On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Jimb Esser <[email protected]> wrote:
> In http.js in the node source, ClientRequest.prototype.onSocket uses
> process.nextTick before setting up the error and close handlers, but it
> seems that a socket can be closed before that callback and the error
> handlers will never be called.  Is this a bug?  Is there something I'm
> missing that would make this code somehow safe?
>
> Why I ask is that under high load, we've had some HTTP requests end up never
> completing, never getting an error, and the OS reports having no open
> sockets.  I added an on('socket') event that asserted that the socket we're
> handed was not already disconnected, and this has started firing, which
> means we're being handed a disconnected socket (and any error or disconnect
> events we set immediately upon creating the request will never get called.
> This is in the context of a large application with a lot of other stuff
> going on, so it's possible we have a bug elsewhere, but tracing up the
> callstack when we get passed a disconnected socket makes me think this code
> in http.js that may be at fault.

It's a know bug, there are several bug reports about it. It'll be
addressed eventually but the problem is that the nextTick is there for
a reason, removing it introduces other issues.

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