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Problem

  • Bun.serve({ unix: "C:\\test" }).url throws TypeError: Invalid URL on Windows (Bun.Server.url can return invalid url in windows #40182). URLFormatter (src/bun_core/fmt.rs:1137) writes the raw socket path after unix://. A path with no leading / (relative, or a Windows drive path) lands in the URL host slot, so C:\test reads as host C with port \test. # or ? in any path truncates it.

Fix

  • URLFormatter percent-encodes the socket path per URL slot: the first segment of a path with no leading / is the host, the rest is the path. An abstract socket name is a host. A new PercentEncoded Display helper holds the rule.
  • It encodes only the bytes the WHATWG parser rejects, strips (tab, LF, CR), reads as a delimiter, or would percent-encode itself, plus %. Everything else is written as-is.
  • Correct because every output now parses, decodeURIComponent(url.hostname + url.pathname) returns the original path, and apart from % a URL that parsed before serializes the same.
  • Verified: test/js/bun/http/bun-serve-args.test.ts (new Bun.serve unix socket url block), server-url-invalid.test.ts, serve-listen.test.ts. The 4 changed tests fail on 1.4.0 with TypeError: Invalid URL. Also the other unix socket suites under test/js/bun/ and node-http.test.ts.

Background

  • server.url hands the URLFormatter string to the WHATWG URL parser. unix: is a non-special scheme: the text after // up to the first / is an opaque host, the rest is the path. An opaque host rejects the forbidden host code points (:, @, [, \ and others), and : starts a port.
  • The parser percent-encodes controls, non-ASCII and a few path bytes itself, so encoding them up front does not change the href. It silently drops tab, LF and CR.
  • Percent-encode unix socket paths in server.url #28342 takes the same approach but applies the host rule only to abstract sockets, so unix://C:%5Ctest still fails on the port. server: fix Server.url for Windows Unix socket paths #40307 replaced \ with / on Windows only. This PR supersedes both.

Fixes #40182

Notes

An earlier revision of this PR also validated the unix option ("" and non-string values threw). That half is dropped. unix: "" meaning absent matches hostname: "", the loose string option of Bun.listen, the permutations pinned in #15368, and node:http listen({ port, path: "" }), which passes path through as unix. Non-string values still ToString-coerce as before. The coerced [object Bun] now yields unix://%5Bobject%20Bun%5D (server-url-invalid.test.ts).

Per-byte parser behaviour, measured with new URL("unix://a<c>b.sock") and new URL("unix:///tmp/a<c>b.sock") for every printable ASCII byte plus tab, LF, CR, 0x01, DEL and é:

  • host slot: fails on space : < > [ \ ] ^ |, misreads # / ? @, strips tab LF CR, percent-encodes other controls and non-ASCII, keeps the rest raw.
  • path slot: misreads # ?, strips tab LF CR, percent-encodes space " < > ^ ` { }, controls and non-ASCII, keeps the rest raw.
  • % is kept raw in both slots, so it has to be encoded for decodeURIComponent to be lossless.

Windows: C:/Users/x/unix.sock (forward slashes, as serve-listen.test.ts uses) used to parse as host C, which lost the colon. It is now unix://C%3A/Users/x/unix.sock with hostname C%3A.

server.address still returns the raw path for a unix server.

USE_SYSTEM_BUN=1 bun test bun-serve-args server-url-invalid serve-listen   # 4 fail, 87 pass
bun bd test bun-serve-args server-url-invalid serve-listen                 # 91 pass

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The Unix socket URL formatter now separates Unix and abstract protocols, distinguishes host-like and path portions, and applies slot-aware percent encoding. HTTP and HTTPS formatting remains explicit. Tests cover Windows paths, relative and absolute paths, special characters, abstract sockets, and object coercion.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Slot-aware URL percent encoding
src/bun_core/fmt.rs
PercentEncoded encodes controls, non-ASCII bytes, delimiters, %, and slot-specific forbidden characters with uppercase hexadecimal escapes.
Unix and abstract URL formatting
src/bun_core/fmt.rs
URLFormatter uses dedicated Unix and abstract branches, separates absolute paths from host-like paths, appends / to abstract names, and removes the Unix early return.
Unix socket URL regression coverage
test/js/bun/http/bun-serve-args.test.ts, test/js/bun/http/serve-listen.test.ts, test/js/bun/http/server-url-invalid.test.ts
Tests verify platform-specific path encoding, Windows drive-letter handling, abstract socket formatting, and encoded object-coerced paths.

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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy issue #40182 by percent-encoding Windows-style Unix socket paths so Bun.Server.url produces a URL accepted by the WHATWG parser. The added cross-platform tests cover the reported r…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The validation changes, URL formatting changes, visibility adjustment, and tests are related to Unix socket handling and the stated pull request objectives. No unrelated code changes are evident.
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This PR may be a duplicate of:

  1. Percent-encode unix socket paths in server.url #28342 - Also percent-encodes unix socket paths in server.url so the URL is always parseable
  2. server: release StringImpl ref for 'unix' option in ServerConfig #32287 - Fixes the same WTFStringImpl refcount leak in ServerConfig's unix option path that this PR's rewrite eliminates as a side effect

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On the flagged overlaps:

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All prior findings have been addressed and I found no new issues. Deferring to a maintainer because this tightens user-facing Bun.serve behavior — unix: "" and non-string unix values now throw where they previously fell through to TCP or coerced — and there is stated overlap with #28342 on the URL-encoding hunk that may want coordinating.

What was reviewed:

  • URLFormatter::fmt percent-encoding for unix/abstract paths — only caller is get_url_as_string in src/runtime/server/mod.rs; abstract keeps its trailing / so fetch.unix.test.ts still matches.
  • unix type gate — now string or Uint8Array only, bytes read via as_array_buffer().byte_slice(); arg.get() already maps undefined → None so the inner is_undefined_or_null() covers null.
  • Updated tests replace the old TCP-fallthrough / coercion assertions with throw assertions rather than deleting coverage.
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Overview

Two coupled changes to Bun.serve: (1) ServerConfig::from_js now validates the unix option instead of ToString-coercing it — undefined/null are absent, string/Uint8Array must be non-empty, everything else throws ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE; (2) URLFormatter percent-encodes unix/abstract socket paths so server.url never fails the WHATWG parser. Tests in bun-serve-args.test.ts, serve-listen.test.ts, and server-url-invalid.test.ts are updated to assert the new behavior.

Security risks

None introduced. If anything this is a hardening: unix: "" previously fell through to a TCP listener on the default port, which is a surprising public bind; it now throws.

Level of scrutiny

Medium-high. Bun.serve is production-critical and this is a user-visible behavior change: previously-accepted inputs (unix: "", unix: 42, unix: {toString(){...}}) now throw. The change is defensible as a bugfix, but whether to break the coercion path (and whether the empty-string case should throw vs. warn vs. keep the old fallthrough) is an API decision a maintainer should sign off on. There is also acknowledged overlap with #28342 (percent-encoding, currently conflicting with main) and #32287 (the WTFStringImpl leak this PR removes as a side effect).

Other factors

Three prior bot review rounds were addressed in follow-up commits: the abstract-socket trailing / was restored, the type gate was narrowed from is_array_buffer_like() to exactly Uint8Array with raw-byte reads, the hex_byte_upper canonical helper is used, and the author intentionally kept the error message as "string" (Uint8Array acceptance is undocumented back-compat). I confirmed URLFormatter with URLProto::{Unix,Abstract} is only constructed by server/mod.rs::get_url_as_string, so no other consumer is affected by the encoding change. Test coverage is thorough (empty string, empty Buffer, ten non-string variants, Uint8Array raw-bytes, undefined/null absent, special-char paths, relative path with space) and the old coercion tests were converted to throw assertions rather than removed.

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No bugs found this pass — the earlier findings (abstract trailing /, over-broad is_array_buffer_like gate, hex2_upper alias, tmpdirSync) are all addressed. Deferring to a human because this changes user-facing Bun.serve validation semantics (unix: "" and non-string values now throw where they previously bound a socket or fell through to TCP) and overlaps with #28342 / #32287, so a maintainer should decide which lands and confirm the breaking change is intended.

What was reviewed:

  • URLFormatter percent-encoding: unreserved set + / for unix, / encoded for abstract (authority position), trailing / for abstract preserved — fetch.unix.test.ts:64 will still pass.
  • ServerConfig unix gate: string via to_slice, Uint8Array via as_array_buffer().byte_slice() (detached → empty → throws non-empty error), everything else ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE; has_hostname conflict check preserved.
  • Test updates: removed the unix: "" / unix: Buffer.from("") → TCP permutations that this PR intentionally breaks; new coverage for each rejected type.
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Overview

Two focused native changes plus test updates:

  • src/bun_core/fmt.rs — URLFormatter::fmt gains a dedicated Unix | Abstract branch that percent-encodes the socket path (RFC 3986 unreserved + / for unix; / is encoded for abstract since the name sits in the authority) and appends a trailing / for abstract to preserve the pre-existing output shape asserted by fetch.unix.test.ts.
  • src/runtime/server/ServerConfig.rs — the unix option is now read via arg.get() and type-checked directly instead of get_stringish's ToString coercion: undefined/null = absent, string via to_slice, Uint8Array (covers Buffer) via as_array_buffer().byte_slice(), anything else throws ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE. Empty path throws instead of silently falling through to a TCP listener.
  • Tests: new unix option validation describe block in bun-serve-args.test.ts (empty string, empty Buffer, 10 rejected types, Uint8Array raw-bytes read, undefined/null as absent, special-char paths, relative path with space); serve-listen.test.ts computes the expected unix URL via the same encoding rule instead of the old Windows-specific C: split; server-url-invalid.test.ts updated to expect construction-time rejection of unix: Bun and a parseable URL for [weird name].sock.

Security risks

None introduced. The change is net-positive on the security axis: unix: "" previously fell through to binding a public TCP listener on port 3000 when the caller thought they'd asked for a local unix socket — that footgun is now a construction-time error. Percent-encoding is output-only formatting and does not touch the bind path.

Level of scrutiny

Medium-high. Bun.serve is core public API and this is a behavior change: inputs that previously succeeded (unix: "", unix: 42, unix: {toString(){…}}) now throw. The change is well-justified (each of those was a footgun) and the .d.ts type has always been unix?: string, but a maintainer should sign off on the breaking-change aspect and on how this coordinates with the two overlapping open PRs (#28342 does a more nuanced authority-vs-path encode set; #32287 fixes the same WTFStringImpl leak this PR eliminates as a side effect).

Other factors

  • All four prior review rounds' findings are resolved (abstract trailing / restored in 4c415f3; type gate narrowed to Uint8Array + raw-byte read in 4c415f3; hex_byte_upper in ec0eacf; tempDir in 7959988). The one intentionally-declined nit (error message says "string" not "string or Uint8Array") has a stated rationale (Uint8Array is undocumented back-compat).
  • Test coverage is thorough for the validation matrix; the URL-encoding tests are skipIf(isWindows) which is appropriate since AF_UNIX path semantics differ there.
  • The serve-listen.test.ts change replaces a hard-coded Windows C: split with a computed encoding — this now runs the same expectation on all platforms, which is a small robustness win but also means Windows CI is the only place that exercises the %3A case for the drive colon.

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Status after the rebase onto current main (a12264b):

Build 105010: 175 jobs passed, every lane built and every test shard that covers this PR's files passed. The one red shard is debian 13 x64-asan, where test/cli/run/require-cache.test.ts ("via import()") hit its 30s timeout. That test does not touch Bun.serve or URLFormatter, and it fails the same way on main (builds 104987, 104577, 104364). It is reported for main-break triage separately.

The other failures listed in the annotations (bun-add, request-smuggling, process.test.js, bake/deinitialization, migrate, bun-install-registry) all passed on retry within the same build.

Ready for maintainer review on the behavior change (unix: "" and non-string unix now throw instead of falling through to TCP / coercing).

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This also fixes #40182: Bun.serve({unix: "C:\\test"}).url throws TypeError: Invalid URL on Windows. The drive letter lands in the host slot and :\test fails the port parse. With this diff the formatter emits unix://C%3A%5Ctest, which the WHATWG parser accepts (checked with new URL). The same failure reproduces on Linux with a socket file literally named C:\test, so a test for it can run on all platforms.

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Rebased onto main. Two new commits on top of the earlier ones:

#40307 fixed the same failure for Windows only and is closed in favor of this PR.

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I reviewed this PR and the earlier findings have all been addressed; nothing new turned up on the current revision. Because it changes user-facing Bun.serve behavior (unix: "" and non-string unix now throw instead of falling through to TCP / coercing) and overlaps with #28342, a maintainer should sign off on the behavior change and PR coordination.

What was reviewed:

  • URLFormatter percent-encoding: unreserved set + / for unix paths, / encoded and trailing / kept for abstract — fetch.unix.test.ts shape preserved.
  • unix type gate: string via to_slice, Uint8Array via as_array_buffer().byte_slice() (raw bytes, not ToString); everything else rejected before any coercion runs.
  • Test updates: dead toString-trap tests removed, new tempDir call sites use using, serve-listen.test.ts computes the expected URL with the same encoding rule.
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Overview

The PR touches src/bun_core/fmt.rs (URLFormatter::fmt for unix/abstract sockets), src/runtime/server/ServerConfig.rs (the unix option read in ServerConfig::from_js), a one-token visibility change in src/jsc/JSGlobalObject.rs (throw_invalid_property_type back to pub), and three test files. It fixes #40182 (server.url throws for socket paths with URL-hostile bytes) and closes the "non-string unix coerces to a garbage socket path" bug class.

Security risks

None introduced. The change is arguably a hardening: unix: "" previously fell through to binding TCP *:3000 publicly; now it throws. Percent-encoding is output-only formatting for server.url and does not touch the bind path itself.

Level of scrutiny

Medium-high. The code changes are small and well-tested, but this is a deliberate behavior change on a core public API — values that Bun.serve previously accepted (empty string, numbers, objects with toString) now throw. The author explicitly flagged this for maintainer review ("Ready for maintainer review on the behavior change"), and the PR description notes overlap with #28342 (which uses a different escape-set split for authority vs path) and #32287. Whether to break unix: "" → TCP fallback, and whether to defer the URLFormatter hunk to #28342, are maintainer calls.

Other factors

All seven prior review comments (two blocking, five nits) are resolved in the current diff: the abstract-socket trailing / is restored, the type gate is narrowed to Uint8Array with raw-byte extraction, hex_byte_upper replaces the compat alias, new tests use tempDir with using, the redundant toString-trap tests are removed, and ZBox is written unqualified. CI on build 105010 was green except for a known main-flake in require-cache.test.ts. Given the explicit request for maintainer sign-off on the behavior change and the open-PR overlap, deferring rather than approving.

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@robobun robobun changed the title Bun.serve: validate unix option and percent-encode unix socket paths in server.url Bun.serve: percent-encode unix socket paths in server.url Aug 24, 2026
URLFormatter wrote the raw socket path after "unix://". A relative path
or a Windows drive path landed in the URL host slot, so
Bun.serve({ unix: "C:\\test" }).url threw TypeError: Invalid URL, and a
"#" or "?" in any path truncated the URL.

The formatter now percent-encodes the bytes the WHATWG parser rejects,
strips, or reads as a delimiter, per slot: the first segment of a
relative path is the host, the rest is the path. "%" is encoded too, so
decodeURIComponent returns the original path. Bytes the parser accepts
stay as-is, so a URL that parsed before serializes the same.

Fixes #40182
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Restructured this PR into a URL-only fix (026d46d, one commit on top of main). The title and body describe the new shape.

What changed since the last revision:

  • The unix option validation (ServerConfig.rs, the JSGlobalObject visibility change) is dropped. unix: "" meaning "absent" matches hostname: "", the loose string option of Bun.listen, the permutations pinned in Clean up some error handling code #15368, and node:http listen({ port, path: "" }), which passes path through as unix. Non-string values still coerce as before. If a maintainer wants stricter validation, that is a separate change.
  • The encoding is now per URL slot instead of "everything outside the unreserved set". The first segment of a path with no leading / is the host and gets the forbidden host code points encoded. The rest is the path and only #, ?, %, controls, non-ASCII and the bytes the parser encodes anyway are touched. So an absolute path such as /tmp/a+b=c@d.sock keeps the same href as today, and Bun.connect({ unix: server.url.href }) keeps working for every path it worked for before.
  • Tests: a new Bun.serve unix socket url block in bun-serve-args.test.ts (the Bun.Server.url can return invalid url in windows #40182 drive-letter case on every platform, a per-byte encoding table on POSIX, and an abstract socket name on Linux). server-url-invalid.test.ts now asserts that the coerced [object Bun] path gives unix://%5Bobject%20Bun%5D. serve-listen.test.ts expects hostname C%3A on Windows. The unix: "" and Buffer permutations from Clean up some error handling code #15368 are back unchanged.

All 4 changed tests fail on 1.4.0 with TypeError: Invalid URL and pass with this diff.

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I reviewed this revision and the bug hunting system found no issues. My earlier concern (title/description mismatched the descoped diff) has been addressed — the PR now accurately describes only the percent-encoding fix.

Deferring to a maintainer because this is a user-visible server.url output change: serve-listen.test.ts on Windows now expects hostname "C%3A" instead of "C", and the per-slot minimal-encoding approach supersedes two other PRs (#28342, #40307) that took different shapes — worth a human confirming this is the encoding they want to ship.

What was reviewed:

  • URLFormatter Unix/Abstract branches and the new PercentEncoded/needs_percent_encoding helper — sole caller is get_url_as_string in src/runtime/server/mod.rs; http/https branches are unchanged.
  • Checked the CodeRabbit dot-segment concern: not a regression — the raw path was written before too, so /../ normalized identically pre-PR.
  • Verified hex_byte_upper and strings::index_of_char_usize exist; abstract-socket trailing / preserved; no CODEOWNERS on the touched files.
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Overview

The PR touches one Rust source file (src/bun_core/fmt.rs, ~65 net lines) and three test files. It rewrites the URLProto::Unix and URLProto::Abstract arms of URLFormatter::fmt to percent-encode socket-path bytes per URL slot (host vs path), so server.url never throws TypeError: Invalid URL for paths with characters the WHATWG parser rejects (Windows drive letters, backslashes, spaces, #, ?, etc.). A new private PercentEncoded Display helper and needs_percent_encoding predicate hold the byte table. The only runtime caller of this code path is Server::get_url_as_string in src/runtime/server/mod.rs:514. The earlier validation half (ServerConfig.rs, JSGlobalObject.rs) was intentionally dropped per the author's 2026-08-24 note, and the description now records that.

Security risks

None identified. This is display-string formatting for an informational property (server.url); the socket bind itself uses the raw path via config.address, and server.address still returns it unchanged. No parsing of untrusted input, no memory management, no auth/crypto.

Level of scrutiny

Moderate. It is small and self-contained, but it is a user-visible API-surface change: the observable value of server.url.hostname on Windows changes from "C" (lossy — the colon was dropped) to "C%3A", and serve-listen.test.ts was updated to pin the new value. The PR description states this supersedes #28342 (host-only encoding for abstract sockets) and #40307 (Windows-only backslash→slash) — three approaches to the same problem is a signal that a maintainer should confirm the chosen design (per-slot minimal encoding, roundtrippable via decodeURIComponent(hostname + pathname)).

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  • All prior review threads (my nits, my 🔴 description-mismatch, CodeRabbit's error-message and dot-segment comments, the comment-cop long-comment flags) are resolved. The dot-segment normalization CodeRabbit raised is not a regression: before this PR the raw path was written and the parser normalized /../ identically; this PR does not change that.
  • Test coverage is good: the #40182 drive-letter case runs on all platforms, a per-byte encoding table on POSIX asserts exact href and roundtrip, an abstract-socket test on Linux, and server-url-invalid.test.ts flips from toThrow() to asserting the encoded href.
  • No CODEOWNERS cover the touched files.
  • Given I have already left three review comments that shaped this PR (tempDir nit, ZBox nit, description mismatch), a fresh maintainer eye on the final shape is appropriate rather than an auto-approval.

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Cross-check against #28342 on current main (731aa92), debug build:

Asked on #28342 whether this PR can land in its place.

robobun added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 6, 2026
…t portable

listen({ path, host }) forwarded both to Bun.serve as hostname + unix,
which throws. Node's pipe branch never reads host, so drop it there.

The Bun.serve test asserted on server.url, whose getter throws for a
Windows drive path (pre-existing, see #35806). Assert reachability over
the unix socket instead.

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Bun.Server.url can return invalid url in windows

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