1 files changed, 59 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/packages/meshbay-hub/tests/test_streamed_download_reliability.py b/packages/meshbay-hub/tests/test_streamed_download_reliability.py
index bfd4a89..e1b3800 100644
--- a/packages/meshbay-hub/tests/test_streamed_download_reliability.py
+++ b/packages/meshbay-hub/tests/test_streamed_download_reliability.py
@@ -50,15 +50,37 @@ globalThis.localStorage = {
 };
 const PLAN = %(plan)s;
 const log = { registers: 0, claims: 0, navigations: 0, served: 0,
-              unregisters: 0 };
+              unregisters: 0, wakes: 0 };
 
 // The worker as the page sees it: something with postMessage. It answers a
 // navigation by posting mbdl-serving back on the port it was handed, which is
 // exactly the confirmation the real sw.js sends from its fetch handler.
 let controller = null;
 const pendingByFrame = new Map();
+// Set before the controller exists, because the declaration below is what
+// the temporal dead zone protects.
+let asleep = PLAN.workerAsleep;
 const makeController = () => ({
   postMessage: (msg, transfer) => {
+    // A worker with nothing to do is terminated, and `pending` goes with it.
+    // A ping wakes it; anything else posted while it sleeps is simply lost,
+    // which is what makes this failure silent.
+    if (asleep) {
+      if (msg.type === 'mbdl-ping') {
+        asleep = false;
+        log.wakes += 1;
+        if (msg.ports || (transfer && transfer[0])) {
+          const port = (transfer && transfer[0]) || null;
+          if (port) setTimeout(() => port.postMessage({type: 'mbdl-pong'}), 0);
+        }
+      }
+      return;
+    }
+    if (msg.type === 'mbdl-ping') {
+      const port = (transfer && transfer[0]) || null;
+      if (port) setTimeout(() => port.postMessage({type: 'mbdl-pong'}), 0);
+      return;
+    }
     if (msg.type === 'mbdl-claim') {
       log.claims += 1;
       // A worker that actually claims when asked, which is what sw.js does.
@@ -70,6 +92,9 @@ const makeController = () => ({
     }
     if (msg.type !== 'mbdl') return;
     pendingByFrame.set('/_mbdl/' + msg.id, msg.port);
+    // The worker says it has it, which is what the page waits for.
+    if (msg.port) setTimeout(() => msg.port.postMessage({type: 'mbdl-ready',
+                                                         id: msg.id}), 0);
   },
 });
 
@@ -167,7 +192,8 @@ def _run(tmp_path, body, *, control_after_ms=0, active=True,
          serve="always", register_throws=False, control_budget_ms=800,
          ready_settles=True, register_hangs=False,
          active_after_unregister=False, control_on_claim=False,
-         controlled_at_load=False, registered_at_load=False):
+         controlled_at_load=False, registered_at_load=False,
+         worker_asleep=False):
     module = tmp_path / "downloads.mjs"
     module.write_text(DOWNLOADS.read_text())
     (tmp_path / "package.json").write_text('{"type":"module"}')
@@ -181,6 +207,7 @@ def _run(tmp_path, body, *, control_after_ms=0, active=True,
         "activeAfterUnregister": active_after_unregister,
         "controlOnClaim": control_on_claim,
         "registeredAtLoad": registered_at_load,
+        "workerAsleep": worker_asleep,
     }
     script = tmp_path / "case.mjs"
     script.write_text(
@@ -530,3 +557,33 @@ def test_the_streamed_target_says_it_cannot_be_paused(tmp_path):
       if (target) await target.writable.close();
     """)
     assert out["pausable"] is False
+
+
+# ── a worker that was asleep when we posted ─────────────────────────────────
+
+def test_a_sleeping_worker_is_woken_before_it_is_handed_a_stream(tmp_path):
+    """Reported from Chrome: a download started while an upload was running took
+    thirty seconds to begin, every time.
+
+    `pending` lives in the worker's memory and a worker with nothing to do is
+    terminated — which is what a long upload leaves it, for minutes, since a
+    WebRTC transfer gives it no events at all. The stream posted to it was lost;
+    the iframe then woke it with nothing to find and the request fell through to
+    the network, measured in the console as a 404 from the hub and fifteen
+    seconds of silence, twice.
+
+    `mbdl-ping` already existed — sent every ten seconds *while* writing, for
+    the same reason. Nothing sent one before *starting*.
+    """
+    out = _run(tmp_path, """
+      const target = await M.openStreamedDownload('film.mkv', 20e9, FAST);
+      out.target = target !== null;
+      out.wakes = log.wakes;
+      out.navigations = log.navigations;
+      if (target) await target.writable.close();
+    """, worker_asleep=True)
+    assert out["target"] is True, "the download never started"
+    assert out["wakes"] == 1, "the worker was handed a stream while asleep"
+    assert out["navigations"] == 1, (
+        f"took {out['navigations']} attempts — the first one was wasted on a "
+        "worker that had not been woken")