:552). On Linux a paused socket with a hung handler still closes at tick 1, on main and here: bodies of 2 and 16 MiB in one write, 2 MiB in 64 KiB and 256 KiB pieces, and 1.2 MiB of a 4 MiB body. us_socket_pause leaves the poll writable-only, one writable event follows, and the tail of onWritable arms the timer. Not checked on kqueue or libuv.
• That accident does not happen when the response is also blocked on backpressure. POST with 4 MiB unread and a 64 MiB response to a peer that never reads stays open on main and here. Reported separately.
• FileResponseStream.rs stores the server value again on each write, so server.timeout(req, 60) and server.timeout(req, 0) do not hold for a Bun.file response. Reported separately.
• TLS: the idle timeout on a paused socket leaves req.signal not aborted and pendingRequests at 1. usockets: resume a paused TLS socket when its graceful close waits for the peer #42352 covers it.

Suites on the debug + ASAN build

• test/js/bun/http/serve.test.ts: 326 pass, 4 fail. The same 4 fail without the change: 2 need a non-root user or open egress, 2 time out on this debug build.
• test/js/node/http/node-http.test.ts: 246 pass, 17 fail. Without the change: 247 pass, 16 fail. 14 failures are common. The rest are 5 s timeouts of subprocess tests that change from run to run.
• test/js/node/test/parallel: test-http-server-request-timeout-delayed-body, -interrupted-body, -keepalive, test-http-server-consumed-timeout, test-http-set-timeout-server, test-http-server-keep-alive-timeout, test-http-client-upload, test-http-outgoing-settimeout: all exit 0.

[robobun]

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Found 1 issue this PR may fix:

1. Express: req/res/socket 'close' events never fire on client abort for POST requests with a body #28976 - POST requests with a body never trigger close/timeout events on client abort, matching exactly the symptom of idleTimeout being cleared after the request body completes

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Walkthrough

When the final request body chunk arrives, HttpContext.h now resets the response timeout instead of disabling the socket timeout. A regression test covers idle-timeout closures and handlers that remain pending.

Changes

Idle timeout re-arm behavior

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Re-arm timeout on final body chunk and regression test packages/bun-uws/src/HttpContext.h, test/js/bun/http/serve.test.ts	The final body chunk now triggers HttpResponse::resetTimeout(). The test covers content-length and chunked bodies, TCP and TLS connections, body-reading and streaming routes, per-request timeout values, aborts, and pending handlers.

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The timeout behavior change has no other established merge-blocking issue. Redesign the test to run within Bun’s default timeout before merging.

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[robobun]

Re #28976: that issue is about the node:http/Express compat layer not surfacing close events when the client aborts a POST with a body. That is a client-initiated TCP close, which is a separate path from the server-side idleTimeout timer this PR touches. At the Bun.serve layer a client abort on a POST with a body already fires req.signal abort promptly (verified ~500 ms on both 1.4.0 and this branch), so the Express-layer symptom is in the node:http event wiring, not here. Leaving #28976 unlinked.

[claude]

I didn't find any issues — the one-line swap from us_socket_timeout(0) to resetTimeout() looks correct and is well-tested — but since this changes socket-timeout semantics in the core uWS request path for every request with a body, it's worth a quick sanity check from someone familiar with the uWS timeout state machine.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR replaces a single call in packages/bun-uws/src/HttpContext.h's onData body-chunk callback: on the final (fin) chunk, it now calls ((HttpResponse<SSL> *) user)->resetTimeout() instead of us_socket_timeout(user, 0). resetTimeout() re-arms the socket timer to the per-response idleTimeout field (set by Bun's request handler via setTimeout() / server.timeout(req, N)), so a stalled handler on a POST/PUT is reaped instead of hanging forever. A new test in test/js/bun/http/serve.test.ts covers GET, POST+Content-Length, POST+chunked, and POST+server.timeout(req, 6) against a never-resolving handler and asserts all four sockets close and abort signals fire.

Security risks

None identified. If anything this closes a resource-exhaustion vector (unreapable connections accumulating on stalled POST handlers). No auth/crypto/permissions code touched.

Level of scrutiny

Medium-high. The diff is one line plus a test, and resetTimeout() is already the idiom used in the adjacent non-fin branch and throughout HttpResponse.h (tryEnd, write, cork, resume, onWritable). The stored idleTimeout defaults to 10 and is updated by setTimeout(), so re-arming to it preserves whatever the handler configured (including 0 → disabled). That said, this is the vendored uWS HTTP parser hot path executed for every request with a body, and socket-timeout state interacts with several other arm/disarm sites (onOpen, onHandshake, request-handler entry, onWritable, uncork). A maintainer who knows the uWS timer model should confirm there's no path where re-arming here is unwanted.

Other factors

• No CODEOWNERS on packages/bun-uws/.
• Bug hunter found nothing.
• The PR description is thorough with a clear root-cause trace and before/after verification.
• No prior human review; only bot comments in the timeline.

[robobun]

On the "path where re-arming is unwanted" question: resetTimeout() here runs before inStream() is invoked, so anything the data handler does afterwards (responding via end()/tryEnd(), or calling setTimeout(N)) still wins because those paths call resetTimeout()/setTimeout() themselves. If the handler already finished the response before this chunk, markDone() nulls inStream and the fin branch is never entered. And resetTimeout() arms to the stored idleTimeout field, so idleTimeout: 0 stays disabled. I could not find a site in bun-uws or src/runtime/server that depends on the timer being 0 after body completion.

Correction (2 October): the last sentence is about bun's own code only. User handlers can depend on the old behaviour. A handler that needs longer than idleTimeout for its first response byte keeps a request with a body alive on main, and loses it with this change. The Downsides section of the description has the measured case.

[claude]

I didn't find any issues, but this changes socket-timeout semantics in the vendored uWS request-body path — worth a quick look from someone familiar with the HTTP server timer state machine.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

One-line semantic change in packages/bun-uws/src/HttpContext.h: on the final request-body chunk, call resetTimeout() (re-arm to the stored per-response idleTimeout) instead of us_socket_timeout(s, 0) (disarm). A new test in test/js/bun/http/serve.test.ts covers GET, POST with Content-Length, POST chunked, and POST with a synchronous server.timeout(req, N), asserting all four sockets are reaped and req.signal aborts fire.

Security risks

The bug being fixed is itself a DoS vector (unreapable connections accumulate without bound on any POST route with a slow handler). The fix changes timer behavior on every request that carries a body; if there were a path that depended on the timer being disarmed post-body, the fix could prematurely close a live connection. The author's follow-up comment traces the ordering (resetTimeout() runs before inStream(), so end()/tryEnd()/setTimeout() in the data handler still win; markDone() nulls inStream so a completed response never enters the branch; idleTimeout: 0 stays disabled), and I couldn't find a counterexample either. No injection/auth/data-exposure surface.

Level of scrutiny

This is a small diff but it lives in the vendored uWS onData hot path and alters socket-lifecycle timing for every POST/PUT through Bun.serve. The correctness argument depends on the interaction between parser-callback ordering, HttpResponseData::idleTimeout storage, and where Bun's request handler arms the timeout — subtle enough that someone who owns this code (uWS / src/runtime/server) should confirm there's no path that relied on the old disarm.

Other factors

No CODEOWNERS on these paths. No bugs surfaced by automated review. The test is well-constructed (raw TCP, multiple body-framing variants, asserts abort signals and pendingRequests). The PR description and self-review comment are thorough. Deferring only because behavioral changes to core HTTP server timeout handling in vendored code aren't in the "simple/mechanical" bucket I'm comfortable auto-approving.

[robobun]

Status

Reproduced on bun 1.4.3-canary.1 (367d939) and on a release build of main 95690fc, Linux x64:

Bun.serve({ port: 0, idleTimeout: 2, fetch: () => new Promise(() => {}) })

With a raw TCP client, GET / is closed after about 4 s. POST with Content-Length: 1 and one body byte is still open after 20 s.

The test fails on main and passes with the change:

bun bd test test/js/bun/http/serve.test.ts -t "idleTimeout closes a request with a body"

The description has the behaviour table, the measured cost, and the behaviour change for handlers slower than idleTimeout.

[claude]

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

[robobun]

Rebased on main (95690fc). The branch was 2273 commits behind. The previous head was 33b291d.

One file had a conflict, test/js/bun/http/serve.test.ts. Main added the test TLS: reaps every zero-byte pre-handshake connection in a burst at the position where this PR adds its test. The rebase keeps both tests. The diff against main has the same added and removed lines as before.

Checked on a debug build of the rebased tree:

• The test of this PR passes.
• serve.test.ts has 328 passes and 2 failures. The 2 failures do not touch this change: one needs a user that is not root, and one needs network access that my machine blocks.

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[robobun]

#44894 changes the same line (the last body chunk in packages/bun-uws/src/HttpContext.h) in a narrower way. It keeps the timer only when a Bun.serve response write is blocked (last_write_failed), so a POST whose body arrived whole and that is answered after idleTimeout still gets its 200.

If #44894 lands first, this PR becomes two edits: remove the last_write_failed test, and change the /post-answered-late control row of the new test in serve.test.ts. Then the two PRs do not disagree about that line. The question that stays for a maintainer is the one this PR asks: does a complete body with a silent handler idle out.

[robobun]

The notes of this PR list a Bun.file item as reported separately: FileResponseStream.rs stores the server value again on each write, so server.timeout(req, n) does not hold for a Bun.file response. #45788 has a fix for it.