[dylan-conway]

What does this PR do?

Restores two recoveries that 1.4.3 has and main lost: fetch sending a request again after a reused https connection breaks, and Bun.RedisClient reconnecting after a rediss:// connection breaks.

What was wrong

When a TLS session that is already up gets bytes it cannot accept (bytes that are not a TLS record, a record that does not authenticate) and the peer closes:

	1.4.3	main
fetch, GET on a reused https connection	sent again on a new connection, resolves	rejects with EPROTO: The TLS handshake failed
fetch, GET through a reused CONNECT tunnel, the session with the https proxy breaks	sent again, resolves	rejects with EPROTO
RedisClient over rediss://, a command in flight or the connection idle	reconnects	never reconnects, every later command rejects with Connection has failed

A FIN, an RST and a close_notify at the same moment are recovered from on both builds.

Cause

Since #44618, ssl_fail_established_session (packages/bun-usockets/src/crypto/openssl.c) reports a fatal error on an established session to the socket's owner through on_handshake(success = 0), and then closes the socket itself. An owner that takes every such report for a refused handshake fails for good, before the close event that carries its recovery policy arrives:

• HTTPContext::Handler::on_handshake called close_and_fail, so HTTPClient::on_close, which holds the resend rule, found a client that had already failed.
• JSValkeyClient's on_handshake called fail_with_js_value, which sets flags.failed, and ValkeyClient::on_close skips the retry policy for a failed client.

The WebSocket client got its guard for this in #45720.

Fix

fetch (src/http/HTTPContext.rs, the fixing lines): a failed report for a request that on_close would send again returns without failing the client. uSockets closes the socket right after the report, and on_close does what it does for a FIN. allow_retry is only ever set on a reused connection, which is past its handshake, so a real handshake failure never takes this path. To ask the same question in both places, the condition moves out of on_close into HTTPClient::retries_on_close() unchanged (src/http/lib.rs).

Everything that is not sent again keeps main's behavior and its EPROTO: a POST, a stream body, a response whose body has started, keepalive: false.

RedisClient (src/runtime/valkey_jsc/): a failed report on a connection that is Connected (its HELLO was answered), with autoReconnect on, is a lost connection. The commands in flight are rejected with the TLS reason, as on main, failed stays unset, and the close that follows runs the usual retry policy. The rejections are made without entering an event loop scope, so they are observed after on_close has run: a command issued from a catch waits for the new connection, as it does after a FIN, instead of going out on the dead socket.

Two cases keep main's behavior, the client fails and every pending command is rejected with the TLS reason:

• Before the reply to HELLO. That is where a TLS 1.3 server refuses the client's certificate, after the client's side of the handshake is over, so a failure there is a refusal and not a lost connection. A client with no certificate gets EPROTO: ...TLSV1_ALERT_CERTIFICATE_REQUIRED from its first dial. (1.4.3 keeps dialing here: 9 connections in 8 s, with the command still pending.)
• autoReconnect: false. There is no policy to hand the close to, and failing the client tells the commands that are still queued why, not only the ones in flight.

Checked and left as they are

• The session inside a CONNECT tunnel (origin side, ProxyTunnel). A request on a reused tunnel whose inner session ends is not sent again on main, but it is not on 1.4.3 either, and not for a FIN or a close_notify either. It is a different cause (ProxyTunnel::on_close never consults the resend rule) and older than tls: consolidate the open TLS fixes (both engines, node:tls, node:https, WebSocket, SQL) #44618, so it is not part of this PR.
• HTTP/2 sessions: fail_streams sends nothing again for any kind of close, so only the error code depends on the report.
• Bun.SQL: the pool does not retry the close of an established connection whatever the error is, and dials again for the next query.
• A finished TLS 1.2 renegotiation makes RedisClient send HELLO again. That is redis: send HELLO once when a TLS 1.2 server renegotiates #45413.

How did you verify your code works?

Reproduced first on a debug build of main and on the 1.4.3 release binary with the same scripts (the table above), then on this branch.

New tests, in the existing files for each area:

test/js/web/fetch/fetch-keepalive.test.ts

• a GET that a reused https connection answers with: bytes that are not a TLS record, a record that does not authenticate, half a response head and then such bytes, close_notify, FIN, RST. Each is sent again, and the origin sees exactly connection 1 request 1, connection 1 request 2, connection 2 request 1.
• a POST, and a GET whose response body has started, are not sent again and reject with EPROTO.
• a GET through a reused tunnel when the session with the https proxy breaks is sent again over a second tunnel.

test/js/valkey/reliability/connection-failures.test.ts

• the client reconnects when the session breaks in place of a reply (with the next command issued straight from the rejection) and while idle. onclose never fires, and the command in flight still rejects with EPROTO: ...WRONG_VERSION_NUMBER.
• with autoReconnect: false, a GET in flight and an INFO queued behind it both reject with the TLS reason, and onclose fires once.
• a TLS 1.3 server that requires a client certificate fails a client that has none at its first dial, with TLSV1_ALERT_CERTIFICATE_REQUIRED.

	without the src/ change	with it
fetch-keepalive.test.ts	4 fail (the three TLS breaks, the https proxy)	58 pass
connection-failures.test.ts, the 4 new tests	2 fail (the two reconnects)	4 pass

The existing tests that pin the errors of a broken session pass with the change: test/js/bun/net/tls-fatal-error-closes.test.ts (every owner still closes, same errors) 38 pass, test/js/node/tls/renegotiation.test.ts (a refused renegotiation, fetch and RedisClient) 57 pass.

The close_notify / FIN / RST rows, the two "not sent again" rows and the last two Redis tests pass on both builds on purpose: they pin what must not change.

The bug is newer than the latest release, so USE_SYSTEM_BUN=1 passes these tests. "Fails without the fix" was shown by building main's src/ with the new tests.

Each condition on the Redis side was removed in turn to see a test fail: without status == Connected the server that refuses the certificate is dialed again, without the autoReconnect condition the queued INFO gets Connection closed, and with an event loop scope around the rejections the command issued from the rejection goes out on the dead socket. The new Redis tests also pass under BUN_JSC_validateExceptionChecks=1.

The files next to these that go through the same two on_handshake handlers, for real handshake failures (wrong name, untrusted chain, checkServerIdentity), also pass: test/js/valkey/valkey-tls-verify.test.ts 14 pass, test/js/web/fetch/fetch.tls.test.ts 64 pass. My machine has no IPv6, so for that run their servers listened on 127.0.0.1. The one failure there, trusts a self-issued certificate without keyCertSign only when ca holds that very certificate (CERT_SIGNATURE_FAILURE where UNABLE_TO_VERIFY_LEAF_SIGNATURE is expected), is the same on main without this change.

connection-failures.test.ts has one failure on my machine that is not from this PR: close() over rediss:// while the peer has stopped reading closes the socket at once fails the same way on main without this change. The tests there that need a Redis server were skipped (no Docker).

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Walkthrough

The change centralizes HTTP retry eligibility for failed reused TLS connections and adds established-session TLS error handling for Valkey clients. Tests cover retry, no-retry, reconnect, and certificate-rejection cases.

Changes

HTTP request retries

Layer / File(s)	Summary
HTTP retry eligibility and close handling src/http/lib.rs, src/http/HTTPContext.rs	is_in_progress and retries_on_close centralize request-state and retry checks. Handshake and close handling use these checks for eligible requests.
HTTP retry test coverage test/js/web/fetch/fetch-keepalive.test.ts	Tests cover GET retries after TLS failures on reused HTTPS connections and CONNECT tunnels. They also verify that POST requests and requests with started response bodies are not retried.

Valkey TLS session errors

Layer / File(s)	Summary
TLS session error handling src/runtime/valkey_jsc/js_valkey.rs, src/runtime/valkey_jsc/valkey.rs, test/js/valkey/reliability/connection-failures.test.ts	Established-session handshake failures call on_tls_session_error, which rejects in-flight commands with a converted TLS verification error. Tests cover reply, idle, disabled-reconnect, and certificate-rejection cases.

Possibly related issues

• oven-sh/bun#43381: The Valkey TLS error handling preserves the underlying TLS verification error for pending commands.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner

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The change is mergeable after normal checks. A targeted reconnect test would strengthen protection against future regressions.

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^{Updated 6:05 PM PT - Oct 21st, 2026}

@claude, your commit f248a4c is building: #130483

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Re-reviewed after e1fece8; no new issues beyond the inline threads already open. Beyond those, I also checked that the new early return in HTTPContext::on_handshake cannot catch a real handshake failure (allow_retry is only set on pooled sockets at HTTPContext.rs:1018 and :1153, and uSockets still closes the socket after the report so on_close runs the resend), and that on_tls_session_error is only reachable from the uSockets read path, never from the finalizer's deferred close, so its missing finalized guard is not a problem.

Extended reasoning...

The latest commit only adds the enable_auto_reconnect gate in js_valkey.rs so that autoReconnect: false still falls through to fail_with_js_value; nothing else in src/ changed since the prior review, and the previously posted inline thread about a post-handshake TLS 1.3 client-certificate rejection being retried silently is not addressed by it. This run ruled out two further concerns in the fetch and Redis handlers as noted above; the tests are local, port 0, and sleep-free.

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