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Problem

  • import { EventSource } from "undici" resolves to Bun's built-in undici shim even when the npm package is installed, and the shim's EventSource was a 9 line empty EventTarget subclass (src/js/thirdparty/undici.js:375 on main).
  • Constructing it succeeds, opens no connection and never fires open, message or error; url and readyState are undefined and close is not a function. Nothing warns, so SSE clients silently hang.
  • Bun has no EventSource global either (Node 26 has none by default), so the undici import is the way to consume SSE in Bun today. Related: Implement EventSource #8474.

Fix

  • Replaces the stub with an SSE client built on Bun.fetch, the same way undici implements its own (undici/lib/web/eventsource). No native code changes; the only new dependency inside the shim is validateNumber.
  • Processing model follows https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/server-sent-events.html#sse-processing-model:
    • 200 + text/event-stream (essence compared case-insensitively, parameters ignored): readyState becomes OPEN, open fires, the body is parsed incrementally.
    • any other status or content type, including 204: readyState becomes CLOSED, one error fires, no reconnect (#fail).
    • fetch rejection, server ending the stream, or the connection dropping mid-body: readyState becomes CONNECTING, error fires, a new fetch of the constructor URL is made after the reconnection time (#reestablish); like the spec's reconnect step and undici, a redirect, permanent or not, is followed per connection and never changes the URL that is reconnected to. The reconnect timer is unref'd, as in undici, so a dead server does not keep a process alive.
    • Last-Event-ID is sent as the id's UTF-8 bytes (utf8ByteString): header values are byte strings, so passing the id itself would send Latin-1 and could not carry ids outside it at all. This is what WPT format-field-id*.any.js checks.
    • a URL with credentials (http://user:pass@host/events) answers a 401 with Authorization: Basic, invisibly to the caller, and keeps sending it on later requests, as browsers and undici do (basicAuthorizationFor, #challenged). Bun's fetch already drops the header on cross-origin redirects.
    • close() aborts the in-flight fetch (which releases the socket) or cancels the pending reconnect. Every async continuation checks that its AbortController is still the current one (#controller), so a closed or superseded connection cannot fire events or change state.
    • an exception while parsing a chunk (in practice: a line too long to fit in a string) fails the connection with an ErrorEvent carrying it, the way Bun's WebSocket reports errors, instead of leaving the object OPEN with nobody reading the stream.
  • Parser follows the event stream interpretation rules: CR, LF and CRLF line endings (a CRLF split across chunks counts once), one leading BOM (via TextDecoder), comments, data lines joined with LF, event, id (ignored when it contains NUL, committed by the blank line even without data, persisted across reconnects), retry (digits only, applied when read, clamped to the i32 range setTimeout supports). An event without a blank line at end of stream is discarded. Dispatch stops as soon as a listener calls close().
  • Surface matches the IDL: url, withCredentials, readyState, close(), onopen/onmessage/onerror as event handler attributes, CONNECTING/OPEN/CLOSED as read-only constants on the constructor and the prototype, missing url throws TypeError, invalid url throws a SyntaxError DOMException, a non-object init throws TypeError like any dictionary. Events are fired and handler listeners registered through EventTarget.prototype, not through methods a subclass may override, as with native EventTargets. undici's documented { node: { reconnectionTime } } init option is accepted; its dispatcher options are ignored like the rest of the shim's dispatchers (undici: wire ProxyAgent/setGlobalDispatcher/{dispatcher} to native fetch proxy #35145 would make forwarding them a two line change).
  • Deliberate differences from undici 7.29, all in favor of the spec and browsers: no error event when close() is called while connecting, no further events from a chunk after a listener calls close(), retry: takes effect when the line is read rather than at the next blank line, and Object.prototype.toString reports [object EventSource].
  • Verification:
    • test/js/first_party/undici/undici.test.ts: 20 new test cases under undici.EventSource (shape and argument validation, request headers, MessageEvent fields, stream format fixtures, split chunks, reconnect with a non-Latin-1 Last-Event-ID and retry:, mid-stream drop, node.reconnectionTime, the fail cases, redirect origin, URL credentials, close() while connecting / inside a message listener / inside the error listener, handler attributes, subclass overrides, the parse failure path, and a spawned process reproducing the original report). Waits in the tests reject on an unexpected error event instead of running into the timeout. All 20 fail against a released bun with the stub (1.3.14 and 1.4.0), 31/31 in the directory pass with bun bd test.
    • The vendored WPT eventsource/ files that do not need a Window or a second origin (38 files, 62 subtests), run locally through test/js/third_party/wpt-testharness-shim against a small server standing in for the resources/*.py handlers: 59 pass. The 3 others are eventsource-onmessage-trusted (isTrusted is false for events dispatched from JS; undici has the same result) and the two request-cache-control subtests that need www2.localhost to resolve, which it does not in the container. Not checked in; it can be a follow-up in the shape of test/js/third_party/wpt-h2/.
    • undici-primordials.test.ts, test-eventsource-disabled.js and fuzzy-wuzzy.test.ts still pass. A differential script against Node 26.3.0 + undici 7.29.0 matches except for the differences listed above (transcript below).
    • The snippet added to docs/guides/http/sse.mdx was run against the guide's server example, and type-checked with undici installed, which is what the text now recommends.
  • Not in this PR: a global EventSource (Node 26 still has none without a flag, the vendored test-eventsource-disabled.js asserts it is undefined, and packages/bun-types/globals.d.ts already declares one; the class is self-contained, so exposing it would be a small follow-up if wanted), and whether the shim should keep shadowing an installed undici (Remove the undici polyfill #17799, undici: remove polyfill, resolve to real npm package #30561, Resolve bare undici to the installed package, keep the shim as fallback #36102). Under any of those outcomes this change stays useful or becomes a plain deletion.

Background

  • Server-Sent Events: the server keeps a text/event-stream response open and writes blocks of field: value lines separated by blank lines; each blank line dispatches the block as a MessageEvent whose type defaults to message. id: lets the client resume after a reconnect by sending the last id back as the Last-Event-ID request header, and retry: lets the server set the reconnect delay in milliseconds. The only standard way to authenticate an EventSource is credentials in the URL, which the client uses when the server answers 401.
  • The undici shim: src/js/thirdparty/undici.js is a built-in module that Bun resolves for the specifier undici (and next/dist/compiled/undici) ahead of node_modules, re-exporting Bun's native fetch classes plus stubs for the rest of undici's API. Headers, URL, MessageEvent and ErrorEvent used here are the native constructors captured through Undici.cpp, and the remaining globals the class needs (AbortController, Event, TextDecoder, DOMException, the timer functions, decodeURIComponent) are captured when the module loads, so user code replacing globals afterwards does not affect the shim; Buffer is rewritten to an intrinsic by the builtin preprocessor.
  • Event handler attributes (onmessage = fn) are defined by the HTML spec as one internal listener per attribute whose position in the listener list is fixed when the attribute first becomes non-null; non-object values set it to null. The implementation registers one wrapper listener per attribute and calls the current value through it, which is why onmessage = fn plus addEventListener("message", fn) invokes fn twice, as in browsers.
Differential script output, Node 26.3.0 + undici 7.29.0 vs this branch

Only the three lines below differ; the remaining output (request headers, parse fixtures, fail cases, redirect origin, handler attribute semantics, socket release on close) is identical.

node: /reconnect: [open, message, message, error rs=0, open, message, after close rs=2]
bun:  same sequence; bun's events are also instances of the global MessageEvent, so the
      script additionally printed data="one" id="1", data="two" id="2", data="three" id="2"
      and the server saw last-event-id="2" on the second connection in both runtimes

node: /close-in-handler: ["1","2","3"] rs=2
bun:  /close-in-handler: ["1"] rs=2

node: /close-while-connecting: ["error"] rs=2
bun:  /close-while-connecting: [] rs=2

Original report, bun -e with no server listening on the port, now prints the same as Node:

onerror fired (expected)
{ readyState: 0, url: "http://127.0.0.1:1/", close: "function" }

Rebased onto main twice, after #39778 (null bodies for 204/205/304/HEAD) and #39917 (streamed request bodies) landed; both times the only conflict was the import block of the undici test file. The review rounds were squashed into one commit. #readBody only runs for a 200, so the null body that a 204 now has does not reach it; the 204 case in the fail table passes on the rebased build.

Earlier revision of this PR: the first push documented "ids outside Latin-1 reconnect without Last-Event-ID" as a limitation and ignored URL credentials, routed events through this.dispatchEvent, and let a parse exception escape as an unhandled rejection; the second push fixed all four.


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fails on main (without fix)
ASAN without fix: 20 FAILED
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/mechgate.xml" test/js/first_party/undici/undici.test.ts
bun test v1.4.0 (6e906e468)

test/js/first_party/undici/undici.test.ts:
(pass) undici > request > should make a GET request when passed a URL string [70.54ms]
(pass) undici > request > should error when body has already been consumed [17.21ms]
(pass) undici > request > should make a POST request when provided a body and POST method [11.18ms]
(pass) undici > request > should stream a node:stream Readable body [253.89ms]
(pass) undici > request > should accept a URL class object [10.56ms]
(pass) undici > request > should prevent body from being attached to GET or HEAD requests [11.81ms]
(pass) undici > request > a 204 has no body [53.93ms]
(pass) undici > request > the response to a HEAD request has no body [20.43ms]
(pass) undici > request > should allow a query string to be passed [21.76ms]
(pass) undici > request > should throw on HTTP 4xx or 5xx error when throwOnError is true [18.70ms]
(pass) undici > request > should allow us to abort the request with a signal [530.87ms]
(pass) undici > req
... (truncated)

release without fix: 23 FAILED
bun test v1.4.0-canary.1 (6e906e468)

test/js/first_party/undici/undici.test.ts:
(pass) undici > request > should make a GET request when passed a URL string [3.58ms]
(pass) undici > request > should error when body has already been consumed [0.48ms]
(pass) undici > request > should make a POST request when provided a body and POST method [0.23ms]
83 |   }
84 |   if (method = method && typeof method === "string" ? method.toUpperCase() : null, inputBody && (method === "GET" || method === "HEAD"))
85 |     throw Error("Body not allowed for GET or HEAD requests");
86 |   if (inputBody && inputBody.read && inputBody instanceof Readable) {
87 |     let data = "";
88 |     for await (let chunk of stream)
                              ^
TypeError: iterable should have an iterator symbol
      at request (undici:88:26)
      at <anonymous> (/workspace/bun/test/js/first_party/undici/undici.test.ts:82:42)
(fail) undici > request > should stream a node:stream Readable body [1.15ms]
(pass) undici > request > should accept a URL class object [0.24ms]
(pass) undici > request > should prevent body from being attached to GET or HEAD requests [0.15ms]
134 |     it.each([
135 |      
... (truncated)
passes on PR (with fix)
ASAN with fix: all passed
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/mechgate.xml" test/js/first_party/undici/undici.test.ts
bun test v1.4.0 (6e906e468)

test/js/first_party/undici/undici.test.ts:
(pass) undici > request > should make a GET request when passed a URL string [70.99ms]
(pass) undici > request > should error when body has already been consumed [17.85ms]
(pass) undici > request > should make a POST request when provided a body and POST method [10.43ms]
(pass) undici > request > should stream a node:stream Readable body [245.96ms]
(pass) undici > request > should accept a URL class object [10.77ms]
(pass) undici > request > should prevent body from being attached to GET or HEAD requests [11.75ms]
(pass) undici > request > a 204 has no body [51.31ms]
(pass) undici > request > the response to a HEAD request has no body [19.95ms]
(pass) undici > request > should allow a query string to be passed [19.43ms]
(pass) undici > request > should throw on HTTP 4xx or 5xx error when throwOnError is true [17.19ms]
(pass) undici > request > should allow us to abort the request with a signal [529.43ms]
(pass) undici > req
... (truncated)

release with fix: all passed
$ bun scripts/build.ts --profile=release
[configured] bun-profile → bun (stripped)
  target       linux-x64-gnu
  build type   Release
  build dir    ./build/release
  revision     12ad2015a5
  features     baseline

23 deps, 129 codegen, 1172 objects in 703ms

ninja: Entering directory `/workspace/bun/build/release'
[1/1244] install /workspace/bun
bun install v1.4.0-canary.1 (6e906e468)

Checked 26 installs across 63 packages (no changes) [12.00ms]
[2/1244] gen ErrorCode+*.h
[3/1244] gen bindgenv2
[4/1244] install /workspace/bun/packages/bun-error
bun install v1.4.0-canary.1 (6e906e468)

Checked 1 install across 2 packages (no changes) [9.00ms]
[5/1244] fetch zlib
[zlib] up to date
[6/1244] fetch libjpeg-turbo
[libjpeg-turbo] up to date
[7/1217] gen .bind.ts → GeneratedBindings.cpp
[8/1217] gen ProcessBindingConstants.lut.h
Generating /workspace/bun/build/release/codegen/ProcessBindingConstants.lut.h from /workspace/bun/src/jsc/bindings/ProcessBindingConstants.cpp
[9/1217] fetch tinycc
[tinycc] up to date
[10/1216] install /workspace/bun/src/node-fallbacks
bun install v1.4.0-canary.1 (6e906e468)

Checked 111 installs across 104 packages (no changes) [9.00ms]
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... (truncated)
diff hotspot
docs/guides/http/sse.mdx                  |  23 ++
 src/js/thirdparty/undici.js               | 385 +++++++++++++++++-
 test/js/first_party/undici/undici.test.ts | 625 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 3 files changed, 1027 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

gate history · 4 passed · 0 rejected · iteration 0

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docs/guides/http/sse.mdx                       2      2      0
src/js/thirdparty/undici.js                   10     25      0
test/js/first_party/undici/undici.test.ts     13     24      0

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This change adds Undici EventSource support in Bun. It implements SSE connection management, parsing, reconnection, event dispatch, authentication, cancellation, tests, and usage documentation.

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EventSource SSE support

Layer / File(s) Summary
EventSource API and construction
src/js/thirdparty/undici.js, test/js/first_party/undici/undici.test.ts
Adds constructor validation, credentials and reconnection options, public properties, constants, event handlers, and close(). Tests validate the WebIDL shape and constructor behavior.
SSE connection and stream processing
src/js/thirdparty/undici.js, test/js/first_party/undici/undici.test.ts
Adds response validation, UTF-8 stream decoding, SSE field parsing, message metadata, reconnect timing, retry:, and Last-Event-ID handling. Tests cover parsing and reconnection behavior.
Lifecycle edge cases and authentication
src/js/thirdparty/undici.js, test/js/first_party/undici/undici.test.ts
Covers redirects, cancellation, URL credentials, handler attributes, subclass behavior, malformed streams, and refused connections.
EventSource usage documentation
docs/guides/http/sse.mdx
Documents Bun EventSource usage, message and error handlers, reconnection behavior, Last-Event-ID, retry:, and explicit closure.
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Reproduced on bun 1.4.0 with the script from the report (import { EventSource } from "undici" pointed at a port with nothing listening): no error event, readyState/url undefined, close not a function. With this branch the same script prints what Node 26 prints (error fires, readyState 0, url set, close is a function).

Verification: the 16 new undici.EventSource tests in test/js/first_party/undici/undici.test.ts fail on the released binary and pass on this branch; the differential run against Node 26.3.0 + undici 7.29.0 is in the PR description.

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I reviewed this PR and the automated bug-hunting pass found no issues. Because it adds a full ~350-line SSE client with reconnection/parsing logic and several deliberate spec-vs-undici behavior choices, a maintainer should sign off on the API surface and design decisions.

What was reviewed:

  • Traced the #controller token through every async continuation (#connect, #onResponse, #readBody, #feed) — a closed or superseded connection cannot mutate state or dispatch.
  • Walked the line parser against the WHATWG interpretation rules: CR/LF/CRLF (including split across chunks via #skipLF), BOM via TextDecoder, single-space stripping after colon, id NUL rejection, retry digit-only + i32 clamp, trailing partial event discarded.
  • Checked the #fail path cancels the response body (via controller.abort()) so a non-200 event-stream body isn't left open, and that #reestablish clears #controller before dispatching so close() in onerror short-circuits the reconnect.
  • Tests follow harness conventions (port: 0, using, try/finally cleanup, concurrent describe, no sleeps) and cover the fail/reconnect/close-in-handler matrix.
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Overview

This PR replaces the 9-line no-op EventSource stub in Bun's built-in undici shim (src/js/thirdparty/undici.js) with a full WHATWG-spec SSE client built on Bun.fetch: ~350 lines implementing the processing model (connect → announce → interpret event stream → reestablish/fail), the event-stream line parser, event handler IDL attributes, and the WebIDL surface (constants on constructor + prototype, enumerable accessors, Symbol.toStringTag). It adds 16 new tests (~480 lines) in test/js/first_party/undici/undici.test.ts and a client-side snippet to docs/guides/http/sse.mdx.

Security risks

Low. No native code; input is server-sent text run through TextDecoder and string slicing, with no eval/dynamic dispatch on server-controlled field names (a plain switch over the four spec-defined fields). retry: is validated as ASCII digits and clamped to 2**31 - 1 before reaching setTimeout, so a malicious server can't force a 1 ms busy loop. The Last-Event-ID header set is wrapped in try/catch so a non-Latin-1 id degrades to reconnecting without the header rather than throwing forever. Headers, URL and MessageEvent come from the Undici.cpp bindings array so user-tampered globals don't reach the shim.

Level of scrutiny

This warrants a maintainer look. It is a new user-facing Web API implementation with explicit design choices called out in the PR description: three deliberate divergences from undici 7.29 (in favor of the spec/browsers), a documented limitation on non-Latin-1 event ids, and the decision to leave the global EventSource unset. The repo's review guidance flags API-surface additions and Node/Web-compat work as needing the situational landing-prs.md sections and maintainer agreement — this is exactly that category, not a mechanical fix.

Other factors

The implementation reads carefully and I did not find defects: the controller-token pattern is applied consistently at every re-entry point after user code or await; #fail() aborts the controller so the unread body is released; #feed bails on readyState === kClosed after each #processLine so a listener calling close() drops the rest of the chunk; per-connection parse state is reset in #readBody on every reconnect. The tests are strong — they await observable conditions rather than sleeping, assert exact event sequences with readyState at each step, exercise CR/LF/CRLF split across chunks and split UTF-8, the three fail cases via it.each, and a spawned subprocess for the unref'd-timer exit behavior. All of that raises confidence, but the size and the API-design surface still put it outside what I'd auto-approve.

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✅ @robobun, your commit 12ad2015a51c69a97e588d6ad66caf39a1347d96 passed in Build #102791! 🎉


🧪   To try this PR locally:

bunx bun-pr 39360

That installs a local version of the PR into your bun-39360 executable, so you can run:

bun-39360 --bun

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In `@src/js/thirdparty/undici.js`:
- Around line 588-598: Update `#readBody` and its invocation from `#onResponse` to
handle missing response bodies and setup failures through the existing failure
path: treat a null response.body as an immediate stream end, guard URL
construction and reader setup, and attach a rejection handler at the call site
so failures emit the established error/reconnect behavior instead of leaving
readyState OPEN or producing an unhandled rejection.
- Around line 548-556: Implement withCredentials handling across the EventSource
connection flow: update `#connect`() to honor `#withCredentials` and extend the
native fetch/request credential plumbing so the option is not ignored, including
FetchOptions and Request.get_credentials(). If native credential support cannot
be implemented, explicitly document withCredentials as unsupported instead of
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569-573: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Restrict URL-credential retries to permitted Basic challenges and credential modes.

#onResponse() retries every 401 when URL userinfo exists, and #connect() ignores #withCredentials. A cross-origin EventSource with withCredentials: false must use same-origin credentials, so this explicit Authorization header bypasses that policy. Enforce the EventSource credential mode and retry only for an applicable WWW-Authenticate: Basic challenge. Test same-origin credentials separately from cross-origin withCredentials: false, including missing and non-Basic challenges.

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In `@src/js/thirdparty/undici.js` around lines 569 - 573, Update `#onResponse`() and
`#connect`() so URL credentials are retried only for an applicable
WWW-Authenticate Basic challenge and only when the EventSource credential mode
permits credentials; ensure withCredentials: false uses same-origin behavior and
does not send explicit Authorization cross-origin. Add coverage for same-origin
credentials and cross-origin credentials-disabled cases with missing and
non-Basic challenges.

Apply the same fix in `@src/js/thirdparty/undici.js` around lines 552 - 556.

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556-565: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Preserve permanent redirect targets across reconnects.

#connect() rebuilds each request from this.#url, which remains the constructor URL. Fetch follows a 301 for the first connection, but #reestablish() then starts from the old URL. Keep separate reconnect state so the permanent target is reused, as in upstream Undici. Add a regression test for this sequence.

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In `@src/js/thirdparty/undici.js` around lines 556 - 565, Update the reconnect
flow around `#connect` and `#reestablish` to retain the URL reached through a
permanent redirect instead of rebuilding requests from the constructor URL; keep
separate reconnect state and reuse that target on subsequent connections,
following the upstream Undici behavior. Add a regression test covering an
initial 301 followed by reconnect and verifying the permanent target is
requested.

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- Around line 556-565: Update the reconnect flow around `#connect` and
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589-592: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Capture the remaining mutable EventSource dependencies.

fetch, Headers, and URL are already captured. EventSource still resolves TextDecoder, AbortController, timers, Event, decodeURIComponent, and String prototype methods at call time. Use captured bindings, $Buffer, and .$call for prototype methods. Update the parser-failure test because it currently replaces globalThis.TextDecoder; retain coverage without mutating a production global.

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In `@src/js/thirdparty/undici.js` around lines 589 - 592, Update EventSource and
its `#readBody/parser` flow in src/js/thirdparty/undici.js (384-417, 449-741, and
589-592) to capture TextDecoder, AbortController, timers, Event,
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I reviewed this PR and the bug-hunting pass found no issues; the three nits from earlier runs (uncaptured globals, unwired onerror in test waiters, freed-port refused-address) are all addressed in 3f54648 and 362d0d7. Because this is a ~400-line new protocol client and user-facing API surface in a built-in module, a human look would still be worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

  • SSE parser against the HTML spec's interpretation rules — CR/LF/CRLF split across chunks, BOM, id NUL/commit semantics, retry: clamping, trailing-blank-line dispatch.
  • Async continuation guards (#controller identity checks) after every await and every user-callback dispatch — close()/reentrancy paths look complete.
  • 401 challenge / Authorization handling and Last-Event-ID UTF-8 byte-string encoding.
  • Test hermeticity: all servers are local port: 0, error events reject awaited promises, subprocess pipes drained concurrently.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

Replaces the 9-line no-op EventSource stub in src/js/thirdparty/undici.js with a full SSE client (~380 new lines) built on Bun.fetch, following the HTML SSE processing model. Adds 20 new test cases (~620 lines) in test/js/first_party/undici/undici.test.ts covering shape/validation, stream parsing, chunk boundaries, reconnect/Last-Event-ID/retry, fail cases, redirects, URL credentials, close() reentrancy, handler-attribute semantics, subclass overrides, and the parse-failure ErrorEvent path. Also adds a client example to docs/guides/http/sse.mdx.

Security risks

The Authorization header is derived only from credentials the caller embedded in the URL and is sent only after a 401 challenge; Bun's fetch drops it on cross-origin redirects. retry: is clamped to the i32 range so a hostile server cannot induce a 1ms busy loop. No shell/eval/filesystem surface. The parser operates on decoded strings with bounded per-line state; the one unbounded accumulation (#partialLine/#dataBuffer) is inherent to SSE and routed to #fail with an ErrorEvent if string construction throws. I don't see an injection or auth-bypass vector here.

Level of scrutiny

High. This is new user-facing API in a built-in module that Bun resolves ahead of an installed undici, so any behavior mismatch is observable to every SSE consumer. It implements a network protocol parser and a reconnect state machine with reentrancy from user callbacks. The repo's .claude/docs/landing-prs.md calls out both Node/Web-compat and API-design changes as needing situational review. That places it outside the "simple/mechanical" band for auto-approval.

Other factors

The implementation is thoroughly tested (20 targeted cases plus the PR description's local WPT run at 59/62), the PR author responded to and resolved every prior review thread (comment-cop, CodeRabbit's null-body / withCredentials concerns, and my three nits), and the change is JS-only with no native code. The prior state was a silent-hang stub, so the risk profile is strictly "new feature might have edge-case bugs" rather than "regression in working code." Still, ~1000 lines of new protocol client + tests is well past the threshold where a maintainer should sign off on the API shape (e.g., the deliberate spec-over-undici behavior differences and the decision not to expose a global).

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I reviewed this PR across three passes and found no bugs; the three nits I raised earlier (uncaptured globals, unwired onerror → reject in tests, and the freed-port refused-connection test) were all addressed. Because this is a ~380-line implementation of a new user-facing Web API — SSE processing model, reconnection, event-handler attributes, Basic-auth challenge handling — a human look at the overall design is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

  • SSE parser state machine: CR/LF/CRLF split across chunks, BOM, id/retry/event/data field rules, dispatch-buffer reset — matches the WHATWG interpretation rules.
  • Lifecycle: every async continuation gates on #controller, close() inside listeners stops dispatch and cancels reconnect, #reestablish vs #fail split matches the spec's fail-vs-reconnect distinction.
  • The response.body === null and withCredentials concerns raised by CodeRabbit — verified not applicable (200 GET always yields a stream in Bun's fetch; Bun has no ambient credentials for withCredentials to gate).
Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR replaces the 9-line no-op EventSource stub in src/js/thirdparty/undici.js with a full SSE client (~380 new lines) built on Bun.fetch, adds 20 tests (~620 lines) in test/js/first_party/undici/undici.test.ts, and adds a docs section to docs/guides/http/sse.mdx. No native code is touched. The implementation follows the WHATWG SSE processing model: incremental line parser with CR/LF/CRLF handling, data/event/id/retry field interpretation, reconnect-on-stream-end with Last-Event-ID, fail-on-bad-status/content-type, event-handler IDL attributes via a wrapper listener, super.dispatchEvent so subclass overrides are bypassed, and URL-credential Basic auth on 401.

Security risks

Low. The only security-adjacent piece is basicAuthorizationFor, which derives a Basic header from URL-embedded credentials and sends it after a 401 challenge. The credentials come from the caller's own URL; Bun's fetch already drops Authorization on cross-origin redirects. Last-Event-ID is server-provided and echoed back as UTF-8 bytes in a header value, which is standard SSE behavior and not an injection vector (the Headers constructor validates). No auth/crypto/permissions code paths, no native memory, no untrusted-length allocations.

Level of scrutiny

This is a new user-facing API implementation, not a bug fix or config tweak. It is self-contained (one JS module, one test file, one docs page) and exceptionally well-tested — 20 targeted tests plus WPT and Node-differential verification described in the PR body — but it encodes a lot of spec detail (line-ending edge cases, id-with-NUL, retry clamping, handler-attribute semantics, close-inside-listener) that benefits from a maintainer's eye on the design choices, particularly the deliberate deviations from undici 7.29 listed in the description and whether unref()ing the reconnect timer is the desired process-lifetime behavior.

Other factors

I left three inline nits on earlier revisions (capturing AbortController/TextDecoder/Event/setTimeout at module load; wiring onerror → reject in test waits; using 127.0.0.1:1 instead of a stop-then-reuse port). All three were addressed in 3f54648 and 362d0d7, and every review thread on the PR is resolved. CodeRabbit's two findings (null response.body, withCredentials no-op) were investigated and correctly withdrawn. The bug-hunting system found nothing on this pass. Given the size and that it defines new API surface, I'm deferring rather than shadow-approving.

require("undici").EventSource was an empty EventTarget subclass: constructing
it opened no connection, never fired an event, and had no url, readyState or
close(). Replace it with a Server-Sent Events client built on Bun.fetch,
following the WHATWG processing model: 200 + text/event-stream announces the
connection, anything else fails it, a closed or dropped stream reconnects
after the retry interval with Last-Event-ID (sent as UTF-8 bytes), a 401 is
answered with credentials embedded in the URL, and close() aborts the fetch or
the pending reconnect. The parser handles CR/LF/CRLF line endings and UTF-8
sequences split across chunks; an exception while parsing fails the
connection with an ErrorEvent instead of leaving the stream open unread.
on{open,message,error} are event handler attributes, the constants are
read-only on the constructor and the prototype, and events are fired through
EventTarget.prototype rather than through overridable methods. The globals the
class uses are captured when the module loads.
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I reviewed this PR and the bug-hunting pass found nothing this round; the three earlier nits (module-load capture of AbortController/TextDecoder/etc., wiring onerror to reject in the redirect/split-chunk/first-message waits, and swapping the freed-port dance for 127.0.0.1:1) are all addressed in the current diff. Given this is ~380 lines of new user-facing API surface (a full SSE client with reconnect, streaming parser, handler attributes, and 401/Basic-auth handling), a human look would still be worthwhile before landing.

What was reviewed:

  • SSE processing model against the WHATWG spec — status/content-type gating, CR/LF/CRLF across chunk boundaries, id/retry/event/data field handling, last-event-id commit semantics, and the fail vs. reestablish split all trace correctly.
  • Async-continuation guards — every path that resumes after await/.then re-checks this.#controller === controller before touching state or dispatching, so close() mid-flight is inert.
  • URL-credential Basic auth — percent-decoded, only sent after a 401, and Bun's fetch drops Authorization on cross-origin redirects, so no unintended credential leak.
  • Tests — hermetic (port: 0, no network), error wired to reject the awaited promises, subprocess pipes drained concurrently, cleanup via using/finally.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

Replaces the 9-line no-op EventSource stub in src/js/thirdparty/undici.js with a spec-following SSE client (~380 lines) built on Bun.fetch, plus 20 new tests (~620 lines) in test/js/first_party/undici/undici.test.ts and a short doc addition to docs/guides/http/sse.mdx. No native code touched.

Security risks

The only credential path is URL-embedded userinfo → Authorization: Basic after a 401 challenge. The header is only added once challenged, is derived from the constructor URL (already parsed), and Bun's fetch strips Authorization on cross-origin redirects. Last-Event-ID is server-provided data reflected back as a header; it's UTF-8-byte-encoded and set via the captured Headers constructor, so no injection vector. No filesystem, process, or eval surface.

Level of scrutiny

Medium-high. This is pure JS in a third-party shim, so no memory-safety or GC concerns, but it is a new user-facing Web API with a stateful reconnect loop and a hand-written streaming parser. The PR description documents WPT results (59/62, the 3 misses are environmental) and a differential run against Node 26 + undici 7.29, and the test suite is thorough — but new API surface of this size in a compat shim warrants a maintainer's eye on the deliberate spec-vs-undici divergences called out in the description.

Other factors

This PR has been through three prior automated review rounds; each round's feedback (comment length, global capture at module load, onerror→reject wiring in tests, refused-port hermeticity) was applied and is visible in the current diff. CodeRabbit's two findings (null response.body on 200, withCredentials not wired) were both correctly rebutted and withdrawn. The bug hunter found nothing this run. All inline threads on the PR are resolved.

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