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Problem

  • A routes: entry of new Response(Bun.file(p), { status: 307 }) (or 308, or 205) sends headers with no Content-Length, no Transfer-Encoding, and no Connection: close. RFC 9112 6.3 makes such a response close-delimited, so a keep-alive client waits for the body until the server's idleTimeout closes the socket. fetch(url, { redirect: "manual" }) hangs the same way.
  • The cause is the early return in FileRoute::serve (src/runtime/server/FileRoute.rs:403). It ended 1xx/204/205/304 and also 307/308 through end_without_body, which writes only the header terminator. 1xx/204/304 end at the blank line. 205/307/308 do not.

Fix

  • Remove the 307 | 308 clause. A 307/308 file route now streams the file with its real Content-Length, the same as the in-memory route, the fetch-handler path, and RFC 9110 15.4 allow.
  • A 205 now ends through resp.end(b""), the call the 412 arm and StaticRoute already use, so uWS writes Content-Length: 0. 1xx/204/304 stay header-only.
  • Verified: test/js/bun/http/bun-serve-file.test.ts ("file route 205/307/308 responses are framed on HTTP/1.1 keep-alive"). It reads the raw wire for 204/205/304/307/308, parses two pipelined 307s by Content-Length and checks both bodies, and completes a manual-redirect fetch. Stock bun 1.4.3 fails it at the first 307. The rest of the file passes.

Background

  • FileRoute serves a routes: entry whose body is Bun.file(). It writes the status and headers itself, then either ends the response or hands the fd to FileResponseStream.
  • end_without_body (uWS endWithoutBody) writes the blank line and marks the response done. It never writes a length. end(b"") goes through uWS internalEnd, which writes Content-Length: 0 unless a length was already written.
  • Considered a manual write_header_int("content-length", 0) for 205 guarded on has_written_content_length_header(). end(b"") does the same through the one path the other arms use, with no extra guard.

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Raw wire before, for /r with status: 307:

HTTP/1.1 307 Temporary Redirect
Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8
Location: /
last-modified: ...

Paths compared for new Response(body, { status: 307 }):

path before after
routes: + Bun.file() hangs CL=N, body sent
routes: + in-memory CL=N, body sent unchanged
fetch: + Bun.file() CL=N, body sent unchanged
fetch: + in-memory CL=N, body sent unchanged

The 307 | 308 clause arrived with #20198 with no comment or test.

Other end_without_body sites, as a follow-up to the audit in #35008:

site finding
FileResponseStream.rs:500 owned by #34257 (same end_without_body to end(b"") change, open)
RequestContext.rs:1120, FileRoute.rs HEAD arm HEAD, self-terminating (RFC 9112 6.3): not a bug
RequestContext.rs:3411 (render_production_error 404) unreachable: only caller passes status=500
NodeHTTPResponse.rs:1589 (res.destroy()) verified: socket closes
NodeHTTPResponse.rs:1494 (res.emit('close') without end()) Node also hangs; matches
server_body.rs:420 (respond_stopped_503) guarded by js_value_for_dispatch; callers are inside uWS handlers where post-uncork closes

The pipelined-307 check is skipped on Windows. Pipelining a Bun.file() route there closes the connection with zero bytes for any status, including 200 on main.

Self-reviewed: 8 concerns raised, 7 addressed. Rejected one: strip a user Content-Length for 1xx/204/205 in FileRoute::from_js. That duplicates #43108, which strips it for every status, and the two would conflict. Noted under Downsides instead.

Suites run: test/js/bun/http/bun-serve-file.test.ts (three pollable Bun.file tests time out in this container on the base commit too, independent of this diff).


no test proof · iteration 1 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/js/bun/http/bun-serve-file.test.ts

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File routes now stream file bodies for 307 and 308 responses. Statuses 205 and 412 end with empty bodies. Tests check response framing for several statuses, keep-alive connections, and fetch responses.

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File-route status framing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Status body handling and framing
src/runtime/server/FileRoute.rs, test/js/bun/http/bun-serve-file.test.ts
File routes allow 307 and 308 responses to continue through range processing and file streaming. Statuses 205 and 412 end with empty bodies; tests check content lengths and body delivery, including pipelined 307 responses and manual fetch.

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The 307/308 keep-alive hang fix looks sound. A narrow edge case remains: a file route returning 205 or 412 with an explicit nonzero Content-Length header can leave a client waiting for bytes that are never sent. This is worth a small fix, but it should not block the change.

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Updated 10:03 PM PT - Sep 30th, 2026

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Found 1 issue this PR may fix:

  1. Bun.file routes 404 #22174 - Bun.file routes become unresponsive under keep-alive stress testing, matching the symptom of missing Content-Length: 0 causing HTTP/1.1 clients to stall on the FileRoute code path

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Fixes #22174

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@robobun robobun changed the title Bun.serve: frame bodiless file-route responses (205/307/308) on HTTP/1.1 keep-alive Bun.serve: stream the body for a 307/308 Bun.file() route instead of hanging keep-alive Jul 22, 2026

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The earlier inline comment about wiring close/error on the raw-socket helpers is addressed in f3644fb — both now resolve(buf) on close and reject on error. Beyond the description-staleness nit, I also confirmed is_null_body covers 205 (so that branch is reachable), the has_written_content_length_header() guard prevents a duplicate header when the user set one, and the updated fd_guard comment is accurate now that 307/308 reach FileResponseStream::start.

Extended reasoning...

Previous review feedback was addressed; the only new finding is a nit on the stale PR title/description. The runtime change itself (307/308 now stream the file body rather than ending bodiless) is a user-visible behavioral change to Bun.serve — consistent with StaticRoute and the fetch-handler path per the code comment, but worth a maintainer's glance, so not auto-approving.

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LGTM — small, well-reasoned framing fix that aligns FileRoute's 307/308 handling with the three sibling paths that already stream the body.

What was reviewed:

  • Traced 307/308 fall-through: status_code != 200 skips Range, hits the existing content-length + FileResponseStream path; fd_guard ownership transfer is unchanged.
  • Checked is_null_body set (101/103/204/205/304) against RFC 9112 §6.3 — 205 is indeed the only one not self-terminating; 204/304 correctly stay header-only.
  • Verified the !has_written_content_length_header() guard prevents a double CL when the user sets their own (via write_headers → mark_wrote_content_length_header).
  • Test now wires close→resolve and error→reject per earlier feedback; Windows pipelining skip is documented as a pre-existing bug.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

Two files: src/runtime/server/FileRoute.rs (~10 net lines) removes || matches!(status_code, 307 | 308) from the null-body early-return so 307/308 fall through to the normal FileResponseStream path, and adds a Content-Length: 0 write for status 205 before end_without_body. test/js/bun/http/bun-serve-file.test.ts gains one raw-socket test covering framing for 204/205/304/307/308, a pipelined-307 keep-alive check, and a fetch(redirect:'manual') completion assertion.

Security risks

None identified. The change makes HTTP/1.1 message framing more correct (adds Content-Length where it was missing, causing keep-alive hangs). No auth, crypto, permissions, or untrusted-input parsing is touched. 307/308 now send file bytes on the wire, but that matches what routes: + in-memory body, fetch: + Bun.file(), and fetch: + in-memory already do — so no new exposure surface.

Level of scrutiny

Medium — Bun.serve response framing is production-critical, but the runtime change is tiny and the design decision ("should a 307/308 file route send its body?") is not novel: the PR aligns the one outlier with three existing sibling paths and RFC 9110 §15.4. The 205 Content-Length: 0 is a mechanical RFC-compliance fix guarded against double-write. I traced the fall-through path (Range skipped because status_code != 200, fd_guard cleared before stream ownership transfer) and it reuses the existing 200 path unchanged.

Other factors

Two prior review rounds already landed fixes: raw-socket helpers now wire close/error correctly, and the PR title/description were re-synced after the approach changed mid-review. The PR description includes an audit of every remaining end_without_body call site. The Windows pipelining skip is documented as reproducing on main with status 200, so it's pre-existing and orthogonal. CI build #77346 is running on the head commit.

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Build #77346: bun-serve-file.test.ts passes on all lanes. The one red (worker_threads.test.ts SIGABRT on debian x64-asan, JSC ExceptionScope assertion) is unrelated to this diff and reported for main-break triage; the rest are flaky retries. Diff is ready for review.

…alive

A Bun.file() route configured with a status the route drops the body for
(205, 307, 308) wrote only status + headers via end_without_body: no
Content-Length, no Connection: close. HTTP/1.1 keep-alive clients block
waiting for body framing (RFC 9112 6.3 only self-terminates 1xx/204/304).

Write Content-Length: 0 for the three non-self-terminating statuses;
1xx/204/304 stay header-only.
Self-review pointed out that only FileRoute dropped the body for 307/308;
StaticRoute and both fetch-handler paths (file and in-memory) ship it.
RFC 9110 15.4 permits a redirect body, and adding Content-Length: 0 on
top of a FileRoute-only drop would have cemented the divergence.

Instead, remove the 307|308 clause so 307/308 fall through to the
normal sendfile/write() path (real Content-Length, real body), matching
the other three paths. 205 stays bodiless (RFC 9110 15.3.6 forbids
content on a 205) and gets Content-Length: 0.
Pipelining a Bun.file() route on Windows closes the connection with zero
bytes, independent of status (reproduces on main with status 200). The
framing and fetch assertions already cover the fix on Windows.
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Rebased on main (bf42a52, force pushed). The old head was 54cb9ba, the new head is a5444f2.

Two conflicts:

  • test/js/bun/http/bun-serve-file.test.ts: main added imports and two sendfile tests at the end of the file, where this PR adds its test. I kept both. The test from this PR is now the last one in the file.
  • src/runtime/server/FileRoute.rs: server: take StaticRoute, FileRoute, HTMLBundle and DirectoryRoute to zero unsafe #40136 removed the fd_owned guard and rewrote the comment above the route.serve() match. This PR changes the status list in that comment.

The rebase changed one source comment and no code. The comment keeps the wording from main and takes the status list from this PR, (1xx/204/205/304). The code lines are the same as before: the is_null_body condition without 307 | 308, and Content-Length: 0 for a 205.

Checked on Linux x64 with a debug (ASAN) build:

  • On main, the new test fails. The /307 route sends no Content-Length (expected "5", received null).
  • With the change, the new test passes.
  • The whole file: 170 pass. Three pollable Bun.file(...) tests from Bun.serve: pause the file reader while the response is backpressured #41244 time out at 5 s on this machine. They time out the same way on the build of main without this change (2 of 2 runs), so they are not an effect of this PR.

The build with the change also had the other branches that I rebased in the same pass. CI is the check for this branch alone.

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

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A 205 file route now ends through end(b""), the same call the 412 arm
and StaticRoute use, so uWS writes Content-Length: 0 instead of a
manual header write guarded on has_written_content_length_header.

The pipelined test parses both responses by Content-Length and checks
both bodies.
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Beyond the inline finding, I also checked the other paths 307/308 now reach by falling through in FileRoute::serve: the Range/Content-Range arms are unreachable for them (RangeRequest::from_request only runs when self.status_code == 200, so they always take Result::None and the full-file length), and HEAD on a 307/308 still writes Content-Length and then ends headers-only via the existing HEAD arm, which is self-terminating.

Extended reasoning...

The PR changes bodiless-status framing in src/runtime/server/FileRoute.rs so 307/308 Bun.file() routes stream the body and 205 emits Content-Length: 0, with a raw-socket keep-alive test added to test/js/bun/http/bun-serve-file.test.ts; no auth, crypto, or injection surface is touched. A confirmed inline finding on the user-supplied Content-Length interaction at FileRoute.rs:413 remains, so this is not an approval; the note records only what else was examined on the newly reachable paths.

Still open from earlier reviews (1):

  • Unresolved: 1 minor or pre-existing.

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🟡 Minor · Normalize Content-Length before ending 205 and 412 responses. · FileRoute.rs:406-407

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Normalize Content-Length before ending 205 and 412 responses.

FileRoute::write_headers preserves a configured Content-Length. The 205 and 412 branches then call resp.end(b"", ...). The HTTP/1 response implementation does not replace an existing Content-Length, so a nonzero value can advertise bytes that the response does not send. A keep-alive client can wait for those missing bytes.

For status 205 or 412, suppress the configured value and write Content-Length: 0 before ending the response. Add a test with an explicit nonzero Content-Length.

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Review comment at @src/runtime/server/FileRoute.rs around lines 406 - 407:
Update the 205 and 412 response handling in FileRoute::write_headers to override
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Pushed 2ed5560 and 0f15dc0. The 205 arm now ends through end(b""), the same call as the 412 arm, so the manual Content-Length write and its comment are gone. The two long comments in FileRoute.rs are cut to one line or removed. The pipelined test parses both 307 responses by Content-Length and checks both bodies.

A file route that sets its own Content-Length is a separate bug (#43106). Open PR #43108 drops that header for every status. The body now says to land #43108 first, or rebase this on it.

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