URL: reuse input string for href, per-VM base cache, judge literal punycode without full ICU - #39468
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…ical, remember the last base URL, cheaper xn-- probe - new URL(s).href / toString() / toJSON(): WebKit's parser returns the input StringImpl itself when nothing needed rewriting, so hand back the constructor's JSString instead of allocating a new one, and cache whatever JSString was last produced for href on the wrapper. - new URL(input, base) / URL.parse / URL.canParse with a string base re-parsed and re-validated the base on every call; the base is almost always the same string (a configured origin, the request URL), so remember the last one that parsed. - hasValidParsedHost's 'does the host contain xn--' check used a generic substring search on every URL; look for '--' instead. - bench/snippets/url-kinds.mjs: new URL()/canParse/parse over the URL shapes that show up in real code.
…t-base cache on JSVMClientData
- hasValidPunycodeHost() ran uidna_nameToASCII (~600ns) for every host with a
literal xn-- label. For an all-ASCII host the only things ToASCII can reject are
the ACE labels, so mirror icu::UTS46::processLabel for those directly: RFC 3492
decode with u_strFromPunycode's failure rules, unchanged under the uts46
normalizer, no U+FFFD, no leading combining mark. Labels that would then need the
BiDi or CONTEXTJ rules still go to ICU. Differentially checked against ICU on
~380k hosts (IdnaTestV2/toascii-derived ACE forms, mutations, random labels,
mixed case): no disagreements. URL.canParse('https://xn--a.com/') 870ns -> 310ns,
a valid punycode host 826ns -> 425ns.
- The last-base cache moves from a thread_local to JSVMClientData so it lives and
dies with the VM.
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The PR adds an optimized literal-Punycode path guarded by a hand-written authority scan; if that scan diverges from URL parsing, invalid hostnames could bypass validation and be accepted. This remains a concrete merge-readiness risk requiring a fix or explicit owner acceptance. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4✅ Passed checks (4 passed)
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61-79: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftReplace the manual authority scan with parser-backed detection.
Lines 64-78 implement a second URL grammar for untrusted
input. Line 79 treats a missed literalxn--label as valid and skipsBun::hasValidPunycodeHost. Use an established parser or tokenizer result for authority detection. Alternatively, validate every special-scheme host that containsxn--. This keeps the validation decision fail-closed when URL grammar changes.As per coding guidelines, “Use real parsers instead of prefix stripping or regex heuristics for user input” and “Security checks must fail closed”.
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In `@bench/snippets/url-kinds.mjs`:
- Line 16: Add separate named benchmark cases for valid and invalid literal
Punycode hostnames using the existing URL test setup, rather than relying on the
Unicode “IDN host” or mixed “invalid (5 kinds)” cases. Add repeated string-base
cases covering URL.canParse(), URL.parse(), and new URL(), reusing the shared
base cache for all three APIs.
In `@src/jsc/bindings/ASCIIHostPunycodeCheck.h`:
- Around line 137-142: Update decode to return a distinct sentinel for
destination-capacity exhaustion, while preserving its existing failure result
for input-length overflow. In the caller handling count < 0, check that sentinel
to return NeedsFullCheck instead of recomputing length - 4 > maxCodePoints; keep
other decode failures returning Invalid and preserve the count == 0 behavior.
In `@test/js/web/url/url.test.ts`:
- Around line 197-201: Add URL.parse() coverage to the Punycode cases loop
alongside URL.canParse() and new URL(): assert valid inputs produce a URL whose
href matches the expected lowercased input, and invalid inputs return null.
- Around line 231-244: Update the URL serialization test around “href, toString
and toJSON agree before and after mutation” to run through the established
continuous-GC subprocess path, ensuring cached serialization survives
collection. Preserve the existing assertions and recheck href, toString(), and
toJSON() both before and after pathname/searchParams mutation.
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In `@src/jsc/bindings/DOMURL.cpp`:
- Around line 61-79: Replace the manual scheme, slash, and authority extraction
in the relevant DOMURL validation function with the established URL
parser/tokenizer’s authority and host result. Ensure special-scheme hosts
containing punycode are always passed through Bun::hasValidPunycodeHost, and
make parser failures or unrecognized authority forms fail closed rather than
returning true.
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| it("href, toString and toJSON agree before and after mutation", () => { | ||
| const s = "https://example.com/a?b#c"; | ||
| const u = new URL(s); | ||
| expect(u.href).toBe(s); | ||
| expect(u.toString()).toBe(s); | ||
| expect(u.toJSON()).toBe(s); | ||
| expect(`${u}`).toBe(s); | ||
| u.pathname = "/z"; | ||
| expect(u.href).toBe("https://example.com/z?b#c"); | ||
| expect(u.toString()).toBe(u.href); | ||
| u.searchParams.append("d", "1"); | ||
| expect(u.toJSON()).toBe("https://example.com/z?b=&d=1#c"); | ||
| u.href = "http://other/"; | ||
| expect([u.href, String(u), JSON.stringify(u)]).toEqual(["http://other/", "http://other/", '"http://other/"']); |
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Add continuous-GC coverage for cached URL serialization.
The m_href cache is a WriteBarrier and is visited by JSDOMURL::visitChildrenImpl, but this test does not exercise collection. Run the assertions in the established continuous-GC subprocess path, then recheck href, toString(), and toJSON() before and after mutation.
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In `@test/js/web/url/url.test.ts` around lines 231 - 244, Update the URL
serialization test around “href, toString and toJSON agree before and after
mutation” to run through the established continuous-GC subprocess path, ensuring
cached serialization survives collection. Preserve the existing assertions and
recheck href, toString(), and toJSON() both before and after
pathname/searchParams mutation.
Source: Coding guidelines
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I re-reviewed after e55953d/c5bf5f8 and found no bugs — the dead DOMURL::toJSON() I flagged earlier is now deleted, and the CodeRabbit nits (distinct -2 sentinel, URL.parse in the punycode matrix, bench rows) are addressed. Given the hand-written RFC 3492 decode + UTS #46 mirror in ASCIIHostPunycodeCheck.h and the new GC-visible m_href cache, a human look would still be worthwhile.
Checked: m_href is a WriteBarrier and appended in visitChildrenImpl; the cache validity check compares tryGetValueImpl() against the current href().impl(), so mutations (setters, searchParams) fall through and re-populate.
Checked: DOMURLBaseCache lives on JSVMClientData (per-VM, not process-global), only caches valid bases, and a null cache->input never equals a non-null base on first call.
Checked: containsXNDashDash only runs on the parsed lowercase host (not the raw input), so the case-sensitive 'x'/'n' compare is fine; checkASCIIHostPunycode falls back to ICU on NeedsFullCheck.
Extended reasoning...
Overview
This PR is a set of URL-binding performance follow-ups: (1) a new 222-line ASCIIHostPunycodeCheck.h that mirrors ICU's UTS46::processLabel for literal xn-- labels so most hosts skip the ~600 ns uidna_nameToASCII call; (2) a per-VM last-base cache (DOMURLBaseCache on JSVMClientData) so new URL(rel, base) / URL.parse / URL.canParse don't re-parse the same base string every call; (3) a WriteBarrier<JSString> m_href cache on JSDOMURL so href/toString()/toJSON() reuse the constructor's JSString when the input was already canonical; (4) a cheaper containsXNDashDash probe. Plus tests, a benchmark file, and a lint-inventory ratchet.
Since my last comment, commit e55953d deleted the now-dead DOMURL::toJSON(), added the -2 sentinel for the decode capacity limit, added URL.parse coverage and Bun.gc(true) calls to the href-consistency test, and added the punycode/base-cache bench rows.
Security risks
URL host validation is security-adjacent: if checkASCIIHostPunycode returned Valid for a label ICU would reject, an invalid punycode hostname would be accepted where Node/ada rejects it. The design mitigates this by deferring to ICU (NeedsFullCheck) whenever BiDi/CONTEXTJ rules apply, on any internal-limit hit, on normalizer failure, and on count == 0. The author reports 380k-host differential testing against ICU with zero disagreements, but that harness is not in-tree. The hasValidParsedHost authority-scan heuristic is unchanged in this PR (only the xn-- probe inside it changed), so CodeRabbit's merge-risk note about that scan predates this change.
Level of scrutiny
High. This is not a mechanical change: it hand-rolls an RFC 3492 decoder whose failure conditions must exactly match u_strFromPunycode, plus the subset of UTS #46 label checks that determine when the ICU fallback can be skipped. It also adds a GC-visited field to a wrapper class and a per-VM cache. All three of those are areas REVIEW.md calls out (memory safety / GC rooting, cache-key completeness, protocol correctness derived from a spec). A maintainer familiar with the URL/IDNA work should confirm the ICU-equivalence argument in checkLabel.
Other factors
Test coverage is solid for the observable behavior (punycode verdict matrix cross-checked against Node 26, base-cache hit/miss/invalid loop, href/toString/toJSON consistency across mutation with Bun.gc(true)). The one open CodeRabbit thread asks for a subprocess-based GC-stress test with BUN_JSC_collectContinuously; the author added inline Bun.gc(true) calls instead, which is a reasonable partial address given m_href is a plain WriteBarrier visited in visitChildrenImpl. The jsresult-swallow.inventory.json change (5→4 for h2_frame_parser.rs) is unrelated to this PR's code — it's a ratchet update the author folded in per the commit message.
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What does this PR do?
URL binding follow-ups on top of #39368 (the parser work lives in WebKit; these are the parts a standalone URL library can't do, plus the one place Node still beat us):
href/toString()/toJSON()reuse the constructor'sJSStringwhen the URL was already canonical — WebKit's parser result is the inputStringImplin that case — and otherwise cache the lastJSStringproduced on the wrapper. Also makesnew URL(rel, urlObject)cheaper (the base is stringified through it).JSVMClientData:new URL(input, base)/URL.parse/URL.canParsewith a string base re-parsed and re-validated the base on every call; it is nearly always the same string (configured origin, request URL), so the last valid one is remembered per VM.xn--labels judged without full ICU ToASCII (ASCIIHostPunycodeCheck.h):hasValidPunycodeHost()ranuidna_nameToASCII(~600 ns) whenever a host contained a literalxn--label. For an all-ASCII host the only thing ToASCII can reject is an ACE label, so this mirrorsicu::UTS46::processLabelfor those: RFC 3492 decode withu_strFromPunycode's failure rules → must be unchanged under theuts46normalizer → no U+FFFD → no leading combining mark. Labels that would then need the BiDi / CONTEXTJ rules still go to ICU, so verdicts are ICU's by construction.xn--" probe (was a generic substring search on every parse).bench/snippets/url-kinds.mjs.URL.canParse("https://xn--a.com/")(invalid punycode)URL.canParse("https://xn--ls8h.com/p")(valid punycode)new URL("../assets/logo.svg", pageUrlString)new URL("../assets/logo.svg", urlObject)new URL(u).href/.toString()How did you verify your code works?
uidna_nameToASCII(Bun's flags/allowed errors) on ~380k hosts — every IdnaTestV2/toascii input's ACE form, mutations of those, randomxn--labels, mixed case: 0 disagreements (128k valid, 251k invalid, 19k deferred to ICU).url.test.tscases: literal punycode verdicts (valid/invalid/uppercase/RTL/ZWJ/combining-mark/overflow, all cross-checked with Node 26), repeated/alternating/invalid string bases incl. error.input/.base, href/toString/toJSON consistency across mutation.test/js/web/url,test/js/node/url, nodetest-whatwg-url-*,test-url-*,test-whatwg-url-custom-domainto,test-url-domain-ascii-unicodepass on a release build.