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The HTTP request cancellation event is not fired in the Firebase HTTP Function #1585

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wiesjan opened this issue Jul 12, 2024 · 4 comments
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The HTTP request cancellation event is not fired in the Firebase HTTP Function #1585

wiesjan opened this issue Jul 12, 2024 · 4 comments
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[REQUIRED] Version info

node:

v20.13.1

firebase-functions:

5.0.1

firebase-tools:

13.9.0

firebase-admin:
12.1.0

express

4.19.2

[REQUIRED] Test case

  • frontend.html
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<button id="sendExpressApp">send to express app</button>
<button id="sendToFn">send to function</button>

<button id="abort">abort</button>

<script type="text/javascript">
  const callApi = (url) => {
    controller = new AbortController();
    const signal = controller.signal;
    fetch(url, { signal })
      .then((response) => {
        console.log("Request complete", response);
      })
      .catch((err) => {
        console.error(`Request error: ${ err.message }`);
      });
  }

  let controller;
  const expressUrl = "http://127.0.0.1:3001";
  const fnUrl = "http://127.0.0.1:5001/dev-guestacount/europe-west1/firebaseFunction";

  const callExpressBtn = document.getElementById("sendExpressApp");
  const callFunctionBtn = document.getElementById("sendToFn");
  const abortBtn = document.getElementById("abort");

  callExpressBtn.addEventListener("click", () => callApi(expressUrl));
  callFunctionBtn.addEventListener("click", () => callApi(fnUrl));
  abortBtn.addEventListener("click", () => {
    if (controller) {
      controller.abort();
      console.log("Aborted");
    }
  });
</script>
</body>
</html>
  • firebase-function.ts
import express, { Request, Response } from 'express';
import cors from 'cors';
import { https, region } from 'firebase-functions/v1';

const delay = (ms: number) => new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, ms));
const app = express();
app.use(cors());

app.use('/*', async (req: Request, res: Response) => {
  console.log('start processing...');

  // Detecting close event
  req.on('close', function() {
    const { destroyed } = req;
    console.log('Client connection close....!', { destroyed });
  });

  await delay(5000);

  if (!req.destroyed) {
    console.log('sending response');
    res.send('Hello World!');
  }
});

export const firebaseFunction = region('europe-west1').runWith({ invoker: 'public' })
  .https.onRequest((request: https.Request, response: Response) => app(request, response));
  • express-server.js
const express = require('express');
const cors = require('cors');

const app = express();
const port = 3001;
app.use(cors());

const delay = (ms) => new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, ms));

app.get('/', async (expressRequest, expressResponse) => {
  console.log('start processing...');

  // Detecting close event
  expressRequest.on('close', function () {
    const { destroyed } = expressRequest;
    console.log('Client connection close....!', { destroyed });
  });

  await delay(5000);

  if (!expressRequest.destroyed) {
    console.log('sending response');
    expressResponse.send('Hello World!')
  }
})

app.listen(port, () => {
  console.log(`Example app listening at http://localhost:${ port }`)
})

[REQUIRED] Steps to reproduce

Run the Firebase function defined in the firebase-function.ts file locally in the emulator, via firebase emulators:start --only functions, and the native Express application, via node express-server.js.
Open the frontend.html file in your browser. When the firebase-function function is loaded by the emulator, click the send to function button in your browser and then (after about a second) the abort button.
Notice in the network tab of the browser's developer tools that the function call was canceled by the browser, but no information about it appeared in the emulator console.
Then click the send to express app button in your browser and, as before, after about a second, click abort. Similarly to the previous case, in the network dev tools tab of the browser you will see that the call has been canceled, but also in the console where the express application is running (express-server.js) you can see a log proving that the event informing about the request cancellation has been received by the application.

[REQUIRED] Expected behavior

The expected behavior is for the req.on('close') event to be triggered when the client (browser) cancels the HTTP request also for the requests received by Firebase Functions, just as it is for the native Express.js application.

[REQUIRED] Actual behavior

Currently, for calls received by the Firebase Function, the req.on('close') event fires only when the call completes, and nothing happens when the client cancels the call.

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exaby73 commented Aug 1, 2024

Hey @wiesjan. Does the same occur on deployed functions as well?

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wiesjan commented Aug 2, 2024

@exaby73 yes, we observe the same behavior when the function is deployed. The req.on('close') event is fired only after the call is completed, i.e. after 5 seconds in the example provided.

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kevsjh commented Oct 28, 2024

any update on this? this is useful for llm apps on early user termination

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