TaxBusby•2mo ago

Piping two TCP connections to each other

Hey, I'm messing around trying to create a proxy in deno. I want to take an incoming connection, use some logic to decide how to route it, and then create an outgoing connection to pass it to. I have some code like this right now:

const listener = Deno.listen({
  hostname: "127.0.0.1",
  port: 8445,
  transport: "tcp",
});
for await (const inConn of listener) {
  const buf = new Uint8Array(4096);

  await inConn.read(buf);
  // TODO Routing logic
  console.log("Connecting to local server (OUT)...");
  const outConn = await Deno.connect({
    hostname: "127.0.0.1",
    port: 8443,
    transport: "tcp",
  });
  console.log("Flushing buffer to OUT");
  await outConn.write(buf);

  console.log("Send all other data from IN to OUT");
  inConn.readable.pipeTo(outConn.writable);

  console.log("Send all other data from OUT to IN");
  outConn.readable.pipeTo(inConn.writable);

  console.log("Finished establishing connetion");
}

const listener = Deno.listen({
  hostname: "127.0.0.1",
  port: 8445,
  transport: "tcp",
});
for await (const inConn of listener) {
  const buf = new Uint8Array(4096);

  await inConn.read(buf);
  // TODO Routing logic
  console.log("Connecting to local server (OUT)...");
  const outConn = await Deno.connect({
    hostname: "127.0.0.1",
    port: 8443,
    transport: "tcp",
  });
  console.log("Flushing buffer to OUT");
  await outConn.write(buf);

  console.log("Send all other data from IN to OUT");
  inConn.readable.pipeTo(outConn.writable);

  console.log("Send all other data from OUT to IN");
  outConn.readable.pipeTo(inConn.writable);

  console.log("Finished establishing connetion");
}

Which seems right to me in theory, but when I run it I get some streaming error after these commands all run:

Connecting to local server (OUT)...
Flushing buffer to OUT
Send all other data from IN to OUT
Send all other data from OUT to IN
Finished establishing connetion
error: Uncaught (in promise) Interrupted: operation canceled
    at async Object.pull (ext:deno_web/06_streams.js:991:27)

Connecting to local server (OUT)...
Flushing buffer to OUT
Send all other data from IN to OUT
Send all other data from OUT to IN
Finished establishing connetion
error: Uncaught (in promise) Interrupted: operation canceled
    at async Object.pull (ext:deno_web/06_streams.js:991:27)

Any idea if I'm using these APIs wrong, or if this might be a bug? I noticed pipeTo returns a promise, but if I await these it seems to stall the program indefinitely (like it's waiting for the pipe to close)

3 Replies

TaxBusbyOP•2mo ago

I just realized that read and write to buffers does not guarantee that the buffer is fully exhausted. I'll see if that's the issue first Nope, if I remove the initial read/write to buffer, it still fails in the same way

Leokuma•4w ago

@Doctor 🤖 Do you happen to know this?

Doctor 🤖•4w ago

I'm not familiar with Deno.listen, but if you want a proxy why not use nginx?

Piping two TCP connections to each other

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