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+---
+name: streams-and-websockets
+description: Long-lived Response handlers — Server-Sent Events (SSE) via path.stream and WebSocket upgrades via path.any on Cloudflare Workers, including middleware interaction and runtime caveats.
+argument-hint: "[sse | websocket | agents]"
+---
+
+# Streams and WebSockets
+
+Response routes can return long-lived responses — SSE streams and WebSocket
+upgrades. Both require a `Response` that the router must forward through the
+middleware chain without reconstruction.
+
+## When each fits
+
+| Shape       | Tag             | Status | Body                            | Runtime                          |
+| ----------- | --------------- | ------ | ------------------------------- | -------------------------------- |
+| Server-Sent | `path.stream()` | 200    | `ReadableStream` (event-stream) | any runtime (Node, workerd, bun) |
+| WebSocket   | `path.any()`    | 101    | `null` + `webSocket` property   | Cloudflare Workers (workerd)     |
+
+- **SSE** is a regular 200 response with `content-type: text/event-stream`
+  and a `ReadableStream` body. Works everywhere, flows through middleware
+  normally.
+- **WebSocket upgrades** produce a status-101 response with a non-standard
+  `webSocket` property (Cloudflare). The router detects these and forwards
+  them without reconstruction; `Vary` and `Server-Timing` are skipped, and
+  stub headers are merged in place on a best-effort basis.
+
+## Server-Sent Events (SSE)
+
+Use `path.stream()` (or `path.any()` if you need full control) to return a
+`ReadableStream`. Each chunk is an `event-stream` frame:
+
+```typescript
+import { urls } from "@rangojs/router";
+
+export const urlpatterns = urls(({ path }) => [
+  path.stream(
+    "/events/ticks",
+    (ctx) => {
+      const encoder = new TextEncoder();
+
+      const stream = new ReadableStream({
+        async start(controller) {
+          let count = 0;
+          const interval = setInterval(() => {
+            controller.enqueue(
+              encoder.encode(`event: tick\ndata: ${++count}\n\n`),
+            );
+          }, 1000);
+
+          // Honor client disconnect — signal comes from ctx.request.signal
+          ctx.request.signal.addEventListener("abort", () => {
+            clearInterval(interval);
+            controller.close();
+          });
+        },
+      });
+
+      return new Response(stream, {
+        headers: {
+          "content-type": "text/event-stream",
+          "cache-control": "no-store",
+          // Disable proxy buffering on Nginx/Traefik deployments
+          "x-accel-buffering": "no",
+        },
+      });
+    },
+    { name: "ticks" },
+  ),
+]);
+```
+
+### Client
+
+```typescript
+"use client";
+const source = new EventSource("/events/ticks");
+source.addEventListener("tick", (e) => console.log("tick", e.data));
+```
+
+### SSE caveats
+
+- **Never wrap SSE routes in `cache()`** — a cached `ReadableStream` is read
+  once and would replay an empty body on the next hit. `path.stream` is
+  already excluded from response-route caching, but don't layer a custom
+  cache() middleware on top.
+- **Middleware is fine.** Global/route middleware rewraps the SSE `Response`
+  as `new Response(response.body, { status, headers })` to merge stub headers.
+  The `ReadableStream` body is passed by reference, not consumed, so the
+  client sees the stream unchanged. (WebSocket upgrades are the exception —
+  those bypass rewrap entirely; see below.)
+- **Honor `ctx.request.signal`.** Without wiring abort to your source
+  (timer, DB cursor, upstream fetch), the stream leaks when the client
+  disconnects.
+- **Disable Nginx/CDN buffering** via `x-accel-buffering: no` and ensure
+  no intermediate proxy rebuffers. On Cloudflare Workers this is a non-issue.
+
+## WebSockets (Cloudflare Workers)
+
+WebSocket upgrades on workerd produce a response with `status: 101` and a
+non-standard `webSocket` property. The router detects this shape and forwards
+the `Response` without reconstruction — the 101 status and the `webSocket`
+property are preserved. `Vary` and `Server-Timing` writes are skipped, and
+stub-header merging (cookies/custom headers set via `ctx.header()` or
+`cookies().set()`) is best-effort: the router attempts to apply them in
+place, but silently skips any write rejected by a runtime that exposes
+immutable upgrade headers.
+
+### Minimal upgrade handler
+
+```typescript
+import { urls } from "@rangojs/router";
+
+export const urlpatterns = urls(({ path }) => [
+  path.any(
+    "/ws",
+    (ctx) => {
+      // Manual WebSocketPair on workerd
+      const upgrade = ctx.request.headers.get("upgrade");
+      if (upgrade !== "websocket") {
+        return new Response("expected upgrade: websocket", { status: 426 });
+      }
+
+      const { 0: client, 1: server } = new WebSocketPair();
+      server.accept();
+      server.addEventListener("message", (e) => {
+        server.send(`echo: ${e.data}`);
+      });
+
+      return new Response(null, {
+        status: 101,
+        webSocket: client,
+      } as ResponseInit);
+    },
+    { name: "ws" },
+  ),
+]);
+```
+
+### Durable Object pattern
+
+Route into a Durable Object that owns the connection:
+
+```typescript
+export const urlpatterns = urls(({ path }) => [
+  path.any(
+    "/rooms/:roomId",
+    async (ctx) => {
+      const id = ctx.env.ROOMS.idFromName(ctx.params.roomId);
+      const stub = ctx.env.ROOMS.get(id);
+      // The DO's fetch handler calls handleWebSocketUpgrade(request)
+      // and returns the 101 Response. We forward it unchanged.
+      return stub.fetch(ctx.request);
+    },
+    { name: "room" },
+  ),
+]);
+```
+
+### Using the `agents` library
+
+`routeAgentRequest` from `agents` returns a 101 `Response` targeted at a
+Durable Object. Return it directly from `path.any()`:
+
+```typescript
+import { routeAgentRequest } from "agents";
+import { urls } from "@rangojs/router";
+
+export const urlpatterns = urls(({ path }) => [
+  path.any("/agents/*", async (ctx) => {
+    const response = await routeAgentRequest(ctx.request, ctx.env);
+    if (!response) {
+      return new Response("not found", { status: 404 });
+    }
+    return response;
+  }),
+]);
+```
+
+## Middleware interaction
+
+### Forwarded, not reconstructed
+
+When a middleware is matched for the upgrade URL, the middleware still runs
+**before** `next()` — but the Response from `next()` is forwarded as-is
+rather than re-wrapped. This preserves:
+
+- The 101 status (which would otherwise throw `RangeError: Responses may
+only be constructed with status codes in the range 200 to 599, inclusive`
+  on standards-compliant runtimes).
+- The Cloudflare `webSocket` property (which would otherwise be silently
+  dropped by `new Response(body, ...)` on workerd).
+
+```typescript
+// This works — logger runs, but the 101 flows through unchanged.
+router.use(async (ctx, next) => {
+  console.log("ws request", ctx.url.pathname);
+  return next();
+});
+```
+
+### Don't try to set cookies on an upgrade
+
+Stub cookie/header writes made before `await next()` are applied to the
+upgrade response on a best-effort basis — the router attempts an in-place
+merge and skips any write rejected by runtimes that expose immutable 101
+headers. Either way, a browser completing a WS handshake never reads them.
+Do not rely on this for auth or state propagation: set cookies via a prior
+HTTP request instead (e.g. during login), then read them at upgrade time
+via `ctx.request.headers.get("cookie")`.
+
+```typescript
+// Avoid: this cookie may not land on the upgrade response, and the client
+// never reads it during the handshake regardless.
+router.use(async (ctx, next) => {
+  cookies().set("last-ws-at", Date.now().toString());
+  return next();
+});
+
+// Prefer: authenticate by reading a cookie set on a prior HTTP request.
+path.any("/ws", (ctx) => {
+  const session = parseCookie(ctx.request.headers.get("cookie"))?.session;
+  if (!verify(session)) return new Response("unauthorized", { status: 401 });
+  // ...upgrade
+});
+```
+
+### Short-circuit before upgrade
+
+Middleware can return a non-101 Response to deny the upgrade outright:
+
+```typescript
+router.use(async (ctx, next) => {
+  if (!isAllowed(ctx.request)) {
+    return new Response("forbidden", { status: 403 });
+  }
+  return next();
+});
+```
+
+## Caching
+
+- **SSE** — do not combine with `cache()` (streams can't be replayed).
+- **WebSocket** — `cache()` is inert because only `status === 200` is cacheable.
+
+## Runtime caveats
+
+| Runtime                                | SSE | WebSocket upgrade (101)                              |
+| -------------------------------------- | --- | ---------------------------------------------------- |
+| Cloudflare Workers (workerd)           | OK  | OK (native `WebSocketPair`, DO, `agents`)            |
+| Node (undici fetch)                    | OK  | N/A — Node's HTTP server must upgrade                |
+| Bun                                    | OK  | Bun's native `upgrade()` — not a Response-based path |
+| Dev (Vite + `@cloudflare/vite-plugin`) | OK  | OK via workerd emulation                             |
+
+When running in pure Node without workerd, a `status: 101` Response cannot
+even be constructed (`new Response(null, { status: 101 })` throws). For
+tests, fabricate upgrade-style responses by overriding `.status` on a real
+Response instance:
+
+```typescript
+const upgrade = new Response(null, { status: 200 });
+Object.defineProperty(upgrade, "status", { value: 101, configurable: true });
+// optional: attach a webSocket stub
+Object.defineProperty(upgrade, "webSocket", {
+  value: { stub: "ws" },
+  configurable: true,
+  enumerable: true,
+});
+```
+
+## Testing
+
+- Unit tests: `isWebSocketUpgradeResponse` and `executeMiddleware` passthrough
+  cases live in `src/rsc/__tests__/helpers.test.ts` and
+  `src/router/middleware.test.ts`.
+- E2E: cover both dev and production modes against a workerd target. SSE
+  can be tested on any runtime; WS upgrades need workerd (use
+  `@cloudflare/vite-plugin` or `wrangler dev`).
+
+## See also
+
+- `response-routes` — the parent skill for `path.json/text/html/stream/any`.
+- `middleware` — how global and route-level middleware compose with handlers.