Write a form-error page's status only after it renders (closes #128)
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Six form-error paths (the login error and the webhook form's validation and name-taken branches) called WriteHeader before rendering, so if the form page's own template failed, the answer kept its 400 or 409 status with an error body instead of a 500. The new renderTemplateStatus renders into the buffer and writes the status only after the page has rendered; renderTemplate sends 200 through it, and those handlers pass their status to it. No handler calls WriteHeader before a render. Login-form tests show the 400 page still renders in full and a failing template answers 500.

Model: opus-5-5
This commit was merged in pull request #436.
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2026-10-02 15:34:01 +02:00
parent c706199389
commit dc9deda173
4 changed files with 91 additions and 22 deletions
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@@ -309,12 +309,26 @@ func (s *Handlers) getUserInfo(
}
// renderTemplate renders a pre-parsed template with common
// data
// data and answers 200.
func (s *Handlers) renderTemplate(
w http.ResponseWriter,
r *http.Request,
pageTemplate string,
data any,
) {
s.renderTemplateStatus(w, r, pageTemplate, data, http.StatusOK)
}
// renderTemplateStatus is renderTemplate answering with status, for a
// form shown again with an error. Call it instead of WriteHeader
// followed by renderTemplate: the status is written only once the page
// has rendered, so a failed render can still answer 500.
func (s *Handlers) renderTemplateStatus(
w http.ResponseWriter,
r *http.Request,
pageTemplate string,
data any,
status int,
) {
tmpl, ok := s.templates[pageTemplate]
if !ok {
@@ -327,7 +341,9 @@ func (s *Handlers) renderTemplate(
return
}
s.executeTemplate(w, r, tmpl, s.pageData(r, data, noticeFor(r)))
s.executeTemplate(
w, r, tmpl, s.pageData(r, data, noticeFor(r)), status,
)
}
// pageData adds the fields the shared layout renders to a page's own
@@ -363,19 +379,20 @@ func (s *Handlers) pageData(
}
}
// executeTemplate renders the template into a buffer and writes to
// the response only once rendering has fully succeeded. Executing
// straight into the ResponseWriter commits a partial body and a 200
// status before a mid-render error can be reported, leaving no way
// to serve a 500. Buffering makes a page's rendered size resident
// memory per concurrent viewer, so every page owes it a bound: the
// event log caps each stored body at maxRenderedBodyBytes for exactly
// this reason.
// executeTemplate renders the template into a buffer and writes status
// and the page to the response only once rendering has fully
// succeeded. Executing straight into the ResponseWriter commits a
// partial body and the status before a mid-render error can be
// reported, leaving no way to serve a 500. Buffering makes a page's
// rendered size resident memory per concurrent viewer, so every page
// owes it a bound: the event log caps each stored body at
// maxRenderedBodyBytes for exactly this reason.
func (s *Handlers) executeTemplate(
w http.ResponseWriter,
r *http.Request,
tmpl *template.Template,
data any,
status int,
) {
var buf bytes.Buffer
@@ -390,6 +407,7 @@ func (s *Handlers) executeTemplate(
}
w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "text/html; charset=utf-8")
w.WriteHeader(status)
_, err = buf.WriteTo(w)
if err != nil {