Re: Is Rack partial hijack supported?

[Eric Wong <e@yhbt.net>]

Samuel Williams <samuel@oriontransfer.net> wrote:
> Using `-E none` solves the issue and I can proceed with the
> conformance checks, thanks! AFAIK, no other server behaves
> like this (using `Rack::Server` for default middleware)
> although I can understand why for Rack 2 that was a logical
> choice.

OK, good to know.  I think the defaults were copied from rack
0.9 or so...  I'm still trying to keep unicorn supported across
as many Rack versions as possible since it tends to be used by
legacy systems that rarely see updates.

I've always used `-E none' for my projects.

> FYI, we have deprecated `Rack::Chunked` in Rack 3. The wire
> format should be the responsibility of the server, not the
> application/middleware. This middleware in particular was a
> blocker to support HTTP/2 which does chunked encoding using
> binary framing. In addition, `Rack::Server` has also been
> moved out of the Rack gem. The Rack gem should focus on Rack
> the interface, rather than Rack the (server) implementation.
> As such, the `default_middleware_by_environment` should be an
> internal detail of the implementation rather than the
> middleware/application.

Couldn't Rack::Chunked be made a no-op for everything aside from
HTTP/1.1?  That would cause less problems for existing Rack <=2.x
users wanting to upgrade.  It's already a no-op for HTTP/1.0...
(cf. rack/chunked.rb::chunkable_version? )

> My suggestion is that you implement chunked encoding directly
> in your server and only if it makes sense according to the
> response you get back from the application. For a hijacked
> response, given that you are already using `connection:
> close`, you can probably just directly pass the socket to the
> hijack proc. This will be compatible with websockets too.

"Connection: close" alone isn't enough.  body.each {...} can
crash and leave truncated responses clients don't know about
(especially. with non-HTML/XML/JSON content that has no closing
tag).  Either chunked is required (but HTTP/1.1-only), or
relying on gzip for built-in error-checking w/ HTTP/1.0 clients.

Anyways I'll wait a bit for rack 3 to finalize since I'm busy
with other stuff atm.