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Response to interrupted request returned for next one, after timeout interrupts reading the socket

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
ruby
Domain
networking

Research direction

Start in ruby-3.2.2/lib/ruby/3.2.0/net/http.rb around lines 1855-1862, where the request is written and the response is read. Reproduce a Timeout::Error before the response arrives, reuse the client, and verify that the next request no longer receives the interrupted request's response.

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Description

In ruby-3.2.2/lib/ruby/3.2.0/net/http.rb line 1855, a request is written to the socket; on line 1862 the response is read from the socket.

However, if a Timeout::Error occurs before the response arrives, the response is not read from the socket.

If the client is re-used, this causes the next request to read the response from the interrupted request (since it's queued on the socket and nothing else has read it).

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