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fix(http): stop buffering whole bodies on the range-GET header fallback - #905

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Problem

When a peer's HEAD is unusable, GatewaysRootTxIndex and ChunkMetadataAnchorSource fall back to a Range: bytes=0-0 GET, and only use that response's headers. Both requests used responseType: 'arraybuffer' with axios's default maxContentLength: -1.

A peer that ignores the range and answers 200 therefore had its whole response buffered, limited only by the request timeout (10 s and 5 s). Measured locally: a 300 MiB body was buffered in full.

Both callers only talk to operator-configured trusted gateways, so this needs a misbehaving gateway, or a CDN in front of one. It's a bounded risk, not an outage.

Fix

Both requests now receive the body as a stream and pass it to a new helper, discardResponseBody in src/lib/http-utils.ts:

  • Bodies up to 64 KiB are read to the end, so the keep-alive socket goes back to its pool exactly as it did after a buffered read. Destroying every stream would have forced a new connection on each fallback.
  • Anything else is destroyed, which closes the connection instead of downloading the rest. That covers a larger body, a body still arriving after the request timeout, and a stream that fails.
  • It never rejects, and it leaves an error listener attached so a late stream error can't go unhandled.

Kept identical on purpose:

  • GatewaysRootTxIndex also discards the body of an error response. Its axios instance rejects on non-2xx and would otherwise leave that stream unread.
  • ChunkMetadataAnchorSource re-checks its abort signal after discarding. The buffered read used to reject when aborted mid-body.
  • Headers, status handling, and every value derived from them are unchanged.

Tests

New tests run both callers against a real HTTP server with the real axios instances, not mocks:

Test Old code (buffered) "Always destroy" variant This PR
Peer ignores the range: 64 MiB body not fully sent ❌ fails
Same, with a 500 error body (root TX index) ❌ fails
Peer honours the range: 2 lookups share one keep-alive connection ❌ fails

The first two columns come from mutation runs against the same tests.

discardResponseBody also has unit tests covering: a small body read to the end, a large body destroyed, a body that never ends, a failing stream, non-stream input, and an already-ended stream.

Verification

  • Changed test files: http-utils 72/72, gateways-root-tx-index 22/22, chunk-metadata-anchor-source 19/19. All pre-existing tests are unchanged and pass.
  • Full suite: yarn test ran 2530 tests: 2525 passed, 4 skipped, and 1 failed. The failure is parquet-exporter, which needs GLIBC 2.32 and fails identically on develop on this host.
  • Build and lint: yarn build and yarn lint:check pass.
  • Typecheck: yarn typecheck reports 433 errors, the same as develop, with none in the changed files.

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GatewaysRootTxIndex and ChunkMetadataAnchorSource fall back to a
`Range: bytes=0-0` GET when a peer's HEAD is unusable, and only need that
response's headers. Both fetched the body with `responseType: 'arraybuffer'`
and axios's default `maxContentLength` of -1, so a peer that ignores the
range and answers 200 had its whole response buffered in memory, bounded
only by the request timeout. Measured locally: a 300 MiB body was fully
buffered.

Receive the body as a stream and hand it to a new `discardResponseBody`
helper, which:

- reads a body of up to 64 KiB to the end, so a keep-alive socket is reused
  exactly as it was after a buffered read (closing every stream would force
  a new connection per fallback);
- destroys a larger body, a body still arriving after the request timeout,
  or a failing stream, closing the connection instead of downloading it;
- never rejects, and leaves an error listener so a late stream error can't
  go unhandled.

GatewaysRootTxIndex also discards the body of an error response, which its
axios instance rejects with the stream still unread. ChunkMetadataAnchorSource
re-checks its abort signal after discarding, because a buffered read used to
reject when aborted mid-body.

Tests run both callers against a real HTTP server with the real axios
instances: a peer that ignores the range, including an error status, is no
longer read in full, and a peer that honours it keeps a single keep-alive
connection across lookups. Restoring the buffered read fails the first
group; destroying every body fails the second.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EExbqiSKPLAtqxPLkdGqK3
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The change adds bounded streamed-response disposal and applies it to range-GET fallbacks in chunk metadata and gateway root lookups. Tests cover large-body termination, failed responses, abort handling, and keep-alive connection reuse.

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Streamed range-GET fallback

Layer / File(s) Summary
Bounded response-body disposal
src/lib/http-utils.ts, src/lib/http-utils.test.ts
Adds DISCARDED_BODY_MAX_BYTES and discardResponseBody. The utility drains small readable bodies, destroys oversized or timed-out streams, handles stream errors, and ignores non-stream values.
Chunk metadata fallback
src/data/chunk-metadata-anchor-source.ts, src/data/chunk-metadata-anchor-source.test.ts
The fallback now requests a stream, discards its body with the request timeout, and checks abort state afterward. Real-server tests cover ignored ranges and connection reuse.
Gateway root fallback
src/discovery/gateways-root-tx-index.ts, src/discovery/gateways-root-tx-index.test.ts
The fallback now streams and discards successful and failed response bodies. The index stores the request timeout. Real-server tests cover large success and error bodies, early termination, and connection reuse.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Lookup
  participant PeerHTTPServer
  participant discardResponseBody
  Lookup->>PeerHTTPServer: send HEAD request
  PeerHTTPServer-->>Lookup: reject or fail HEAD
  Lookup->>PeerHTTPServer: send streamed range GET
  PeerHTTPServer-->>Lookup: return response headers and body stream
  Lookup->>discardResponseBody: dispose response body
  discardResponseBody-->>Lookup: complete cleanup or destroy stream
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A narrowly timed failed response stream can terminate the process instead of being safely discarded. Attach the listener before the destroyed-state check before merging.

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In `@src/lib/http-utils.ts`:
- Line 388: Update discardResponseBody to install its persistent error listener
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existing non-Readable guard and cleanup behavior. Add a regression test that
destroys the stream with an error before invoking discardResponseBody and
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`Readable.destroy(error)` marks a stream destroyed immediately but emits its
'error' event on a later tick. discardResponseBody returned early for a
destroyed stream before attaching its error listener, so a body destroyed
with an error just before the call raised an uncaught exception. Reproduced:
`destroy(new Error(...))` followed by discardResponseBody crashed with that
error.

Attach the listener first, then return for a destroyed or ended stream. The
new regression test fails without the reordering.

Reported by CodeRabbit on #905.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EExbqiSKPLAtqxPLkdGqK3
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