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🔗 Linked issue

resolves #4269

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📚 Description

this is also reproducible on v2 (see nuxt/cli#107).

the issue is that devProxy with ws: true proxies HTTP fine but the upgrade falls through to the dev worker and gets answered as a normal request

This PR proxies upgrade requests that match a devProxy rule with ws: true, before they reach the worker:

  • Nitro dev server: NitroDevServer.upgrade() tries proxyUpgrade() first.
  • Vite dev server: the upgrade hook also tries devApp.proxyUpgrade(). The hook is now registered when any rule sets ws: true, even if features.websocket is off.
  • Route matching: upgrades use rou3, the same router h3 uses for HTTP. /proxy/foo matches only that exact path and /proxy/foo/** matches sub-paths, the same as HTTP proxying.
  • Docs: the devProxy section now covers ws: true and the exact-vs-/** matching.

Tested end to end with nitro dev on Node, Bun (1.4.2) and Deno (2.9.6), and with Vite dev on Node.

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Walkthrough

NitroDevApp now records dev proxy routes marked with ws and forwards matching WebSocket upgrades. The dev server and Vite upgrade handler try proxy handling before worker upgrade handling. Tests cover exact and wildcard routes, query strings, and requests without a matching WebSocket proxy.

Changes

Dev proxy WebSocket handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Register and route WebSocket proxies
src/dev/app.ts
NitroDevApp stores WebSocket-enabled proxy instances, matches request paths without query strings, forwards matching upgrades, and destroys the socket after proxy errors.
Dispatch upgrades and validate proxy behavior
src/build/vite/dev.ts, src/dev/server.ts, test/unit/dev-proxy-ws.test.ts, docs/3.config/0.index.md
Vite and NitroDevServer try proxy handling before worker handling. Tests cover exact and wildcard matches, query-string forwarding, and unmatched or HTTP-only routes. The documentation describes WebSocket proxy configuration and route matching.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 1a6f4

WebSocket proxy routing is implemented, but the new test bypasses the production upgrade dispatcher, leaving wiring regressions undetected. The change is otherwise supported by the supplied evidence; merge with this limited coverage gap acknowledged.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 1a6f4

Only explicitly enabled development proxy routes are affected, and upstream targets remain configuration-controlled. However, matching connections now skip application-worker handling, so upstream access controls and connection shutdown behavior remain important uncertainties.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — A client able to reach the development listener can now reach the WebSocket interface of any matching, explicitly enabled proxy target. The independently reachable scope is the configured upstream set and each upstream's accepted operations; broader tenant, credential, or production exposure is not established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Matching proxy upgrades do not enter the worker upgrade path. The Vite worker's WebSocket hook resolver normally calls serverFetch, so matched proxy routes also do not inherit that application's request-processing path. This establishes a changed enforcement boundary, not a verified loss of a concrete authentication or origin policy.
  • observed — Explicit ws registration and route matching constrain proxy handoff. Unmatched requests retain the existing fallback, and Vite retains its pre-existing exclusion for protocols starting with vite-.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — At the application layer, a matched upgrade has one dispatch destination and rejected proxy promises destroy the client socket. Complete post-upgrade interruption and shutdown containment remains dependent on unhydrated proxy and listener behavior.
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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning Issue #4269 requires the reported /maildev rule to proxy an upgrade for /maildev/socket.io/.... The PR registers /maildev as an exact route, and its documentation confirms that exact routes do n… Update WebSocket route matching so the issue’s /maildev rule matches /maildev/socket.io/..., while preserving the path sent to the target. Add a regression test using the issue’s route and request paths.
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 50.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 4 functions across 4 files. (1 skipped: 1… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Check name Status Explanation
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes in src/dev/app.ts, src/dev/server.ts, and src/build/vite/dev.ts handle WebSocket upgrades for devProxy rules. The documentation and tests cover that behavior. These changes support…
Title check ✅ Passed The title follows the conventional commit format with the fix(dev): prefix and clearly describes the WebSocket proxy change.
Description check ✅ Passed The description explains the devProxy WebSocket upgrade issue and summarizes the implementation, route matching, documentation, and testing.
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Issue #4269 requires the reported /maildev rule to proxy an upgrade for /maildev/socket.io/.... The PR registers /maildev as an exact route, and its documentation confirms that exact routes do not match subpaths. Only a /maildev/** rule matches the reproduction path. The tests cover nested paths with a wildcard rule, but they do not cover the issue’s /maildev configuration. That request can still fall through to the worker.

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test/unit/dev-proxy-ws.test.ts (1)

33-33: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Use an options object for request options.

Change upgradeRequest(port, path) to accept { path } as its second argument and update the call sites. As per coding guidelines, “For multi-argument functions, use an options object as the second parameter.”

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rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@test/unit/dev-proxy-ws.test.ts` at line 33, Update upgradeRequest to accept
an options object containing path as its second parameter instead of a separate
path argument, then revise every call site to pass that object while preserving
the existing request behavior.

Source: Coding guidelines

src/dev/app.ts (2)

121-121: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Use an options object for proxyUpgrade.

Change the new positional socket, head parameters to a second options object, then update callers in src/dev/server.ts and the test. As per coding guidelines, “For multi-argument functions, use an options object as the second parameter.”

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In `@src/dev/app.ts` at line 121, Update proxyUpgrade to accept an options object
as its second parameter containing the current socket and head values, then
adjust all callers in server.ts and the test to pass those fields through the
object while preserving existing behavior.

Source: Coding guidelines


116-120: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Remove unrequested explanatory comments.

  • src/dev/app.ts#L116-L120: remove the behavior-restating JSDoc.
  • test/unit/dev-proxy-ws.test.ts#L20-L20: remove the helper-description comment.

As per coding guidelines, “Do not add comments explaining what the line does unless prompted.”

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In `@src/dev/app.ts` around lines 116 - 120, Remove the behavior-restating JSDoc
immediately preceding the WebSocket proxy helper in src/dev/app.ts (lines
116-120), and remove the helper-description comment in
test/unit/dev-proxy-ws.test.ts (line 20); retain the associated code unchanged.

Source: Coding guidelines

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Inline comments:
In `@test/unit/dev-proxy-ws.test.ts`:
- Around line 41-42: Update the request setup in the WebSocket upgrade test so
the timeout created by setTimeout is cleared before rejecting on req’s error
event. Preserve the existing “upgrade timed out” rejection and error propagation
while ensuring both fallback failures do not leave the five-second timer active.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@src/dev/app.ts`:
- Line 121: Update proxyUpgrade to accept an options object as its second
parameter containing the current socket and head values, then adjust all callers
in server.ts and the test to pass those fields through the object while
preserving existing behavior.
- Around line 116-120: Remove the behavior-restating JSDoc immediately preceding
the WebSocket proxy helper in src/dev/app.ts (lines 116-120), and remove the
helper-description comment in test/unit/dev-proxy-ws.test.ts (line 20); retain
the associated code unchanged.

In `@test/unit/dev-proxy-ws.test.ts`:
- Line 33: Update upgradeRequest to accept an options object containing path as
its second parameter instead of a separate path argument, then revise every call
site to pass that object while preserving the existing request behavior.
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const timeout = setTimeout(() => reject(new Error("upgrade timed out")), 5000);
req.on("error", reject);

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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Clear the timeout on request errors.

The two expected fallback failures reject through error but retain their five-second timers, unnecessarily extending the test process.

Proposed fix
-    req.on("error", reject);
+    req.on("error", (error) => {
+      clearTimeout(timeout);
+      reject(error);
+    });
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const timeout = setTimeout(() => reject(new Error("upgrade timed out")), 5000);
req.on("error", reject);
const timeout = setTimeout(() => reject(new Error("upgrade timed out")), 5000);
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In `@test/unit/dev-proxy-ws.test.ts` around lines 41 - 42, Update the request
setup in the WebSocket upgrade test so the timeout created by setTimeout is
cleared before rejecting on req’s error event. Preserve the existing “upgrade
timed out” rejection and error propagation while ensuring both fallback failures
do not leave the five-second timer active.

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I rebased this branch onto latest main locally. It rebases cleanly, no conflicts, and the diff is unchanged. pnpm typecheck and pnpm fmt are clean, and test/unit/dev-proxy-ws.test.ts passes (3/3, ~0.3s).

I could not push the rebase from my environment, so nothing was pushed. Everything below is review feedback only.

Overlap with other open PRs

Three open PRs touch dev-server WebSocket upgrades. They are not the same fix:

They do not overlap logically, but two of them do collide in practice:

  1. fix(dev): support websockets on bun and deno #4376 would silently undo this PR. It changes listen() so the Node "upgrade" listener is attached only when features.websocket is enabled, and on Bun/Deno it replaces the listener with a crossws proxy that never consults devProxy. devProxy + ws: true does not require Nitro's own websocket feature, so after fix(dev): support websockets on bun and deno #4376 this fix would stop working for users who only want proxying. Whichever lands second should keep the devProxy check on a path that runs regardless of features.websocket, and on all runtimes.
  2. Textually, fix(dev): support websockets on bun and deno #4376 rewrites the same upgrade() / listen() block, so one of the two will need a manual rebase.

#4291 does not conflict with this PR.

Review findings

1. vite dev is not covered. nitro dev uses NitroDevServer, but Vite users go through configureViteDevServer in src/build/vite/dev.ts. That path already uses the same NitroDevApp for HTTP (ctx.devApp.fetch), so devProxy HTTP works there, but its own "upgrade" listener never calls proxyUpgrade. It is also only installed when features.websocket is on. So on vite dev, devProxy + ws: true still hangs. I did not patch it here, because that would collide with #4291, which rewrites exactly that listener — but it is probably worth doing in one of the two PRs.

2. WS matching is a prefix match, HTTP matching is exact. devProxy routes are registered with app.all(route, ...), and h3 matches that path exactly. I confirmed /proxy/example/sub does not match /proxy/example and falls through to the worker. This PR matches path === route || path.startsWith(route + "/") for upgrades. For the linked issue (#4269, MailDev socket.io) that is the behaviour the reporter wants, but it makes WebSocket proxying more permissive than HTTP proxying: /maildev/socket.io/?transport=websocket gets proxied, while the socket.io HTTP polling request on the same prefix still 404s. Worth deciding deliberately — either keep it and note the asymmetry, or fix the HTTP side too (app.all(joinURL(route, "/**"), ...)).

Good news: the PR does not strip the matched prefix from req.url, which is correct here — h3 does not strip it on the HTTP side either, so both sides stay consistent. (The workaround posted in #4269 stripped it, but that was based on v2/h3 v1 mount semantics.)

3. Error logging may get noisy. httpxy's returned promise also rejects when the client socket errors after a successful upgrade (res.on("error", reject) inside _createProxyFn). A browser hard-closing a proxied socket gives ECONNRESET, which would print Failed to proxy WebSocket upgrade ... as an error even though nothing is wrong. Consider logger.warn/debug, or ignoring ECONNRESET/EPIPE.

4. The test covers NitroDevApp.proxyUpgrade directly, not the NitroDevServer.upgrade() wiring added in src/dev/server.ts. That is fine and fast, just noting the 3-line server.ts change is untested.

Improvement I prepared (not pushed)

One commit documenting the option, since ws is what the issue reporter expected to work and it is not mentioned anywhere in docs/:

// docs/3.config/0.index.md, `devProxy` section
"/proxy/socket": { target: "http://localhost:3002", ws: true },

Set `ws: true` on a route to also proxy WebSocket upgrade requests to the target.

Nothing else looked wrong. The core approach (keep the httpxy instance around per ws route and consult it before handing the socket to the worker) matches what the issue suggested and is the right shape.

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59-91: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Exercise the upgrade dispatch through NitroDevServer.

This fixture calls NitroDevApp.proxyUpgrade directly and uses its own worker counter. It does not exercise NitroDevServer.upgrade, so these tests can pass if proxy-first delegation or worker fallback in that method regresses. Send the requests through NitroDevServer.listen() and assert both proxy handling and manager delegation.

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Review comment at @test/unit/dev-proxy-ws.test.ts around lines 59 - 91:
Update the devProxy websocket upgrade tests to send requests through
NitroDevServer.listen() instead of the custom createServer fixture that calls
NitroDevApp.proxyUpgrade directly; assert that upgrades reach the proxy and that
non-proxy upgrades delegate to the manager.

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Review comments at @test/unit/dev-proxy-ws.test.ts:
- Around line 59-91: Update the devProxy websocket upgrade tests to send
requests through NitroDevServer.listen() instead of the custom createServer
fixture that calls NitroDevApp.proxyUpgrade directly; assert that upgrades reach
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Use rou3 so `/**` rules match upgrades and exact rules stay exact, and
proxy upgrades in the vite dev server too.

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