MeshBay — read-only public mirror https://git.meshbay.org/meshbay.git/atom?h=0.11 2026-09-03T10:13:41Z 2026-09-03T10:13:41Z Christophe Besson cbesson@gmail.com 2026-09-03T10:13:41Z urn:sha1:691c6ba4ef51085c89aeddbcabd5c733861eb56b Typing a message froze the Chat tab: the composer stopped taking clicks and keystrokes, the message never appeared, and it was there all along on the next visit to the tab. The node answers a chat message with a bare {"type": "ack"} -- no request id, no type of its own -- so _dispatch had nothing to match it on and left it to the arrival-order guess at the end of the function. That guess is wrong the moment anything else this browser asked for is still waiting: the ack went to *that* request, and the chat send waited out _sendAndWait's own 30s timeout. Since the composer is disabled while a send is in flight, that reads as a frozen tab; the node had stored the message and answered, into somebody else's promise. An outstanding request is the ordinary case, not a rare one. The node refuses an unknown file_id with a bare `error`, which names no request either and so reaches none, leaving the Videos tab's media_meta_req in _pending for the full 30s. That is the one that was live when this was found. - `ack` is now matched by request type: chat_msg, or the keypair-bundle store and delete, which name themselves in `detail`. A node naming neither still has its reply placed rather than dropped. Every line of chat-app.js is correct and every routed message in transport.js is routed correctly -- the defect is in the seam, so tests/harness/ chat_send_probe.py drives the two together: the real ChatPanel over the real MeshBayTransport, with only the DataChannel replaced by a stand-in answering what the node answers. test_chat_send.py asserts against it, and with the fix reverted all three of its tests fail on the three visible halves of the defect -- the composer still disabled, the message absent, and the ack resolving the unrelated request. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GFF4BL8VSKrghkSLzCrTVs