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request hangs for some uploads

See original GitHub issue

Use this payload: http://superjoe.s3.amazonaws.com/temp/busboy-payload.pdf

node version 0.10.24 busboy 0.0.13

var http = require('http');
var Busboy = require('busboy');

var server = http.createServer(function(req, res) {
  if (req.url === '/') {
    res.statusCode = 200;
    res.end('<!doctype html>'+
      '<html>'+
      '<head>'+
      '</head>'+
      '<body>'+
      '<form action="/upload" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">'+
      '  <input type="file" name="avatar">'+
      '  <input type="submit">'+
      '</form>'+
      '</body>'+
      '</html>');
  } else if (req.url === '/upload') {
    var bboy = new Busboy({
      headers : req.headers,
      limits  : {fileSize:2*1024*1024, files:1}
    });

    bboy.on('file', function(fieldname, file, filename, encoding, mimetype){
      console.log("aborting the request");
      res.statusCode = 400;
      res.end("hello browser");
    });
    req.pipe(bboy);
  } else {
    console.info("unexpected path", req.url);
  }
});

server.listen(9191, function() {
  console.info("listening at http://0.0.0.0:9191/");
});

When I upload that payload, the request completely hangs. The browser never sees “hello browser”.

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Created 10 years ago
Comments:7 (4 by maintainers)

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andrewrkcommented, Jan 3, 2014

file.resume() is the magic sauce here. I now see that it is mentioned in the docs to do this, but it is a little bit buried. I added a suggested example to the readme in the hopes that it might prevent other people from running into this.

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mscdexcommented, Jan 4, 2014

Right, as I mentioned, file.resume(); is fine in that case.