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🔗 Linked issue

Backport of #862 to the 1.x release line, which is what scripts.nuxt.com runs.

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📚 Description

Straight cherry-pick of 6a084c7. The only difference against the merged main version is 1.x's own doc comment on cached-upstream.ts; no logic drift.

Two problems in cached-upstream.ts, which backs every embed and image proxy (Bluesky, Instagram, X, Gravatar, Google Maps/geocode).

1. Upstream faults were reported as the host app's faults.

fetchBoundedUpstream mirrored the upstream status, so a 503 from public.api.bsky.app became a 503 from the site. A transport failure (DNS, reset connection, timeout) carried no status at all, so the handler's error.statusCode || 500 turned it into a 500. Both say "this app is broken" when the app is fine.

Now:

  • upstream 5xx becomes 502 Upstream request failed
  • transport failure becomes 502, or 504 Gateway Timeout when the request timed out
  • upstream 4xx is unchanged, since 404 (post deleted) and 429 (rate limited) are meaningful to the caller

2. A refusing upstream was re-fetched on every request.

Nitro's defineCachedFunction stores nothing when the resolver throws. An upstream that keeps refusing one resource (rate limit, login wall, deleted post) was therefore hit again on every single request. Each attempt raised a server error, and the retries deepened the rate limit that caused them.

A failed fetch is now replayed from memory for up to 60s (capped at the cache's own maxAge) before the upstream is tried again. The gate sits inside the cached resolver, so a replayed failure leaves the cache entry untouched and can never mask a stale success. It keys on the effective timeout, so a caller that allows the upstream longer does not inherit a shorter caller's 504.

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Same four test files as #862. On this branch the full unit suite passes: 912 tests, no type errors, lint clean.

  • test/unit/cached-upstream.test.ts — the status mapping, at the unit boundary.
  • test/unit/cached-upstream-transport.test.ts — the same paths against real sockets, real undici, and real ofetch, driving a local node:http upstream.
  • test/unit/embed-handler-upstream-status.test.ts — the Bluesky and Instagram handlers mounted in h3, asserting the status the client receives.
  • test/unit/cached-upstream-failure.test.ts — the replay window, the retry after it closes, the maxAge cap, and a stale-while-revalidate model taken from Nitro's cache runtime.

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The cached upstream utility now normalizes transport and upstream 5xx failures into 502 or 504 errors. It records failures in a bounded, timeout-specific replay gate for binary and JSON fetches. Successful-response cache keys remain unchanged. Tests cover failure expiry, stale-while-revalidate behavior, timeout isolation, resource isolation, and Bluesky and Instagram handler responses.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk:🔵 Low · up to 8c258

The change improves gateway error reporting and failure replay, but malformed upstream responses may still be retried on every request, default retries may duplicate failed or timed-out calls, and some cache tests are timing-sensitive. The PR is mergeable with explicit owner awareness and follow-up on these bounded risks.

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Title check✅ PassedThe title clearly identifies the proxy fix that reports upstream failures as gateway errors and states that it is a 1.x backport.
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Actionable comments posted: 1

🧹 Nitpick comments (4)
packages/script/src/runtime/server/utils/cached-upstream.ts (2)

516-522: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Record invalid JSON in the failure gate as well.

validateResponse failures now enter the gate, but the JSON.parse failure at lines 509-514 still throws without a record call. An upstream that keeps returning a non-JSON body (an HTML error page, for example) is therefore re-fetched on every request. That is the same amplification the gate prevents for the other failure paths.

♻️ Proposed fix
 try {
data = JSON.parse(text) as T
}
catch (cause) {
- throw upstreamError('Upstream response is not valid JSON', 502, 'Invalid upstream response', cause)+ const error = upstreamError('Upstream response is not valid JSON', 502, 'Invalid upstream response', cause)+ failureGate.record(key, error)+ throw error
}
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In `@packages/script/src/runtime/server/utils/cached-upstream.ts` around lines 516
- 522, Update the JSON parsing path near validateResponse in the cached-upstream
request flow to catch JSON.parse failures, call failureGate.record with the same
key and error, then rethrow the error. Preserve the existing behavior for
successfully parsed responses and validateResponse failures.

439-442: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Set retry: 0 on both upstream requests.

ofetch@1.5.1 retries GET requests once by default. Transport failures and request timeouts use fallback status 500, which is retryable. This can send two upstream requests and extend request timeouts to about 2 * timeoutMs.

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In `@packages/script/src/runtime/server/utils/cached-upstream.ts` around lines 439
- 442, Set retry to zero on both upstream request configurations, including the
request containing the failureGate.record call, so ofetch does not retry GETs
after transport failures or timeouts; preserve the existing timeout and error
propagation behavior.
test/unit/cached-upstream-transport.test.ts (1)

99-114: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Widen the timing margins in these real-transport tests.

Three budgets are tight for a loaded CI runner:

  • Lines 99 and 111 allow 150 ms for a loopback request to fail. A slow scheduler can still deliver the stalled-body chunk in time and change the expected 504.
  • Line 142 uses maxAge 1, so the replay window is 1 s. Line 146 must run inside that window to observe the replayed 502.
  • Line 148 sleeps only 100 ms beyond the window.

Raise the failure window and the sleep, and keep the request timeouts well below the server delay. This keeps the same behavior under test with less schedule sensitivity.

Also applies to: 140-152

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In `@test/unit/cached-upstream-transport.test.ts` around lines 99 - 114, Widen the
timing margins in the real-transport tests around the stalled-request cases and
the cache replay case: increase the request failure timeouts at the two
jsonFetch expectations, increase the cache maxAge, ensure the replay request
remains within that window, and lengthen the post-window sleep beyond the
updated maxAge while keeping request timeouts below the server delay.
test/unit/embed-handler-upstream-status.test.ts (1)

73-90: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Document that each test must use a unique handle or slug.

beforeEach resets rawFetchMock, but the handlers are imported once at module scope, so the cache stub and the failure gate persist for the whole file. The current tests already use distinct values. If a later test reuses a handle or slug that a previous test failed on, the gate replays the recorded failure, the handler never reaches rawFetchMock, and the test passes for the wrong reason. Add a short comment next to requestBluesky and requestInstagram that states this requirement.

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In `@test/unit/embed-handler-upstream-status.test.ts` around lines 73 - 90,
Document the test-data requirement beside the requestBluesky and
requestInstagram helpers: every test must use a unique Bluesky handle or
Instagram slug because handler cache and failure state persist across the file
even though rawFetchMock is reset. Add only a concise explanatory comment,
preserving the existing helper behavior.
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Inline comments:
In `@test/unit/cached-upstream-failure.test.ts`:
- Around line 161-171: Update the cached refresh test around fetchProfile to
deterministically flush the background refresh after every stale read, including
the final read, by awaiting the dispatcher-resolution microtask chain rather
than a single Promise.resolve tick. Only assert rawFetchMock’s expected call
count after all queued refresh work has completed.
---
Nitpick comments:
In `@packages/script/src/runtime/server/utils/cached-upstream.ts`:
- Around line 516-522: Update the JSON parsing path near validateResponse in the
cached-upstream request flow to catch JSON.parse failures, call
failureGate.record with the same key and error, then rethrow the error. Preserve
the existing behavior for successfully parsed responses and validateResponse
failures.
- Around line 439-442: Set retry to zero on both upstream request
configurations, including the request containing the failureGate.record call, so
ofetch does not retry GETs after transport failures or timeouts; preserve the
existing timeout and error propagation behavior.
In `@test/unit/cached-upstream-transport.test.ts`:
- Around line 99-114: Widen the timing margins in the real-transport tests
around the stalled-request cases and the cache replay case: increase the request
failure timeouts at the two jsonFetch expectations, increase the cache maxAge,
ensure the replay request remains within that window, and lengthen the
post-window sleep beyond the updated maxAge while keeping request timeouts below
the server delay.
In `@test/unit/embed-handler-upstream-status.test.ts`:
- Around line 73-90: Document the test-data requirement beside the
requestBluesky and requestInstagram helpers: every test must use a unique
Bluesky handle or Instagram slug because handler cache and failure state persist
across the file even though rawFetchMock is reset. Add only a concise
explanatory comment, preserving the existing helper behavior.
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Comment on lines +161 to +171
for (let i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
vi.advanceTimersByTime(601 * 1000)
await expect(fetchProfile('https://public.api.bsky.app/profile')).resolves.toEqual({ did: 'did:plc:example' })
await Promise.resolve()
}

// The failure gate must not turn a working stale embed into a 502.
vi.advanceTimersByTime(601 * 1000)
await expect(fetchProfile('https://public.api.bsky.app/profile')).resolves.toEqual({ did: 'did:plc:example' })
// One success plus a failed background refresh for every stale read.
expect(rawFetchMock).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(6)

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Flush the background refresh deterministically before asserting the call count.

The background refresh reaches rawFetchMock only after the mocked createPublicNetworkDispatcher promise resolves, so it needs more than one microtask tick. Line 164 flushes a single tick, and the last stale read at line 169 has no flush at all before the assertion at line 171. The expected count of 6 therefore depends on microtask scheduling.

💚 Proposed fix
 for (let i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
vi.advanceTimersByTimeAsync(601 * 1000)
await expect(fetchProfile('https://public.api.bsky.app/profile')).resolves.toEqual({ did: 'did:plc:example' })
- await Promise.resolve()+ await vi.advanceTimersByTimeAsync(0)
}
// The failure gate must not turn a working stale embed into a 502.
vi.advanceTimersByTime(601 * 1000)
await expect(fetchProfile('https://public.api.bsky.app/profile')).resolves.toEqual({ did: 'did:plc:example' })
+ await vi.advanceTimersByTimeAsync(0)
// One success plus a failed background refresh for every stale read.
expect(rawFetchMock).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(6)
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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.
In `@test/unit/cached-upstream-failure.test.ts` around lines 161 - 171, Update the
cached refresh test around fetchProfile to deterministically flush the
background refresh after every stale read, including the final read, by awaiting
the dispatcher-resolution microtask chain rather than a single Promise.resolve
tick. Only assert rawFetchMock’s expected call count after all queued refresh
work has completed.

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