http: emit ECONNRESET if no 'aborted' listener #28677

ronag · 2019-07-14T11:30:44Z

Emits an ECONNRESET of response object when there is no listener for aborted.

Refs: #28172

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make -j4 test (UNIX), or vcbuild test (Windows) passes
tests and/or benchmarks are included
documentation is changed or added
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mcollina · 2019-07-14T11:34:24Z

Would you mind adding a unit test?

ronag · 2019-07-14T11:35:08Z

@mcollina @benjamingr docs and tests added

mcollina

LGTM

ronag · 2019-07-14T11:36:59Z

@mcollina Thank you so much for the suggestion. This would make my life much easier.

nodejs-github-bot · 2019-07-14T11:37:09Z

CI: https://ci.nodejs.org/job/node-test-pull-request/24427/

mcollina · 2019-07-14T11:37:10Z

CI: https://ci.nodejs.org/job/node-test-pull-request/24427/

mcollina

LGTM

ronag · 2019-07-14T12:08:44Z

Hm, I have more tests to fix...

ronag · 2019-07-14T12:48:38Z

@mcollina May I deprecate/remove ‘aborted’ from the docs as well? Or is that a step too far?

mcollina · 2019-07-14T12:56:24Z

I would not deprecate/remove at this point.

lpinca · 2019-07-14T13:37:05Z

I think this is a pretty big breaking change as an 'error' listener should always be added on res now (if there is no 'aborted' listener) or the process will crash. It was sufficient to have an 'error' listener of req before.

ronag · 2019-07-14T13:44:49Z

@lpinca not having an aborted listener on the response is currently quite a serious bug... and something I believe unfortunately is quite common. Currently it will fail silently.

From an API standpoint you should always have a error listener on the response object.

But yes, this could be a sem major?

lpinca · 2019-07-14T14:33:21Z

not having an aborted listener on the response is currently quite a serious bug...

Why? care to elaborate?

lib/_http_client.js

ronag · 2019-07-14T15:05:49Z

not having an aborted listener on the response is currently quite a serious bug...

Why? care to elaborate?

Because you would never finish... consider the following quite common pattern:

await new Promise((resolve, reject) => res
  .on('error', reject)
  .pipe(dst)
  .on('error', reject)
  .on('finish', resolve)
)

If 'aborted' this will never finish...

mcollina

Moving it to “change requested” as we need a new error code for this.

lpinca · 2019-07-14T15:13:39Z

Hmm unconvinced, the example above is a very specific use case and I'm not very happy with enforcing either an 'aborted' or an 'error' listener but I won't get in the way.

ronag · 2019-07-14T15:26:57Z

Hmm unconvinced, the example above is a very specific use case and I'm not very happy with enforcing either an 'aborted' or an 'error' listener but I won't get in the way.

Fair enough. The only other argument I can give is that it pretends to be a stream but doesn't follow the stream spec (if end is not emitted then error should be emitted).

ronag · 2019-07-14T15:29:09Z

@mcollina: Tried a different message.

mcollina

LGTM

mcollina · 2019-08-26T09:05:15Z

@lpinca what do you think?

@nodejs/tsc this is likely a significant breaking change, you might want to review again.

nodejs-github-bot · 2019-08-26T09:05:49Z

CI: https://ci.nodejs.org/job/node-test-pull-request/25243/

mcollina · 2019-08-26T09:05:58Z

CITGM: https://ci.nodejs.org/view/Node.js-citgm/job/citgm-smoker/1982/

lpinca · 2019-08-26T12:54:35Z

No strong opinion. The rationale seems sensible but I don't know if it makes sense due to the big breaking change.

ronag · 2019-09-18T22:52:45Z

@Trott: Is anything blocking this?

nodejs-github-bot · 2019-09-19T05:33:46Z

CI: https://ci.nodejs.org/job/node-test-pull-request/25567/

Trott · 2019-09-19T05:34:44Z

CITGM: https://ci.nodejs.org/view/Node.js-citgm/job/citgm-smoker/2003/

Trott · 2019-09-23T01:19:00Z

With this change, CITGM has new failures for ws (7.1.2) and koa (2.8.1).

ws:

2 failing
   1) WebSocket
        Connection establishing
          "after each" hook:
      Uncaught Error: aborted
       at connResetException (internal/errors.js:566:14)
       at Socket.socketCloseListener (_http_client.js:364:27)
       at TCP.<anonymous> (net.js:658:12)
   2) WebSocket
        Connection establishing
          "before each" hook for "connects when pathname is not null":
      TypeError: Cannot read property 'call' of undefined
       at processImmediate (internal/timers.js:439:21)

koa:

3 failing
   1) app.respond
        when ctx.respond === false
          should function (ctx):
      Error: aborted
       at connResetException (internal/errors.js:566:14)
       at Socket.socketCloseListener (_http_client.js:364:27)
       at TCP.<anonymous> (net.js:658:12)
       [use `--full-trace` to display the full stack trace]
   2) app.respond
        when ctx.respond === false
          should ignore set header after header sent:
      Error: aborted
       at connResetException (internal/errors.js:566:14)
       at Socket.socketCloseListener (_http_client.js:364:27)
       at TCP.<anonymous> (net.js:658:12)
       [use `--full-trace` to display the full stack trace]
   3) app.respond
        when ctx.respond === false
          should ignore set status after header sent:
      Error: aborted
       at connResetException (internal/errors.js:566:14)
       at Socket.socketCloseListener (_http_client.js:364:27)
       at TCP.<anonymous> (net.js:658:12)
       [use `--full-trace` to display the full stack trace]
   Error: mock stack null
   Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'does not exist'
   Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'does not exist'
   Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'does not exist'
   Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'does not exist'
   Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'does not exist'
   Error: boom!

Trott

CITGM results would seem to indicate that we have some work to do in the ecosystem before landing this. If the approvers of this PR disagree and think it can/should land at this time, feel free to clear this review.

ronag · 2019-09-23T07:17:08Z

@Trott:

koa: Had broken test which I have already fixed on master but is pending a release.
ws: I've created a PR to maintain current functionality ([fix] listen to 'aborted' to mute emitting of 'aborted' error. websockets/ws#1632). Though I do realize that @lpinca might not be too happy with it. A nicer fix is probably possible.

lpinca · 2019-09-23T13:05:18Z

Yes, I don't like it but I can live with it in ws. I'm actually more worried about similar breakage this can have on the ecosystem as per #28677 (comment).

I've seen a lot of code where no 'error' listener and no 'aborted' listener is added on the client side http.IncomingMessage because it just worked.

mcollina

Considering the breakage in the ecosystem, I don't think we should land this.

ronag · 2019-09-24T11:56:10Z

because it just worked.

Or it just seems to work... I think a lot of the code that don't register error or aborted are already subtly broken... it's just such an unusual error case in those scenarios that it is not noticed. I don't have anything concrete to back that claim though.

ronag · 2019-12-15T10:45:59Z

Considering the breakage in the ecosystem, I don't think we should land this.

I guess adding an option/flag to enable this behavior is not an option either? I find this whole 'aborted' thing very unfortunate when considering that we want the response to act like a stream. pipeline and finished does negate some of this though. However, I do see the breaking risks.

A process.'warning' if aborting and neither error nor aborted is registered?

@mcollina: Is there anything more that can be done here or should we close this?

mcollina · 2019-12-15T19:45:47Z

I would close this for now, yes

Server requests aka. IncomingMessage emits 'aborted' instead of 'error' which causes confusion when the object is used as a regular stream, i.e. if functions working on streams are passed a server request object they might not work properly unless they take this into account. Refs: nodejs/web-server-frameworks#41 PR-URL: #33172 Fixes: #28172 Refs: #28677 Reviewed-By: Matteo Collina <matteo.collina@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>

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ronag changed the title ~~http: emit ECONNRESET if no aborted listener~~ http: emit ECONNRESET if no 'aborted' listener Jul 14, 2019

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[fix] listen to 'aborted' to mute emitting of 'aborted' error. websockets/ws#1632

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