WebSocket client: run the microtasks of open before the frames that arrive with the 101

[robobun]

Problem

• When a server's first frame arrives in the same read as the 101 response, a client WebSocket (and the built-in ws package on it) runs message listeners before the microtasks that the open listeners queued. Code that awaits open misses it. A Bun.serve peer that sends from open triggers it on every connection.
• The connected client parsed those bytes in a microtask, InitialDataTask. finish_init (src/http_jsc/websocket_client.rs) queued it before C++ dispatched open, so it ran first in the checkpoint after open.

Fix

• The connected client keeps the bytes in initial_data. The upgrade client calls deliver_initial_data after the event-loop scope around open ends, which is the microtask checkpoint. Under a nested event-loop spin it drains first.
• Frames of a later read already work this way: a checkpoint follows each dispatch. It is the same socket callback, so a Close frame and FIN behind them still find them delivered. If an open listener spins the event loop, a task queued before open delivers them at the first tick of that wait, after a microtask checkpoint.
• Deleted, with no other user: InitialDataTask, JSGlobalObject::queue_microtask_boxed, queue_microtask_callback, MicrotaskCallback, BackRef::from_root.
• Verified: test/js/web/websocket/websocket-client-short-read.test.ts (16 new, 6 fail on canary 1.4.3), websocket-proxy.test.ts (4 new, all fail on canary). More in Notes.

Background

• The upgrade client (WebSocketUpgradeClient.rs) owns the socket until the 101. Then C++ WebSocket::didConnect creates the connected client (WebSocket<SSL>) and dispatches open.
• Bun drains microtasks when the outermost event-loop scope (enter/exit) ends. Each message dispatch has its own scope.
• process_websocket_upgrade_response holds one scope across the upgrade event of ws and open.

Notes

Source. No user reported this. A fuzz run that cuts one byte stream at every offset found it: the 101 boundary was the only cut that changed what user code sees.

Repro (bun r.mjs glued or bun r.mjs split, the same file runs on node):

import net from "node:net";
import { createHash } from "node:crypto";
const mode = process.argv[2] || "glued";
const srv = net.createServer(s => {
  let buf = "";
  s.on("data", d => {
    buf += d.toString("latin1");
    if (!buf.includes("\r\n\r\n")) return;
    const key = /sec-websocket-key: (.*)\r\n/i.exec(buf)[1];
    buf = "";
    const accept = createHash("sha1").update(key + "258EAFA5-E914-47DA-95CA-C5AB0DC85B11").digest("base64");
    const head = Buffer.from(
      `HTTP/1.1 101 Switching Protocols\r\nUpgrade: websocket\r\nConnection: Upgrade\r\nSec-WebSocket-Accept: ${accept}\r\n\r\n`,
    );
    const greeting = Buffer.concat([Buffer.from([0x81, 8]), Buffer.from("greeting")]);
    if (mode === "glued") s.write(Buffer.concat([head, greeting]));
    else {
      s.write(head);
      setTimeout(() => s.write(greeting), 30);
    }
  });
  s.on("error", () => {});
});
srv.listen(0, "127.0.0.1", async () => {
  const order = [];
  let session = null;
  const handled = [], dropped = [];
  const ws = new WebSocket(`ws://127.0.0.1:${srv.address().port}/`);
  ws.addEventListener("open", () => {
    order.push("open");
    queueMicrotask(() => order.push("microtask queued by the open listener"));
  });
  ws.addEventListener("message", e => {
    order.push("message");
    (session ? handled : dropped).push(e.data);
  });
  await new Promise(r => ws.addEventListener("open", r));
  order.push("await open resumed");
  session = { id: 1 };
  await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, 200));
  console.log(JSON.stringify({ mode, order, handled, droppedBecauseNotReady: dropped }));
  ws.close();
  srv.close();
  setTimeout(() => process.exit(0), 50);
});

• 1.4.3 canary, glued, 3 of 3: open, message, microtask queued by the open listener, await open resumed, droppedBecauseNotReady: ["greeting"].
• 1.4.3 canary split, node v26.3.0 in both modes, and this branch in both modes: open, microtask queued by the open listener, await open resumed, message, handled: ["greeting"].

Why not a task. A task per the WHATWG text (open and each message are separate tasks) gives the same order, but it opens a window. A peer that sends the 101, a message, a Close frame and FIN in one segment makes uSockets dispatch on_end in the same poll as on_data. With the parse in a later task, on_end comes first and the client reports 1006 without the message. Today the microtask runs before on_end. The new test a peer that ends the connection right behind them still gets them delivered pins this. It passes before and after.

Tests.

• websocket-client-short-read.test.ts: ws:// and wss://, each with the frames glued to the 101 and with the same frames sent after open (a text and a binary frame, the expected order is the same array for both). The ws package with once(ws, "open"). A Bun.serve peer that sends from open. The glued and the split case again while a setImmediate callback waits synchronously (expect().resolves), which is the nested-spin case. An open listener that queues a microtask and then waits synchronously for the message, glued and split (glued fails on canary, and without the checkpoint in deliver_initial_data; without the task it runs to its 2 s cap). An open listener that ends or resets the peer and then spins the event loop (ws and wss): these pass on canary and fail without the task. An open listener that spins the event loop while a later frame arrives. An upgrade listener of the ws package that spins the event loop (see the pending-activity claim below). The Close + FIN case above.
• websocket-proxy.test.ts: ws:// and wss:// through an http:// and an https:// proxy, which covers didConnectWithTunnel and the TLS client.
• Platforms: the whole file also ran on a Windows Server 2019 x64 debug build, 3 of 3 runs green (16 pass, 3 skip), and websocket-proxy.test.ts once (43 pass, 4 skip). The reset test runs on Linux only: only Linux is known to keep received bytes readable after a reset. The Close + FIN tests under a spinning open listener are skipped on Windows: a Windows debug build of main segfaults on them without this change (see "Left alone").
• Other suites on the Linux debug (ASAN) build: all of test/js/web/websocket, test/js/first_party/ws, test/bake/deinitialization.test.ts (379 pass, 0 fail at the last push) and test/js/bun/websocket. Two files fail the same way with and without this change. test/js/web/websocket/websocket.test.js: two tests need ws.postman-echo.com, which this machine cannot reach, and should connect many times over https exceeds 5 s when the whole file runs concurrently. test/js/bun/websocket/websocket-server.test.ts: 8 subprocess tests exceed their 10 s limit when the whole file runs concurrently (8 and 10 of them on main's source). Each of these passes alone.
• Teardown inside open with frames behind the 101, on the ASAN + assertions build with LeakSanitizer (BUN_DESTRUCT_VM_ON_EXIT=1, detect_leaks=1), run by hand: terminate(), close(), close() in a microtask, Bun.gc(true), process.exit() in open / in its microtask / in the first message, a 101 with a wrong Sec-WebSocket-Accept and frames behind it, and 40 workers terminated inside onopen, 3 rounds. All exit 0 with no sanitizer or assertion output.

Cells under a Bun.build spin. A raw peer writes the 101, then m1 + ping + m3 or m1 + Close 1000, in one write, and then sends FIN, resets, or does nothing. The open listener spins about 20 ms through Bun.build with an async plugin setup(). ws and wss, 3 runs per cell: all 12 cells give the same events on canary 1.4.3 and on this branch, for example open, m1, ping, m3, close 1006 and open, m1, close 1000 clean, with the frames delivered inside the wait.

mordant. BackRef::from_root lost its only caller (queue_microtask_boxed) and is deleted. The tail of process_websocket_upgrade_response that does not depend on SSL moved to CppWebSocket::deliver_initial_data_after_open, so it is compiled once. mordant-baseline.toml records WebSocket::new_raw (generic_body_not_generic, 2 to 5 for websocket_client.rs, the value bun run rust:mordant:baseline writes, and its only change to the file). The field initializers of new_raw do not depend on SSL. The handle of the old task was the one initializer in the middle that did, and it split them into two parts that were each under the lint's threshold. bun run rust:mordant is clean on the three targets.

The pending-activity claim. C++ has one slot for a native claim on the WebSocket (holdPendingActivityForClient). InitialDataTask held it until the microtask ran. The upgrade client now holds it from after the upgrade event until after deliver_initial_data, and only when there are bytes behind the 101. The common connection with no overflow makes no extra call. It is taken after upgrade because a listener that spins the event loop can re-enter process_websocket_upgrade_response for the same WebSocket (the head split over two reads stays in body, and the next read parses it again). The first push took the claim before upgrade, and that re-entry hit ASSERT(!m_pendingActivityForClient) in a debug build. The new upgrade listener test covers it.

Nested event-loop spin. A synchronous wait (expect().resolves, a Bun.build plugin) ticks the event loop below the caller's scope. A socket callback in there is not the outermost scope, so exit() drains nothing, and the spin drains at its next tick. On main that gave open, message, microtasks for glued bytes and open, microtasks, message for split bytes. The upgrade client now drains explicitly when entered_event_loop_count > 0 before it delivers. Removing that drain makes the glued waits synchronously test fail.

An open listener that spins the event loop. A synchronous wait inside the listener or one of its microtasks (expect().resolves, a Bun.build call with an async plugin) ticks the event loop before the upgrade client can deliver the bytes. main parsed them at the first tick of that wait, because its microtask was already queued. C++ now queues a task before it dispatches open (queueInitialDataDelivery). wait_for_promise runs the task queue before it polls I/O, so the first tick delivers the bytes, after a microtask checkpoint of its own (the microtasks that the listener queued before it started to wait are still pending, and split bytes arrive after them): a listener that waits for the glued frame gets it, and a FIN or reset behind the frames finds them parsed while the socket is still open (a Close frame among them gets its echo, on TLS too). In the normal case the upgrade client has already delivered the bytes and the task finds nothing. The task holds a ref and a pending activity, and teardown releases it unrun. A read that still gets in first (an I/O-only nested loop, such as a debugger pause) parses the pending bytes ahead of its own, as on main. handle_end, handle_close and send_close_with_body are unchanged from main: in that I/O-only case main loses the bytes on a FIN too.

Left alone, all also on main.

• If a Close frame is glued to the 101 and its echo hits send backpressure, a read that gets in while an open listener spins the event loop is still parsed behind the Close. The guard after the early parse in handle_data does not check close_received.
• An upgrade listener of the ws package that spins the event loop, with the 101 head in one read: the upgrade client takes the bytes read meanwhile for more of the HTTP response. A short frame is lost. A frame of 9 bytes or more fails the connection with 1002 Invalid response.
• With a message listener and no open listener when the 101 is processed, open is a queued task and a frame glued to the 101 is dispatched before it. An open listener attached in that window sees message first.
• A message listener that spins the event loop while another read arrives re-enters the frame parser, which keeps its cursor in a local across the dispatch.
• Windows: the libuv backend of uSockets does not count tick_depth, so a nested event-loop tick frees closed sockets that an outer dispatch still holds. A Windows debug build of main segfaults when a socket closes while its own data callback spins the event loop.

The ws package on node. The real ws 8.18.3 on node v26.3.0 has the segmentation-dependent order itself: glued gives open, message, microtask from open, await open resumed, split gives the message last. node's global WebSocket gives the message last in both modes. The built-in ws package is a shim on the global WebSocket, so it now gives the message last in both modes too, which differs from the real package in the glued case.

Related open PRs.

• Free a native microtask's context when the microtask queue discards it #40458 frees a native microtask's context when the VM discards the queue. Its WebSocket case was the queued InitialDataTask, which no longer exists. process.exit() and worker.terminate() inside onopen, with a frame glued to the 101, are clean under LeakSanitizer on this branch (run by hand, BUN_DESTRUCT_VM_ON_EXIT=1, detect_leaks=1). Its v8::Isolate::RequestInterrupt part is not affected.
• WebSocket client: hold the frames that arrive with the 101 while paused #43018 holds these same bytes while the socket is paused. It touches the same lines. The PR that lands second needs a rebase. On this branch, as on main, a pause before open does not hold them.

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Changes

The WebSocket client stores handshake-overflow bytes and delivers them after open microtasks. Native task-based delivery is removed. Rust, C++, WebCore, and tests use the explicit delivery path.

Changes

WebSocket handshake delivery

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Initial data storage and parsing src/http_jsc/websocket_client.rs, src/jsc/JSGlobalObject.rs, src/jsc/lib.rs, src/ptr/lib.rs, mordant-baseline.toml	Handshake-overflow bytes are stored on WebSocket and parsed explicitly. The obsolete initial-data task, boxed native microtask APIs, and BackRef::from_root are removed.
Delivery bridge wiring src/http_jsc/websocket_client/CppWebSocket.rs, src/jsc/bindings/headers.h, src/jsc/bindings/webcore/*	Plain and TLS clients expose initial-data delivery through Rust, C, WebCore, and C++ bindings.
Upgrade and microtask ordering src/http_jsc/websocket_client/WebSocketUpgradeClient.rs	The 101-response path retains the WebSocket during processing, drains microtasks, and delivers buffered data afterward.
Handshake delivery validation test/js/web/websocket/websocket-client-short-read.test.ts, test/js/web/websocket/websocket-proxy.test.ts	Tests cover coalesced and split handshakes, plain and TLS connections, proxies, reentrancy, event ordering, and close delivery.

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[robobun]

Status: fix pushed in #43696.

Reproduction. A node:net server writes the 101 response and one text frame in one write() (the script is in the Notes of the PR body). On 1.4.3 canary the client logs open, message, microtask queued by the open listener, await open resumed 3 of 3 times, and the code that awaits open misses the message. With the frame sent 30 ms later, and on node v26.3.0 in both modes, the order is open, microtask queued by the open listener, await open resumed, message. This branch gives that order in both modes.

Tests. test/js/web/websocket/websocket-client-short-read.test.ts (16 new, 6 fail on 1.4.3 canary) and test/js/web/websocket/websocket-proxy.test.ts (4 new, all fail on 1.4.3 canary). All pass on this branch, on Linux and on a Windows debug build.

[claude]

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

Beyond the inline findings, I also checked that the C++ JSC__JSGlobalObject__queueMicrotaskCallback kept in ZigGlobalObject.cpp is still live (V8Isolate.cpp's RequestInterrupt uses it, so only the Rust extern was safe to delete), and that a pause() or worker.terminate() inside the open listener does not double-parse or double-release the overflow bytes — initial_data is taken exactly once and the CppWebSocketRef is the sole pending-activity holder on that path.

Extended reasoning...

The change moves WebSocket client handshake-overflow delivery from a native microtask to an explicit call after the open event-loop scope, adding new C-ABI exports and deleting the generic native microtask machinery on the Rust side; it touches no auth or crypto surface. Three confirmed re-entrancy and ordering findings are posted inline, so a human should look before merging.

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In `@src/http_jsc/websocket_client.rs`:
- Around line 526-550: Remove the parse_initial_data() call from handle_data so
ordinary reads cannot process stored handshake-overflow bytes; retain the
existing disconnect checks and parsing on the explicit deliver_initial_data()
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In `@src/http_jsc/websocket_client/WebSocketUpgradeClient.rs`:
- Line 847: Update the 101 upgrade flow around WebSocket::deliver_initial_data
so initial data is delivered from a WebSocket task queued after the existing
open task, preserving open-before-message ordering even when no open listener
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[claude]

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

• 🔴 src/http_jsc/websocket_client.rs — A client whose open listener spins the event loop loses the frames glued to the 101 and gets a 1006 close when the peer's FIN sits right behind them; the base delivered them. During the spin only handle_data (websocket_client.rs:530) drains initial_data; a read that returns 0 goes to handle_end at websocket_client.rs:1212-1221, which calls terminate(ErrorCode::Ended) with the overflow still unparsed. Fix: parse the pending overflow before any terminal socket event on the connected client, so handle_end, handle_close (:285) and the tunnel on_close path (:339) drain it the way handle_data does, while still leaving the normal 101 path to deliver_initial_data.

  Why this was flagged

  Trigger: the server answers with the 101, a text frame, optionally a Close frame, and FIN in one segment, and the client's open listener waits synchronously (expect(p).resolves, which spins through wait_for_promise at src/jsc/event_loop.rs:1140-1157: tick() then auto_tick()). On the base, finish_init queued InitialDataTask as a microtask before C++ dispatched open, so the spin's first tick() ran it (drain at event_loop.rs:812) and the message and the Close frame were handled before any poll. After this diff the bytes sit in initial_data (websocket_client.rs:1464-1465) until deliver_initial_data at WebSocketUpgradeClient.rs:847, which runs only after open returns. Inside the spin, auto_tick polls the adopted socket; the level-triggered FIN makes uSockets recv() 0 and dispatch on_end (packages/bun-usockets/src/loop.c:809-811 then the eof branch), so handle_end at websocket_client.rs:1212-1221 sees has_pending_close_dispatch() false and calls terminate(Ended) → fail (:232-240) → did_abrupt_close → didFailWithErrorCode → close 1006. When open returns, parse_initial_data (:541-551)…

  Verification: normal (narrow but realistic trigger; regression versus base). Triggering condition: the peer's FIN reaches the client while an open listener is spinning the event loop synchronously (expect().resolves, a Bun.build plugin, macro, etc.) and no further data frame arrives first — e.g. a server that writes 101 + greeting (+ Close frame) and ends the connection in one segment. Mechanism…

[robobun]

On the finding in the review body (an open listener that spins the event loop loses the frames glued to the 101 when the peer's FIN or reset sits behind them): reproduced, and it was a regression of this PR. canary 1.4.3 gives open, message last words, close 1000 clean=true. The head at 281a43d gave open, close 1006 clean=false.

Fixed in b3f055c. handle_end and handle_close now parse the pending handshake overflow before their own work, the same way handle_data already did. clear_data drops it, so a terminate() from script does not parse it on its way out. New tests: an open listener that spins the event loop with the end of the stream behind them (a Close frame then FIN, and a reset). Both pass on canary, fail on 281a43d, and pass now. The tunnel close path needs no change: during that spin the tunnel is not attached to the connected client yet, and deliver_initial_data still runs when open returns.

The same push fixes the Windows failure of build 119267 (split, while a callback waits synchronously). On Windows the read loop probes the socket once more after the data callback, so under a nested spin the frame ran its message listener before the microtasks of open. The upgrade client now drains for every 101 when it is nested, not only when bytes follow the 101. The file is green 3 of 3 on a Windows debug build.

[claude]

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

• 🔴 src/http_jsc/websocket_client.rs — Clients over wss:// through an HTTP proxy can still lose the frames glued to the 101 and get a 1006 close when the peer's FIN or reset lands while a microtask of open spins the event loop; the base delivered them. This is the tunnel sibling of the already-posted open-listener/FIN finding: the new parse in handle_end/handle_close never runs in tunnel mode (tcp is detached), teardown arrives through WebSocketProxyTunnel.rs:339 ws.fail(ErrorCode::Ended), and fail at websocket_client.rs:233-241 dispatches the abrupt close and then drops initial_data unparsed. …

  Why this was flagged

  …Fix: deliver pending handshake overflow on every teardown route before the close is dispatched, e.g. call parse_initial_data() at the top of fail (as handle_close does at :290), which covers the tunnel on_close path and handle_timeout/handle_connect_error too.

  Trigger: new WebSocket("wss://...", { proxy: "http://..." }) (tunnel mode, WebSocket.cpp:1703), a peer that sends a frame glued to the 101 and then ends the connection, and an open continuation that spins the loop synchronously (await once(ws, "open") followed by an un-awaited expect().resolves, or a Bun.build plugin). That continuation runs in the drain at WebSocketUpgradeClient.rs:822 (scope exit) or :844, after WebSocket.cpp:1728 has set the tunnel's connected_websocket and before deliver_initial_data at :847, so initial_data (websocket_client.rs:1470) is still pending. The nested poll gives the raw socket (owned by the upgrade client in State::Done) its EOF: handle_end WebSocketUpgradeClient.rs:1057 -> terminate -> fail :551 -> tcp.close -> handle_close :579 -> clear_data…

  Verification: normal (narrow trigger, but a regression from base: frames glued to the 101 are silently lost / a peer's clean Close becomes 1006). Triggering condition: a wss:// client through an HTTP(S) proxy (tunnel mode), a peer that glues a frame (or frame + Close) to the 101 and then ends the connection, and an open continuation that spins the event loop synchronously (un-awaited expect().resolves,…

• 🟣 src/http_jsc/websocket_client.rs — pre-existing: a client whose message listener ticks the event loop synchronously while the peer keeps sending gets frames out of order or a misparsed stream (1002 or garbage messages). handle_data_loop at websocket_client.rs:560 keeps its parse cursor in a local and only writes it back at :601-603, after dispatch_data has run JS; a read that lands during that JS re-enters handle_data (:524) and runs a second loop on the same object, which the outer write-back then overwrites. The new parse_initial_data callers (:290, :533, :557, :1216) all go through this loop. …

  Why this was flagged

  …Fix: make the parse loop re-entrancy safe for every dispatch site, e.g. buffer bytes that arrive while a dispatch is on the stack and parse them once the outer loop has written its state back, or write the state back before each dispatch and reload it after.

  Trigger: the peer sends frames A and B (glued to the 101 or in one read), and the message listener for A spins the event loop (expect().resolves at src/runtime/test_runner/expect.rs:496, an async Bun.build plugin, a bake render) while the peer sends C. Entry: any of handle_data (websocket_client.rs:524), handle_end (:1216), handle_close (:290) or deliver_initial_data (:557) call handle_data_loop (:560). The loop dispatches A from inside consume_payload/dispatch_buffered_message (:452, :506) while cursor (state, body_remain, last_data_type) lives on the stack and self.receive_state/receive_body_remain still hold the values from before the read. The nested read enters handle_data (:524) → parse_initial_data returns false → handle_data_loop(C) parses C from self.receive_state (NeedHeader) and…

  Verification: pre-existing. Triggering condition: the peer sends two frames A and B in one read (or glued to the 101), the client's message listener for A spins the event loop synchronously (e.g. an un-awaited expect().resolves under bun test, as the PR's own tests do in open), and a further read C for the same socket lands during that spin. Mechanism verified in… | pre-existing. Triggering condition:…

[robobun]

On the two findings in the last review body:

Tunnel (wss:// through an HTTP proxy), frames lost when a microtask of open spins the event loop. This did not reproduce. I ran wss:// through createConnectProxy against a raw TLS peer that sends the 101, a text frame and a Close frame in one write and then ends, with a 100 ms synchronous wait in the open listener or in a microtask of open, and with end() at once or 10 ms later. b3f055c gave open, message last words, close 1000 clean=true in all four cases. canary 1.4.3 gives the same in three of them and open, close 1006 clean=false for the microtask case with end() at once. The tunnel's TLS engine does not re-enter while it is inside the pass that decrypted the 101, so the close does not reach the connected client during that wait. c57f38f makes the question moot for a synchronous wait anyway: a task queued before open delivers the bytes at the first tick of the wait, before the nested loop polls the socket.

The parse loop is not re-entrant when a message listener spins the event loop (pre-existing). Agreed, and not changed by this PR: handle_data_loop keeps its cursor in a local across the dispatch into JS. Handed off as separate work.

c57f38f also fixes a regression of both earlier heads: an open listener that waits synchronously for a frame that came WITH the 101 never got it inside the wait, so an uncapped wait did not end. main delivers it inside the wait. The new test is an open listener that waits synchronously for them.

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🟠 Major · Parse pending handshake data before terminal socket handling. · websocket_client.rs:1220

src/http_jsc/websocket_client.rs:1220
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Parse pending handshake data before terminal socket handling.

FIN and reset paths tear down the connection before parsing initial_data. Frames that followed the HTTP 101 response can be lost. A retained Close frame can also become an abrupt close with code 1006.

• src/http_jsc/websocket_client.rs#L1220-L1220: call parse_initial_data() before terminate(). Stop if parsing already closed the connection.
• src/http_jsc/websocket_client.rs#L299-L299: call parse_initial_data() before clear_data().

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In `@src/http_jsc/websocket_client.rs` at line 1220, Update the terminal socket
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@coderabbitai on "Parse pending handshake data before terminal socket handling": not applied. c57f38f removed that parse on purpose.

A FIN or reset can reach handle_end / handle_close with bytes still pending only when something ticks the event loop between open and deliver_initial_data. For a synchronous wait (wait_for_promise: expect().resolves, a Bun.build plugin) the task that C++ queues before open runs in the first tick, before that loop polls the socket, so the bytes are parsed while the socket is still open. The tests an open listener that ends the peer and spins the event loop (ws, wss, reset) cover it, and they fail when the task is removed. What is left is an I/O-only nested loop (a debugger pause), where main loses those bytes too, because its microtask does not run there either. Keeping handle_end, handle_close and send_close_with_body identical to main avoids the close-code differences that the parse in handle_close brought on TLS sockets.

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@robobun, thanks for the detailed explanation. I withdraw the finding.

The queued C++ task runs during the first tick of a synchronous nested event loop. It delivers the handshake-overflow bytes before that loop polls the FIN or reset.

For an I/O-only nested loop, main also does not deliver these bytes before terminal handling. Keeping handle_end, handle_close, and send_close_with_body aligned with main is correct. It also avoids the TLS close-code change caused by parsing in handle_close.

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Learning: In `src/http_jsc/websocket_client/WebSocketUpgradeClient.rs`, do not defer WebSocket handshake-overflow delivery to a separate WebSocket task merely to order it after the queued `open` task. If a peer sends frames followed by a Close frame and FIN in the same segment, `on_end` can run before that task and discard the buffered frames. The `message`-before-a-late-registered-`open` listener case remains unchanged by this PR and requires a separate C++ task-ordering decision for clients that only set `onmessage`.

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Learning: In `src/http_jsc/websocket_client.rs`, `WebSocket::handle_data` must parse pending handshake-overflow bytes before processing newly read bytes. An `open` listener can re-enter the event loop, and later reads then contain bytes that follow the overflow on the wire. Parsing the new read first can reverse message order or parse a split WebSocket frame from its middle. The explicit `deliver_initial_data` path enforces the normal post-`open` microtask ordering; nested event-loop spins intentionally process the overflow during that spin.

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Follow-up on the first "Left alone" item in the Notes (the Close frame in the same read as the 101, with its echo under send backpressure). It was handed off as separate work. It needs no separate PR now.

What I ran. A test next to the others in websocket-client-short-read.test.ts, for ws:// and wss://. The raw peer sends the 101 and a Close frame (1000) in one write. The open listener pauses the peer socket, sends 1 MB messages until bufferedAmount is 8 MB or more, makes the peer write a text frame, and waits synchronously for one setImmediate (expect().resolves).

source	result
281a43d	fails, 7 of 7 runs: open, message after the Close frame, close 1000
281a43d with close_received in the guard after the early parse	passes, 11 of 11 runs: open, close 1000
c57f38f, no other change	passes, 11 of 11 runs
main (1.4.3-canary 367d939)	passes, 3 of 3 runs

Why c57f38f passes. C++ now queues the delivery task before it dispatches open. The first tick of the nested wait runs that task, so the client parses the Close frame before the nested loop polls the socket. The later read then returns at the top of handle_data. With BUN_DEBUG_WebSocketClient=1 the client logs one parse pass and nothing after Sending close with code 1000. main behaves the same way, because its microtask also runs in the first tick of the wait.

So on this branch, and on main, a read does not reach the early parse in handle_data through a nested wait, and that "Left alone" item no longer describes a reachable case. The close_received condition is still a cheap guard if the delivery moves again, and the test pins the order under send backpressure. The patch is below in case this PR takes them. I did not open a PR for it: on both bases the test passes without the condition.

Patch on top of c57f38f (guard and test)

diff --git a/src/http_jsc/websocket_client.rs b/src/http_jsc/websocket_client.rs
index 0257e5031d..d3fcaa9ee5 100644
--- a/src/http_jsc/websocket_client.rs
+++ b/src/http_jsc/websocket_client.rs
@@ -532,6 +532,10 @@ impl<const SSL: bool> WebSocket<SSL> {
             if this.cpp_websocket().is_none() || !this.has_tcp() {
                 return;
             }
+            // A Close frame in the overflow keeps us connected while its echo waits on send backpressure.
+            if this.close_received.get() {
+                return;
+            }
         }
 
         this.handle_data_loop(data_);
diff --git a/test/js/web/websocket/websocket-client-short-read.test.ts b/test/js/web/websocket/websocket-client-short-read.test.ts
index 8041eb821d..4e37d96c23 100644
--- a/test/js/web/websocket/websocket-client-short-read.test.ts
+++ b/test/js/web/websocket/websocket-client-short-read.test.ts
@@ -753,4 +753,44 @@ describe("WebSocket frames in the same read as the 101", () => {
     await closed.promise;
     expect(events).toEqual(["open", "message last words", "close 1000 clean=true"]);
   });
+
+  test.each(["ws", "wss"])(
+    "%s: no message follows a Close frame among them while its echo waits on send backpressure",
+    async protocol => {
+      using server = rawServer({ secure: protocol === "wss", glued: closeFrame(1000) });
+
+      const events: string[] = [];
+      const closed = Promise.withResolvers<void>();
+      const ws = new globalThis.WebSocket(server.url, { tls: { rejectUnauthorized: false } });
+      ws.addEventListener("open", () => {
+        events.push("open");
+        const peer = server.peer();
+        // The peer stops reading and the client queues more than the socket takes, so the echo of
+        // the Close frame has to wait behind it.
+        peer.pause();
+        const chunk = Buffer.alloc(1024 * 1024);
+        while (ws.bufferedAmount < 8 * chunk.length) ws.send(chunk);
+        peer.write(textFrame("after the Close frame"));
+        peer.flush();
+        // The wait ticks the event loop, so the client reads that frame before this listener
+        // returns. It parses the Close frame that came with the 101 first. setImmediate runs at the
+        // start of the next loop iteration, and the wait re-checks its promise only after that
+        // iteration has also polled I/O.
+        const polled = Promise.withResolvers<void>();
+        setImmediate(polled.resolve);
+        expect(polled.promise).resolves.toBeUndefined();
+        events.push(`send backpressure when open returns: ${ws.bufferedAmount > 0}`);
+        peer.resume();
+      });
+      ws.addEventListener("message", event => events.push(`message ${event.data}`));
+      ws.addEventListener("error", () => events.push("error"));
+      ws.addEventListener("close", event => {
+        events.push(`close ${event.code} clean=${event.wasClean}`);
+        closed.resolve();
+      });
+
+      await closed.promise;
+      expect(events).toEqual(["open", "send backpressure when open returns: true", "close 1000 clean=true"]);
+    },
+  );
 });

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🟠 Major · Preserve the open event before buffered messages. · WebSocket.cpp:1531-1532

src/jsc/bindings/webcore/WebSocket.cpp:1531-1532
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Preserve the open event before buffered messages.

Both paths queue initial-data delivery before didConnect(). If no open listener exists, didConnect() queues the open event afterward. A registered message listener can then observe handshake-overflow data before open.

• src/jsc/bindings/webcore/WebSocket.cpp#L1531-L1532: Coordinate direct and TLS delivery with the deferred-open path while retaining delivery during synchronous nested event-loop spins.
• src/jsc/bindings/webcore/WebSocket.cpp#L1722-L1723: Apply the same ordering rule to proxy-tunnel delivery.

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In `@src/jsc/bindings/webcore/WebSocket.cpp` around lines 1531 - 1532, Update both
buffered-data delivery sites in src/jsc/bindings/webcore/WebSocket.cpp at lines
1531-1532 and 1722-1723 to coordinate with the deferred open-event path: ensure
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@coderabbitai on "Preserve the open event before buffered messages": this is the case from the thread you withdrew earlier (a message listener, no open listener when the 101 is processed). It is on main too: canary 1.4.3 and this branch both give message, then open, when the only open listener is attached from the first message listener. The order of the new task relative to the queued open task does not change it, because in the normal case the bytes are delivered synchronously after the microtask checkpoint, as main's microtask also ran before that task.

Not changed in this PR. Delivering the bytes only from a task behind open loses them when a FIN arrives in the same poll, and the safe variant (queue the message events behind the pending open task in C++) changes the path of every client that sets only onmessage. That decision is handed off as separate work, and the PR Notes list it under "Left alone".

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@robobun, thanks for the clarification. I withdraw the finding.

This PR preserves the existing behavior from main. The new delivery task does not cause the message-before-late-registered-open listener case.

A task-only delivery path can lose handshake-overflow data when a Close frame and FIN arrive in the same poll. The safe alternative changes behavior for clients that set only onmessage. That work is correctly outside this PR.

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Learning: In `src/http_jsc/websocket_client/WebSocketUpgradeClient.rs`, do not defer WebSocket handshake-overflow delivery to a separate WebSocket task merely to order it after the queued `open` task. If a peer sends frames followed by a Close frame and FIN in the same segment, `on_end` can run before that task and discard the buffered frames. The `message`-before-a-late-registered-`open` listener case remains unchanged by this PR and requires a separate C++ task-ordering decision for clients that only set `onmessage`.

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