node:http2: submit requests made before the connect from a 'connect' listener by robobun · Pull Request #45992 · oven-sh/bun

robobun · 2026-10-19T00:23:26Z

Problem

A node:http2 client submits a request made before the connect in the socket's connect callback. A listener that refuses the peer (session.destroy(), a throw) cannot stop it: the server reads the authorization header. node v26.3.0 sends nothing.
Cause: #onConnect (src/js/node/http2.ts:5477) submits the queue before any connect listener runs.

Fix

The first request() made while the socket connects adds one 'connect' listener that submits those requests, as in node (lib/internal/http2/core.js:1914).
An earlier listener finds the request pending: destroy() cancels it (ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_CANCEL), close() rejects it (ERR_HTTP2_GOAWAY_SESSION).
Verified: test/js/node/http2/node-http2-request-before-connect.test.ts (33 tests, main fails 25, node passes it). Also test/js/node/http2/, 261 vendored test-http2-* files, grpc-js.
Self-reviewed: 43 concerns raised, 41 addressed. 2 left: tests beyond this change (Notes).

Background

A pending request has no stream id. The session emits 'connect' one tick after its socket connects.
A session on a connected socket (createConnection) sends its requests at once, as in node.
Considered submitting after the whole emit: a listener added after the request finds it pending, where node shows it open.

Downsides

Still sent, unlike node: a throw from a TLS socket listener (domain: route fs callback throws to uncaughtException, unblocking 4 tests (domain 88%→96%) #34661), a refusal after an await or from a listener added later (Notes).
As in node, user code sees the listener: removeAllListeners('connect') strands those requests, ten own 'connect' listeners give a MaxListenersExceededWarning.
Per session that queues a request: 1 array, 1 bound function, 1 once wrapper. No added socket write. http2.js: +1,724 bytes.

Notes

Origin. A differential run against node v26.3.0 found this. No issue reports it.

Repro. Run with bun and with node:

const http2 = require("node:http2");
const net = require("node:net");

// A raw HTTP/2 peer. It prints the type of each frame that the client sent. Type 1 is HEADERS.
const server = net.createServer(socket => {
  const chunks = [];
  socket.write(Buffer.from([0, 0, 0, 4, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]));
  socket.on("data", chunk => chunks.push(chunk));
  socket.on("error", () => {});
  socket.on("close", () => {
    const bytes = Buffer.concat(chunks);
    const types = [];
    for (let at = 24; at + 9 <= bytes.length; at += 9 + bytes.readUIntBE(at, 3)) types.push(bytes[at + 3]);
    console.log("frame types from the client:", types.join(" "));
    server.close();
  });
});
server.listen(0, () => {
  const session = http2.connect(`http://127.0.0.1:${server.address().port}`, () => {
    // The check of the peer fails here.
    session.destroy();
  });
  const req = session.request({ ":path": "/", authorization: "Bearer SECRET" });
  req.on("error", err => console.log("request:", err.code));
});

All three print request: ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_CANCEL. node v26.3.0 and this PR then print frame types from the client: 4 7 (SETTINGS, GOAWAY). Bun 1.4.3 prints 4 1 7: the HEADERS frame of the request went out.

Where the listener refuses, and whether the peer gets the HEADERS frame. node v26.3.0 sends nothing in each row.

The listener	It refuses with	Bun 1.4.3	This PR
`http2.connect(url, options, listener)` over TLS	`session.destroy()`	sent	not sent
the same	a throw	sent	not sent
`session.on('connect', listener)`	`session.destroy()`	sent	not sent
the same	a throw	sent	not sent
`session.socket.on('secureConnect', listener)`	`session.destroy()`	sent	not sent
the same	a throw	sent	sent
`http2.connect(url, listener)`, cleartext	`session.destroy()`	sent	not sent
the same	a throw	sent	not sent
`createConnection` with a net socket that still connects, `socket.on('connect', listener)`	`session.destroy()`	sent	not sent
the same	a throw	not sent	not sent

The row that stays open needs the process to end at the throw. Bun reports the error and then runs the queued ticks, and the 'connect' emit of the session is one of them. #34661 makes the report end the process. The test file has this row as an expected failure.

Other behaviour, node v26.3.0 against Bun 1.4.3. The peer answers each HEADERS frame with a 200. This PR gives node's value in each row.

Case	node v26.3.0	Bun 1.4.3
`req.pending` in a `'connect'` listener added before the request	`true`	`false`
`req.pending` and `req.id` in a `'connect'` listener added after the request	`false`, 1	the same
`session.listenerCount('connect')` after the first early `request()`	one more	no change
the `connect()` listener makes a request	stream ids: early 3, new 1	early 1, new 3
a `'newListener'` listener makes a request inside the first `request()`	stream ids 1 and 3	`request()` adds no listener
`session.close()` in the `connect()` listener	`ERR_HTTP2_GOAWAY_SESSION`, not sent	response 200
the `connect()` listener makes a request, then `session.close()`	early: `ERR_HTTP2_GOAWAY_SESSION`. new: response 200	both: response 200
`req.destroy()` in the `connect()` listener	not sent	sent
`session.removeAllListeners('connect')` before the connect, then two requests after it	early stays pending, later ids 1 and 3	early is sent, later ids 3 and 5
a `'connect'` listener throws and an `'uncaughtException'` listener keeps the process alive	early stays pending, a later request gets id 1	early is sent
the TLS handshake runs on a connected socket (`tls.connect({ socket })`), the listener destroys the session	not sent	sent
a tunnel gives the end of the TLS handshake and the peer's SETTINGS in one chunk, a `'connect'` listener destroys the session	not sent	sent
`removeAllListeners('connect')`, then `session.close()` while a later request is open	the session stays open after that request	the early request is sent
a session on a connected socket (`createConnection`)	`pending` is `false` in the listener, ids 1 and 3	the same

The rest of the diff.

request() ends the stream and adds the abort listener before it queues the request, as node does. A call that throws there leaves nothing queued (signal: { aborted: false } passes the check of the signal and has no addEventListener). On main the stream of the failed call stays in the queue. At the connect it takes stream id 1 and ends with an 'error' that nothing can listen to.
#closedWithNoStream() is the one test of whether a closed session can end: no open stream, and no request that waits for the connect. Each place that ends a closed session asks it. Main has that test in seven places.
A request that is destroyed before it has a stream id leaves that list: Http2Stream._destroy tells the client session, as a stream leaves pendingStreams in node. When it was the last thing that a closed session waited for, the session ends. This matters without the 'connect' listener of request() (session.removeAllListeners('connect')). The stranded request is destroyed, before or after close(), and the session then ends as in node. While the stranded request lives, a closed session stays open, also as in node.
request() refuses while destroy() runs: the stream ends with ERR_HTTP2_INVALID_SESSION, as on a destroyed session. destroy() cancels the queued requests, and a request that is cancelled with its writable side open emits 'aborted' on the stack of destroy(). In Bun session.destroyed is still false there (node: true), so a request from that listener was queued again and nothing ended it. That is the state of main when a session is destroyed before its connect. When the connect() listener destroys the session, main ends that request with ERR_HTTP2_INVALID_SESSION too, because its early request is already open. node ends it with ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_CANCEL.
One row keeps Bun's rule and not node's. A 'connect' listener calls session.ping() and session.close(). Bun's close() waits for an ACK that is due before it ends the session, and the listener that rejects the early requests does the same: the ping is acknowledged. node ends the session at once and the ping gets ERR_HTTP2_PING_CANCEL.
The listener counts toward maxListeners. With ten own 'connect' listeners, or setMaxListeners(1) and one, an early request() gives a MaxListenersExceededWarning on node and on this PR. Bun 1.4.3 gives none.

Still sent after this PR, where node sends nothing. The cause of these rows is below http2.ts, so this PR does not change them.

Client	node v26.3.0	Bun 1.4.3 and this PR
an `async` `'connect'` listener throws	not sent	sent
`await once(session, 'connect')`, then a throw	not sent	sent
a `'connect'` listener added after the request throws	not sent	sent
a `'connect'` listener added after the request calls `process.exit()`	not sent	sent
a session on a connected socket, the `connect()` listener throws	not sent	sent
a session on a connected socket, a `'connect'` listener calls `process.exit()`	not sent	sent

Write time: Bun writes the HEADERS frame inside the tick that submits the request. node schedules the write, so a fatal error or process.exit() in the same turn ends the process first. node:http2: submit a request's frames after request() returns #42353 changes when Bun writes.
Fatal errors: after Bun reports an uncaught error, it runs the queued ticks before it exits. domain: route fs callback throws to uncaughtException, unblocking 4 tests (domain 88%→96%) #34661 changes that.
A session on a connected socket whose listener calls session.destroy() sends the request in node too.

Cost, measured.

Socket writes of one client session (one request made before the connect, then session.close()), counted with an LD_PRELOAD wrapper of send, write and writev (strace is not available here). Same debug binary, http2.ts of main against this PR at 59e77bd58f (the later commits do not touch the path of a request): the counts and the sizes are equal. Dialed cleartext: 4 writes (33, 39, 9, 17 bytes). Dialed TLS: 6 writes (1480, 135, 59, 31, 39, 24). A session on a connected socket that holds the peer's SETTINGS: 4 writes (33, 39, 9, 17). Three runs each.
node/http2.js as bundle-modules.ts --debug=OFF emits it, same output path: 169,582 to 171,306 bytes (+1,724).
Per session that makes a request while its socket connects: 1 array, 1 bound function, 1 once wrapper. A session that makes no request before the connect allocates nothing new. request() on a connected session reads one more private field in its queue branch only.

Suites. All on a debug build of this branch, with main 54152a47f9 merged.

test/js/node/http2/node-http2-request-before-connect.test.ts: 33 pass. With the src/ of main: 8 pass, 25 fail. Bun 1.4.3: 8 pass, 25 fail. node v26.3.0 on the file: 31 pass, 1 skipped.
On main 24 tests fail by their own assertion. The 25th is a follow-on: the stream of the failed request() (see "The rest of the diff") throws an uncaught error, and the assertion of the test that it ended lands in a later test.
test/js/node/http2/ (12 files, --timeout 120000): 668 pass, 0 fail.
The 261 vendored test-http2-* files: 261 pass.
test/js/third_party/grpc-js/, the serve-http2* tests, node-http2-ping-flood-staged.test.ts, 25589-frame-size-grpc.test.ts (34 files): 648 pass, 5 fail. The 5 are the Name Resolver > DNS Names tests. They need a network.
tsc --noEmit -p src/js/tsconfig.json: no error.

The tests.

The file runs under bun test and under node (node:test). Its last test runs the whole file in node.
Each cell uses a raw HTTP/2 peer that records the frames of the client. The assertion is on the wire: no HEADERS frame.
The cells where the listener throws run the fixture in a process of its own, because node ends the process at the throw. Each cell compares the whole outcome: stdout, the exit code and the HEADERS frames. node ends the process with exit code 1. Bun gives a throw from the connect() listener, or from a listener on a net socket, to the session as its 'error', and the process goes on (exit code 0).
One test runs in Bun only: the request() call that throws. node keeps the stream of the failed call as a pending stream. It holds a closed session open, and session.destroy() gives it an 'error' that nothing listens to.
The warm-up and the tests that start a process have a 60 s limit in a debug build only. The first of those tests took 6.8 s in a debug build, and the default is 5 s. The test that runs the file in node has that limit in each build: that run took 1.7 s to 11.7 s here, with the load of the machine.

Related open PRs.

node:http2: close a client's open requests like node on session.destroy() #43591 has a first version of this mechanism next to its own subject (session.destroy() and open requests). That version waits on !#connected and keeps the requests in the stream-slot queue. This PR is the mechanism alone, with node's condition and node's list. node:http2: close a client's open requests like node on session.destroy() #43591 should rebase on this PR without its copy.
node:http2: register the connect() listener as a one-time 'connect' listener #43492 registers the connect() listener with once('connect'). It does not change when the requests are submitted. Its hunks in #onConnect are next to the line that this PR adds there.
node:http2: take a request out of the client's pending queue when it is destroyed #45448 makes the stream-slot queue a linked list, so that a destroyed request leaves it. It changes the same places: the field, the GOAWAY handler, #onConnect, close(), destroy() and request(). The second of the two to land has to re-apply its hunks there.
node:http2: return {} from session.state without a handle, keep connecting true until the socket is ready #44816 makes session.connecting node's READY flag. #socketConnecting in this PR is the same condition. The second of the two to land reads the flag of the first.
domain: route fs callback throws to uncaughtException, unblocking 4 tests (domain 88%→96%) #34661 and node:http2: submit a request's frames after request() returns #42353: see "Still sent after this PR".

Self-review. A review of the first draft said: wanted in a different shape. That draft waited on !#connected and kept the early requests in the stream-slot queue behind a boolean. It had three regressions. A session on a connected socket got an order that node and main do not have. A lost 'connect' listener stalled the requests that wait for a stream slot. A request() made during the teardown of a session never closed. This PR is the rework: node's condition (#socketConnecting) and node's list (#requestsBeforeConnect). 43 concerns were raised and 41 are addressed. The 2 that are left:

No expected-failure tests for the rows in "Still sent after this PR". Those rows pin the write and exit behaviour that this PR does not change.
No tape test that compares each event of the connect phase between node and Bun.

Not changed here.

The 'ready' event of a stream is emitted one tick after the submit in Bun and synchronously in node.
req.close(code) in a listener that runs before the submit: the request emits 'end' before 'ready'. node and main emit 'ready' first. Http2Stream.close() ends the readable side of a pending stream at once, and node does that at 'ready'. The request is sent and then reset in all three.
After session.close() or req.destroy() in such a listener the session emits 'remoteSettings' and 'localSettings' before 'close'. node emits 'close' alone. A closed Bun session with no stream waits for the ACK of its SETTINGS, which is the rule of close() on main.
A session on a connected socket (createConnection), then request() and close() in the same tick: the request ends with ERR_HTTP2_GOAWAY_SESSION. node sends it. It is the same on main.
A 'connect' listener added after the request destroys the session: the request is submitted before that listener runs, as in node. The events that the request then emits are the subject of node:http2: close a client's open requests like node on session.destroy() #43591.
session.close() before the connect, and then the socket closes with no 'error': the queued request and the session never close. node cancels the request and closes the session. It is the same on main (destroy() returns early when the parser is gone). node:http2: take a request out of the client's pending queue when it is destroyed #45448 has the analysis.

no test proof · iteration 0 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/js/node/http2/node-http2-request-before-connect.test.ts

…listener ClientHttp2Session submitted the requests that were made while its socket connected inside #onConnect, in the socket's connect callback. The 'connect' event is emitted one tick later. So such a request was submitted before any listener of the connect ran, and a listener that refuses the peer there (session.destroy(), session.close(), a throw) could not stop it. The first request() made while the socket connects now adds one 'connect' listener, and that listener submits those requests, as node does. They wait in their own list, like node's kPendingRequestCalls. The listeners that run before that one find the request pending: destroy() cancels it with ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_CANCEL and close() rejects it with ERR_HTTP2_GOAWAY_SESSION. A request made after the connect goes out ahead of them, as in node. A session that was given a connected socket is not connecting, as in node: its requests are submitted as before.

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HTTP/2 client requests made before socket connection now use a separate queue from requests waiting for a concurrency slot. The session submits or rejects queued requests during connection and includes both queues in GOAWAY handling, graceful close, and session destruction. New tests cover request ordering and lifecycle behavior.

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HTTP/2 Pre-connect Requests

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Queue request submissions `src/js/node/http2.ts`	The session stores deferred request data and routes requests to a pre-connect queue while the socket connects, or to the concurrency queue otherwise.
Flush and clear queued requests `src/js/node/http2.ts`	On connection, the session submits pre-connect requests or rejects them if the session closed. GOAWAY, graceful close, and session destruction now account for both queues.
Validate request lifecycle `test/js/node/http2/node-http2-request-before-connect.fixture.js`, `test/js/node/http2/node-http2-request-before-connect.test.ts`	The fixture and tests cover listener behavior, request ordering, session close and destruction, concurrency limits, socket and TLS connection states, and Node.js compatibility.

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A raw HTTP/2 peer records the frames of the client. The client calls http2.connect(url, listener), makes a request with an authorization header on the next line, and the listener calls session.destroy(). Bun 1.4.3 and main send SETTINGS, HEADERS, GOAWAY. node v26.3.0 sends SETTINGS, GOAWAY. The script is in the Notes of the PR body.
bun bd test test/js/node/http2/node-http2-request-before-connect.test.ts: 25 of 33 tests fail with the src/ of main, and all 33 pass with this change. node on the same file: 31 pass, 1 is skipped.

PR: #45992

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🟡 src/js/node/http2.ts — Users whose before-connect requests are still queued when a closed session goes idle get those streams cancelled with ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_CANCEL instead of ERR_HTTP2_GOAWAY_SESSION or staying pending as node does. The PR adds #requestsBeforeConnect === null to the idle checks in close() at src/js/node/http2.ts:5834 and the ping ACK path at 5282, but not to the sibling idle checks at src/js/node/http2.ts:5140 (stream close) and 5234 (SETTINGS ACK). Those two schedule destroyIfNotDestroyedNT while the queue is non-empty. Fix: move the idle predicate into one helper that consults #connections, #pendingRequests and #requestsBeforeConnect, and use it at all four sites.

Why this was flagged

Trigger: the once('connect') submit listener at src/js/node/http2.ts:6313 does not run (a user 'connect' listener registered earlier throws and the process survives via an uncaughtException handler, or session.removeAllListeners('connect') was called), so #requestsBeforeConnect stays populated. Then session.close() runs; close() at 5831-5835 correctly refuses to destroy because the queue is non-null. But a later SETTINGS ACK dispatch at 5234-5243 or a stream close at 5140-5150 only tests #closed and #connections === 0 and schedules destroyIfNotDestroyedNT. destroy() then takes the queue at 5899 and gives each stream createPendingStreamCancelError (ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_CANCEL). Node leaves those streams pending and the session open (pendingStreams blocks kMaybeDestroy), and when it does reject before-connect requests it uses ERR_HTTP2_GOAWAY_SESSION, the retryable class grpc keys on. Four sibling idle checks exist; the PR updated two, so the behaviour depends on which frame arrives first. Remedy: a single idle predicate used by all four sites.

Verification: Before-connect requests stay queued because the once('connect') submit listener never runs, then session.close() is called, then a later stream closes or the SETTINGS ACK arrives. The idle checks at src/js/node/http2.ts:5140 and :5234 lack the #requestsBeforeConnect === null guard close() adds, so destroy() at :5899 cancels the queued request with ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_CANCEL where node leaves it pending.
🟣 src/js/node/http2.ts — Users who call session.close() while the socket is still connecting and then see the socket close without an 'error' get requests that never error and a close callback that never fires. close() at src/js/node/http2.ts:5831-5835 skips destroy while #requestsBeforeConnect is non-null; #onClose at 5470 nulls #parser and then destroy() returns at the early-out on 5861 (#closed && !#connected && !#parser), so #takeQueuedRequests at 5899 never runs. Fix: the early-out must first drain both queues (or #onClose must cancel them before nulling #parser) so a connecting session that closes without an error still cancels every queued request and emits 'close'.

Why this was flagged

Trigger: session.close() before the socket connects, with at least one request() queued in #requestsBeforeConnect (src/js/node/http2.ts:6296), then the socket emits 'close' without a preceding 'error'. close() at 5831-5835 now requires #requestsBeforeConnect === null, so it does not schedule destroy. #onClose at 5463-5473 sets #parser = null, and calls destroy(err). destroy() hits the early-out at 5861 because #closed is true, #connected is false and #parser is null, and returns before #takeQueuedRequests at 5899. The queued ClientHttp2Stream objects never receive 'error' or 'close', the session never emits 'close', and the close(callback) callback never runs. On the base branch the same shape existed with #pendingRequests, but this change adds a second queue and a second idle condition at the same site without fixing the early-out. Remedy: cancel both queues in #onClose before nulling #parser, or move the early-out below the #takeQueuedRequests drain.

Verification: pre-existing. Trigger: session.close() while the socket is still connecting with a request queued (src/js/node/http2.ts:6296), then the socket emits 'close' without a preceding 'error'. close() skips destroy at 5831-5835; #onClose nulls #parser at 5470; destroy() returns at the early-out 5861, so #takeQueuedRequests at 5899 never executes. The base branch fails by the identical route.

…closed session by one test request() ends the stream and adds the abort listener before it puts the request in a queue, as node does. A call that throws there leaves nothing queued. Before, the first such call left the list of early requests without its 'connect' listener. The 'connect' listener that rejects the early requests of a closed session gives an ACK that is due the same grace as close() does. One method says whether a closed session can end: no open stream and no request that waits for the connect. Each place that ends a closed session asks it. destroy() also cancels a request that an 'aborted' listener makes while it cancels the queued requests, as node does. Such a request stayed open for ever. The test clients run with the environment of the test harness, and the tests of a listener that throws compare the whole outcome for each listener and runtime.

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robobun · 2026-10-19T02:58:09Z

Two findings of the review above are outside the inline threads.

The idle checks that did not know the new list. Done in 014978c. #closedWithNoStream() is now the one test: closed, no open stream, no request that waits for the connect. Each place that ends a closed session asks it: the two stream error handlers, streamEnd, the SETTINGS ACK, the ping ACK, close() and the catch of request(). Without its 'connect' listener such a session stays open, as in node. New test: keeps a closed session open while it is pending without its 'connect' listener. The requests that wait for a stream slot are not in that test. Main checks them at two of the seven places, and this PR does not change that. #45448 has the discussion of that rule.

close() before the connect, then the socket closes with no 'error'. Not changed. It is the same on main and on Bun 1.4.3: the repro in #45448 prints nothing there and on this branch. node cancels the request and closes the session. The PR notes list it under "Not changed here".

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One part of this review's analysis that stopped early was run once more. It finished.

destroy() cancels the queued requests, and a request that is cancelled with its writable side open emits 'aborted' on the stack of destroy(). The socket is still attached then, so session.destroyed is false and a request() from that listener was queued again. destroy() took the queues again until they were empty, which has no end when the listener makes the request each time. request() now refuses while destroy() runs, the same way as on a destroyed session: the stream ends with ERR_HTTP2_INVALID_SESSION. destroy() takes the queues once.

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The latest push addresses the two points from the previous round: destroy() now takes both queues once and request() refuses new streams while #destroying is set (src/js/node/http2.ts:5984), so the drain is bounded, and the closed branch of #submitRequestsBeforeConnect now routes through #destroyAfterAckGrace() like close(). Beyond the inline nit, I also re-checked each #closedWithNoStream() replacement site against the old #connections === 0 && #closed form — the added #requestsBeforeConnect === null clause only defers destroy while the connect listener is still owed, and that listener itself completes the destroy in the closed branch.

Extended reasoning...

The change reworks ClientHttp2Session.request() in src/js/node/http2.ts to queue before-connect requests behind a once('connect') listener, adds #takeQueuedRequests/#rejectQueuedRequests/#closedWithNoStream/#destroyAfterAckGrace helpers, gates request() on #destroying, and adds a 620-line test plus a fixture. It touches no auth or crypto surface, though it changes when request headers reach the peer. The prior-round blocking concerns (unbounded re-drain in destroy(), missing ACK grace in the closed connect branch) are resolved in the code; an inline nit remains and this is a behaviour-sensitive node:http2 lifecycle change, so a human look is still worthwhile.

Findings marked 🟡 are optional suggestions and need no follow-up push.

Additional findings (outside the current diff — GitHub can't attach inline comments there):

🟡 src/js/node/http2.ts — nit: maintainers keep a second copy of the ACK-grace teardown that the diff just extracted into a helper. The streamEnd handler's block at src/js/node/http2.ts:5144-5149 is functionally identical to the body of #destroyAfterAckGrace() (5461-5468), which the diff added and uses from close() and #submitRequestsBeforeConnect(). Fix: replace the inline block at 5140-5150 with if (self.#closedWithNoStream()) self.#destroyAfterAckGrace(); so every closed-and-idle teardown site shares one implementation.

Why this was flagged

The diff changes the condition at src/js/node/http2.ts:5140 to self.#closedWithNoStream() but leaves the five-line grace/destroy block at 5144-5149 inline. The same five lines were extracted from close() into #destroyAfterAckGrace() at 5461-5468 in this diff, and that helper is called at 5841 and 5362. No runtime failure: the two copies behave identically today, so this is a duplicate-within-diff cleanup only. A later change to the grace rule (for example the 250ms bound or the ping condition) would have to be made twice.

Verification: nit. Triggering condition: any maintainer later editing the ACK-grace teardown rule. The diff adds #destroyAfterAckGrace() at src/js/node/http2.ts:5461-5468 but leaves lines 5144-5149 inline. The two blocks are functionally identical. REVIEW.md asks that the second occurrence of a multi-line block in the diff be extracted and used at every parallel site. No runtime behavior differs today.

…wait for the connect A closed session ends when no stream is open and no request waits for the connect. A request that was destroyed stayed in that list until the 'connect' listener of request() took it. Without that listener (session.removeAllListeners('connect')) the list never became empty, and a closed session whose stranded request was destroyed stayed open. Http2Stream._destroy now tells the client session about a request that is destroyed before it has a stream id, and the session takes it out of the list, as node takes a stream out of pendingStreams. When that was the last thing a closed session waited for, the session ends. The streamEnd handler ends a closed session through the same helper as close().

claude

Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

The commits since my last pass address the earlier blocking items in code: request() now refuses while destroy() runs (the #destroying latch, so the re-drain loop is gone), queueing happens only after setupRequestEndAndSignal can no longer throw, and the closed branch of #submitRequestsBeforeConnect goes through #destroyAfterAckGrace. Beyond the inline finding, I also checked each #connections === 0 && #closed site rewritten to #closedWithNoStream() — the only added condition is the before-connect queue, and that queue is always emptied by #submitRequestsBeforeConnect, destroy(), the GOAWAY handler, or kPendingRequestDestroyed, so none of those sites can be left waiting on it; and I checked re-entrant request()/destroy() from a 'newListener' handler during the once("connect") registration — the queue is assigned before once(), and destroy() nulls both queues before destroying streams so kPendingRequestDestroyed is a no-op on that path.

Extended reasoning...

The change rewires how ClientHttp2Session in src/js/node/http2.ts handles request() calls made while the socket is connecting (a separate before-connect queue drained from a once('connect') listener, a shared #closedWithNoStream predicate replacing seven inline checks, a #destroying guard in request(), and a kPendingRequestDestroyed hook from Http2Stream._destroy), plus a new node:test-based suite and fixture. It touches no auth or crypto surface beyond the behavioral point of the fix (not sending a request's headers after a connect listener refuses the peer). The one inline finding this run is a pre-existing close()-same-tick case on an already-connected createConnection socket; the lifecycle logic is intricate and re-entrant enough that a maintainer's look is still worthwhile, so this is not an approval.

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Code review found no issues

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Unresolved: 1 minor or pre-existing.

robobun · 2026-10-22T02:52:42Z

Two changes since the last review round, both in 58698d5.

The streamEnd handler uses the helper. It now ends a closed session through #destroyAfterAckGrace(), as close() and the listener of request() do. That was the optional finding about the second copy of the grace block.

A destroyed request leaves the list of the requests that wait for the connect. #closedWithNoStream() counted a request that was already destroyed. With session.removeAllListeners('connect'), the stranded request destroyed and then session.close(), the session never ended. node ends it. Http2Stream._destroy now tells the client session about a request that is destroyed before it has a stream id, and the session takes it out of the list, as node takes a stream out of pendingStreams. Two new tests cover a destroy before close() and a destroy after close(). A stranded request that still lives keeps a closed session open, as in node.

The branch also has main merged, because CI refused to build a branch that far behind.

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