http: improve errors thrown in header validation #16715

joyeecheung · 2017-11-03T13:05:08Z

Fixes: #16714

This PR:

Replace ERR_HTTP2_INVALID_HEADER_VALUE with ERR_HTTP_INVALID_HEADER_VALUE, don't really see a need to differentiate the two.
- The error code documentation of ERR_HTTP2_INVALID_HEADER_VALUE is kept.
- Include the header name and the value for debug-ability as [REQUEST] Better Errors in http validate headers #16714 suggests. Before it's Value must not be undefined or null(HTTP2) or The "value" argument must be specified(HTTP), after it's Invalid value "undefined" for header "test". If the user is setting the header in a loop this would be much more useful.
Use Error.captureStackTrace to exclude the validation functions from the stack trace

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make -j4 test (UNIX), or vcbuild test (Windows) passes
tests and/or benchmarks are included
documentation is changed or added
commit message follows commit guidelines

Affected core subsystem(s)

http, http2

joyeecheung · 2017-11-03T13:15:33Z

CI: https://ci.nodejs.org/job/node-test-pull-request/11168/

joyeecheung · 2017-11-03T13:21:57Z

Would be nice to have common.expectsError checking excluded stack frames and printing the original message when the error classes are called without new. Will open a seperate PR for that.

apapirovski

LGTM with some nits 👍

apapirovski · 2017-11-03T13:29:46Z

doc/api/errors.md

-### ERR_HTTP2_INVALID_HEADER_VALUE
+### ERR_HTTP_INVALID_HEADER_VALUE
+<a id="ERR_HTTP_INVALID_HEADER_VALUE"></a>
+### ERR_HTTP_INVALID_HEADER_VALUE


Accidentally doubled here?

apapirovski · 2017-11-03T13:32:43Z

lib/internal/http2/compat.js

-    throw new errors.Error('ERR_HTTP2_PSEUDOHEADER_NOT_ALLOWED');
-  if (value === undefined || value === null)
-    throw new errors.TypeError('ERR_HTTP2_INVALID_HEADER_VALUE');
+  var err;


Nit: can we use let? (I don't think there's many/any vars in http2 except for for loops.)

I am still under the impression that we favor var in cases like this...might be just outdated impressions, I'll fix that.

apapirovski · 2017-11-03T13:33:47Z

test/parallel/test-http2-compat-serverresponse-trailers.js

@@ -26,17 +26,17 @@ server.listen(0, common.mustCall(() => {
    common.expectsError(
      () => response.setTrailer('test', undefined),
      {
-        code: 'ERR_HTTP2_INVALID_HEADER_VALUE',


I'm not 100% sure about this because the semantics of the http2 validation are slightly different, for example pseudo headers are an http2 only feature.

apapirovski · 2017-11-03T13:36:44Z

lib/_http_outgoing.js

-    throw new errors.TypeError('ERR_INVALID_CHAR', 'header content', name);
+    err = new errors.TypeError('ERR_INVALID_CHAR', 'header content', name);
+  }
+  if (err) {


Since this is an object, can we do a strict comparison to undefined? (This function is kind of in a hot path.)

apapirovski · 2017-11-03T13:37:10Z

lib/internal/http2/compat.js

+  } else if (value === undefined || value === null) {
+    err = new errors.TypeError('ERR_HTTP_INVALID_HEADER_VALUE', value, name);
+  }
+  if (err) {


Same as for http, could we compare to undefined to avoid the whole document.all perf issue? (This is in a hot path.)

maclover7

+1 to landing as semver-major

maclover7 · 2017-11-03T13:38:06Z

doc/api/errors.md

@@ -818,9 +818,11 @@ HTTP/1 connection specific headers are forbidden to be used in HTTP/2
 requests and responses.

 <a id="ERR_HTTP2_INVALID_HEADER_VALUE"></a>
-### ERR_HTTP2_INVALID_HEADER_VALUE
+### ERR_HTTP_INVALID_HEADER_VALUE


This line is duplicated

Actually it's accidentally changed..we need to keep the documentation for ERR_HTTP2_INVALID_HEADER_VALUE because it's out there already.

If the codebase doesn't raise an error with this code though, should it be removed? 😬

maclover7 · 2017-11-03T13:38:25Z

doc/api/errors.md


-Used to indicate that an invalid HTTP/2 header value has been specified.
+Used to indicate that an invalid HTTP header value has been specified.


Should we explicitly say HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2?

apapirovski · 2017-11-03T13:39:45Z

Is this semver-major? It doesn't modify error codes except for http2 which is experimental. (And I'm not even 100% confident the error code for h2 should change, see above.)

joyeecheung · 2017-11-03T13:42:29Z

@apapirovski Hmmm, actually I don't know what's our policy for "changing error code but it's an error in the experimental module"..

joyeecheung · 2017-11-03T13:43:27Z

@apapirovski Ah, wait, it also modifies the HTTP error codes (ERR_MISSING_ARGS -> ERR_HTTP_INVALID_HEADER_VALUE)

apapirovski · 2017-11-03T13:43:35Z

@joyeecheung They already changed roughly a million times during v8.x... that ship might've sailed. 😆

Ah, wait, it also modifies the HTTP error codes (ERR_MISSING_ARGS -> ERR_HTTP_INVALID_HEADER_VALUE)

Ah true. Wonder if we could split into two separate PRs/commits so most of this could land right away?

joyeecheung · 2017-11-03T14:51:18Z

@apapirovski

Ah true. Wonder if we could split into two separate PRs/commits so most of this could land right away?

Yeah that seems like a better idea. I will close this one and open another two.

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		Used to indicate that an invalid HTTP/2 header value has been specified.
		Used to indicate that an invalid HTTP header value has been specified.

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