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  • Request::construct_into throws a TypeError when the method is GET or HEAD and Body::Value::has_request_body() is true. An invalid URL still wins. A zero-byte body ("", new Uint8Array(0), new Blob([]), new URLSearchParams()) counts as no body, the same size rule fetch_impl applies through HTTPRequestBody::has_body, so new Request(url, init) and fetch(url, init) accept and reject the same inputs. This is looser than the spec, which rejects any non-null body.
  • Init::init throws a TypeError when a code unit of the statusText it reads from the init dictionary is outside HTAB, 0x20-0x7E, 0x80-0xFF (undici's isValidReasonPhrase). A FOR_RESPONSE flag turns the check off for new Request(), which parses its init through the same function. A Response used as the init is cloned before the dictionary parse, so new Response(body, upstream) keeps an upstream reason phrase the wire decoded to a code unit above 0xFF.
  • Two deliberate exemptions keep existing Bun behavior: a body that a Response passed as the init contributes (new Request(url, response), a Bun extension), and a method token Bun does not know ("Post", "LIST"), which Init::init still maps to GET (fetch and Request silently turn an unrecognised HTTP method into GET #42497). Mixed-case Get and Head throw, as in Node. A Request built under either exemption can be wrapped again with new Request(r, init): a method and body copied together from the input are not checked again, an init that sets the method is.
  • Seven test files built a Request with a body and the default GET method. They now pass method: "POST". The vendored Elysia suite has no new failure.
  • Verified: test/js/web/request/request.test.ts and test/js/web/fetch/response.test.ts (new blocks, 38 cases fail on stock bun). Also test/js/web/fetch/, FormData.test.ts, serve.test.ts.

Background

  • Fetch spec Request constructor, step 36: if the body is non-null and the method is GET or HEAD, throw a TypeError.
  • Fetch spec Response constructor: if statusText does not match the HTTP reason-phrase production, *( HTAB / SP / VCHAR / obs-text ), throw a TypeError.
  • Init is the parsed ResponseInit. new Request() reuses Init::init for method and headers.
Notes
  • new Request(postRequest, { method: "GET" }) throws too, and the input body stays unused (the cleanup path drops the teed body).
  • A review pointed out that the Response-as-init branch copies the Response's default GET method and then its body, so the first draft threw for every new Request(url, response) with a body. construct_into now tracks that the body came from a Response and skips the check for it. request.test.ts pins new Request(url, new Response(body)).
  • A second review finding: Method::which returns None for "Post" or "LIST", so Init::init fell back to GET and the check threw for a request Node accepts. init_method_is_unknown reads the raw token and skips the check when it is unknown and not GET/HEAD case-insensitively. Fixing the fallback itself is fetch: stop replacing unrecognized HTTP methods with GET #33469.
  • Self-review: 5 concerns raised, 4 addressed (the Response-init exemptions are stated above as deliberate, a test pins new Response(body, fetchedResponse) with a U+FFFD reason phrase re-wrapping without error, the check moved into Init::init behind FOR_RESPONSE). Rejected: throwing for a statusText that came from a Response object rather than from a dictionary. Node throws there too, but the value is not user input and the re-wrap idiom new Response(body, upstream) would start failing on a rare upstream reason phrase.
  • A review pass found the first draft used a type-based predicate (Null | Empty) that rejected new Blob([]) and new URLSearchParams() while fetch(url, init) accepted them. The check now uses Value::size() > 0 for blob/string bodies (streams always count), and request.test.ts pins the three zero-byte cases.
  • Bun.serve hands a GET request with a Content-Length body to the handler with body === null, so new Request(serverRequest, init) does not hit the new check.
  • statusText can be a Latin-1 or a UTF-16 WTF string. The check iterates code units of either form. A byte of a UTF-8 encoded slice is either ASCII or >= 0x80, so the byte path is also correct for that form.
  • Bun.serve: write Response.statusText as the reason phrase and drop the HM placeholder #36003 adds a separate wire-side is_valid_reason_phrase in src/runtime/server/HTTPStatusText.rs. This constructor check is a prerequisite for it.
  • The print size inline snapshot in response.test.ts depends on the test file's byte size and was updated, as in earlier commits to that file.
  • Elysia 1.4.28 suite with this build: 1516 pass, 9 fail. The 9 are the four skips listed in test/vendor.json, four Native Static Response tests that gate on Bun.semver.satisfies(Bun.version, ">=1.2.14") and fail on any -debug version string, and one timing test (Stream > stop stream on canceled request). None mention the new errors.
  • test/integration/bun-types/fixture/{fetch,index}.ts still write new Request(url, { body }) without a method. Those are type-check fixtures and do not run.

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/web/streams/streams.test.js, test/js/web/fetch/fetch.test.ts

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new Request() now throws a TypeError when the method is GET or HEAD
and the body is not null or empty, the same check fetch() already has.
new Response(), Response.json() and Response.redirect() now throw a
TypeError when statusText contains a code unit outside the reason-phrase
production (HTAB, 0x20-0x7E, 0x80-0xFF).

Tests that built a Request with a body and the default GET method now
pass method: "POST".
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Updated 4:38 PM PT - Sep 12th, 2026

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Request now rejects non-empty bodies for GET and HEAD, with exceptions for supported construction paths. Response constructors validate statusText characters. Tests cover body handling, method parsing, status text validation, and affected request-body fixtures.

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Fetch validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Request body method rules
src/runtime/webcore/Body.rs, src/runtime/webcore/Request.rs, test/js/web/request/request.test.ts, test/js/bun/http/async-iterator-stream.test.ts, test/js/bun/util/heap-snapshot.test.ts, test/js/web/fetch/*, test/js/web/html/FormData.test.ts, test/js/web/streams/streams.test.js
Request now rejects non-empty bodies for GET and HEAD. Empty bodies, response-derived bodies, and unknown methods follow the specified handling. Existing body tests use POST where required.
Response status text validation
src/runtime/webcore/Response.rs, test/js/web/fetch/response.test.ts
Response constructors validate UTF-16 and byte-backed statusText values. Tests cover invalid characters, accepted values, error precedence, and request parsing.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner

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Response.redirect still reports the wrong exception in the narrow case where both the redirect status and statusText are invalid. This is a bounded compatibility issue suitable for owner follow-up.

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1101-1101: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reject GET/HEAD bodies before the direct-clone return.

When a Bun.serve request has a non-zero Content-Length or transfer encoding, its shared body becomes BodyValue::Locked. new Request(req) clones that body and returns before the GET/HEAD check, so construction can succeed with a prohibited body. Apply the same validation before the direct-clone return and add the raw GET/HEAD regression.

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In `@src/runtime/webcore/Request.rs` at line 1101, Update the Request construction
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On the direct-clone finding (new Request(serverRequest) at Request.rs:1101): Bun.serve does not attach a body to an inbound GET or HEAD request. I sent raw requests with Content-Length: 3 and with Transfer-Encoding: chunked to a Bun.serve handler built from this branch. In all three cases req.body === null, and new Request(req) produced a Request with body === null and an empty text(). The clone path never sees a Locked body for these methods, so there is no prohibited body to reject there. No change made.

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Preserve raw HTTP reason-phrase bytes before Response::init.

FetchTasklet::to_response uses BunString::clone_utf8(http_response.status). Non-ASCII bytes then follow UTF-8 decoding, so 0x80 becomes U+FFFD. Response::get_status_text exposes U+FFFD, which Init::validate_status_text rejects. Use BunString::clone_latin1(http_response.status) at FetchTasklet.rs:1772 so valid 0x80..=0xFF reason-phrase bytes remain valid byte-backed statusText values.

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On the FetchTasklet::to_response finding (clone_utf8 on the wire reason phrase): not changed. That decode is outside this PR, and this PR does not validate the statusText of a fetched Response. Node decodes the reason phrase the same way: undici's onStatus does buf.toString(), which is UTF-8, so a lone 0x80 byte becomes U+FFFD there too, and new Response(body, fetchedResponse) then throws Invalid statusText in Node as well. Switching to Latin-1 would also mangle a UTF-8 reason phrase that a server sends on purpose.

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Init::init maps an unknown method token such as "Post" or "LIST" to
GET. The body check now tells that fallback apart from a real GET or
HEAD, so those requests keep their body as before.

Response.redirect() checks the status before statusText, so a status
out of range reports a RangeError first, as at the other sites.
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Init::init now takes a FOR_RESPONSE flag and rejects an invalid
statusText right after it reads the dictionary field. new Request()
passes false. A Response used as the init is cloned before that point,
so new Response(body, upstream) keeps working for a reason phrase the
wire decoded to a code unit above 0xFF.
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Init::init sets method_unknown when the dictionary names a token that
Method::which does not know and that is not a case variant of GET or
HEAD. new Request() reads that flag for the body check, so init.method
is read once.

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This pull request has been reviewed before and this review found new issues. Where they share a root cause, one fix may close them together.

Additional findings (outside the current diff — GitHub can't attach inline comments there):

  • 🔴 src/runtime/webcore/Request.rs — The two exemptions (skip_body_check for a Response init body and for method_unknown) produce a Request whose stored method is GET with a non-empty body, but the Request-input branch here copies that method and body without setting skip_body_check, so new Request(req, {}) and req.clone()-via-new Request(req, {headers}) now throw TypeError: Request with GET/HEAD method cannot have body. while the single-arg new Request(req) still succeeds via the fast clone_into path — on the base branch both succeeded. Fix: when the body is inherited from a Request input whose own method is already GET/HEAD, skip the check (it was already exempted at that Request's construction), while still throwing for new Request(postReq, {method: "GET"}).

    Extended reasoning...
    1. const r = new Request("http://x/", new Response("b")) — Response branch at line 1195 sets skip_body_check = true, so r is created with r.method === "GET" and body "b". 2) new Request(r, { headers: {a:1} }): is_first_argument_a_url = false, values_to_try = [{headers}, r], len 2. Iteration 1 ({headers}): explicit_check = true; Init::init::<false> finds no method, so method_check (line 1323-1328) reads fast_get(Method) → None → false; req.method stays unset. Iteration 2 (r): DOMWrapper Request branch, len≠1 so no fast clone; line 1106 req.method = r.method = GET; line 1140 clones the body; skip_body_check is never set on this path. After the loop line 1407 evaluates !false && matches!(GET, GET|HEAD) && has_request_body() → throws. On the base branch this succeeded. The same trace applies to const r = new Request(url, {method: "LIST", body: "x"}) (method_unknown exemption at line 1333). Contrast new Request(r) (single arg): values_to_try = [r], len 1 → line 1090-1102 clone_into returns before the check ever runs, so it still…

    Verification: normal — the Request-input branch copies method and body without arming skip_body_check, so a Request produced under either exemption cannot be re-wrapped with any init dict. Step 1, const r = new Request("http://x/", new Response("b")): values_to_try = [response] (len 1, Request.rs:1064-1079); the Response branch sets req.method = response.get_method() → GET (line 1156) and clones…

new Request(input, init) copies the input's method and body when the
init does not name them. That pair already passed the check when the
input was built, so the check runs again only when the init sets the
method.
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On the re-wrap finding (new Request(r, init) for a Request built under one of the exemptions): fixed in the latest push. When the init names no method, the Request-input branch copies the input's method and body together, and that pair already passed the check when the input was built, so the check is skipped for it. An init that sets method: "GET" still runs the check. request.test.ts pins both a Response-sourced and an unknown-method Request wrapped with an init.

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