codex-ws: settle post-send failures as honest gateway statuses and replace the fixed prelude deadline with liveness - #4256
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…gateway status The Codex WebSocket relay committed a 200 SSE Response the moment a failure landed after ws.send(), on the reasoning that a 5xx could make the pre-stream retry wrapper resend the frame. That was right about the resend and wrong about the status: it turned "no response" into "a response that failed", removed the code a user agent needs for its own retry policy, and neutered the client's first-byte timeout with chunked headers (#4191, #4083). Before the first response.*/error event the exchange now resolves a JSON 504 (prelude silence, or the proxy's own connect deadline) or 502 (close, transport error, prelude overflow, foreign stream) carrying the stage detail and the metadata snapshot. The response is marked non-replayable: fetchWithTransientRetry returns it without a second send, the Codex pool quota rotation and opaque-blob recovery ignore it, and comboFailureDecision stops on its structured error code. A caller abort in that window rejects with the caller's reason and disposes the socket, cancelling the turn. Behaviour after the response has started is unchanged. Local suite: NOT RUN by owner rule; remote CI on the final head is the gate.
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 10 included reviews per hour; 6 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change establishes an honest commit boundary for Codex WebSocket exchanges. Pre-response failures now return non-replayable 502 or 504 responses. Liveness uses silence, pings, and pongs. Retry, recovery, failover, documentation, and tests reflect the new behavior. ChangesWebSocket commit boundary
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리뷰 · 우선순위 77 / 80이 PR은 #4191(긴 Codex 스레드가 프록시에서만 지금 이 PR(현재 헤드 우선순위 77인 이유: #4191은 실사용 긴 스레드에서 프록시만 실패하는 높은 체감 버그이고, 수정 방향(상태 코드 vs 재전송 금지 분리)이 RFC/직접 경로와 맞습니다. 다만 제목·본문이 약속한 silence 기반 liveness(wp3)는 아직 코드에 없습니다. 여전히 고정 경로 메인테이너의 판단이 필요한 지점
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… liveness The 90 s response-prelude timer folded "the origin is dead" and "the origin is slow" into one number the proxy owned. Dead is a liveness question and WebSocket answers it natively; slow already has owners: the client's own deadline and the operator's connectTimeoutMs. While waiting for the first response event the exchange now pings every 15 s on sockets that expose ping(), any inbound frame or pong resets the 90 s silence clock, and only silence settles the 504. A peer that never pongs keeps exactly the previous bound; a peer that does can never trip it while alive. The failure stage names the pings sent and pongs received so a field report can tell an unanswered peer from a slow one (#4191, #4083). Local suite: NOT RUN by owner rule; remote CI on the final head is the gate.
…never-pongs oracle Review finding: guarding commitResponse on terminal left an exchange without a metadata channel unsettled when failStream ran after send, because that path relies on commitResponse to hand the client its 200 before erroring the body. The pre-response JSON settle now claims the commit slot itself instead. The never-pongs test steps the fake clock per ping interval.
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In `@docs-site/src/content/docs/reference/configuration/server.md`:
- Around line 39-40: Update the documentation around the proxy liveness behavior
to state that supported sockets receive pings every 15 seconds, while sockets
without ping() rely on inbound frames such as quota updates, response metadata,
or pongs to reset the silence clock.
In `@src/server/responses/codex-ws-exchange.ts`:
- Around line 250-251: Update cancelExchange to receive an explicit cancellation
source and classify the 504 TimeoutError branch only when cancellation comes
from the proxy connect deadline. Preserve caller aborts, including post-send
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| failStream(`codex websocket response did not start before the connect deadline${codexWsFailureDetail(failureStage())}`, 504); |
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Keep caller timeouts separate from the proxy connect deadline.
cancelExchange receives both owner cancellation and init.signal cancellation. This condition classifies every reason named TimeoutError as origin silence.
If the caller aborts after send with a timeout-shaped reason, the promise resolves with HTTP 504 instead of rejecting with the caller's reason. This violates the stated caller-abort contract and can cause the client to apply gateway retry policy.
Pass an explicit cancellation source into cancelExchange. Use the 504 branch only for the proxy connect deadline. Add a regression test with a post-send caller abort whose reason has name === "TimeoutError".
Proposed source distinction
- const cancelExchange = (reason: unknown) => {
+ const cancelExchange = (reason: unknown, source: "caller" | "owner") => {
...
- if ((reason as { name?: unknown } | null)?.name === "TimeoutError") {
+ if (source === "owner"
+ && (reason as { name?: unknown } | null)?.name === "TimeoutError") {
...
- const onAbort = () => cancelExchange(signal?.reason ?? new DOMException("The operation was aborted.", "AbortError"));
+ const onAbort = () => cancelExchange(
+ signal?.reason ?? new DOMException("The operation was aborted.", "AbortError"),
+ "caller",
+ );
...
- detachOwner = session.bindOwner(reason => cancelExchange(reason));
+ detachOwner = session.bindOwner(reason => cancelExchange(reason, "owner"));As per coding guidelines, “Adapter changes must preserve … cancellation [and] error mapping.”
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| if ((reason as { name?: unknown } | null)?.name === "TimeoutError") { | |
| failStream(`codex websocket response did not start before the connect deadline${codexWsFailureDetail(failureStage())}`, 504); | |
| if (source === "owner" | |
| && (reason as { name?: unknown } | null)?.name === "TimeoutError") { | |
| failStream(`codex websocket response did not start before the connect deadline${codexWsFailureDetail(failureStage())}`, 504); |
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In `@src/server/responses/codex-ws-exchange.ts` around lines 250 - 251, Update
cancelExchange to receive an explicit cancellation source and classify the 504
TimeoutError branch only when cancellation comes from the proxy connect
deadline. Preserve caller aborts, including post-send reasons named
TimeoutError, by rejecting with the caller’s original reason instead of mapping
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The proposed source split does not match where the two aborts come from. The proxy connect deadline is not the session owner: fetchWithHeaderTimeout joins the caller's controller with its own timeout controller via AbortSignal.any, so both the caller abort and the deadline reach the exchange through init.signal → onAbort. The session owner path is pool eviction/shutdown and never carries a TimeoutError. So the reason is the only discriminator, and in this process it is unambiguous: the deadline aborts with new DOMException("Timeout elapsed", "TimeoutError") (fetch-helpers.ts), and every caller abort (upstream.abort() in core.ts) passes no reason and gets the default AbortError. A hypothetical future proxy-side deadline that aborted with a TimeoutError would still be honestly a 504 (the origin did not acknowledge before a deadline the proxy owns), which is the contract this branch documents. I added that explanation as a comment at the branch in 361200e rather than a source flag that would classify the connect deadline as a caller abort.
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@lidge-jun, you are correct that my proposed "owner" versus "caller" split is not valid. fetchWithHeaderTimeout creates the proxy deadline in src/server/responses/fetch-helpers.ts Lines 190-193, then combines it with the upstream signal by AbortSignal.any on Line 207. Both aborts reach onAbort.
The current discriminator is still not source-safe. In src/server/responses/core.ts Lines 6982-6984, options.abortSignal links to upstream. linkAbortSignal then preserves the input reason with upstream.abort(signal.reason) on Lines 8164-8172. Therefore, a caller-controlled HandleResponsesOptions.abortSignal with a TimeoutError reaches cancelExchange with the same shape as the header deadline.
Do not apply the proposed source split. To preserve the stated contract for arbitrary caller abort reasons, the code needs deadline provenance at the fetchWithHeaderTimeout composition boundary. The exchange must receive an explicit “owned deadline expired” fact, rather than infer ownership from reason.name.
The existing test in tests/responses/ws-upstream.test.ts Lines 1192-1207 covers a generic caller reason. It should also cover a post-send caller abort with new DOMException(..., "TimeoutError") and assert rejection with that exact reason. The proxy deadline case should continue to return the non-replayable 504.
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Reviewed the changed status/retry boundary at 361200e. The important difference from the unsafe fallback proposal in #4191 is present: a post-send pre-response failure now returns 502/504 while retaining in-process non-replayability. I traced the WeakSet check in transient retry, pool quota and opaque recovery, and the structured code through consumeComboFailure and the policy wrapper's comboFailureDecision. The passthrough error formatter preserves the nonempty JSON code across its Response rewrap. I am not requesting a return to forced 200 body errors.
The marked/unmarked transient tests and structured combo-code test are useful. Before calling all no-resend boundaries proven end-to-end, add a real policy-wrapper/core or pool-caller regression that observes one actual create/send after the marked failure, rather than only directly invoking the classifier/helper. Keep normal unmarked transient retry as the positive control. The owner's ping/pong probe confirms transport liveness, not model progress or resolution of every #4191 long-thread failure; the Refs scope is appropriate.
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Refs #4191, #4083, #3976.
A long Codex thread that fails only through the proxy arrives as
stream disconnected before completion: ... codex websocket closed before a Responses terminal event (close 1006)or... response prelude timed out, and works immediately when the proxy is bypassed. The cause this PR fixes is the commit boundary of the Codex WebSocket relay, not the transport choice.ws.send(), any failure — silence for 90 s, a 1006 close, a transport error, a prelude overflow — committed a 200 SSE Response and errored its body. That turned "no response" into "a response that failed", removed the status a user agent needs for its own retry policy, and neutered the client's first-byte timeout with chunked headers. The proxy was stricter than the client on the direct path and paid for it with a hard failure in the user's face.response.*/errorevent the exchange resolves an honest JSON 504 (origin silence, or the proxy's own connect deadline) or 502 (close / transport error / prelude overflow / foreign stream) carrying the [Bug]: Long Codex thread fails only through OpenCodex proxy (WS 1006 / response prelude timeout); bypass works immediately #4191 stage detail and the metadata snapshot headers. The response is marked non-replayable so no layer of this process sends the frame again (fetchWithTransientRetry, Codex pool quota rotation, opaque-blob recovery, andcomboFailureDecisionvia the structurederror.code). A caller abort in that window rejects with the caller's reason and disposes the socket, cancelling the turn. After the response has started nothing changes.ping(), any inbound frame or pong resets the clock, and only 90 s with nothing at all settles the 504. A slow but alive origin waits for the client's own deadline orconnectTimeoutMs.Design, journey evaluation, the external semantic review that overturned the first framing, and two audit rounds are in
devlog/_plan/260911_ws_commit_boundary/.Verification
bun test,bun run test,test:changed,typecheck,build:gui, orbun install; push with--no-verify). Remote CI on the final head of this PR is the executable gate.WebSocketcapability probe (not product code):ping()exists and apongevent is dispatched with the ping payload.025_audit_round1.mdand030_wp2_plan.md); a read-only diff review of the full branch is recorded in050_review.md(one real finding fixed in 7652700, one rebutted with the probe above, one test reshaped).tests/responses/ws-upstream.test.ts(metadata overflow, foreign stream, oversized pre-response frame, abort after send, prelude overflow, first-response deadline through the retry wrapper, 1009/1006 closes),tests/responses/ws-failure-stage.test.ts,tests/providers/upstream-transient-retry.test.ts(marked 504 returns after one send; unmarked 504 still retries),tests/routing/router-combo-failover-classification.test.ts(structured code stops the hop).Checklist
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