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Problem

  • An Upgrade request carries its body in the same read as its head. The 'upgrade' listener calls req.pause(), reads the socket, and calls req.resume() later. The body and 'end' never arrive. If the socket is read later, no byte after the body arrives. Node v26.3.0 delivers both.
  • A read of the socket calls req.resume(), also on a paused request (#resumeSocket, src/js/node/_http_server.ts:1779). The listener runs before the rest of its read is parsed, so the body flows away with no listener.
  • The switch to tunnel mode at the end of the body (packages/bun-uws/src/HttpContext.h:620) leaves the socket paused. In tunnel mode resume() on the response does nothing (src/runtime/server/NodeHTTPResponse.rs:524).

Fix

  • A paused request is resumed one event loop turn after the read, and only if its body is still incomplete (Node: UpgradeStream._read until requestBodyCompleted()). Other requests are resumed at once.
  • The switch to tunnel mode calls Bun__NodeHTTP__onReadsResumable, the hook that onWritable uses. It keeps the flood prevention pause while response bytes are unsent.
  • Verified: test/js/node/http/node-http-req-socket-pause.test.ts. 3 new tests fail on main, 2 with either half of the fix alone. 2 more pin the resumes that stay.
  • Self-reviewed: 3 concerns raised, 3 addressed (Notes).

Background

  • Upgrade with a body: the body goes to req, the bytes after it to the listener's socket. A read of that socket resumes the request, so an unread body cannot block it.
  • Tunnel mode (isConnectRequest): the parser passes all later bytes to the JS socket unparsed.
  • req.pause(), or a full request buffer, pauses reads of the connection.
Notes

Repro. One write carries the head and a 100 byte body. The listener calls req.pause() and socket.on("data"). The client then sends ping-1;. Later the server calls req.on("data"), req.on("end") and req.resume(), and the client sends ping-2;.

result
Node v26.3.0 ping-1;, then 100 body bytes and 'end', then ping-2;
main ping-1;, ping-2;. The body and 'end' never arrive. req.readableFlowing is true
main, socket read after the listener nothing arrives on the socket, and the body is lost
this branch same as Node in both cases

The same holds on a kept-alive connection, with socket.pipe(), with on("readable") and read(), with a synchronous socket.read() in the listener, and over TLS.

Why one event loop turn, and not process.nextTick. The native dispatch drains microtasks and the tick queue before it returns to the parser (src/runtime/server/mod.rs:1382). A tick that the listener queues runs before the rest of the read is parsed. setImmediate runs after the read callback. Node emits 'upgrade' after parser.execute() consumed the whole read. With a complete body it hands over the raw socket, and nothing resumes the request.

The three concerns from the self-review, and the two tests that pin them.

  • The first version applied Node's rule ("resume only while the body is incomplete") to every request. It broke a listener that is correct under Node: if (req.complete) accept(); else req.once("end", accept); with a read of the socket and no reader of the body. Inside the listener req.complete is still false in Bun when the body came with the head (Node has true), so that listener waits for 'end', and it gets there only because the read of the socket resumes the request. A request that is not paused is resumed at once again, as on main. node:http: slice 'upgrade' head to the post-body remainder and close on unsatisfied-body FIN #35983 is about req.complete inside the listener.
  • The second version never resumed a paused request. A listener that pauses the request and never resumes it then held the socket behind a body larger than the highWaterMark. Node and main resume that request and the socket gets its bytes. The deferred check keeps this.
  • wss.handleUpgrade() from the request's 'end' listener runs inside the body callback of the last chunk. upgrade() adopts the socket in place, and its ext holds a WebSocketData from then on. The new native call skips a socket that was upgraded this way. It tells by the kind of the socket (us_socket_kind(user) == socketKind()), because upgradedWebSocket is per context and another connection's upgrade() in the same drain overwrites it (from the review on this PR).

Differences from Node that remain.

  • A request that is not paused, the body came with the head, the socket is read, and the body is read later: Node keeps the body. Bun resumes the request (main and this branch), so the body is gone. This needs req.complete at 'upgrade'.
  • A paused request whose body arrives in a later read, and the socket is read after that: Node keeps the body, because its parser received it before the read of the socket. In Bun req.pause() stops the reads, so the body is still in the kernel, and the read of the socket resumes the request like UpgradeStream._read. Same as main. If the socket is read before the body arrives, Node loses the body too.
  • req.complete is false and head is empty inside the listener when the body came with the head.
  • A tunnel has no read backpressure. That is the same for every CONNECT and Upgrade tunnel on main.

The third test and Node. A chunked body larger than the highWaterMark arrives with the head, so the first chunk pauses the connection and the end of the body arrives while it is paused. Node v26.3.0 delivers the body, but its socket never reads again (socket._handle.reading stays false after parserOnBody stops it). Bun delivers the later bytes. The other four tests give the same events under Node v26.3.0 (checked with standalone scripts).

Each half is needed. With only the _http_server.ts change, the second and third test time out: no tunnel byte arrives. With only the HttpContext.h change, the first and second test fail on req.readableFlowing. On main the first two tests fail at once on req.readableFlowing, and the third by the test timeout: a lost tunnel byte produces no event.

Why the native call is safe there. It runs after the body callback, and after the closed and shut down checks. us_socket_resume can close a socket whose poll cannot be re-armed, so the handler returns nullptr then, like the other close paths. The queue of parked pipelined requests is always empty at this switch: an accepted Upgrade is never pipelined, and after its dispatch the parser never reaches a request boundary again. resume() re-arms a timeout of 0 for node:http (idleTimeout: 0).

Regression check against main. A script matrix ran each combination under main, this branch and Node: 17 ways to consume the request (none, 'data', 'end' only, req.complete or 'end', 'readable', for await, pipe(), Readable.toWeb(), three pause patterns, and slow or late variants), the socket read in the listener, after it, late, synchronously, through pipe() or never, the body with the head, in a later write, in two parts or in 8 pieces, 100 bytes and 5000 bytes with a 1 KiB highWaterMark, Content-Length and chunked. 408 combinations: no result is worse than main. Every difference is a request with readableFlowing === false (paused, or read through 'readable') that now gets its body, or a socket that now gets its bytes.

Suites run with the debug build. node-http-req-socket-pause.test.ts, node-http.test.ts, node-http-with-ws.test.ts, node-http-backpressure.test.ts, node-http-server-timeouts.test.ts, node-http-server-abort-events.test.ts, node-http-server-socket-end-drain.test.ts, test/js/first_party/ws/ws.test.ts, and from test/js/node/test/parallel: test-http-upgrade-* (14 files), test-http-parser-freed-before-upgrade.js, test-http-server-request-timeout-upgrade.js. All pass. In node-http-connect.test.ts, tests should run on bun passes its 5 s limit under the debug build: its sub-suite passes (7 of 7) and takes 6.7 s there. All other tests of that file pass.

Found during the review of #43376. That PR resumes reads at the immediate switch to tunnel mode (upgradeToTunnelModeImpl). This PR does the same at the switch at the end of the body. The two diffs do not touch the same lines.

Found next to this, not fixed here.

  • On a kept-alive connection a socket.write() from the 'upgrade' listener does not reach the client until socket.end(). node:http: don't leave the server socket Duplex corked across kept-alive requests #35664 covers it.
  • After upgrade() from the body callback, the data handler keeps going on the adopted socket (inStream = nullptr, parser state). node:http: keep parsing other connections after an upgrade from a request body handler #43182 covers it.
  • The branch of #resumeSocket for requests that are not upgrades reads handle.hasBody (src/js/node/_http_server.ts:1802). The socket handle has no such property, so emitServerSocketEOFNT never runs. To make it live changes every request whose handler reads req.socket after a paused body, so it needs its own change.
  • A pipe() that pauses the request between the read of the socket and the deferred check sees one write() above its highWaterMark. No byte is lost. Node's UpgradeStream._read overrides a pause the same way.

[human-review] gate passed · iteration 0 · 3 files touched

fails on main (without fix)
ASAN without fix: 3 FAILED
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/pr_gate.xml" test/js/node/http/node-http-req-socket-pause.test.ts
bun test v1.4.3 (367d939d9)

test/js/node/http/node-http-req-socket-pause.test.ts:
(pass) req.socket emits 'pause' once an unread request body fills the IncomingMessage buffer [1037.56ms]
(pass) body reading from 'pause' still delivers every byte and 'end' [236.52ms]
(pass) req.socket emits 'pause' on every body-bearing keep-alive request, not just the first [427.13ms]
(pass) request whose whole body arrived while it was paused, answered later on a keep-alive connection > is released once the response ends even though the body is never read [203.63ms]
(pass) request whose whole body arrived while it was paused, answered later on a keep-alive connection > still hands the rest of the body to a reader that starts reading as the response ends [199.24ms]
(pass) request whose whole body arrived while it was paused, answered later on a keep-alive connection > is released once the response ends when the next request was pipelined behind it [173.74ms]
(pass) upgrade request whose whole body ar
... (truncated)

release without fix: all passed
bun test v1.4.3-canary.1 (f3f9a2216)

test/js/node/http/node-http-req-socket-pause.test.ts:
(pass) req.socket emits 'pause' once an unread request body fills the IncomingMessage buffer [20.18ms]
(pass) body reading from 'pause' still delivers every byte and 'end' [6.45ms]
(pass) req.socket emits 'pause' on every body-bearing keep-alive request, not just the first [6.12ms]
(pass) request whose whole body arrived while it was paused, answered later on a keep-alive connection > is released once the response ends even though the body is never read [3.99ms]
(pass) request whose whole body arrived while it was paused, answered later on a keep-alive connection > still hands the rest of the body to a reader that starts reading as the response ends [3.39ms]
(pass) request whose whole body arrived while it was paused, answered later on a keep-alive connection > is released once the response ends when the next request was pipelined behind it [3.73ms]
(pass) upgrade request whose whole body arrived while it was paused still hands the whole body to a reader attached later [3.25ms]
(pass) upgrade request whose whole body arrived with its head > a paused request keeps its body whe
... (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/pr_gate.xml" test/js/node/http/node-http-req-socket-pause.test.ts
bun test v1.4.3 (367d939d9)

test/js/node/http/node-http-req-socket-pause.test.ts:
(pass) req.socket emits 'pause' once an unread request body fills the IncomingMessage buffer [1509.95ms]
(pass) body reading from 'pause' still delivers every byte and 'end' [288.81ms]
(pass) req.socket emits 'pause' on every body-bearing keep-alive request, not just the first [449.70ms]
(pass) request whose whole body arrived while it was paused, answered later on a keep-alive connection > is released once the response ends even though the body is never read [153.52ms]
(pass) request whose whole body arrived while it was paused, answered later on a keep-alive connection > still hands the rest of the body to a reader that starts reading as the response ends [145.92ms]
(pass) request whose whole body arrived while it was paused, answered later on a keep-alive connection > is released once the response ends when the next request was pipelined behind it [121.68ms]
(pass) upgrade request whose whole body ar
... (truncated)

release with fix: all passed
$ bun scripts/build.ts --profile=release
[configured] bun-profile → bun (stripped) in 825ms (unchanged)
ninja: Entering directory `/workspace/bun/build/release'
[1/125] gen JS modules (bundle-modules)
Preprocess modules (10594ms)
Bundle modules (121ms)
Postprocesss modules (152ms)
Bundle Functions (669ms)
Generate Code (54ms)

[11.60s] Bundled "src/js" for production
  2607 kb
  197 internal modules
  13 native modules
  50 internal functions across 16 files
[2/14] cxx obj/unified/UnifiedSource-src_jsc_bindings-1.cpp.o
[3/14] cxx obj/unified/UnifiedSource-src_jsc_bindings-0.cpp.o
[4/14] cxx obj/unified/UnifiedSource-src_jsc_bindings_node-0.cpp.o
[5/14] cxx obj/unified/UnifiedSource-src_jsc_bindings-4.cpp.o
[6/14] cxx obj/unified/UnifiedSource-src_jsc_bindings-3.cpp.o
[7/14] cxx obj/unified/UnifiedSource-src_jsc_bindings-5.cpp.o
[8/14] cxx obj/unified/UnifiedSource-src_uws_sys-0.cpp.o
[9/14] cxx obj/src/jsc/bindings/bindings.cpp.o
[10/14] link bun-profile
ld.lld: warning: Linking two modules of different target triples: 'obj/vendor/mimalloc/src/static.c.o' is 'x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' whereas '../../../../root/.bun/build-cache/webkit-ebd5a6145bf7ad92-lto/lib/libJavaScr
... (truncated)
diff hotspot
packages/bun-uws/src/HttpContext.h                 |  10 ++
 src/js/node/_http_server.ts                        |  16 +-
 .../node/http/node-http-req-socket-pause.test.ts   | 193 ++++++++++++++++++++-
 3 files changed, 216 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

gate history · 2 passed · 0 rejected · iteration 0

evidence per changed file
file                                                  reads  edits  tests
packages/bun-uws/src/HttpContext.h                        7      6     53
src/js/node/_http_server.ts                              11      7     54
test/js/node/http/node-http-req-socket-pause.test.ts      4      1     52

… at the switch to tunnel mode

A read of the upgrade socket resumed the request at once, also one that
its 'upgrade' listener paused. The listener runs before the rest of its
read is parsed, so a body that arrived with the head then flowed away
with no listener. A paused request is now resumed one event loop turn
later, and only if its body is still incomplete then, like Node.js's
UpgradeStream. A request that is not paused is resumed as before.

The switch to tunnel mode at the end of the body now resumes reads that
req.pause() or a full request buffer paused. pause() and resume() on
the response do nothing in tunnel mode, so the socket stayed paused and
later tunnel bytes never arrived.
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The change updates Node HTTP upgrade handling to resume paused request-body reads safely before tunnel processing. It adds deferred resumption logic and native socket checks, with tests for body completion, incomplete bodies, listener timing, and tunnel data.

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Upgrade request resumption

Layer / File(s) Summary
Deferred upgrade resumption
src/js/node/_http_server.ts
Paused upgrade requests defer resumption until native body reading completes. Flowing requests resume immediately.
Native tunnel transition
packages/bun-uws/src/HttpContext.h
Native handling verifies the socket kind, resumes resumable reads, and stops when resumption closes the socket.
Upgrade resumption validation
test/js/node/http/node-http-req-socket-pause.test.ts
Tests cover paused and unpaused bodies, listener timing, incomplete bodies, request completion, and subsequent tunnel bytes.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to c74ed

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Status: ready for review.

How I reproduced it. A node:http server has an 'upgrade' listener that calls req.pause() and reads the socket. A net client sends an Upgrade request with a 100 byte body in one write, then ping-1;. The server calls req.resume() later.

  • Node v26.3.0: the request gets its 100 bytes and 'end'.
  • Bun 1.4.3-canary (367d939): the request gets neither. If the listener reads the socket later, the bytes after the body never arrive.
  • This branch: same as Node.

The new tests in test/js/node/http/node-http-req-socket-pause.test.ts cover both symptoms. Three of them fail on main.

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Findings marked 🟡 are optional suggestions and need no follow-up push.

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

  • 🟣 src/js/node/_http_server.ts — nit: the sibling of the new check is still broken: src/js/node/_http_server.ts:1805 reads handle.hasBody on JSNodeHTTPServerSocket, which has no such property, so bodyReadState is undefined and emitServerSocketEOFNT never runs for a non-upgrade socket read by a request handler. The new helper at :1329 reads response.hasBody correctly, so the PR knows the right accessor and leaves the wrong one in the same function. Fix: read response.hasBody at :1805 like :1329 does, or delete the dead branch and emitServerSocketEOFNT if the EOF it would emit is not wanted (it pushes null on the socket and never pushes null on req).

    Extended reasoning...

    Four finders saw this and all filed it as pre-existing. It is pre-existing, but the diff adds the corrected twin ten lines above and leaves this one, which is the 'fix the whole class' rule. I opened JSNodeHTTPServerSocketPrototype.cpp: the hash table has no hasBody entry; response at :536-547 is the only way to reach the NodeHTTPResponse whose get_has_body in NodeHTTPResponse.rs:797 produces the bits. So (undefined & 4) !== 0 is always false. Path: a request handler calls req.socket.on('data') or socket.resume(); socket._read at :1821 → #resumeSocket → :1802-1817; response.resume() returns a buffered chunk; :1810 never fires. Consequence today: emitServerSocketEOFNT at :3750 is dead; if a maintainer 'fixes' the accessor without reading it, emitServerSocketEOF(self) at :3742 is called without req, pushes null on the keep-alive socket and leaves req[eofInProgress] = true so IncomingMessage._read returns early forever at _http_incoming.ts:380 and 'end' never fires. Either the branch should be made live with the right accessor and req passed through, or deleted in this PR.…

    Verification: pre-existing (nit). Trigger: a non-upgrade request handler reads req.socket (e.g. socket.on('data')/socket.resume()) after the body was buffered during a pause, so #resumeSocket reaches the non-upgrade branch at /home/claude/bun/src/js/node/_http_server.ts:1802-1817. Mechanism verified. At :1782-1783 const handle = this[kHandle]; const response = handle?.response; — handle is the…

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…the new tests

The resume at the switch to tunnel mode skipped a socket that upgrade()
adopted inside the body callback by comparing it to upgradedWebSocket.
That field is per context, and another connection's upgrade() in the
same drain overwrites it. The check now reads the kind of the socket.

The new tests reject their waits when a socket errors or closes, and
the late-read case checks req.readableFlowing right after the read.
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About the finding outside the diff (handle.hasBody at src/js/node/_http_server.ts:1802, in the branch of #resumeSocket for requests that are not upgrades): confirmed. JSNodeHTTPServerSocket has no hasBody, so that check is always false and emitServerSocketEOFNT never runs.

I did not change it in this PR. That branch is not on the Upgrade path. To make it live changes every request whose handler reads req.socket after a paused body: it pushes null on a kept-alive socket, and emitServerSocketEOFNT does not pass req on. It needs its own change with tests. I added it to the PR notes.

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- Line 359: Strengthen the upgrade test around
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Superseded by #43557. It contains this change, with the setImmediate replaced by a native signal that fires when the socket read being parsed is consumed.

Jarred-Sumner added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 26, 2026
…inish, lifecycle) (#43557)

One pull request for the open `node:http` server pull requests. Each
root cause is fixed once, and each pull request's tests are carried
over. Node is the reference: every scenario was run under Node and under
Bun from one script, and the outputs were compared.

Fixes #4733
Fixes #18613
Fixes #40350
Fixes #43155
Fixes #43297
Fixes #43513
Fixes #43527
Fixes #25632
Fixes #31301
Fixes #43027
Fixes #43163
Fixes #43342
Fixes #43344
Fixes #43370
Fixes #43490
Fixes #43512
Fixes #43519

Each of these has a repro that is wrong on Bun 1.4.3, right on this
branch, and the same as Node.

| Issue | Not closed by this PR, because |
| --- | --- |
| #30501 (msal-node keeps Bun alive at exit) | Probably fixed. The repro
copies the teardown of msal-node. The package itself was not run. |
| #14430 (yarn: "does not support SSL") | Probably fixed.
`response.hasOwnProperty("socket")` is now `true`. yarn itself was not
run. |
| #39681 (`server.setTimeout` callback after destroy) | Probably fixed.
The repro is the deterministic case of #39686. The script in the issue
depends on timing and on Windows. |
| #43455 (`req.complete`, nine flows) | Partially addressed. Flows 1, 2,
3, 5 and 7 are fixed, and flow 6 was already right. Flow 8 (a socket
timeout while the body of an Upgrade request arrives) and flow 9 (a
request that `stream.pipeline()` destroyed never reports `complete`) are
not. Flow 4 differs only in `_readableState.ended`. |

### What changes for users

| Area | Before | After (same as Node) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `req.pause()` | The socket stops at once. `req.complete` stays `false`
for a small body. | The body is received until the buffer is full. Then
the socket stops. |
| `res.end()` before the body arrives | `req` gets `'end'` and `'close'`
at once, and the body is lost | The request completes when its body
really ends |
| `res.destroy()` in the middle of a body | `'end'` with bytes missing |
`aborted`, then `ECONNRESET` |
| `socket.destroy()` inside the `'request'` listener | The body that
came with the head is dropped | That body is still delivered |
| `'finish'` and the `end()` callback | Fire when `end()` buffers the
bytes | Fire when the last bytes have left the socket |
| A response that closes the connection | The server half-closes and
waits for the peer | The socket closes right behind the FIN |
| `'drain'` after a later write flushed the backlog | Lost. `pipe(res)`
could hang. | Emitted |
| A pipelined request whose body continues after the previous response
ends | Body dropped, no response, `server.close()` hangs | Delivered |
| CONNECT and Upgrade tunnel sockets | Keep reading when paused or full
| Stop reading. `_read()` starts them again. |
| A tunnel write that waits for a drain when the client goes away | Its
callback, the callbacks of the writes behind it and the `end()` callback
never run | They run with an error before `'close'` |
| Upgrade request with a body, paused in its listener | The body flows
away | The request keeps its body |
| `ws` on a reused keep-alive socket | Writes after the Upgrade could
stall | Sent |
| A raw `socket.write()` behind a response that still drains (the 400
for a bad pipelined request, the reply of a `'clientError'` listener) |
Lands in the middle of that response | Sent after it |
| `server.close()` | Could report closed while connections were open |
Waits for every connection. An idle tunnel does not keep the process
alive. |
| `closeAllConnections()` on a listening server | Also stops the
listener and destroys tunnels and WebSockets | Destroys only the HTTP
connections |
| `Proxy-Connection: close` (node:http only) | Ignored. The connection
stays open. | Ends the connection, like `Connection: close` |
| A response larger than 16 KB, also in `Bun.serve` and over TLS | Up to
4 `send()` calls for each chunk. Slower than Node in most cases. | One
write for the writes of one tick. 1.1x to 2.7x the requests per second
of main, and faster than Node. |
| `socket.destroy()` and then `res.end()` in a listener | (this PR,
earlier) `req` ended as if it were complete | `'aborted'`, then
`ECONNRESET` |
| `emit('connection')` or http2 `allowHTTP1`: the response ends while
the listener still reads the body | The rest of the body is dropped |
The body is complete |
| `httpValidation: "relaxed"`, `Content-Length` or `Transfer-Encoding`
in trailers | Accepted | `HPE_INVALID_CONTENT_LENGTH`,
`HPE_INVALID_TRANSFER_ENCODING` |
| `req.complete` inside `'connect'`, and inside `'upgrade'` without a
body | `false` | `true` |
| `optimizeEmptyRequests`: `socket.parser.incoming` after the response |
Keeps the request alive on an idle connection | `null` |
| A HEAD or OPTIONS request with `Content-Length` | The body is dropped,
and `req.complete` is `true` before it comes | The request has its body
|
| `res.end(chunk)` after the client went away | `finished` and
`writableEnded` stay `false`, no `'prefinish'` | The response ends |
| An HTTP/1.0 request with an `Expect` header | `100 Continue`,
`'checkContinue'`, `'checkExpectation'` or a 417 | A plain `'request'` |
| The idle sweep of `close()` and `closeIdleConnections()` | Could
destroy a connection that was still receiving a request, or whose
response was still draining | Closes only idle connections |

### Design

| Piece | What it is |
| --- | --- |
| Request body state | `None / Pending / Complete / Aborted / Upgraded /
Detached`. Only the last chunk sets `Complete`. One function,
`leave_pending`, is the only other way out of `Pending`. |
| Read flow control | One path: `push()` returning false stops the
socket, `_read()` starts it. Both native pause buffers are removed: no
read is copied and replayed. |
| "This read is parsed" signal | `notifyWhenReadParsed()` sets a uws
state bit. uws delivers a `readParsed` event after the read. It replaces
a `setImmediate`. |
| Close during a parse | One uws bit defers a close to the end of the
current message. |
| Response finish | A response is finished when it has ended and the
socket has fully drained. |
| Idle connection | One rule, `HttpResponse::closeIfIdle()`. A
connection is idle when it receives no request (head or body) and no
response is in flight, queued or undrained. The sweep of `close()` and
`closeIdleConnections()` both use it. |
| Idle tunnel | A tunnel at read EOF with nothing left to send. uws
reports it to the server through the connection filter (`-3`, `+3`,
`-4`). It still counts for `'close'`, but it does not hold the event
loop, like a libuv handle in that state. |
| Server `'close'` | One native close promise per `listen()`. `close()`
records whether its sweep left nothing open. Then a `listen()` in the
same tick cannot hold `'close'` back, as in
`net.Server._emitCloseIfDrained`. |
| Raw socket writes | While uws holds response bytes (its buffer, the
zero-copy tail of a `res.write()`, the cork buffer), a raw write goes
through `AsyncSocket::write`, the path a 1xx line takes. So the order on
the wire is the order of the calls. |
| Upgrade verdict | One scanner and one verdict, shared by the parser
and the dispatcher. |
| llhttp | Updated from 9.3.0 to 9.4.2, as Node v26.5.0 vendors it, plus
one local patch (see below). Node v26.5.1 and later vendor 9.4.3. That
update is not in this PR. |

The parser changes also tighten request framing so that it agrees with
llhttp in more cases. There is no new API surface.

### A pause holds from the next read

The copy of the rest of a read (`nodeHttpPausedSpill`), its replay from
a posted task and the nested parse are removed. Like in Node, the rest
of the read that caused a pause is still parsed, and the socket stops at
the next read. usockets reads up to 512 KB in one call. libuv reads 64
KB.

| One paused, unread request (client sends 64 MB) | Bytes held |
| --- | --- |
| Node 25.6 | 131,018 |
| This pull request | 524,234 |

The price is in one case. A client sends 512 KB of small pipelined
requests (19,418 of them) and never reads. Each handler answers with its
own 64 KB body:

| Handler | Runtime | Requests dispatched | RSS |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Answers at once | Node 26.3 | 2,425 | +177 MB |
| Answers at once | main | 41 | +9 MB |
| Answers at once | This PR | 2,425 | +171 MB |
| Answers one tick later | Node 26.3 | 4,850 | +336 MB |
| Answers one tick later | main | 2,426 | +181 MB |
| Answers one tick later | This PR | 4,850 | +330 MB |

Release builds on Linux x64. This PR now does what Node does. main held
fewer responses, mostly for a handler that answers at once. On macOS one
read can return all 512 KB. There, Bun 1.4.3 already reached +951 MB for
the handler that answers one tick later, and Node reached +1,294 MB.
`server.maxRequestsPerSocket` bounds it.

### Performance

#### Responses larger than 16 KB are faster, and now faster than Node

On main, a response that did not fit the 16 KB uWS cork buffer released
the cork. After that, each piece was its own `send()`: the buffered
head, the chunk-size line, the data, the `\r\n` and the last chunk. Over
TLS, each 2-byte piece was also its own record. Two changes fix that,
for `Bun.serve` and for node:http:

| Change | Effect |
| --- | --- |
| A write that does not fit goes out with the cork buffer and its
framing in one vectored write | No copy is added. Over TLS, the records
of all the pieces share the write batch that one `SSL_write` loop
already had. |
| The cork buffer holds 128 KB, up from 16 KB. Only a write of 16 KB or
less is copied into it, as before. | Several writes in one tick go out
in one write, like in Node. A longer write still goes out without a
copy. |

The bytes on the wire are the same. The vectored write uses `sendmsg()`
with the flags that `send()` uses.

Write syscalls for one response:

| Response | Node 26.3 | main | This PR |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 4 x `res.write(16 KB)` | 1 | 16 | 1 |
| 40 x `res.write(2 KB)` | 1 | 16 | 1 |
| `res.end(64 KB)` | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 256 KB file, `.pipe(res)` | 4 | 16 | 5 |

Throughput (req/s, the mean of 2 rounds). Node v26.3.0, main
`97246d044e`, this PR `fe0ed1fbea`, with the method below:

| Case | Node | main | This PR | main / Node | PR / Node | PR / main |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| http, 4 x `res.write(16 KB)` | 17,735 | 6,983 | 19,160 | 0.39x | 1.08x
| 2.74x |
| https, 4 x `res.write(16 KB)` | 11,720 | 6,110 | 15,510 | 0.52x |
1.32x | 2.54x |
| http, 40 x `res.write(2 KB)` | 9,879 | 6,140 | 14,980 | 0.62x | 1.52x
| 2.44x |
| https, 40 x `res.write(2 KB)` | 6,981 | 5,541 | 11,780 | 0.79x | 1.69x
| 2.13x |
| http, `res.end(64 KB)` | 18,535 | 16,528 | 19,889 | 0.89x | 1.07x |
1.20x |
| http, 256 KB file `.pipe(res)` | 2,684 | 2,375 | 2,719 | 0.88x | 1.01x
| 1.15x |
| https, `res.end(64 KB)` | 11,894 | 14,586 | 16,426 | 1.23x | 1.38x |
1.13x |
| http, GET hello (control) | 55,994 | 70,989 | 71,958 | 1.27x | 1.29x |
1.01x |

main was slower than Node in six of these eight cases. This PR is faster
than Node in all eight.

`Bun.serve`, measured on `a771572a8d`, before the larger cork buffer
(req/s, the mean of 2 rounds):

| Case | main | PR | Change |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Direct stream, 4 x 16 KB | 6,826 | 12,479 | +83% |
| 64 KB string | 16,944 | 20,145 | +19% |
| TLS, 64 KB string | 15,045 | 16,892 | +12% |
| hello (control) | 83,957 | 83,137 | -1.0% |

These runs are on loopback, where the kernel send buffer is 2.6 MB and
the work of the receiver runs inside `send()`. That is the best case for
fewer writes. A new connection over a real network takes about 46 KB in
its first write on Linux. The rest waits in the socket buffer, as it
would after separate writes.

#### Small responses are unchanged

A small response is already one `recvfrom` and one `sendto` on both
builds. `perf` puts 66% of the time of a hello-world server in the
kernel, on both builds.

CI release builds on Linux x64: main `97246d044e` (the merge base)
against this PR `8834cd0787`. Both use the same WebKit. The server runs
on one pinned core. `oha` sends 64 connections for 5 s after a 2 s
warm-up. There are 2 rounds, and the order of the builds alternates.
"Change" compares the means of the two rounds.

Framework servers from `bun-perf-tester` (req/s):

| Server | main, round 1 | main, round 2 | PR, round 1 | PR, round 2 |
Change |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| express | 49,803 | 51,103 | 49,968 | 50,263 | -0.7% |
| fastify | 61,214 | 61,105 | 60,705 | 60,668 | -0.8% |
| node:http | 70,934 | 71,405 | 73,178 | 71,053 | +1.3% |
| elysia | 84,696 | 85,096 | 85,027 | 84,882 | +0.1% |
| `Bun.serve` | 89,020 | 89,099 | 88,168 | 88,373 | -0.9% |

node:http paths that this PR changes (req/s):

| Case | main, round 1 | main, round 2 | PR, round 1 | PR, round 2 |
Change |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| GET hello | 70,226 | 70,341 | 70,151 | 72,359 | +1.4% |
| POST, 16 KB body | 47,446 | 47,789 | 48,191 | 48,785 | +1.8% |
| 64 KB response in four writes | 6,885 | 6,894 | 6,834 | 6,868 | -0.6%
|
| Pipelined keep-alive, depth 8 | 94,063 | 93,294 | 92,909 | 93,809 |
-0.3% |

p99 latency (ms), the higher of the two rounds:

| Server | main | PR |
| --- | --- | --- |
| express | 1.94 | 1.91 |
| fastify | 1.52 | 1.55 |
| node:http | 1.11 | 1.12 |
| elysia | 0.98 | 0.96 |
| `Bun.serve` | 0.82 | 0.83 |

RSS (MB), one pass of 8 s of load:

| Server | Build | Start | Under load | 5 s idle | 15 s idle |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| express | main | 39 | 94 | 61 | 57 |
| express | PR | 40 | 92 | 60 | 57 |
| fastify | main | 41 | 91 | 58 | 55 |
| fastify | PR | 41 | 91 | 58 | 55 |
| node:http | main | 20 | 64 | 43 | 40 |
| node:http | PR | 20 | 65 | 45 | 41 |
| elysia | main | 28 | 46 | 36 | 35 |
| elysia | PR | 29 | 46 | 37 | 36 |
| `Bun.serve` | main | 14 | 30 | 22 | 22 |
| `Bun.serve` | PR | 14 | 30 | 22 | 22 |

Every change is within 2%. fastify and `Bun.serve` hello are lower in
both rounds, by about 1%. `Bun.serve` hello shows the same -1.0% in the
control row above, so a small real cost there is possible. The RSS pass
ran at the same time as the throughput runs, on other cores. The commits
after `8834cd0787` change tests and add one version check to the
node:http dispatcher. They were not measured.

### Supersedes

| Theme | Pull requests |
| --- | --- |
| Request body | #43592 #43579 #38196 #43518 #43602 #43408 #43427 #43597
#43555 #43456 #43466 |
| Tunnels | #43570 #43485. #43596 is a duplicate of #43570. |
| Parser | #43182 #43161 #43326 #43327 #40505 #43363 #42532 #42194 |
| Response write | #39386 #43371 #43548 #43499 #43496 #43464 #42008
#43549 |
| Response finish | #40351 #43021 #41822 #43473 #42068 #35207 #43425
#43503 |
| Lifecycle | #43413 #39686 #43028 #42727 #42622 #42610 #35837 #35839
#37825 #37749 #43376 #35268 |
| JS API | #41691 #41738 #38036 #42462 #36527 #39718 #37964. #42947
merged on its own. |

The close drain, `resetAndDestroy()`, the pending write callback
handling and the response `'close'` ordering come from #42622 and #42727
by @steipete. The diagnosis and the tests for the stalled `ws` writes
come from his #42610.

Not included:

| Pull request | Reason |
| --- | --- |
| #33061 | main already enforces `headersTimeout` and `requestTimeout` |
| #41672 | It makes `http.createServer({ key, cert })` stop serving TLS.
That needs a product decision. |
| #37543 | A type refactor with no tests and no user-visible change |
| #35465 | It makes `http.Server` extend `net.Server`. Only the
prototype chains were joined. The `net.Server` constructor never ran, so
`_handle` and `_connections` were `undefined`, and
`_emitCloseIfDrained()` emitted `'close'` on a listening server. The
server is backed by uWS, not `node:net`. |
| The `AutoFlusher` removal in #42622 | It makes `flushHeaders()` flush
at once. That is a performance change with no relation to the rest. |

### Tests

| Check | Result on a debug build (macOS arm64) | Head |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Every test file that this PR touches (28 files) | 1,866 pass, 2 fail.
The 2 failures are `serve.test.ts` "bounds memory when proxying ... to a
stalled client". They fail the same way on a debug build of main. |
`83af4da4a3`, run before the last commit of main came in |
| `test/js/third_party/express` (9 files) and the `body-parser` test |
299 pass, 0 fail | `83af4da4a3`, run before the last commit of main came
in |
| Node 25.6 against Bun, 32 scenarios from two scripts (event order,
framing, lifecycle) | No regression against Bun 1.4.3 | `0ff1a23f61` |
| Every vendored Node `test-http-*` and `test-https-*` file, plus the
`test-net-*` and `test-tls-*` files for pause, write, end and close |
535 of 537 exit 0. `test-http-agent-keepalive.js` and
`test-https-timeout.js` fail on that debug build. Both pass on every CI
lane. | `daee05fcfd` (before the rebase) |
| The tests that depend on what the kernel takes in one send, on Windows
Server 2019 x64 and Windows 11 arm64 | pass | `3eef223328` (x64),
`a29289bcc1` (arm64) |
| CI build 120191 (Linux, macOS and Windows, release and ASAN) | every
lane passed | `daee05fcfd` (before the rebase) |

Each new test fails on Bun 1.4.3, or on the commit before its fix for a
fault that this branch introduced.

The two tests over the limit are `node-http-connect.test.ts` ("tests
should run on bun") and `node-http-syscall-fault.test.ts` ("racing a
queued drain"). Each starts a debug subprocess that needs more than 5 s
on this machine. Both pass on CI.

### Changes in the last push

The branch is rebased on main (`daee05fcfd` was the head before). It is
now linear.

Four regressions against main, each with a test that fails without its
fix:

| Case | main | Before this push | Now (same as Node) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `emit('connection')` or http2 `allowHTTP1`: `res.end()` on a request
that nobody reads | `'end'`, `'close'` | No events | `'end'`, `'close'`
|
| The same server, an unread 32 MB body | 0 bytes held | 32 MB held | 0
bytes held |
| A NUL in a header value with `httpValidation: "relaxed"` (client,
`HTTPParser`, `emit('connection')` server) | Accepted | The process
spins forever | `HPE_INVALID_HEADER_TOKEN` |
| `Connection: close`, body in the same read as the head, a 20 KB
response before the body is read | `'end'` with an empty body | No
events on `req` | `'end'` with the body, `'close'` |
| An empty line on an idle keep-alive connection, then `server.close()`
| 0 s | About 6 s | 0 s |

| Fix | Where |
| --- | --- |
| The finish listener of a fallback connection dumps an unread request,
like Node's `resOnFinish` | `http1_server_fallback.ts` |
| llhttp patch: `llhttp__internal__c_test_lenient_flags_20` is false for
a NUL. The relaxed state does not consume a NUL, and the next state sent
it back there. 9.4.3 has the same loop. | `llhttp.c`, noted in its
`README.md` |
| A node:http socket that `onData` is parsing gets the close gate of
`onData`, also when a large write released the cork | `HttpResponse.h`
`uncorkCompletedResponse()` |
| A read that starts no message leaves an idle connection idle |
`HttpContext.h` `onData` |

The open review threads are fixed in `8834cd0787`:
`closeAllConnections()`, `Proxy-Connection: close`, five comments cut to
one line, and the test of two overlapping listeners, which now waits on
events. With the generation gate in `emitCloseServer` removed, that test
fails in both cases. `AsyncSocketData` keeps its bools together, which
takes it from 56 to 48 bytes per socket.

`http.Server` no longer extends `net.Server` (see "Not included"). The
special case for it in `Ipc.ts` is gone too. `child.send(msg,
httpServer)` still throws `ERR_INVALID_HANDLE_TYPE`, and its test stays.

<details><summary>Changes since the first revision (2988a61)</summary>

Merged with main at `c8e1f6fa5b`. The one conflict was #43708
(`req.socket` emits `'end'` and `'error'`). Its state bit
`HTTP_NODE_PEER_ENDED` moved to bit 22, because bit 19 is
`HTTP_NODE_NOTIFY_READ_PARSED` here. Its 15 tests run in
`node-http-server-abort-events.test.ts` next to the tests of this branch
(103 pass).

CI on `2988a610c` had ten red tests from four causes. They are fixed:
- `ed882e5e99`: `write()` to a response without a body (HEAD, 204) does
not wait for unsent bytes.
- `811f817704`: an idle tunnel does not hold the event loop after
`server.close()`. Four vendored Node tests timed out on every platform.
- `0697deec11`, `d428824c08`, `7aec062d14`: the write callback tests use
a body that backs up a loopback socket, and accept what Winsock does.
- `c7af1c1615`: two tests from main asserted the old `close()` contract.

Review findings, each reproduced against Node v26.3.0 and fixed with a
test that fails without the fix:
- `d4d2b783ea`, `2cc79939bb`, `45141abca9`, `9a63dbc470`, `80a23a1822`:
the idle rule. A keep-alive connection is idle again when its body ends
after its response. A connection that owes a queued pipelined response,
that still receives a request head or body, or whose response still
drains is not idle.
- `87d8904aa3`, `7eca4f7806`: `close(cb)` followed by `listen()` in the
same tick reports `'close'`, also for an https server whose only
connection was idle.
- `3fd7b25382`: a paused pipelined request behind a response that still
drains stops the connection. The first revision read 512 MiB of 512 MiB
into memory.
- `2d1a5e2d8d`, `33e4683a8a`, `539cb41eb9`, `197c7dfc29`, `0490e3540b`:
raw socket writes stay behind every unsent response byte. The cases were
a CONNECT pipelined behind a response that still drains (its `200`
landed at offset 2.6 MB of a 64 MiB body), a zero-length tunnel write
(it hung the tunnel), the 400 replies above, the zero-copy tail of a
large `res.write()`, the cork buffer, and Windows 11, where the kernel
takes the whole response and refuses the next send.
- `0abd39c133`: an upgrade from the request's `'end'` listener keeps the
body bytes out of the WebSocket. The connection closed with 1006 right
after the 101.
- `5aafc61aa6`: the callback of a small `res.write()` that the kernel
refuses at the uncork runs on the drain. Reproduced on Windows 11 only.
- `a29289bcc1`: a tunnel write that waits for a drain settles its
callbacks when the connection closes.

Known differences from Node that this PR leaves:
- A handler that calls `res.end()` and then `server.close()` closes its
keep-alive connection at once. Node waits for the `keepAliveTimeout`.
- A pipelined Upgrade behind a response that still drains is served as a
plain request.
- An `end()` on a tunnel with no write pending, while the response
before the CONNECT still drains, closes both directions after the flush.
Node half-closes.
- A raw `req.socket.write(big)` and `req.socket.end()` with no
`res.end()` sends every byte but no FIN. main loses bytes here.
- A CONNECT socket that is given back with `server.emit('connection',
socket)` answers only the first of several pipelined requests. main
answers none.
- A large write from an `'upgrade'` listener stalls while the body of
that Upgrade request is still pending. A second `listen()` on a
listening server does not throw. Both are the same on main.
- A tunnel write that fails because the client went away fails its
callbacks but emits no `'error'`. Node emits `ECONNRESET`. A new
`'error'` could end a process that has no listener for it.

</details>

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**no test proof** · iteration 8 · platform-specific test(s) that do not
run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms:
test/js/web/fetch/fetch.stream.test.ts, test/js/node/url/url.test.ts,
test/js/node/tls/tls-syscall-fault.test.ts,
test/js/node/net/node-net-server.test.ts,
test/js/node/http/node-http.test.ts,
test/js/node/http/node-http-syscall-fault.test.ts,
test/js/node/http/node-http-server-close-drain.test.ts,
test/js/node/http/node-http-connect.test.ts,
test/js/node/http/node-http-backpressure.test.ts,
test/js/node/child_process/child_process_ipc_handle.test.ts,
test/js/bun/http/serve.test.ts,
test/js/bun/http/serve-syscall-fault.test.ts,
test/js/bun/http/bun-server.test.ts

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