cloudflare just dropped a breakdown on a nasty bug they found in the hyper crate. it was a
race condition that basically caused large http responses to just stop mid-stream without any error. the worst part is that the server would still send back a
200 OK status, making it nearly impossible to detect via standard logs.
>the data just silently truncatesthis thing had been sitting in the codebase for years bc it only happens under very specific timing windows.
it's basically a nightmare for data integrity since you wouldnt even know your payload is incomplete. does anyone else use hyper heavily in production? i wonder how many people have been unknowingly serving broken payloads w/
rust-based services
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