Improve handling of connections closed by the peer

[josesimoes]

Description

• Treat a 0-byte read as a closed connection instead of looping forever.
• Catch read failures in the receive thread and close the WebSocket so ConnectionClosed is raised.
• Limit the close-handshake wait to ServerTimeout and stop resetting ClosingTime while waiting.
• Always resuming the receive thread in CheckTimeouts.
• HardClose is now safe to call more than once, so ConnectionClosed is raised only once.

Motivation and Context

• Resolves ESP32 completely hangs if a WebSocket Server shutdown while a NF based WebSocket client was attached Home#1691

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• WebSockets/ReceiveAndControllThread.cs
• WebSockets/WebSocket.cs

📝 Summary

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved WebSocket connection handling when message processing or timeout checks encounter errors, helping connections close cleanly.
  • Bounded the wait for an immediate close and prevented repeated shutdown handling when close events occur concurrently.
  • Treats a stream that ends before expected data arrives as a connection reset.

Walkthrough

WebSocket receive processing now handles exceptions and non-positive stream reads. Timeout checks resume the receive thread after errors. Connection close handling records state before waiting, bounds immediate-close waits, and guards against repeated hard-close actions.

Changes

Connection error and shutdown lifecycle

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Receive errors and timeout handling WebSockets/ReceiveAndControllThread.cs, WebSockets/WebSocketReceiver.cs	A non-positive stream read raises a connection-reset exception. WorkerThread catches message-processing exceptions, sets HasError, logs the exception, and calls RawClose with EndpointUnavailable. Timeout checks log exceptions and resume the receive thread in a finally block. Stream close and timer cleanup run after the receive loop.
Close state and hard-close guard WebSockets/WebSocket.cs	ConnectToStream resets the hard-close guard. Immediate close records CloseSent and ClosingTime before waiting, with the wait capped at ServerTimeout or 5,000 ms when that timeout is nonpositive. HardClose uses a lock and guard to prevent repeated shutdown actions.

Priority: ⬆️ High

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: High

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 74057

The change aims to detect closed peers, but it can also close healthy idle WebSocket connections, can deadlock the receive and timeout threads during shutdown, and can leave connections without a ConnectionClosed notification or socket cleanup. It also sends internal exception messages to the remote peer. These should be fixed before merging.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title accurately summarizes the WebSocket connection-closure changes, is concise at 50 characters, and does not end with a full stop or reference another issue or pull request.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the connection-closure, timeout, receive-thread, and HardClose changes described in the pull request.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Issue #1691 requires the WebSocket client to report a lost server connection instead of hanging. ReadFixedSizeBuffer now treats a zero-byte read as SocketError.ConnectionReset. WorkerThread catc…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The reviewed changes are limited to WebSockets/ReceiveAndControllThread.cs, WebSockets/WebSocket.cs, and WebSockets/WebSocketReceiver.cs. They handle read failures, close-handshake timeout behav…

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Inline comments:
In `@WebSockets/ReceiveAndControllThread.cs`:
- Line 42: Update the RawClose call in the exception handler to send a fixed
peer-safe close reason instead of ex.Message, while retaining ex.Message in
local diagnostics.
- Around line 42-46: In the receive-failure catch around ProcessIncomingMessage,
call HardClose when the WebSocket is in CloseSent after RawClose, ensuring the
connection closes even when RawClose returns at its state guard.

In `@WebSockets/WebSocket.cs`:
- Line 316: Update HardClose so _socket.Close() still runs if a ConnectionClosed
subscriber throws: place socket cleanup in a finally block around subscriber
notification, or perform cleanup before notifying subscribers, while preserving
the _hardClosed guard.
- Line 308: Update CheckTimeouts so it does not suspend the receive thread while
holding _syncLock; synchronize the shared state without suspension, allowing
HardClose to acquire the lock and complete.

In `@WebSockets/WebSocketReceiver.cs`:
- Around line 202-208: Update the zero-read handling in the WebSocket receiver
around the bytes check so a `NetworkStream.Read` result of zero is not
automatically treated as `SocketException(ConnectionReset)`. Preserve idle
connections when no data is available, and close only when the stream contract
confirms end-of-stream.

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