HTTP server: Persistent connection on HTTP/1.0 hangs, when using streaming response body

[martin-heralecky]

Assuming the response body is streaming and its size is unknown, when a request such as this is received:

GET / HTTP/1.0
Connection: keep-alive

ReactPHP produces a response without a Content-Length header, such as this:

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Connection: keep-alive

<data>

and doesn't close the connection, which then just hangs until timeout, because for the client there is no way of telling, when the response data is finished transmitting.

Steps to reproduce:

$server = new React\Http\HttpServer(function () {
    $stream = new ThroughStream();
    Loop::futureTick(function () use ($stream) {
        $stream->write("foo\n");
        $stream->end();
    });
    return new Response(200, body: $stream);
});

$socket = new React\Socket\SocketServer("0.0.0.0:80");
$server->listen($socket);

curl -v --http1.0 -H "connection: keep-alive" localhost:80

Tested on v1.11.0 and 3.x-dev (4e1b4f369eea9428ac38b8851e113ce5ad47cbee).

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Since it's HTTP/1.0, Transfer-Encoding: chunked cannot be used. I believe the only good way to handle this situation is to ignore the requested Connection: keep-alive and just close the connection after the response is transmitted. I think this should be a valid behavior - server is not required to strictly obey the keep-alive request header.

The relevant code is here: https://github.com/reactphp/http/blob/1.x/src/Io/StreamingServer.php#L308