Previously if a loop handler received the timeout message from a
previous request on the same connection the socket would be set to
{active, once} incorrectly - when a socket packet was already in the
message queue. This second packet would not be added to the buffer
before a Handler:info/3 call if a user message was in the message
queue before both socket packets.
When something went wrong in a handler we used to report errors
and then terminate the process normally. This doesn't work so
well with links which won't detect failure.
Now we still catch the error, but throw another one with more
details on why it happened, including the Req object information
and the stacktrace. Ranch will then print an error message with
all this information.
Because we crash directly, this also means that we will not hog
resources unnecessarily for too long when something bad happens.
If a loop handler sent a response (e.g. cowboy_req:chunked_reply/2,/3)
and then returns {loop, Req, HandlerState, hibernate} it
would have a {cowboy_req, resp_sent} message in its message queue. This
message would cause the process to immediately awaken, so it is flushed
before hibernation.
It is sometimes important to make a socket passive as it was initially
and as it is expected to be by cowboy_protocol, right after we've done
with loop handling.
We now read from the socket to be able to detect errors or TCP close
events, and buffer the data if any. Once the data receive goes over
a certain limit, which defaults to 5000 bytes, we simply close the
connection with an {error, overflow} reason.
This should have been done a *long* time ago, back when I initially
added Websocket support. This is the first part of two in improving
loop handler support with regards to socket closure.
Reason may include: {normal, shutdown} for the most normal shutdown,
{normal, timeout} for a loop handler timeout shutdown, or {error, _}
if an error occured.
Middlewares allow customizing the request processing.
All existing Cowboy project are incompatible with this commit.
You need to change `{dispatch, Dispatch}` in the protocol options
to `{env, [{dispatch, Dispatch}]}` to fix your code.
