@rangojs/router 0.0.0-experimental.ea6d5eec → 0.0.0-experimental.ea9f40f2

package/src/rsc/rsc-rendering.ts

@@ -7,34 +7,227 @@
  */
 
 import {
-  requireRequestContext,
+  getRequestContext,
   setRequestContextParams,
-  getLocationState,
+  runWithRequestContext,
 } from "../server/request-context.js";
-import { resolveLocationStateEntries } from "../browser/react/location-state-shared.js";
+import {
+  SeededShellStore,
+  buildShellLoaderSeed,
+} from "../cache/shell-snapshot.js";
 import { appendMetric } from "../router/metrics.js";
-import { getSSRSetup } from "./ssr-setup.js";
+import { observePhase, PHASES } from "../router/instrument.js";
+import { getSSRSetup, isRscRequest } from "./ssr-setup.js";
 import type { RscPayload } from "./types.js";
+import type { SSRModule } from "./types.js";
+import type { RequestContext } from "../server/request-context.js";
 import {
   createResponseWithMergedHeaders,
   createSimpleRedirectResponse,
+  attachLocationStateIfPresent,
 } from "./helpers.js";
 import type { HandlerContext } from "./handler-context.js";
+import { gateTransitions } from "./transition-gate.js";
+import { buildFullPayload } from "./full-payload.js";
+import {
+  scheduleShellCapture,
+  type ShellCaptureDescriptor,
+} from "./shell-capture.js";
+import {
+  SHELL_STATUS_HEADER,
+  resolvePprConfig,
+  buildShellKey,
+  isValidShellHit,
+  hasIntactShellPayload,
+  base64ToBytes,
+  hasShellFamily,
+  warnShellStoreMissingOnce,
+  warnPprNonceActiveOnce,
+} from "./shell-serve.js";
+import { contextGet } from "../context-var.js";
+import {
+  resolveSameOriginRedirect,
+  safeSameOriginLanding,
+} from "../redirect-origin.js";
+import { nonce as nonceToken } from "./nonce.js";
+import { reportCacheError } from "../cache/cache-error.js";
+import { INTERNAL_RANGO_DEBUG } from "../internal-debug.js";
+import type { ShellCacheEntry } from "../cache/types.js";
+
+export function handleRscRendering<TEnv>(
+  ctx: HandlerContext<TEnv>,
+  request: Request,
+  env: TEnv,
+  url: URL,
+  isPartial: boolean,
+  handleStore: ReturnType<typeof getRequestContext>["_handleStore"],
+  nonce: string | undefined,
+): Promise<Response> {
+  // Instrument the whole render phase once through the unified API: it records
+  // the "render:total" perf metric AND opens the "rango.render" span from the
+  // same boundary (match -> serialize -> SSR), so the two surfaces agree.
+  // Loaders kicked off during matching nest under the span; the SSR HTML pass
+  // below opens "rango.ssr" the same way.
+  return observePhase(PHASES.render, () =>
+    handleRscRenderingInner(
+      ctx,
+      request,
+      env,
+      url,
+      isPartial,
+      handleStore,
+      nonce,
+    ),
+  );
+}
 
-export async function handleRscRendering<TEnv>(
+async function handleRscRenderingInner<TEnv>(
   ctx: HandlerContext<TEnv>,
   request: Request,
   env: TEnv,
   url: URL,
   isPartial: boolean,
-  handleStore: ReturnType<typeof requireRequestContext>["_handleStore"],
+  handleStore: ReturnType<typeof getRequestContext>["_handleStore"],
   nonce: string | undefined,
 ): Promise<Response> {
-  const reqCtx = requireRequestContext();
+  const reqCtx = getRequestContext();
 
   let payload: RscPayload;
   let hasInterceptSlots = false;
 
+  // --- Axis 2: integrated PPR shell serve (docs/design/ppr-shell-resume.md) ---
+  //
+  // COMMIT POINT. This function is the render pass executeRender wraps, so it runs
+  // strictly AFTER the whole middleware chain — the global router.use() chain AND
+  // route DSL middleware() both wrap it. Any middleware rejection/redirect/401 has
+  // already returned before this line, which is what makes a shared shell safe:
+  // not a single shell byte can precede a guard decision, on MISS or HIT.
+  //
+  // PPR is opt-in per PAGE ROUTE via the `ppr` path option (read off the classified
+  // route snapshot — the same matched entry match() will resolve). No `ppr` option
+  // means pure axis 1: no store read, no capture, no logs, zero cost.
+  //
+  // On a valid HIT the composed response is committed HERE — the stored prelude
+  // bytes flush immediately while match()/segment resolution/Flight render/resume
+  // run behind them inside the response stream (ring-3 reads and render setup hide
+  // behind wire bytes). On a MISS the request continues as plain axis 1 and a
+  // background capture is scheduled after the response is built.
+  let pprMiss: {
+    descriptor: ShellCaptureDescriptor;
+    ssrModule: SSRModule;
+  } | null = null;
+  if (
+    !isPartial &&
+    request.method === "GET" &&
+    !url.searchParams.has("__prerender_collect") &&
+    !isRscRequest(request, url, false)
+  ) {
+    const pprConfig = resolvePprConfig(reqCtx._classifiedRoute?.manifestEntry);
+    if (pprConfig) {
+      // A per-request CSP nonce pins the route to axis 1: useNonce() (and any app
+      // code reading the nonce) renders it into every nonced script/style/meta, so
+      // a shell shared per host+URL would freeze one request's nonce for every
+      // visitor and the browser's CSP would reject the frozen nonce for all but the
+      // capture request. The nonce arrives two ways and BOTH must gate: the
+      // createRouter({ nonce }) provider (threaded here as `nonce`), and a direct
+      // token write in middleware (ctx.set(nonce, value)). The token is only
+      // visible in the post-middleware request variables — and this commit point
+      // runs AFTER the whole middleware chain (see the block header), so it is
+      // present here. Reading it closes the gap the provider-only check left open
+      // (issue #656). The threaded-param check stays first: the provider path is
+      // resolved before any variable read and short-circuits cheaply.
+      const activeNonce = nonce ?? contextGet(reqCtx._variables, nonceToken);
+      const store = reqCtx._cacheStore;
+      const key = buildShellKey(url);
+      if (activeNonce !== undefined) {
+        // Declared intent that cannot be honored deserves a diagnostic (unlike an
+        // undeclared route, which is silent): a ppr route gated off by an active
+        // per-request nonce warns once per key. Axis 1 after the warning.
+        warnPprNonceActiveOnce(key);
+      } else if (!hasShellFamily(store)) {
+        // Declared intent that cannot be honored deserves a diagnostic (unlike an
+        // undeclared route, which is silent). Axis 1 after the warning.
+        warnShellStoreMissingOnce(key);
+      } else {
+        // allReady (ssr.resolveStreaming) bypasses PPR entirely: buffering defeats
+        // streaming, so bots/SEO crawlers get one complete axis-1 document.
+        const [ssrModule, streamMode] = await getSSRSetup(
+          ctx,
+          request,
+          env,
+          url,
+          reqCtx._metricsStore,
+        );
+        if (
+          streamMode !== "allReady" &&
+          ssrModule.resumeShellHTML &&
+          ssrModule.captureShellHTML
+        ) {
+          const descriptor: ShellCaptureDescriptor = {
+            key,
+            buildVersion: ctx.version,
+            ttl: pprConfig.ttl,
+            swr: pprConfig.swr,
+            tags: pprConfig.tags,
+            store,
+            debug: INTERNAL_RANGO_DEBUG,
+          };
+          let cached: Awaited<ReturnType<typeof store.getShell>> = null;
+          try {
+            cached = await store.getShell(key);
+          } catch (error) {
+            // A failing store read degrades to axis 1 (MISS), never a 500.
+            reportCacheError(error, "cache-read", "[ShellServe] getShell");
+          }
+          if (cached && isValidShellHit(cached.entry, ctx.version)) {
+            if (!hasIntactShellPayload(cached.entry)) {
+              // Corrupt stored payload (undecodable prelude / unparseable
+              // postponed): a store-layer fault worth a diagnostic, unlike the
+              // silent version-mismatch lifecycle misses above. Degrade to MISS
+              // — pprMiss below schedules the recapture that overwrites it.
+              reportCacheError(
+                new Error(
+                  `corrupt shell entry for "${key}": prelude/postponed failed ` +
+                    "the integrity check; serving axis 1 and recapturing",
+                ),
+                "cache-read",
+                "[ShellServe] getShell",
+              );
+            } else {
+              // Stale (SWR) hit: serve the stale shell now, recapture in the
+              // background (stampede-guarded + backoff inside scheduleShellCapture).
+              if (cached.shouldRevalidate) {
+                scheduleShellCapture(
+                  ctx,
+                  request,
+                  env,
+                  url,
+                  reqCtx,
+                  ssrModule,
+                  descriptor,
+                );
+              }
+              return serveShellHit(
+                ctx,
+                request,
+                env,
+                url,
+                reqCtx,
+                handleStore,
+                ssrModule,
+                cached.entry,
+                descriptor,
+              );
+            }
+          }
+          // MISS (no entry, invalid reactVersion, or store read failure): axis 1
+          // + a background capture scheduled once the response is known servable.
+          pprMiss = { descriptor, ssrModule };
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
   if (isPartial) {
     // Partial render (navigation)
     const result = await ctx.router.matchPartial(request, { env });
@@ -51,22 +244,7 @@ export async function handleRscRendering<TEnv>(
         return createSimpleRedirectResponse(match.redirect);
       }
 
-      payload = {
-        metadata: {
-          pathname: url.pathname,
-          segments: match.segments,
-          matched: match.matched,
-          diff: match.diff,
-          params: match.params,
-          isPartial: false,
-          rootLayout: ctx.router.rootLayout,
-          handles: handleStore.stream(),
-          version: ctx.version,
-          prefetchCacheTTL: ctx.router.prefetchCacheTTL,
-          themeConfig: ctx.router.themeConfig,
-          initialTheme: reqCtx.theme,
-        },
-      };
+      payload = buildFullPayload(match, ctx, url, reqCtx, handleStore);
     } else {
       setRequestContextParams(result.params, result.routeName);
 
@@ -75,15 +253,29 @@ export async function handleRscRendering<TEnv>(
       payload = {
         metadata: {
           pathname: url.pathname,
-          segments: result.segments,
+          // routerId is serialized on every payload (including within-session
+          // ones) so the frontend can read the current app/router identity. It
+          // always equals the current app's id: a cross-app navigation is
+          // intercepted server-side (X-RSC-Reload) and never delivers a
+          // different-router payload to the client.
+          routerId: ctx.router.id,
+          segments: gateTransitions(
+            result.segments,
+            reqCtx,
+            ctx.router.onError,
+          ),
           matched: result.matched,
           diff: result.diff,
+          resolvedIds: result.resolvedIds,
           params: result.params,
           isPartial: true,
           slots: result.slots,
           handles: handleStore.stream(),
           version: ctx.version,
           prefetchCacheTTL: ctx.router.prefetchCacheTTL,
+          prefetchCacheSize: ctx.router.prefetchCacheSize,
+          prefetchConcurrency: ctx.router.prefetchConcurrency,
+          stateCookieName: ctx.router.resolvedStateCookieName,
         },
       };
     }
@@ -130,25 +322,7 @@ export async function handleRscRendering<TEnv>(
         { headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" } },
       );
     } else {
-      payload = {
-        // Initial SSR can reconstruct the tree from segments + rootLayout,
-        // so we omit root to avoid sending the same structure twice.
-
-        metadata: {
-          pathname: url.pathname,
-          segments: match.segments,
-          matched: match.matched,
-          diff: match.diff,
-          params: match.params,
-          isPartial: false,
-          rootLayout: ctx.router.rootLayout,
-          handles: handleStore.stream(),
-          version: ctx.version,
-          prefetchCacheTTL: ctx.router.prefetchCacheTTL,
-          themeConfig: ctx.router.themeConfig,
-          initialTheme: reqCtx.theme,
-        },
-      };
+      payload = buildFullPayload(match, ctx, url, reqCtx, handleStore);
     }
   }
 
@@ -156,19 +330,18 @@ export async function handleRscRendering<TEnv>(
   // SSR (full page) requests ignore location state since there's no history.state
   // to write to on a fresh page load.
   if (isPartial && payload.metadata) {
-    const locationState = getLocationState();
-    if (locationState) {
-      payload.metadata.locationState =
-        resolveLocationStateEntries(locationState);
-    }
+    attachLocationStateIfPresent(payload);
   }
 
   const metricsStore = reqCtx._metricsStore;
-  const renderStart = performance.now();
 
   // Serialize to RSC stream
   const rscSerializeStart = performance.now();
-  const rscStream = ctx.renderToReadableStream<RscPayload>(payload);
+  const rscStream = ctx.renderToReadableStream<RscPayload>(payload, {
+    onError: (error: unknown) => {
+      ctx.callOnError(error, "rendering", { request, url, env });
+    },
+  });
   const rscSerializeDur = performance.now() - rscSerializeStart;
   // This measures synchronous stream creation, not end-to-end stream consumption.
   appendMetric(
@@ -178,23 +351,24 @@ export async function handleRscRendering<TEnv>(
     rscSerializeDur,
   );
 
-  // Determine if this is an RSC request or HTML request.
-  // Partial requests (_rsc_partial) are always RSC -- they come from client-side
-  // navigation or prefetch fetch(). We cannot rely on Accept alone since some
-  // browsers may send Accept: text/html for non-HTML requests.
-  const isRscRequest =
-    isPartial ||
-    (!request.headers.get("accept")?.includes("text/html") &&
-      !url.searchParams.has("__html")) ||
-    url.searchParams.has("__rsc");
-
-  if (isRscRequest) {
-    const renderDur = performance.now() - renderStart;
-    appendMetric(metricsStore, "render:total", renderStart, renderDur);
+  if (isRscRequest(request, url, isPartial)) {
+    // render:total is recorded by the observePhase wrapper around this function.
     const rscHeaders: Record<string, string> = {
       "content-type": "text/x-component;charset=utf-8",
       vary: "accept, X-Rango-State, X-RSC-Router-Client-Path",
+      // Router identity, so the client can verify pre-decode (before importing
+      // chunks) that this content payload belongs to its app and refuse a
+      // foreign one (cache/proxy/bug). Control-only reload/redirect responses
+      // are deliberately NOT stamped. See browser/response-adapter.ts.
+      "X-RSC-Router-Id": ctx.router.id,
     };
+    // Tell the client's prefetch cache to scope this response to its source
+    // URL (instead of the default source-agnostic wildcard). Intercept
+    // responses depend on the source page matching an intercept rule, so
+    // they must not be reused for navigations from other sources.
+    if (hasInterceptSlots) {
+      rscHeaders["x-rsc-prefetch-scope"] = "source";
+    }
     // Enable browser HTTP caching for prefetch responses only.
     // Requires X-Rango-Prefetch header (sent by Link prefetch fetch),
     // non-intercept context (intercept responses depend on source page),
@@ -220,18 +394,269 @@ export async function handleRscRendering<TEnv>(
     metricsStore,
   );
 
-  const ssrRenderStart = performance.now();
-  const htmlStream = await ssrModule.renderHTML(rscStream, {
-    nonce,
-    streamMode,
+  // ssr-render-html metric + rango.ssr span from one boundary. render:total is
+  // recorded by the observePhase wrapper around this function.
+  const htmlStream = await observePhase(PHASES.ssr, () =>
+    ssrModule.renderHTML(rscStream, {
+      nonce,
+      streamMode,
+    }),
+  );
+  const response = createResponseWithMergedHeaders(htmlStream, {
+    headers: { "content-type": "text/html;charset=utf-8" },
   });
-  const ssrRenderDur = performance.now() - ssrRenderStart;
-  appendMetric(metricsStore, "ssr-render-html", ssrRenderStart, ssrRenderDur);
 
-  const renderDur = performance.now() - renderStart;
-  appendMetric(metricsStore, "render:total", renderStart, renderDur);
+  // --- Axis 2: PPR shell CAPTURE on MISS (background task; see design doc) ---
+  // The ppr route missed its shell above. Schedule the background capture only
+  // when the served response is a 200 HTML document (a 404/error render is not a
+  // cacheable shell), and tag the response for observability either way. Capture
+  // does NOT flow through the HTTP pipeline: scheduleShellCapture re-derives the
+  // page via router.match() under a derived context (fresh handle store,
+  // _shellCaptureRun: true) — middleware never re-runs; it already ran for this
+  // request and guarding is serve-time.
+  if (pprMiss) {
+    if (
+      response.status === 200 &&
+      (response.headers.get("content-type") ?? "").includes("text/html")
+    ) {
+      scheduleShellCapture(
+        ctx,
+        request,
+        env,
+        url,
+        reqCtx,
+        pprMiss.ssrModule,
+        pprMiss.descriptor,
+      );
+    }
+    response.headers.set(SHELL_STATUS_HEADER, "MISS");
+  }
+
+  return response;
+}
 
-  return createResponseWithMergedHeaders(htmlStream, {
-    headers: { "content-type": "text/html;charset=utf-8" },
+/**
+ * Neutralize the shell-HIT degradation redirect target.
+ *
+ * The inline `location.replace` emitted by serveShellHit when a shell HIT lands
+ * on a URL whose route became redirecting mid-TTL is a document-native redirect
+ * exit that BYPASSES the 3xx chokepoint (guardOutgoingRedirect acts only on 3xx
+ * + Location responses, never a committed 200 body). So it reuses the ONE
+ * same-origin resolver directly: a cross-origin/unparseable/unsafe target
+ * neutralizes to the same safe same-origin landing as redirect-guard.ts
+ * (basename root, or "/" when unset) rather than navigating the user off-host.
+ * A safe same-origin/relative target passes through as its normalized href.
+ */
+export function resolveShellHitRedirectTarget(
+  rawTarget: string,
+  requestOrigin: string,
+  basename: string | undefined,
+): string {
+  return (
+    resolveSameOriginRedirect(rawTarget, requestOrigin) ??
+    safeSameOriginLanding(basename)
+  );
+}
+
+/**
+ * Serve a validated shell HIT: commit the composed response NOW — the stored
+ * prelude bytes are the first thing on the wire — and run the live tail
+ * (match(), fresh loaders, full Flight render for hydration, fizz resume of just
+ * the holes) BEHIND them inside the response stream. React relies on HTML-parser
+ * foster-parenting for content streamed after the prelude's closing
+ * `</body></html>`, so plain byte concatenation is the correct composition.
+ *
+ * Status and headers are committed at the flush: middleware already ran (their
+ * ctx.res headers merge in via createResponseWithMergedHeaders), and route
+ * middleware code after its next() can still adjust headers on the returned
+ * Response object. A failing hole cannot become a 500/redirect after this point —
+ * error UI renders inline via Suspense/error boundaries, the documented PPR
+ * constraint.
+ *
+ * The tail promise is kicked off SYNCHRONOUSLY so match/Flight/resume run inside
+ * the current ALS request-context frame (the stream may be pulled by the server
+ * adapter outside it).
+ */
+function serveShellHit(
+  ctx: HandlerContext<any>,
+  request: Request,
+  env: any,
+  url: URL,
+  reqCtx: RequestContext<any>,
+  handleStore: ReturnType<typeof getRequestContext>["_handleStore"],
+  ssrModule: SSRModule,
+  entry: ShellCacheEntry,
+  descriptor: ShellCaptureDescriptor,
+): Response {
+  const preludeBytes = base64ToBytes(entry.prelude);
+
+  const renderTail = async (
+    activeCtx: RequestContext<any>,
+  ): Promise<ReadableStream<Uint8Array> | { redirect: string }> => {
+    const match = await ctx.router.match(request, { env });
+    if (match.redirect) return { redirect: match.redirect };
+    setRequestContextParams(match.params, match.routeName);
+    const payload = buildFullPayload(match, ctx, url, activeCtx, handleStore);
+    // Theme fidelity for resume: initialTheme is per-request METADATA (the
+    // visitor's cookie), but React resume requires the tree above the holes to
+    // match the frozen prelude, which was rendered with the CAPTURE's
+    // initialTheme. Replay the captured value into the payload (the SSR resume
+    // tree AND client hydration both read it) so the trees agree by
+    // construction. The visitor still sees THEIR theme: the FOUC script in the
+    // prelude applies it pre-paint from the cookie, and ThemeProvider re-syncs
+    // its state from the cookie post-mount.
+    if (payload.metadata) {
+      payload.metadata.initialTheme = entry.initialTheme as
+        | import("../theme/types.js").Theme
+        | undefined;
+    }
+    // Full Flight render per request: hydration needs the whole payload (there
+    // is no Flight-side resume — a React limitation, not ours).
+    let rscStream = ctx.renderToReadableStream<RscPayload>(payload, {
+      onError: (error: unknown) => {
+        ctx.callOnError(error, "rendering", { request, url, env });
+      },
+    });
+    // Timing tap: when does the Flight render produce its FIRST byte? Compared
+    // with the eager-inject/first-tail logs this proves whether hydration-start
+    // latency is genuine server work (loaders) or stream plumbing holding
+    // ready bytes back.
+    if (INTERNAL_RANGO_DEBUG) {
+      const tapStart = performance.now();
+      let first = false;
+      rscStream = rscStream.pipeThrough(
+        new TransformStream({
+          transform(chunk, controller) {
+            if (!first) {
+              first = true;
+              console.log(
+                `[Server][ppr] flight render: first chunk +${Math.round(performance.now() - tapStart)}ms`,
+              );
+            }
+            controller.enqueue(chunk);
+          },
+        }),
+      );
+    }
+    return observePhase(PHASES.ssr, () =>
+      ssrModule.resumeShellHTML!(rscStream, {
+        postponed: entry.postponed,
+        nonce: undefined,
+      }),
+    );
+  };
+
+  const tailPromise: Promise<
+    ReadableStream<Uint8Array> | { redirect: string }
+  > = (async () => {
+    // Capture data snapshot seeding (docs/design/ppr-shell-resume.md): the tail
+    // is a FULL FRESH render whose payload must match the frozen prelude. If the
+    // capture recorded a snapshot, run the tail through a SeededShellStore
+    // overlay so every cache-store read the capture pinned returns its
+    // capture-time value AS FRESH — the shell region reproduces byte-identically
+    // even after the underlying cache entries drifted (expired/recomputed/
+    // tag-invalidated). Everything not pinned (the holes — masked loaders were
+    // never recorded) falls through to the real store and stays LIVE. The
+    // overlay lives on a DERIVED context (own _cacheStore), so the shared reqCtx
+    // is untouched; an entry without a snapshot keeps the pre-snapshot behavior.
+    if (entry.snapshot && entry.snapshot.length > 0) {
+      const seededCtx: RequestContext<any> = Object.create(reqCtx);
+      if (reqCtx._cacheStore) {
+        seededCtx._cacheStore = new SeededShellStore(
+          reqCtx._cacheStore,
+          entry.snapshot,
+        );
+      }
+      // Loader-family records (bake-lane containers, loader-container-bake):
+      // decode into a seed Map for the resolveLoaderData overlay, so the
+      // payload's baked container bytes match the frozen prelude while the
+      // hole-marker paths keep the fresh run's live nested promises.
+      const loaderSeed = await buildShellLoaderSeed(entry.snapshot);
+      if (loaderSeed) seededCtx._shellLoaderSeed = loaderSeed;
+      return runWithRequestContext(seededCtx, () => renderTail(seededCtx));
+    }
+    return renderTail(reqCtx);
+  })();
+  // The stream below is the only consumer; pre-attach a no-op catch so a tail
+  // failure before the stream is pulled never surfaces as an unhandled rejection.
+  tailPromise.catch(() => {});
+
+  const serveStart = INTERNAL_RANGO_DEBUG ? performance.now() : 0;
+  const body = new ReadableStream<Uint8Array>({
+    async start(controller) {
+      controller.enqueue(preludeBytes);
+      if (INTERNAL_RANGO_DEBUG) {
+        console.log(
+          `[Server][ppr] shell HIT: prelude enqueued (${preludeBytes.length}b) +${Math.round(performance.now() - serveStart)}ms`,
+        );
+      }
+      try {
+        const tail = await tailPromise;
+        if (tail instanceof ReadableStream) {
+          const reader = tail.getReader();
+          let firstTailChunk = true;
+          try {
+            for (;;) {
+              const { done, value } = await reader.read();
+              if (done) break;
+              if (INTERNAL_RANGO_DEBUG && firstTailChunk) {
+                firstTailChunk = false;
+                console.log(
+                  `[Server][ppr] shell HIT: first tail chunk on the wire +${Math.round(performance.now() - serveStart)}ms`,
+                );
+              }
+              controller.enqueue(value);
+            }
+          } finally {
+            reader.releaseLock();
+          }
+        } else {
+          // Defensive, near-unreachable: a redirecting match cannot have captured
+          // a shell (capture bails on redirects), so a HIT on a redirecting URL
+          // requires the route to have BECOME redirecting within the shell TTL.
+          // The 200 + prelude are already committed; degrade to a client-side
+          // replace so the user still lands on the target. The target is
+          // neutralized first (see resolveShellHitRedirectTarget).
+          const safeTarget = resolveShellHitRedirectTarget(
+            tail.redirect,
+            url.origin,
+            ctx.router.basename,
+          );
+          controller.enqueue(
+            new TextEncoder().encode(
+              `<script>location.replace(${JSON.stringify(safeTarget)})</script>`,
+            ),
+          );
+        }
+        controller.close();
+      } catch (error) {
+        // Self-heal on a failed tail: the pre-commit gates (isValidShellHit +
+        // hasIntactShellPayload) cannot catch a parseable-but-mismatched
+        // postponed blob or a hard render error above the holes — those throw
+        // here, AFTER the 200 + prelude flushed, and would otherwise re-fail on
+        // every request until the entry ages out (nothing else evicts it).
+        // Recapturing overwrites the entry with one the current server
+        // produced. A client disconnect mid-stream also lands here and
+        // schedules a spurious-but-idempotent recapture — bounded by the
+        // stampede guard + backoff inside scheduleShellCapture.
+        scheduleShellCapture(
+          ctx,
+          request,
+          env,
+          url,
+          reqCtx,
+          ssrModule,
+          descriptor,
+        );
+        controller.error(error);
+      }
+    },
+  });
+
+  return createResponseWithMergedHeaders(body, {
+    headers: {
+      "content-type": "text/html;charset=utf-8",
+      [SHELL_STATUS_HEADER]: "HIT",
+    },
   });
 }