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WalkthroughThe HTTP client removes forced Last-Modified and synthetic 304 handling. Response metadata now uses immutable responses and applies identity framing to 1xx, 204, and 304 responses. Fetch tests cover chunked responses and keep-alive behavior. ChangesHTTP request and response handling
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LGTM — one-line fix that resets transfer_encoding alongside the existing content_length = 0 override for 1xx/204/304, matching RFC 9112 §6.3.
What was reviewed:
- Traced the three downstream consumers of
state.transfer_encoding(keep-alive check,response_stageselection, continue-streaming gate) — the reset is placed after header parsing and before all of them. - Checked HEAD requests for the same class — already gated by
method.has_body()at the continue-streaming check, so unaffected. - Tests mirror the neighboring 304 tests'
Bun.listenpattern;describe.eachcovers 204 and 304, both buffered and streamed reads.
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Overview
The PR adds a single assignment (self.state.transfer_encoding = Encoding::Identity) inside the existing block in handle_response_metadata that already forces content_length = Some(0) for 1xx/204/304 responses. Four regression tests are added to test/js/web/fetch/fetch.test.ts using describe.each over 204/304, exercising both response.text() and streaming iteration.
Security risks
None introduced. If anything this tightens behavior: previously a 204/304 with Transfer-Encoding: chunked would consume and surface bytes that per spec belong to the next message on the connection. The fix stops that.
Level of scrutiny
Low-to-moderate. It's a one-line runtime change in the HTTP client, but it's placed in the exact block that already encodes the same RFC rule for Content-Length, cites the spec, and is covered by new tests that the PR description shows failing on system bun and passing on the debug build. I verified placement: the reset happens after the header loop that sets transfer_encoding (lib.rs:5100) and before the keep-alive check (:5190), the response_stage selection (:5476), and the == Encoding::Chunked term in the continue-streaming gate (:5508).
Other factors
- HEAD was raised as a possible sibling gap and ruled out:
Method::has_body()returnsfalsefor HEAD (src/http_types/Method.rs:175), which already short-circuits the continue-streaming check at :5505 regardless oftransfer_encoding. - The 4-line comment exceeds the 3-line guideline, but the immediately preceding block already carries an 8-line RFC comment, so it matches local convention.
- Tests follow the exact pattern of the two neighboring 304 tests (same
Bun.listen/open-write/setTimeout(9999).unref()shape,port: 0, nousingon the server), useit.concurrent, and assert exact empty-body values.
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LGTM — all four earlier notes are addressed in 076ad9b (stream-variant test dropped, using server = Bun.listen, pretend_304 now clears allow_keepalive, and the SSE sibling was empirically shown not to hang fetch()).
What was reviewed:
- Traced the 1xx/204/304 block through the continue-streaming disjunction at lib.rs:5509 — with
transfer_encodingreset toIdentityandcontent_length = Some(0), the branch now falls through toFinishedas intended. - Confirmed the new
allow_keepalive = falseonpretend_304is effective on the HTTP/1.1 path (is_keep_alive_possibleat lib.rs:2217); the h2/h3 wrapper at lib.rs:405 overwrites it, but h2/h3 stream framing makes the undrained-body concern moot there. - Checked that a real 204/304 with stray chunked bytes on the wire now behaves the same as the pre-existing
Content-Length: Ncase (body ignored; socket may still be pooled) — parity, not a regression.
Extended reasoning...
Overview
Two-line fix in src/http/lib.rs::handle_response_metadata: (1) reset self.state.transfer_encoding = Encoding::Identity inside the existing 1xx/204/304 block that already forces content_length = Some(0), so a Transfer-Encoding: chunked header on a bodyless status can't push the response into the chunked decoder; (2) set allow_keepalive = false in the pretend_304 block so a wire-level 200-rewritten-to-304 doesn't pool a socket with an undrained body. A parametrized it.concurrent.each([204, 304]) test in fetch.test.ts covers both statuses via a raw Bun.listen server.
Security risks
None. This is HTTP/1.1 response-framing conformance in the client (RFC 9112 §6.3). No auth, crypto, permissions, or user-controlled parsing is touched. The pretend_304 change only makes an opt-in feature-flagged path (BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_LAST_MODIFIED_PRETEND_304) strictly more conservative — it closes a socket instead of pooling it.
Level of scrutiny
Medium — the HTTP client is production-critical, but the change is a one-line state reset in a block that already exists for exactly this purpose (the sibling content_length = Some(0) line has been there for the same RFC clause). I traced both consumers of transfer_encoding in this function: the response_stage selection (now picks Body instead of BodyChunk) and the continue-streaming disjunction at 5509–5513 (the == Chunked term is now false). The h2/h3 header path at ~line 394 already unconditionally resets transfer_encoding = Identity after calling handle_response_metadata, so this change is a no-op there.
Other factors
All four inline comments from the previous review round were addressed and the threads resolved. The author dropped the stream-read test variant (correct call — it exercised the same client path and would go vacuous once #924 makes response.body null for 204/304), switched to using server = Bun.listen for RAII cleanup, added the allow_keepalive = false guard for pretend_304, and empirically verified the is_server_sent_events sibling doesn't hang fetch() (which always sets HeaderProgress). The remaining test uses port: 0, using for disposal, and it.concurrent.each for the 204/304 matrix. PR description shows USE_SYSTEM_BUN=1 fails / bun bd passes.
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All four nits from the earlier pass are addressed and I found nothing new — the transfer_encoding = Identity reset is correct, the &mut Response → &Response refactor is sound (no writes to response remain in handle_response_metadata), and no stale references to the removed fields survive anywhere in the tree. Deferring only because 1af12f2 pivoted from the initial "don't pool the pretend_304 socket" fix to removing BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_LAST_MODIFIED_PRETEND_304 / force_last_modified outright — that's the right call given the mechanism was already broken for Content-Length responses and would now break for chunked too, but dropping a user-facing env var is worth a human ack.
What was reviewed:
handle_response_metadatabody scanned for any remainingresponsemutation — none; both call sites' droppedpending_responsere-sync is safe.- Repo-wide grep for
force_last_modified/if_modified_since/LAST_MODIFIED_PRETEND_304/pretend_304— only unrelated server-sideIf-Modified-Sinceparsing inFileRoute.rsremains. NetworkTask::for_manifestheader count/append after removing the rawcontent.append(last_modified)— over-counts one entry when both etag and last-modified are set (harmless over-allocation, pre-existing).- New test uses
using server = Bun.listenandit.concurrent.each(established pattern); stream-read variant dropped per earlier note.
Extended reasoning...
Overview
The PR fixes #2732: fetch() was reading and delivering a chunked body on 1xx/204/304 responses when the server (incorrectly) sent Transfer-Encoding: chunked. The one-line fix resets self.state.transfer_encoding = Encoding::Identity in the same block that already forces content_length = Some(0) for these status codes, per RFC 9112 §6.3.
In response to earlier review feedback that this reset would corrupt the keep-alive pool on the pretend_304 path (a client-side rewrite of a wire-level 200 to 304, gated behind BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_LAST_MODIFIED_PRETEND_304), the author first disabled keep-alive for that path (076ad9b) and then removed the feature entirely (1af12f2): the env var, the force_last_modified flag, the if_modified_since field on HTTPClient, the If-Modified-Since/Last-Modified header-match arms, and the supporting buffer-copy in NetworkTask::for_manifest. With the only mutation of response gone, handle_response_metadata now takes &Response and both callers drop the post-call re-sync of state.pending_response.
Security risks
None identified. This is HTTP/1.1 response-framing on the fetch client. The change makes bodyless-status handling stricter (ignores framing headers per spec), and the removed feature was an off-by-default install-path optimization with no auth/crypto implications.
Level of scrutiny
Medium. src/http/lib.rs is a hot, correctness-critical path shared by fetch() and bun install, and the diff touches keep-alive-adjacent state and response framing. That said, the actual behavioral change is one line whose correctness follows directly from the RFC clause quoted in the diff and matches Node; the rest is dead-code removal plus a mechanically-verifiable &mut → & narrowing. I re-traced both call sites of handle_response_metadata and confirmed the dropped re-sync was purely mirroring the now-removed pretend_304 status rewrite.
Other factors
All four nits from the previous review round were addressed (the two test nits by rewriting the test with using and dropping the stream variant; the is_server_sent_events sibling was tested and shown not to affect fetch(); the pretend_304 interaction was resolved by removal). CI is green for the new test on every lane per the author's build report; remaining red is unrelated infra/flakes. The removed flag has zero hits in docs or tests, so nothing user-visible documents it — but it is a public env var someone could be setting, which is the one thing I'd like a maintainer to nod at rather than a bot.
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Additional findings (outside current diff — PR may have been updated during review):
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src/http/lib.rs:4926-4930— nit: This 4-line comment restates the RFC 7230 §3.3.3 block comment immediately above (lines 4913-4920), which already says these responses "cannot contain a message body" so "the response body is always ignored" — RFC 9112 §6.3 is the same rule (9112 obsoleted 7230).transfer_encoding = Encoding::Identityneeds no more per-line justification thancontent_length = Some(0)on the line above it. The repo's comment-cop bot has an unresolved flag on this line. Drop the new comment, or fold a one-clause "and Transfer-Encoding" mention into the existing block comment.Extended reasoning...
What the issue is
The new 4-line comment at src/http/lib.rs:4926-4929 sits directly under an existing 8-line block comment at lines 4913-4920 that already establishes the invariant it's explaining. The existing comment cites RFC 7230 §3.3.3 and states that 1xx/204/304 responses "cannot contain a message body", that "the response body is always ignored", and that "these status codes NEVER have a body per the HTTP spec". The new comment cites RFC 9112 §6.3 and says the same responses "terminate at the header block regardless of the header fields present" so "a Transfer-Encoding: chunked header must not switch us into the chunked decoder".
RFC 9112 §6.3 is the direct successor to RFC 7230 §3.3.3 (RFC 9112 obsoletes RFC 7230); they state the same rule. So the two comments cite the same spec clause under two RFC numbers, four lines apart, inside the same
ifblock.Why the existing comment already covers it
The block comment at 4913-4920 heads the entire
if (1xx/204/304) { ... }block. Both assignments inside it —self.state.content_length = Some(0)at line 4925 andself.state.transfer_encoding = Encoding::Identityat line 4930 — are consequences of the same rule: these status codes have no body regardless of the framing headers present. Thecontent_lengthoverride has no per-line comment; thetransfer_encodingoverride is the parallel field for the other framing mechanism and needs no more justification than its sibling.REVIEW.md's "Code style & idioms reviewers enforce" section is explicit: "Only comment what the code cannot say. One line. Never restate what the code does." A 4-line comment restating a block comment that's 6 lines above it, for a one-line assignment, is exactly the pattern that rule targets.
Step-by-step
- Reader hits the block comment at 4913-4920: "1xx/204/304 ... cannot contain a message body ... so the response body is always ignored ... these status codes NEVER have a body per the HTTP spec."
- Reader enters the
ifblock at 4921-4924 (matches 1xx/204/304). - Line 4925:
content_length = Some(0)— obvious consequence of the block comment; no per-line comment. - Lines 4926-4929: a second RFC citation of the same rule ("regardless of the header fields present") — but the block comment already said "NEVER have a body per the HTTP spec", which includes Transfer-Encoding.
- Line 4930:
transfer_encoding = Encoding::Identity— the other framing-field override, parallel to line 4925.
The reader learns nothing at step 4 that wasn't established at step 1.
Corroboration from the repo's own tooling
The github-actions comment-cop bot posted an inline comment on src/http/lib.rs:4929 ("If you need a paragraph-long comment to justify why the workaround is OK, the code is wrong — fix the code") on 2026-08-21. Unlike the four earlier claude[bot] review threads on this PR — all marked
resolved="true"— this one is unresolved. That's direct evidence the repository's own automation considers this actionable.Impact
None on correctness — the code is right either way. This is comment noise: it doubles the vertical footprint of a two-line fix, and the duplicate RFC citation (7230 vs 9112 for the same rule) is mildly confusing on first read. Not blocking merge.
Fix
Either:
- Drop the new comment entirely — the existing block comment at 4913-4920 covers both assignments; or
- Fold a one-clause mention into the existing block comment, e.g. change line 4917 to "Therefore in these cases set content-length to 0 and clear transfer-encoding, so the response body is always ignored" — one source of truth, no per-line RFC re-citation.
Optionally update the existing block comment's citation from RFC 7230 §3.3.3 to RFC 9112 §6.3 (the current spec), but that's orthogonal.
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The vacuous-test concern from my previous review is resolved — fdb31eb folds the 204/304-chunked cases into the existing keep-alive trailing-bytes test, which asserts on connection reuse counts rather than response.text(), so it stays load-bearing after #39778. This pass found no further issues. Given this touches the HTTP client's response-framing path and removes the BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_LAST_MODIFIED_PRETEND_304 / force_last_modified machinery entirely, a maintainer sign-off would still be worthwhile.
What was reviewed:
handle_response_metadata&mut Response→&Response: the only mutation waspretend_304's status rewrite, now removed; both call sites (h1 at lib.rs:3749, h2/h3 at lib.rs:404) useresponseread-only afterward.NetworkTask::for_manifest: the removedtrailing_last_modifiedcount/append were symmetric, so thedebug_assert_eq!(content.len, content.cap)still holds;last_modifiedis still sent asIf-Modified-Sincewhen no etag.- No remaining references to
force_last_modified/if_modified_since/pretend_304/ the env var anywhere insrc/. - New
/204-chunked+/304-chunkedtest cases: without the fix the chunked decoder drains the junk and pools the socket (newConnections: 0vs expected1), so the assertion fails.
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Overview
The PR makes two changes to the HTTP client: (1) reset state.transfer_encoding = Encoding::Identity alongside the existing content_length = Some(0) in the 1xx/204/304 block of handle_response_metadata, so a server-sent Transfer-Encoding: chunked header no longer routes a bodyless response into the chunked decoder; (2) remove the BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_LAST_MODIFIED_PRETEND_304 / force_last_modified / if_modified_since mechanism end-to-end (env_var.rs, Flags, HTTPClient field, the if-modified-since request-header stash, the Last-Modified response-header match arm, the pretend_304 status rewrite, and the NetworkTask header-buf tail stash). With the mutation gone, handle_response_metadata now takes &Response. The test change extends the existing keep-alive-trailing-bytes test in fetch.test.ts with Transfer-Encoding: chunked variants of the 204/304 cases.
Security risks
None identified. The change tightens rather than relaxes response framing (bytes that were previously consumed as a body are now treated as trailing junk that costs the connection its keep-alive eligibility). No auth, TLS, or path-handling code touched. The removed feature flag was an opt-in client-side status-code rewrite for bun install manifest fetches only.
Level of scrutiny
Moderate-to-high. src/http/lib.rs::handle_response_metadata sits on the framing path for every fetch/HTTP-client response, so a mistake here corrupts connection state or hangs requests. The one-line core fix is straightforward and RFC-cited, and the earlier review round already traced its interaction with the continue-streaming disjunction, the is_server_sent_events sibling term (ruled out for fetch — HeaderProgress is always set), and the pretend_304 interaction (now moot since the mechanism is removed). The dead-code removal is mechanical but spans four files and deletes a user-facing env var, which is the kind of surface change a maintainer should confirm.
Other factors
All four earlier findings from my July review are resolved (stream-variant test dropped, using cleanup applied, SSE-on-304 tested and scoped out, pretend_304 removed rather than patched). My August 🔴 finding about the test becoming vacuous post-#39778 is addressed by fdb31eb, which asserts on connection-reuse counts instead of body text — I traced the with-fix and without-fix paths through the Finished branch at lib.rs:3767-3783 and the assertion distinguishes them. No stale references to any removed identifier remain in src/. Deferring only because HTTP-client framing plus feature-flag removal is above the bar for auto-approval, not because of any open concern with the diff.
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LGTM — one-line framing fix plus removal of a dead opt-in feature flag, all prior review feedback addressed.
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transfer_encoding = Identityreset mirrors the existingcontent_length = Some(0)for 1xx/204/304 per RFC 9112 §6.3;&mut Response→&Responseis the natural consequence of dropping the only mutation (pretend_304).force_last_modified/BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_LAST_MODIFIED_PRETEND_304removal is complete (no remaining refs insrc/); the survivinglast_modifiedinNetworkTask.rsis the plainIf-Modified-Sinceheader, copied atappendtime, and thecontent.len == content.capassert still balances after dropping the trailing stash.- Test coverage moved to the connection-counting table (four
/204-chunked+/304-chunkedrows), which robobun verified inverts on main'ssrc/— resolves the vacuous-test finding from the previous review round.
Extended reasoning...
Overview
The PR fixes #2732: a server sending Transfer-Encoding: chunked on a 1xx/204/304 response caused Bun's HTTP client to run the chunked decoder over bytes that per RFC 9112 §6.3 belong to the next message. The fix is a single line in src/http/lib.rs — self.state.transfer_encoding = Encoding::Identity — added to the block that already forces content_length = Some(0) for these statuses. As a consequence of an earlier review round (mine, 2026-07-21) flagging that the fix would leave a real chunked body undrained on the pretend_304 path, the PR also removes that entire opt-in mechanism: Flags::force_last_modified, HTTPClient::if_modified_since, the Last-Modified header match arm, the header-buffer stash in NetworkTask.rs, and BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_LAST_MODIFIED_PRETEND_304. With no remaining mutation of the response, handle_response_metadata now takes &Response and both callers drop their mut.
Security risks
None. The change makes framing stricter: bytes previously consumed as a body are now treated as trailing junk that costs the keep-alive connection — the same behaviour the client already had for the Content-Length case. The removed pretend_304 path was an off-by-default env-var-gated client-side rewrite for bun install manifest fetches; deleting it removes an undrained-body-on-pooled-socket hazard rather than adding one.
Level of scrutiny
Medium. src/http/lib.rs is production-critical, but the actual behavioural change is one line inside an already-special-cased status branch, aligning a second piece of framing state with the first. The rest is dead-code removal of a never-default feature flag. The h2/h3 caller (apply_response_metadata_for_multiplexed) already resets transfer_encoding back to Identity immediately after this call, so multiplexed transports are unaffected.
Other factors
This is my third pass on the PR. All four inline findings from 2026-07-21 and the 🔴 vacuous-test finding from 2026-08-21 are resolved: the stream-read test was dropped, cleanup moved to using/try-finally, pretend_304 was removed outright, the is_server_sent_events sibling was tested and shown not to manifest for fetch(), and the test was rewritten as four rows in the existing connection-counting table (which robobun verified inverts against main's src/). The comment-cop nags were addressed by trimming to a one-line RFC citation. fetch.test.ts passed on all lanes of #102241; #105224 is running for the tip commit. I grepped for stray references to the removed symbols — none remain — and confirmed the header_builder.content.len == cap debug assertion in NetworkTask::for_manifest still balances after the trailing-last_modified stash was removed (it was counted and appended symmetrically, both now gone).
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LGTM — all prior feedback addressed.
The pretend_304 interaction is gone with the feature-flag removal, and the test now lives in the keep-alive connection-counting test where the newConnections assertion is load-bearing regardless of #39778's null-body behavior (both the + trailing bytes and bare -chunked rows invert without the fix). Confirmed last_modified in NetworkTask::for_manifest is still consumed by the If-Modified-Since header path and not dead, and both handle_response_metadata call sites (h1 loop and h2/h3) match the new &Response signature. The pre-existing is_server_sent_events sibling term I noted earlier is still there but was flagged as non-blocking and out of scope.
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Overview
The PR does two things: (1) a one-line RFC 9112 §6.3 conformance fix in handle_response_metadata — for 1xx/204/304 responses, force state.transfer_encoding = Encoding::Identity alongside the existing content_length = Some(0), so a Transfer-Encoding: chunked header on a bodyless status can no longer route trailing bytes into the chunked decoder or park the socket in the body stage; and (2) removal of the opt-in BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_LAST_MODIFIED_PRETEND_304 path (Flags::force_last_modified, HTTPClient::if_modified_since, the Last-Modified match arm, the pretend_304 status-code rewrite, and the NetworkTask header-buf stash), which lets handle_response_metadata take &Response instead of &mut. Test coverage is four new rows in the existing keep-alive connection-counting test in fetch.test.ts.
Security risks
The change affects HTTP/1.1 response framing and keep-alive pooling, which is request-smuggling-adjacent territory. However, the direction of the change is strictly more conservative: bytes that were previously (incorrectly) consumed as a chunked body are now treated as trailing junk, and the connection is closed rather than pooled. The removed pretend_304 path was an opt-in client-side status rewrite that was never enabled by default and would have left an undrained body on a pooled socket under this fix — removing it eliminates that hazard rather than introducing one. No new parsing of untrusted input, no auth/TLS changes.
Level of scrutiny
Medium — this is core HTTP client code, but the behavioral surface is tiny (one field reset in a block that already forced content_length = Some(0)) and the removal is dead-code cleanup for a never-default feature flag. I have reviewed this PR across multiple iterations; every concern I raised has been addressed in the latest push. The vacuous-test problem (my 🔴 from 2026-08-21) is fixed by moving coverage into the connection-counting test, whose newConnections observable cannot be masked by the fetch-layer null-body change from #39778. The pretend_304 undrained-body concern is moot with the feature removed. Cleanup is in try/finally registered before the assertions.
Other factors
Verified the concerns from the conventions block: last_modified in NetworkTask.rs is still live (feeds If-Modified-Since when no etag, lines 605-606/622-623); both handle_response_metadata call sites updated to &response; the SAFETY comment above the remaining detach_lifetime in NetworkTask.rs was rewritten to stand on its own. No CODEOWNERS cover the changed paths. The one item I previously flagged as pre-existing and non-blocking — the is_server_sent_events term in the same continue-streaming disjunction — remains, but I already raised it once and it is out of scope for a change whose title and tests are about Transfer-Encoding: chunked. Exit reason dry_streak; no new findings this run.
RFC 9112 section 6.3: a 1xx/204/304 response is terminated by the first empty line after the header fields, regardless of any framing header present in the message. The existing null-body-status handling forced content_length to 0 but left transfer_encoding as Chunked, so the response stage entered the chunked decoder and delivered whatever followed the header block as the response body.
…t_modified The client-side 200-to-304 rewrite was an opt-in workaround for registries that echo Last-Modified but ignore If-Modified-Since. It left an undrained body on a pooled socket and was never enabled by default. Drop the feature flag, the force_last_modified flag, the if_modified_since field, the Last-Modified match arm in handle_response_metadata, and the header-buffer stash in NetworkTask that existed to feed it. handle_response_metadata no longer mutates its Response argument, so take it by shared reference and drop the post-call pending_response re-syncs.
Since #39778 a fetched 204/304 has a null body, so asserting text() is empty no longer distinguishes the chunked decoder reading the bytes from the client ignoring them. Move the coverage into the existing keep-alive connection-counting table: a chunked body after a 204/304 must be treated as trailing bytes (connection not reused), and a bare chunked 204/304 head must complete and be pooled.
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LGTM — the earlier concerns are addressed: pretend_304 is gone entirely (so the undrained-body-on-pool interaction can't happen), and the test now asserts newConnections in the existing keep-alive connection-counting test rather than await response.text(), so it's load-bearing independent of #39778's null-body masking.
What was reviewed:
handle_response_metadatanow&Response: both call sites (h1 at lib.rs:3696, h2/h3 at lib.rs:398) updated; no other callers.- Grep confirms no remaining references to
force_last_modified/if_modified_since/BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_LAST_MODIFIED_PRETEND_304insrc/. - New
/204-chunkedand/304-chunkedrows exercise both the trailing-bytes path (newConnections: 1) and the bare-head path (newConnections: 0), inside the existing try/finally cleanup. - The pre-existing
is_server_sent_eventssibling term I flagged earlier is still there; it's orthogonal to this PR's scope.
Extended reasoning...
Overview
This PR does two things: (1) resets state.transfer_encoding = Encoding::Identity alongside the existing content_length = Some(0) for 1xx/204/304 responses in handle_response_metadata, so a Transfer-Encoding: chunked header on a bodyless status can't route the client into the chunked decoder; and (2) removes the BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_LAST_MODIFIED_PRETEND_304 / force_last_modified / if_modified_since machinery entirely from src/http/lib.rs, src/http/AsyncHTTP.rs, src/install/NetworkTask.rs, and src/bun_core/env_var.rs. With pretend_304 gone, handle_response_metadata no longer mutates the response, so its parameter drops from &mut to &. Test coverage adds four rows to the existing keep-alive trailing-bytes test in test/js/web/fetch/fetch.test.ts.
Security risks
HTTP/1.1 message framing on a persistent connection is smuggling-adjacent, but this change tightens framing to match RFC 9112 §6.3 rather than loosening it: bytes following a 204/304 header block are now uniformly treated as trailing junk (poisoning the pooled connection) regardless of whether the response carried Transfer-Encoding: chunked. The removed pretend_304 path was an opt-in client-side status rewrite that was never enabled by default and, as I noted in an earlier review, would have left an undrained body on a pooled socket once this fix landed — removing it eliminates that hazard rather than introducing one. No auth, crypto, or trust-boundary changes.
Level of scrutiny
Medium. The functional change is a single line in a well-understood block with an RFC citation, and the deletion is of a dead-by-default feature flag path. I'd previously flagged four issues on earlier iterations; the latest push (nine commits on 2026-08-26) addresses the substantive ones: the pretend_304 interaction is moot because the whole path is deleted, and the vacuous-test problem is fixed by moving the assertions into the existing connection-counting test so they measure the wire-level pooling effect rather than response.text() (which #39778 already forces to "" for 204/304). The test's cleanup runs from a finally that wraps all assertions, so the earlier resource-leak-on-failure nit is also resolved.
Other factors
I verified there are no remaining references to the removed identifiers anywhere in src/, and that both callers of handle_response_metadata were updated for the &mut → & signature change. No CODEOWNERS entry covers these paths. The one prior comment not acted on — is_server_sent_events on a 204/304 still reaching ContinueStreaming — is pre-existing behavior not touched by this diff and was framed as a non-blocking suggestion; it doesn't gate this change. The bug hunt ran to a dry streak with no findings.
Repro
A server sending
Transfer-Encoding: chunkedon a 204 (or 304) response causes the HTTP client to run the chunked decoder over the bytes that follow the header block:Since #39778 the
Responseobject hides this (204/304 now have a null body), but the client still consumes the bytes as a body and pools the socket as if the message were complete. The same bytes framed withContent-Length: 5on a 204 are already correctly treated as trailing junk; only the chunked path consulted the framing header.Cause
handle_response_metadataforcescontent_length = Some(0)for 1xx/204/304 but leavestransfer_encodinguntouched, so when aTransfer-Encoding: chunkedheader was parsed the response stage is set toBodyChunkand thetransfer_encoding == Encoding::Chunkedterm in the final continue-streaming check wins over the zero content length. The chunked decoder then reads bytes that per RFC 9112 section 6.3 belong to the next message on the connection:Fix
Reset
transfer_encodingtoIdentityin the same block that forcescontent_length = 0, so both the response-stage selection and the continue-streaming check see a bodyless response. Bytes after the header block then go through the existing trailing-bytes path (connection not reused).Also removed the
BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_LAST_MODIFIED_PRETEND_304/force_last_modifiedpath entirely: it was an opt-in client-side rewrite of a wire-level 200 to 304 forbun installmanifest fetches, never enabled by default, and would have left an undrained body on a pooled socket with this change. That removal takesFlags::force_last_modified,HTTPClient::if_modified_since, theLast-Modifiedmatch arm inhandle_response_metadata, the header-buffer stash inNetworkTask, and the env-var declaration.handle_response_metadatanow takes&Responseinstead of&mut Response.Verification
Four rows added to the existing keep-alive connection-counting test in
test/js/web/fetch/fetch.test.ts("does not reuse a keep-alive connection when bytes follow a response that ended at its header block"):/204-chunkedand/304-chunked, each with and without a well-formed chunked body after the head.With
src/reset to main (so #39778 is present but this fix is not) all four rows invert: the chunked body is consumed and the socket is pooled, and the bare chunked head leaves the socket parked in the body stage so the follow-up request opens a new connection. With the fix all four rows match.no test proof · iteration 12 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/js/web/fetch/fetch.test.ts