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What is it?

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Description

Renames ServerError to HttpError and ev.error() to ev.httpError(). The old names stay as deprecated aliases, so v1 apps keep working. The router itself now throws HttpError instead of calling the deprecated ev.error().

Stacked on #9051.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added HttpError as the router’s standard HTTP error class and requestEvent.httpError() as the preferred way to create HTTP errors.
    • Existing error handling continues to support the same statuses, messages, and response behavior.
  • Documentation

    • Updated API references, examples, and migration guidance to use HttpError and httpError().
  • Compatibility

    • The previous ServerError and requestEvent.error() names remain available but are deprecated.

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LGTM, but you should update migration script for that

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The router adds HttpError and requestEvent.httpError(). The previous ServerError and requestEvent.error() names remain available but are deprecated. Router handling, runtime types, integrations, tests, and documentation are updated to use the new names.

Changes: HttpError API and Router Migration

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HttpError and request-event API
packages/qwik-router/src/middleware/request-handler/http-error.ts, .../request-event-core.ts, .../types.ts, .../index.ts, .../middleware.request-handler.api.md, packages/docs/src/routes/api/qwik-router-middleware-request-handler/*, packages/docs/src/routes/api/qwik-router-middleware-request-handler/api.json, .changeset/rename-http-error.md
The public API adds HttpError and httpError(). ServerError and error() remain as deprecated aliases. API references and the changeset describe the updated names.
Router error handling and runtime
packages/qwik-router/src/middleware/request-handler/handlers/*, .../resolve-request-handlers-core.ts, .../user-response.ts, .../request-body-limit.ts, .../*unit.ts, packages/qwik-router/src/runtime/src/*, packages/qwik-router/src/buildtime/runtime-generation/generate-routes.ts, packages/qwik-router/ARCHITECTURE.md, packages/docs/src/routes/api/qwik-router/*
Request handling and route-loader runtime use HttpError for error recognition, response handling, and loader error envelopes. Related tests and runtime types are updated.
Integrations, examples, and end-to-end coverage
e2e/qwik-e2e/apps/*, e2e/qwik-e2e/tests/*, packages/insights/src/components/symbol-tile/*, packages/docs/src/routes/demo/qwikrouter/middleware/error/index.tsx, packages/docs/src/routes/docs/(qwikrouter)/*, packages/docs/src/routes/docs/upgrade/index.mdx, starters/features/builder.io/src/routes/[...index]/index.tsx
Application code and examples use HttpError or httpError(). End-to-end test names are updated, and the upgrade guide describes the deprecated names.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Possibly related issues

  • QwikDev/qwik issue 8913: The issue identifies httpError() as the alternative for uncached caught errors. This PR adds httpError() and updates the related router documentation.

Suggested reviewers: wmertens

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 03ba5

Applications using older and newer router copies together may lose normal HTTP-error handling. Preserve mixed-version recognition before merging unless that compatibility risk is explicitly accepted.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 03ba5

Updated callers retain their error behavior. However, an older server library used with the updated router can lose HTTP-error recognition, potentially allowing a returned error signal to stop terminating request processing. No deployed authorization bypass was established.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: The rename changes the shared error-identity key without bridging the legacy key. If an external server library retains the pre-rename router, its ServerError instances no longer match the updated router's HttpError checks. Returned instances then fail to terminate the handler chain, weakening failure containment for applications using returned errors as denials; thrown instances lose their intended HTTP-error handling. Same-version aliases do not resolve this mixed-version boundary. Actual deployment exposure and an authorization bypass are unverified.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The identified concern applies to request-processing contexts where legacy and updated router implementations coexist. Its potential reach includes downstream handlers and loaders relying on error recognition. Evidence does not establish affected production services, tenants, or data stores.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — A conditional failure path is a legacy library returning its own ServerError as a denial, followed by the updated router failing the HttpError identity check and advancing to another handler. This could undermine application-level denial semantics, but no deployed library or protected endpoint demonstrating exploitation was established. Thrown legacy errors instead remain failures, generally becoming generic errors rather than successful execution.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — For recognized errors, the inspected HTML and JSON consumers retain response-commit guards and set Cache-Control to no-store. The terminal response handler uses the error's status and payload before commitment. These controls counter a same-version status or cache-policy regression from direct throws.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The cross-copy identity test demonstrates interoperability between copies registering HttpError, including preservation of subclass distinctions. It does not exercise the former ServerError tag, so it does not resolve mixed-version error-termination compatibility.
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shareClassIdentity(ServerError, 'ServerError');
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Preserve both shared identities for mixed router copies.

shareClassIdentity is intended to recognize instances from another router copy. The base router tags ServerError as router.ServerError, but this version tags HttpError only as router.HttpError. A ServerError created by an older copy can therefore bypass instanceof HttpError in serverErrorMiddleware and miss HTTP-error handling. Register both tags and add a mixed-version test.

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diff --git a/packages/qwik-router/src/middleware/request-handler/shared-class-identity.ts b/packages/qwik-router/src/middleware/request-handler/shared-class-identity.ts
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 export const shareClassIdentity = (
   cls: abstract new (...args: any[]) => unknown,
-  name: string
+  ...names: string[]
 ): void => {
-  const tag = _qwikSymbol(`router.${name}`);
-  (cls.prototype as Record<symbol, boolean>)[tag] = true;
+  const tags = names.map((name) => _qwikSymbol(`router.${name}`));
+  for (const tag of tags) {
+    (cls.prototype as Record<symbol, boolean>)[tag] = true;
+  }
   Object.defineProperty(cls, Symbol.hasInstance, {
@@
-      return value != null && typeof value === 'object' && tag in value;
+      return (
+        value != null &&
+        typeof value === 'object' &&
+        tags.some((tag) => tag in value)
+      );
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   });
 };
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-shareClassIdentity(HttpError, 'HttpError');
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Base automatically changed from claude/error-responses-no-store to main October 23, 2026 20:43
The old names keep working as deprecated aliases, so v1 apps need no change. Developers pick
between throw new HttpError() and throw ev.httpError(). server-error.ts becomes http-error.ts.
The router called ev.error() in server$ and the CSRF check only to drop Cache-Control, which
every error response now gets as no-store.
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