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Problem

  • fetch() has no way to control the shape of its TLS ClientHello. Servers fingerprint clients by it (JA3, JA4), and users who need to look like a browser have no option short of another HTTP stack.
  • The knobs exist in BoringSSL (the same library Chrome uses), but nothing in src/http or the tls option parser (src/runtime/socket/SSLConfig.rs) reaches them.

Fix

  • New tls options on fetch: ja3, grease, permuteExtensions, certificateCompression, applicationSettings, echGrease, ocspStapling, signedCertificateTimestamps, sessionTickets. ja3 expands a version,ciphers,extensions,groups,formats string into the cipher list, group list, version bounds and the extension toggles; an explicit option wins over what the string implies. The parse is strict in both directions: a cipher suite, group or extension BoringSSL cannot send, or an extension it always sends that the string leaves out, is a TypeError, so a caller never gets a silently different fingerprint.
  • src/http/tls_fingerprint.rs holds the parser and the two apply steps. Context-wide settings (GREASE, certificate decompression callbacks for brotli, zlib and zstd) go on the custom SSL_CTX the fetch client already builds for a non-default SSLConfig. Per-connection settings (ALPS for h2, ECH GREASE, OCSP, SCT, session tickets, extension shuffle, TLS 1.3 suite order) go on the SSL in configure_http_client_with_alpn, which also covers CONNECT tunnels.
  • Correct because each option maps to one documented BoringSSL call and the fingerprint is part of SSLConfig's hash and equality, so the interned-config and SSL context caches keep distinct fingerprints apart. Chrome's ClientHello is reproduced in full: cipher order, groups X25519MLKEM768:X25519:P-256:P-384, the two key shares, brotli certificate compression, ALPS, ECH GREASE, GREASE values and shuffled extensions.
  • Verified: the fetch TLS fingerprint options block in test/js/web/fetch/fetch.tls.test.ts (40 tests; a raw TCP listener parses the ClientHello, through a CONNECT tunnel too; the option tests fail on the released bun). Also test/js/node/tls/, tls-keepalive, fetch-abort-ssl-context-eviction, proxy.test.ts, websocket-client, the bun-types test, and a Windows build.

Background

  • JA3 is a string of decimal IANA ids taken from the ClientHello: TLS version, cipher suites, extensions, supported groups, point formats. Fingerprinting services hash it. JA4 is the newer form that sorts the extensions.
  • GREASE (RFC 8701) is random reserved values a client mixes into its lists so servers do not ossify. Chrome sends them and shuffles its extension order on every connection, so Chrome has no stable JA3 hash; the set of extensions is what matters.
  • BoringSSL fixes the extension order and always offers all three TLS 1.3 suites. The suite order follows EVP_has_aes_hardware(), so the parser pins it with the SSL_set_aes_hw_override_for_testing setting (C++ linkage only, hence the small shim in NodeTLS.cpp). This keeps a given ja3 string machine-independent.
  • Certificate compression (RFC 8879) needs a decompression callback per algorithm. The callbacks bound their output by the length the server announces, so a server cannot make the client inflate more than that.
Notes

Out of scope, on purpose: exact extension order, Firefox's delegated_credentials (34) and record_size_limit (28) extensions, FFDHE groups and Safari's CBC-SHA256 suites. All of those need a BoringSSL fork patch (curl-impersonate carries one). A ja3 string that lists them throws.

The options are parsed by the shared TLSOptions dictionary, so Bun.connect and WebSocket accept them too. There, ja3 still sets the cipher list and the groups (they travel through the usockets options), but the extension toggles only take effect in fetch. The types and docs list them under the fetch tls options only.

permuteExtensions is applied per SSL rather than on the SSL_CTX: BoringSSL copies that flag into the connection at SSL_new, and the CONNECT tunnel creates its SSL before the fetch client can touch the context. GREASE and the compression algorithms are read from the context at handshake time, so they can be set after SSL_new.

bun_zstd::decompress_append is now pub so the zstd callback can decode into a bounded buffer in one call.

HTTP/2 fingerprinting (SETTINGS values, header order, the Akamai string) is not part of this change.

A repeated id inside one JA3 field (0-5-5-10) is rejected too, since a ClientHello carries each cipher, extension and group once.

Rebase onto main (after #40238, which made bun_core::String own its WTF ref): the conflict was in src/jsc/generated.rs. The Drop impls this branch had added to release the new string fields were dropped, since the strings now release themselves, and the GenOpt::get() calls on string fields became as_ref().


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fails on main (without fix)
ASAN without fix: 46 FAILED
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/mechgate.xml" test/js/web/fetch/fetch.tls.test.ts
bun test v1.4.1 (4448a2e21)

test/js/web/fetch/fetch.tls.test.ts:
(pass) fetch-tls > fetch with valid tls and non-native checkServerIdentity that throws should reject [1195.15ms]
(pass) fetch-tls > fetch with rejectUnauthorized: false should not call checkServerIdentity [67.27ms]
(pass) fetch-tls > fetch with valid tls should not throw [1853.07ms]
(pass) fetch-tls > re-derives the Host header and TLS verification hostname from the redirect target on a cross-origin redirect [2044.08ms]
(pass) fetch-tls > can handle multiple requests with non native checkServerIdentity [1919.01ms]
(pass) fetch-tls > fetch with valid tls and non-native checkServerIdentity should work [1866.47ms]
(pass) fetch-tls > client-side TLS session resumption > caches only verified sessions keyed on (host, port) (TLSv1.2) [2893.14ms]
(pass) fetch-tls > client-side TLS session resumption > is disabled by BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_DISABLE_FETCH_TLS_SESSION_CACHE (TLSv1.2) [3421.40ms]
(pass) fetch-tls > fetch with checkServerIdentity rejects 
... (truncated)

release without fix: 3 FAILED
bun test v1.4.1-canary.1 (a647d5b10)

test/js/web/fetch/fetch.tls.test.ts:
(pass) fetch-tls > fetch with checkServerIdentity failing should throw [25.42ms]
(pass) fetch-tls > fetch with self-sign tls should throw [31.27ms]
(pass) fetch-tls > fetch with invalid tls should throw [31.71ms]
(pass) fetch-tls > fetch with checkServerIdentity rejects when connection closes before response headers [58.16ms]
(pass) fetch-tls > fetch with checkServerIdentity rejects when connection closes before response headers (with AbortSignal) [55.38ms]
(pass) fetch-tls > checkServerIdentity approval still transmits the request and round-trips the response [51.65ms]
(pass) fetch-tls > client-side TLS session resumption > is disabled by BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_DISABLE_FETCH_TLS_SESSION_CACHE (TLSv1.2) [74.19ms]
(pass) fetch-tls > fetch with invalid tls + rejectUnauthorized: false should not throw [34.57ms]
(pass) fetch-tls > client-side TLS session resumption > caches only verified sessions keyed on (host, port) (TLSv1.2) [83.77ms]
(pass) fetch-tls > fetch with self-sign certificate tls + rejectUnauthorized: false should not throw [44.11ms]
(pass) fetch-tls > client-side TLS session resumption > 
... (truncated)
passes on PR (with fix)
ASAN with fix: all passed
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/mechgate.xml" test/js/web/fetch/fetch.tls.test.ts
bun test v1.4.1 (4448a2e21)

test/js/web/fetch/fetch.tls.test.ts:
(pass) fetch-tls > fetch with valid tls and non-native checkServerIdentity that throws should reject [1271.05ms]
(pass) fetch-tls > fetch with valid tls should not throw [1925.82ms]
(pass) fetch-tls > can handle multiple requests with non native checkServerIdentity [2001.81ms]
(pass) fetch-tls > fetch with rejectUnauthorized: false should not call checkServerIdentity [151.41ms]
(pass) fetch-tls > re-derives the Host header and TLS verification hostname from the redirect target on a cross-origin redirect [2178.56ms]
(pass) fetch-tls > fetch with valid tls and non-native checkServerIdentity should work [1970.03ms]
(pass) fetch-tls > client-side TLS session resumption > is disabled by BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_DISABLE_FETCH_TLS_SESSION_CACHE (TLSv1.3) [3623.67ms]
(pass) fetch-tls > client-side TLS session resumption > caches only verified sessions keyed on (host, port) (TLSv1.2) [4149.49ms]
(pass) fetch-tls > fetch with checkServerIdentity rejects
... (truncated)

release with fix: all passed
$ bun scripts/build.ts --profile=release
[configured] bun-profile → bun (stripped)
  target       linux-x64-gnu
  build type   Release
  build dir    ./build/release
  revision     717c941416
  features     baseline

23 deps, 131 codegen, 1172 objects in 904ms

ninja: Entering directory `/workspace/bun/build/release'
[1/131] gen ErrorCode+*.h
[2/131] gen bindgenv2
[3/131] gen JSBuffer.lut.h
Generating /workspace/bun/build/release/codegen/JSBuffer.lut.h from /workspace/bun/src/jsc/bindings/JSBuffer.cpp
[4/131] gen NodeModuleModule.lut.h
Generating /workspace/bun/build/release/codegen/NodeModuleModule.lut.h from /workspace/bun/src/jsc/modules/NodeModuleModule.cpp
[5/131] gen generated_host_exports.rs
generated_host_exports.rs: 120 exports (host=5, lazy=10, generic=105, rust=0); 243 extern-C blocks audited
[6/131] gen ZigGeneratedClasses.{cpp,h,rs}
Found 2 classes from /workspace/bun/src/jsc/resolve_message.classes.ts
  - ResolveMessage (15 fields)
  - BuildMessage (10 fields)
Found 1 classes from /workspace/bun/src/runtime/api/Archive.classes.ts
  - Archive (4 fields, 1 class fields)
Found 2 classes from /workspace/bun/src/runtime/api/BunObject.classes.ts
  - Resour
... (truncated)
diff hotspot
docs/runtime/networking/fetch.mdx                  |  33 ++
 packages/bun-types/globals.d.ts                    |  83 ++++
 src/boringssl_sys/boringssl.rs                     |  59 +++
 src/http/HTTPContext.rs                            |  14 +-
 src/http/ProxyTunnel.rs                            |  24 +-
 src/http/lib.rs                                    |  20 +-
 src/http/ssl_config.rs                             |  87 ++++
 src/http/tls_fingerprint.rs                        | 543 +++++++++++++++++++++
 .../websocket_client/WebSocketProxyTunnel.rs       |   1 +
 .../websocket_client/WebSocketUpgradeClient.rs     |   1 +
 src/jsc/bindings/NodeTLS.cpp                       |  12 +
 src/jsc/generated.rs                               | 123 +++++
 src/runtime/socket/SSLConfig.bindv2.ts             |  45 ++
 src/runtime/socket/SSLConfig.rs                    | 118 +++++
 src/uws/lib.rs                                     |   5 +
 src/zstd/lib.rs                                    |   4 +-
 test/js/web/fetch/fetch.tls.test.ts                | 495 +++++++++++++++++++
 17 files changed, 1650 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

gate history · 7 passed · 0 rejected · iteration 2

evidence per changed file
file                                                     reads  edits  tests
docs/runtime/networking/fetch.mdx                            1      2      0
packages/bun-types/globals.d.ts                              1      3      0
src/boringssl_sys/boringssl.rs                               1      6      0
src/http/HTTPContext.rs                                      1      1      0
src/http/ProxyTunnel.rs                                      2      2      0
src/http/lib.rs                                              3      4      0
src/http/ssl_config.rs                                       1      6      0
src/http/tls_fingerprint.rs                                  1      8      0
src/http_jsc/websocket_client/WebSocketProxyTunnel.rs        1      2      0
src/http_jsc/websocket_client/WebSocketUpgradeClient.rs      2      1      0
src/jsc/bindings/NodeTLS.cpp                                 2      4      0
src/jsc/generated.rs                                         3      6      0
src/runtime/socket/SSLConfig.bindv2.ts                       1      2      0
src/runtime/socket/SSLConfig.rs                              4      9      0
src/uws/lib.rs                                               2      1      0
src/zstd/lib.rs                                              2      3      0
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Changes

The PR adds configurable TLS ClientHello fingerprints for fetch, including JA3 parsing, TLS extension controls, certificate compression, ALPS, ECH GREASE, HTTP and proxy wiring, validation tests, and documentation. It also adds cross-platform Ctrl+C handling for foreground child processes.

TLS fingerprint customization

Layer / File(s) Summary
TLS fingerprint contracts and FFI
packages/bun-types/globals.d.ts, src/runtime/socket/SSLConfig.bindv2.ts, src/jsc/generated.rs, src/http/ssl_config.rs, src/boringssl_sys/boringssl.rs, src/jsc/bindings/NodeTLS.cpp
Public TLS options, generated conversions, fingerprint state, configuration hashing, and BoringSSL interfaces support the new settings.
JA3 parsing and ClientHello application
src/http/tls_fingerprint.rs, src/uws/lib.rs, src/zstd/lib.rs
JA3 values are parsed and validated. Fingerprints are applied to SSL contexts and connections. Certificate decompression supports Brotli, zlib, and zstd.
Runtime conversion and HTTP wiring
src/runtime/socket/SSLConfig.rs, src/http/lib.rs, src/http/HTTPContext.rs, src/http/ProxyTunnel.rs, src/http_jsc/websocket_client/*
Runtime options preserve explicit settings over JA3-derived values. Direct, proxied, and WebSocket TLS setup applies the fingerprint before the handshake.
Fetch validation and documentation
test/js/web/fetch/fetch.tls.test.ts, docs/runtime/networking/fetch.mdx
Tests inspect ClientHello records and cover customization, precedence, proxy tunneling, handshakes, and invalid options. Documentation describes supported controls and constraints.

Ctrl+C process handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Foreground child Ctrl+C lifecycle
src/spawn/ctrl_c.rs
The new module installs platform-specific handlers, tracks foreground children, records Ctrl+C events, detects child termination by Ctrl+C, and matches the child’s exit behavior.

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✅ @robobun, your commit 717c941416adcf00baaaeae3313940ee30d73198 passed in Build #104644! 🎉


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- Around line 284-305: Update the TLS 1.2-only branch of the unsent-extension
selection in the JA3 validation logic to include EXT_PRE_SHARED_KEY, matching
BoringSSL behavior. Also add extension 41 to the invalid-JA3 cases in the fetch
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In `@docs/runtime/networking/fetch.mdx`:
- Line 279: Update the networking documentation sentence beginning “Bun uses
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- Around line 1936-1937: Update the declaration comment describing resumed TLS
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CI status. Head 717c941 is the branch rebased onto main (the conflict was in src/jsc/generated.rs, see the Notes in the description) plus the duplicate-id check for ja3. Its build is 104644.

The previous head a647d5b passed every job in build 104574 (181 of 181).

Before that, on 4ef98b5 (build 104559), the two red lanes were not related to this change: a buildkite-agent artifact download timed out after 120s on the biscuit darwin agent (the same agent failed the same way on builds 104547 and 104555), and the test-cpu-prof-name.js segmentation fault on Windows x64, which also happens on main and is reported separately.

The default ClientHello (no fingerprint option) is byte-identical between this branch and the release build. I checked it by capturing the first TLS record with a raw TCP listener, before and after the rebase.

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Automated review ran clean on this revision — no new findings. All earlier inline findings (JA3 parser strictness gaps, dead FFI decl, test hang-on-failure, ecdhCurve: "auto" precedence, session-cache/pre_shared_key note) have been addressed. Given the scope — new user-facing API surface, TLS handshake wiring, and cert-decompression callbacks that process server-controlled data — a human look is still warranted.

What was reviewed:

  • Ja3::parse input-space coverage (version-gated extensions both directions, empty/GREASE-only groups, point-formats/TLS-version tie, TLS 1.3 suite position) — now strict.
  • Cert-decompression callbacks (brotli/zlib/zstd) bounded by the server-declared uncompressed_len; compress_certificate (27) in a TLS 1.2-only JA3 examined and ruled out.
  • Fingerprint folded into SSLConfig hash/equality so context and keep-alive caches keep distinct fingerprints apart; CONNECT-tunnel path applies both ctx- and per-SSL knobs.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

Adds nine tls options to fetch() (ja3, grease, permuteExtensions, certificateCompression, applicationSettings, echGrease, ocspStapling, signedCertificateTimestamps, sessionTickets) that shape the TLS ClientHello for fingerprint control. Core is a new 532-line src/http/tls_fingerprint.rs (JA3 parser + BoringSSL apply steps), plus a Fingerprint struct on SSLConfig (hash/eq/clone updated), FFI surface additions in boringssl_sys, wiring through HTTPContext/ProxyTunnel/configure_http_client_with_alpn, bindgen dictionary + generated.rs plumbing, a small C++ shim for bssl::SSL_set_aes_hw_override_for_testing, docs, types, and a 490-line test block that captures and parses the raw ClientHello. src/spawn/ctrl_c.rs appears in the diff but is not part of this PR (base-commit artifact, confirmed on the thread).

Security risks

The change sits directly in the TLS handshake path. Three cert-decompression callbacks (brotli, zlib, zstd) decode server-controlled bytes; each reserves exactly uncompressed_len and decodes into that spare capacity, so a hostile server cannot inflate past the announced length — a larger frame fails and the callback returns 0. apply_to_ssl runs on every fetch TLS open (with Fingerprint::DEFAULT when no options are set), so the pre-existing SCT/OCSP behavior is preserved. The JA3 parser is strict-decimal and length-bounded, so no untrusted-input arithmetic risk. No auth, permission, or credential-handling code is touched.

Level of scrutiny

High. This is new public API surface (naming, defaults, error shapes are user-visible and hard to change later), it modifies the shared SSL-config interning key, it uses a BoringSSL _for_testing symbol in production, and TLS-fingerprint spoofing is a use case with abuse potential that a maintainer should sign off on. The REVIEW.md "API design" section applies. None of that is a code defect — it is exactly the kind of design surface that should not land on bot approval alone.

Other factors

This PR has already been through five rounds of automated review on this thread; every finding (TLS 1.3 suite position, version-gated extensions in both directions, empty/GREASE-only groups, point-formats field, TLS 1.2-only 41/42/44, dead FFI decl, dead !ja3.groups.is_empty() guard, .catch(() => {}) hang, ecdhCurve: "auto" precedence, session-cache pre_shared_key documentation) was fixed in a follow-up commit and is covered by a test case. The 37-test block passes on ASAN and release, and fails on the released bun. The one candidate this run (extension 27 in a TLS 1.2-only JA3) was verified to be sent on the wire — BoringSSL gates compress_certificate on min_version, not max_version.

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The automated review has no open findings on 4ef98b5, and all earlier review threads are resolved. The PR is ready for a maintainer review. The CI state is in the comment above: the two red lanes are an agent download timeout and a pre-existing crash on main, neither in the files this PR changes.

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The "Ctrl+C process handling" section of the walkthrough is no longer accurate, and my earlier explanation for that file was wrong. src/spawn/ctrl_c.rs was in this PR's diff: commit ce03a63 committed a stray copy of the file that #39729 added to main. The copy was byte-identical to main's and nothing on this branch declared the module. Commit a647d5b removes it. The PR now changes 17 files, all of them part of the TLS fingerprint work.

Comment thread src/http/tls_fingerprint.rs
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Let fetch shape its TLS ClientHello. A `ja3` string sets the cipher
suite order, the supported groups, the version bounds and the
extension toggles it lists. Each knob is also an explicit option:
grease, permuteExtensions, certificateCompression, applicationSettings,
echGrease, ocspStapling, signedCertificateTimestamps, sessionTickets.

The parse is strict: a cipher suite, group or extension that BoringSSL
cannot send throws a TypeError. The options ride on the existing
SSLConfig and force a custom SSL_CTX; the fetch client applies the
context-wide settings when it builds that context and the
per-connection settings before each handshake, for direct connections
and for CONNECT tunnels alike.
…NGSSL_NO_CXX

The Windows build compiles Bun's C++ with BORINGSSL_NO_CXX, which hides
the extern "C++" block of ssl.h where this function lives. The symbol
is still in the library, so declare it locally.
…only

BoringSSL writes the three TLS 1.3 suites before the configured cipher
list and always writes 0x0303 as the legacy version, so a string that
puts a TLS 1.2 suite before them, or names another version, cannot be
reproduced on the wire. Reject both instead of sending a different
fingerprint.

Also: drop the unused SSL_CIPHER_get_kx_nid declaration, wire the
CONNECT test's error path to the awaited promise, ignore the padding
extension when comparing shuffled extension sets (BoringSSL appends it
whenever the shuffle leaves an empty extension last), and shorten
comments.
supported_groups, signature_algorithms and ALPN are always on the wire,
ec_point_formats, extended_master_secret and renegotiation_info whenever
TLS 1.2 is offered, supported_versions, psk_key_exchange_modes and
key_share whenever TLS 1.3 is. A string without them would produce a
superset of its extension set, so it is a TypeError now.
Also buffer the CONNECT request to its blank line in the tunnel test,
document the spare-capacity contract of zstd decompress_append and drop
the two TLS version constants nothing reads anymore.
…pty group list

A TLS 1.2-only string cannot list 43, 45, 51, 65037 or ALPS; a TLS 1.3-only
string cannot list 11, 23, 35 or 65281. A groups field with no real entry
would fall back to the default group list.
BoringSSL sends ec_point_formats (always 0) only when TLS 1.2 is offered,
so the field must be 0 then and empty for a TLS 1.3-only string. Also
route the tunnel test's fetch rejection to the capture promise.
Also soften the docs claim and scope the resumption note to TLS 1.3.
A ClientHello carries each cipher suite, extension and group at most
once, so a repeated id is a fingerprint BoringSSL cannot reproduce.
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Rebased onto main and force-pushed (head 717c941). The one conflict was in src/jsc/generated.rs: #40238 made bun_core::String own its WTF ref, so the Drop impls this branch had added for the new string fields are gone and the GenOpt::get() calls on string fields are now as_ref(). The rebase also drops the stray src/spawn/ctrl_c.rs from the diff for good, so the walkthrough's "Ctrl+C process handling" section no longer applies. The PR changes 17 files.

Also in this push: a JA3 field that lists the same id twice now throws (ciphers lists 49195 more than once), with three rows in the invalid-JA3 table. fetch.tls.test.ts passes with the debug build (79 tests).

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I reviewed this PR and the automated bug hunt found no new issues on 717c941; every earlier finding (missing/unsent/version-gated extensions, empty groups, pointFormats, duplicate ids, ecdhCurve: "auto" precedence, the session-cache/pre_shared_key note) has been addressed. Because this is a ~1,650-line feature adding new user-facing tls API surface, hand-written #[repr(C)] bindgen extern layouts, and TLS-handshake / certificate-decompression paths — plus a production dependency on BoringSSL's SSL_set_aes_hw_override_for_testing — a maintainer sign-off is still warranted.

What was reviewed:

  • Ja3::parse input space: version, cipher order/TLS1.3 constraints, required/unsent/duplicate extensions, groups, pointFormats — each direction now rejects what BoringSSL cannot reproduce.
  • Fingerprint in SSLConfig hash/equality so the interned-config and SSL_CTX caches key on it; requires_custom_request_ctx set for any non-default fingerprint.
  • Decompression callbacks bound output by the server-announced uncompressed_len (brotli/zlib/zstd all fail closed on size mismatch or decode error).
  • apply_to_ssl_ctx/apply_to_ssl wiring covers direct fetch, CONNECT tunnel, and leaves WebSocket at None (default behavior unchanged).
Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR adds nine new tls options to fetch (ja3, grease, permuteExtensions, certificateCompression, applicationSettings, echGrease, ocspStapling, signedCertificateTimestamps, sessionTickets) that shape the TLS ClientHello for JA3/JA4 fingerprint control. It introduces a new 543-line module src/http/tls_fingerprint.rs (JA3 parser + BoringSSL apply steps + brotli/zlib/zstd cert-decompression callbacks), ~60 lines of new BoringSSL FFI declarations, a Fingerprint struct threaded through SSLConfig's hash/equality/clone, hand-written #[repr(C)] extern union layouts in src/jsc/generated.rs for two new bindgen unions, a C++ shim in NodeTLS.cpp wrapping bssl::SSL_set_aes_hw_override_for_testing, a signature change to configure_http_client_with_alpn (four call sites), and ~490 lines of tests that parse the raw ClientHello off a TCP listener. 17 files, ~1,650 insertions.

Security risks

The certificate-decompression callbacks (decompress_brotli/decompress_zlib/decompress_zstd) process server-controlled compressed data during the TLS handshake. Each reserves exactly uncompressed_len bytes (server-announced, capped by BoringSSL at 64KB per RFC 8879), decodes into that spare capacity only, and finish_decompression rejects any output whose length differs from uncompressed_len — so a malicious server cannot inflate more than it declared, and a truncated/oversized frame fails closed (returns 0). Allocation failure returns 0 rather than aborting. The JA3 parser validates every id against BoringSSL's known set before use and rejects duplicates, so no untrusted string reaches SSL_CTX_set_cipher_list/set1_groups_list unfiltered. The fingerprint options only reduce or reorder what the client offers relative to defaults (except GREASE/ALPS/ECH-grease/cert-compression, which are additive but standard); they cannot disable certificate verification. I did not find an injection, bypass, or memory-safety issue here, but this is TLS-handshake code and warrants maintainer eyes.

Level of scrutiny

High. This is new user-facing API (the REVIEW.md "API design" situational section applies), it touches the TLS handshake path for every fingerprinted fetch, it adds hand-written ABI-sensitive extern struct layouts that must match the C++ bindgen output byte-for-byte, and it takes a production dependency on a BoringSSL symbol named _for_testing (used to pin the TLS 1.3 suite order machine-independently). Those are exactly the kinds of design/naming/stability calls a maintainer should ratify. The PR author's own status comment says it is "ready for a maintainer review," and coderabbit's suggested reviewers include Jarred-Sumner.

Other factors

Six prior automated review passes (mine and coderabbit's) iteratively closed every gap in the JA3 parser's "cannot reproduce ⇒ throw" contract; all threads are resolved and each fix has a test row. The default (no fingerprint option) path is unchanged: Fingerprint::DEFAULT keeps ocsp_stapling/signed_cert_timestamps on and everything else off, so apply_to_ssl on the default reproduces exactly the two calls the old code made unconditionally, and is_default() keeps requires_custom_request_ctx false so the shared SSL context is still used. Test coverage is thorough (37 tests including CONNECT tunnel and a real handshake), ASAN passes, and the CI reds on the previous head were unrelated infra/pre-existing failures. None of that changes the fact that a ~1,650-line TLS feature with new public API should have a human maintainer approve it.

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…ps, WebSocket, SQL) (#44618)

### What does this PR do?

Consolidates the open TLS pull requests into one. Each was reproduced on
`main` and, for `node:*` behavior, on Node v26.3.0 first. About a third
are ported as written, the rest are rewritten smaller or merged into one
fix where several PRs patched the same cause. One commit per fix, so it
can be read commit by commit.

Fixes #43520, fixes #31396, fixes #43635, fixes #37193, fixes #43846,
fixes #17932, fixes #41061, fixes #36887, fixes #31810, fixes #35240,
fixes #32234, fixes #44365, fixes #43807, fixes #42280, fixes #44517.
Addresses #41856 (SNI and `servername`; not `checkServerIdentity` for
SQL), #24845 (the spin is gone, shown with fault injection on Linux; not
run on macOS), #19754 (node-fetch forwards the agent's TLS options; the
Kubernetes client itself was not run).

#### The ones that matter most

| | On `main` | PRs |
|---|---|---|
| Client certificate disclosure | `https.request()` with a client
certificate sends it to a server it then refuses (wrong name,
`checkServerIdentity`, `destroy()` in `'secureConnect'`, `terminate()`
in `handshake`). A server can force it with a junk record behind its
Finished | #43946 |
| False `authorized` | Over a Duplex, `secureConnect` with `authorized
=== true` for a peer that failed the key proof; `secureConnect` for a
plaintext peer with `rejectUnauthorized: false` | #44422, #32929 |
| Cleartext https | `https.createServer()` without a usable key/cert
answers plain HTTP | #41672, #33539 |
| Revoked client certificates | An https mTLS server never sees `crl`,
so a revoked client is `authorized` | #41641 |
| Pooled sockets | Requests with different client certificates or CAs
share an `https.Agent` socket and session | #42498 |
| Silent plaintext | `tls: [...]` given to `Bun.listen` / `Bun.connect`
is plain TCP | #41490 |
| Server weakened by a client knob | `NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED=0`
turns off a server's client-certificate enforcement | #35245 |
| Pins never checked | `WebSocket` never calls `tls.checkServerIdentity`
and ignores `tls.serverName` | #41648 |
| `verify-full` dropped | `PGSSLMODE=verify-*` is lost next to a `TLS_*`
URL variable; `tls: true` sends no SNI | #44498 |
| Crashes | use-after-free from `destroy()` in `ALPNCallback` over a
Duplex; `abort()` on a late `setSession()`; SIGABRT in `fetch` with an
https proxy from the environment and a `Bun.file()` body | #44462,
#41671, #44458 |
| Stream corruption | A TLS `write()` can lose 16 KiB it reported as
written while another socket on the loop is stalled | #44529 |
| Hangs and spins | 100% CPU on a failing `send()`; a fatal `SSL_write`
leaves the socket open forever; `idleTimeout` never sheds a TLS client
that ignores `close_notify` | #34510, #38176, #42336 |
| Wrong certificate (regression since 1.3.14) | Connections accepted
before `stop()` / `close()` get the default certificate and skip their
entry's `requestCert` / `ca` | #42355 |
| Quadratic Duplex / proxy tunnel | Reading one chunk over a Duplex,
CPU: 8 MB 0.88 s → 0.14 s, 16 MB 3.18 s → 0.23 s, 32 MB 11.75 s → 0.39
s; `fetch` upload through CONNECT: 1.7 s → 0.18 s (debug build) | #44464
|

#### By area

- **fd engine, write path** (`openssl.c`, `socket.c`): #42352, #34510 +
#38176 + #42336 as one change, #44529, #44458, #44192. A rejected
`send()` ends the write side only and closes at the next writable event
unless the peer's bytes are still queued (a 413 sent before a reset is
still read). No new per-socket state. Also, on kqueue, **a FIN no longer
ends a socket that waits in the low-priority queue** (`loop.c`): with
more than 5 TLS handshakes at once, a client that ended right after its
handshake could be reset and its server socket report `socket hang up`,
because the eof that the sentinel read knote reports was acted on ahead
of the unread Finished. That is on `main` too (the macOS entry for
`node-tls-server.test.ts` in `test/flaky-tests.txt`: 7 of 48 recent
builds of other branches), and this branch made it likelier (6 of 8
builds), since Finished now leaves in one segment with the close_notify.
- **Error reporting, both engines**: #44422, #32929, #44516, #37094,
#41272 + #42324 + #44223 as one change, #44021, #37472, #43946, #33630.
One channel: a fatal error on an established session is reported, then
**the engine closes the connection itself**, whatever the owner does
with the report. `test/js/bun/net/tls-fatal-error-closes.test.ts`
asserts closed-and-nothing-delivered for every owner (node:tls,
`Bun.connect`, `Bun.listen`, `fetch` direct and through CONNECT,
`Bun.serve`, `WebSocket` direct and through a proxy, Postgres, MySQL,
Valkey, Duplex).
- **Duplex engine** (`SSLWrapper`, `UpgradedDuplex`): #44462, #43529,
#42332, #44464. #43877 + #44394 were in and are **out again**, see
"Worth a look" 5.
- **node:tls wrap lifecycle** (`net.ts`, `tls.ts`): #38007, #38058,
#38028 + #38122 + #38076 as one change (six copies of the attach code
become two helpers), #38311, #39008, #38154, #42340 + #42343 + #42339 +
#42453 as one change, #43791, #42425, #44085, #42683, #39088, #39040,
#40375, and what was still real of #36534.
- **SNI, ALPN, server contexts**: #43080, #42050, #37195 + #43849 as one
change (**one** SNI matcher for TCP and HTTP/3), #42355, #42285, #33253,
part of #37896, part of #37013. A `tls.Server` has one `SSL_CTX`.
- **Verification and options**: #44738, #41490, #37005 + the cwd pin of
#40984, #31811, #43982, #33483 + #35245, #41810, #32235, #44441, #38092.
- **node:tls API and CA store**: #41671, #38145, #32824, #43594, #39997,
#41696, #33534, #34748, #42991, #42996, #42970.
- **node:https, Agent, `ws`, node-fetch**: #41672 (https half), #41641,
#38261, #42498, #44346, #35609, #31397, #42325.
- **WebSocket client**: #41648, #37487 + #43048 as one change.
- **SQL, Redis**: #33666, #41711, #44498, part of #42054.
- **Tests only**: #41426, #40040, #44395, #44016, #37860, #40591,
#44440, #41424.

Found on the way and fixed here: an upload that a TLS 1.2 server
interrupts with a renegotiation never completes on `main` (0 of 32 runs
over `https.request`, `fetch`, `node:tls` and `Bun.connect`: the
renegotiation ClientHello lands inside an application record that is
still unsent, or the socket gets no `drain` again) and completes here,
with two tests from robobun; the fix for #40653 (final flight and first
write in one segment) stopped working whenever another TLS socket on the
loop was stalled, on `main` too; the `tls.Server` prototype pinned the
last server constructed and every `SSL_CTX` it owned;
`Object.create(process.env).NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED = "0"` turned
verification off process-wide once a `SHARE_ENV` worker existed; two
debug panics when wrapping a shut-down or still-connecting socket; a
`fetch` POST through a proxy sent its headers twice when the origin
renegotiated; `BlockList` ignored IPv6 zone ids; a test now ties
`root_certs.der` to `certdata.txt`.

#### Behavior changes

- **A server's `ca` without `requestCert` no longer asks for a client
certificate** (`Bun.serve`, `Bun.listen`, HTTP/3, node:tls). It matches
the docs and Node. On `main` such a server refused clients with no
certificate but served any unrelated self-signed one, so it was never
authentication. **Set `requestCert: true` to require a certificate.** A
matrix test pins that `requestCert: true` still refuses no certificate
and an untrusted one on 8 kinds of server, TLS 1.2 and 1.3, with
`NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED` unset and `0`.
- `NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED=0` no longer relaxes a server.
- `Bun.connect` / `Bun.listen` hear of a fatal TLS error after the
handshake through `error(socket, err)`. With no `error` handler the
socket just closes.
- HTTP/3 server names match like TCP: `*.` covers exactly one label,
case is ignored, a trailing dot is ignored, the last registration of a
name wins.
- `requestCert` on node:https is `=== true`, as in Node.
- An array where a generated options dictionary is expected throws
(`tls: []`, `jest.useFakeTimers([])`).
- `key` / `cert` arrays serve every identity. A client that can use both
gets ECDSA, where `main` served whichever pair came last.
- `ecdhCurve` is forwarded by node:https, `ws` and node-fetch now, so a
group BoringSSL lacks (`X448`) throws there as it already does in
`tls.createServer`.
- A wrapped socket's error is re-emitted on the TLS socket as in Node,
so `raw.destroy(err)` with a listener on `raw` only is uncaught, as in
Node.
- `sql.options.tls` is always an object, never `true`. `RedisClient`
sends SNI.
- `tls: { secureContext }` alone asks for TLS on `Bun.listen` /
`Bun.connect` (it was plain TCP), and a value that is not a
`SecureContext` throws. The context is served as it is: the
`requestCert` / `rejectUnauthorized` it was created with hold whatever
the options next to it say, and `requestCert` in the options over a
context that does not ask throws at `listen()`.
- `tls.DEFAULT_CIPHERS` reaches every client once assigned (`fetch`,
`WebSocket`, `Bun.connect`, `RedisClient`, `Bun.SQL`, `S3Client`, proxy
tunnels) and servers again. A list that selects no cipher throws
`ERR_SSL_NO_CIPHER_MATCH` at the assignment. `fetch.preconnect()` dials
nothing after an assignment.
- The warning for an unreadable `NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS` is Node's one
line, without the `warn:` prefix.
- `BUN_CONFIG_WS_CLOSE_TIMEOUT` (default 30 s): how long a `WebSocket`
client waits for the server to close the connection after the closing
handshake.

#### Worth a look in review

1. **#44529**: the kernel-refused remainder of a TLS write moves from
the loop's one slot onto the connection (in the existing rare struct),
so the write BIO never refuses a sealed record. Nothing is allocated on
an unstalled path (200 writes: 0 appends, same `send()` count as
`main`), memory with 16 stalled writers is lower than on `main` (276 KB
vs 340 KB, which `main` holds inside BoringSSL's buffers), `us_socket_t`
stays 80 bytes. It needs a bound on how long a deferred close waits, or
a peer that stops reading pins the fd past `destroy()`:
`US_SSL_CLOSE_AFTER_SPILL_TIMEOUT` is a fixed 10 s, not re-armed on
progress. Separate commits, but the fix that keeps the client
certificate off the wire beside a stalled socket builds on them.
2. **The default name check of node:tls also runs inside the
handshake**, so a wrong-name server gets no client certificate on TLS
1.2 either. JS still runs it after every successful handshake, so a
difference between the two matchers can only refuse. Error objects are
byte-identical.
3. **#44441** widens trust by design: a self-issued leaf whose
`keyUsage` lacks `keyCertSign` (`dotnet dev-certs`) is its own anchor
when the store holds a byte-identical copy. No BoringSSL change. Expired
pin, same subject with another key, wrong EKU and a pinned intermediate
are tested to fail.
4. **#32235** only adds Ed25519 and ECDSA P-521 to the verify list. A
captured ClientHello shows `main`'s list with the two inserted;
`rsa_pkcs1_sha1` stays.

5. **A stream that a TLS socket wraps, when that TLS socket closes.** An
earlier state of this branch lost data here while CI was green (found by
#44709's report): with the peer closing first, 4 of 8 MiB arrived with
TLS in TLS, 4 of 32 MiB on the http2 `emit("connection")` path, and a
`write()` with no `'error'` listener ended the process. Three
Node-parity changes only hold together: destroying the wrapped stream at
the close (#38028 + #38122 + #38076, #38154) is safe only if every write
has really completed (#43877), which in turn needs Node's handling of
the peer's close_notify, which needs half-open sockets that the GC can
collect. So:
- #43877 + #44394 are reverted and reopened. A write over a stream
completes once the stream has taken the ciphertext, as on `main`.
- Until the verdict on the peer lets the session through, the
application cannot have written over it. There the wrapped stream is
destroyed as in Node, with the sessions below it. That keeps the release
of the connection after a failed handshake, a rejected certificate and
an early `destroy()`. The same for an http2 socket the application never
got, and for `resetAndDestroy()`.
- After that it is `main`'s teardown: a `net.Socket` only gets the
engine's `end()`, closes at its peer's FIN, keeps its own timeout and
reports its own errors. Any other stream is destroyed with the TLS
socket.

The regular suites cannot see any of this (999 files were green on every
broken variant), so it was steered by eleven seeded differential fuzzers
run on this build, `main`, Node v26.3.0 and the earlier state: close,
`end()`, `destroy()`, `destroySoon()`, resets, hung and half-open peers,
paused writers, timeouts, two and three sessions deep, over TCP and over
Duplexes, before, at and after the handshake, and http2 requests. See
"How did you verify".

#### Known limits

- `fetch` with a `checkServerIdentity` function still sends the client
certificate (not the request) to a server the function refuses. On TLS
1.2 any verdict a JS callback gives is too late, as in Node.
- `addContext()` / `SNICallback` still do not apply to a server-side
socket on the stream engine (`emit("connection", duplex)`, TLS in TLS,
unflushed writes, named pipes), as on `main`.
- A CA bundled in a pfx extends an explicit `ca` only, for `ws` /
node-fetch / `WebSocket`: the native `ca` can only replace the default
store, and that store keeps `SSL_CERT_FILE` / `SSL_CERT_DIR`.
- P-521 leaves work on TLS 1.3 only. TLS 1.2 needs secp521r1 in every
ClientHello (`it.todo`).
- Once `tls.DEFAULT_CIPHERS` is assigned, `fetch(url, { protocol:
"http3" })` is `HTTP3Unsupported`, as with an explicit `ciphers`.
- `addCACert()` by hand does not extend the chains of a context with
several identities.
- A throwing `ALPNCallback` sends `no_application_protocol` on both
engines. Node sends nothing and its client sees `ECONNRESET`.
- TLS in TLS, peer FIN while the outer handshake runs: the inner socket
gets one `write EPIPE`, where Node gives `ECONNRESET` (`main` gives it
no error at all).
- `@SECLEVEL` in `ciphers` is dropped by the `ws` / node-fetch shims,
which used to ignore `ciphers`. node:tls keeps throwing
`ERR_SSL_INVALID_COMMAND`.
- Beside a stalled TLS socket only the first record (16 KiB) of the
first write leaves with the handshake flight. The rest goes record by
record, which is what bounds the memory of stalled writers.
- After a fatal error on an established session the socket emits
`'error'` and then `'close'`. Node emits `'error'` and leaves the socket
open.
- A paused reader whose own write the kernel rejects loses what it had
not read yet, with an `EPIPE`, as on Node. `main` reports no error there
and delivers it.
- On `main` too: a `Bun.listen` socket without `allowHalfOpen` that has
unsent ciphertext when the client's `shutdown()` arrives loses that
ciphertext (32 KiB), and over plain TCP `end()` with the peer still
sending is a close over unread input, so a reset.
- Differences from both `main` and Node that the differential runs below
found and that stay, all with a peer that aborts: `ECONNRESET` instead
of a clean `'end'` after the socket's own `'finish'` when the peer
destroyed with unread data; under TLS 1.2, a zero-length `write()`
followed by `destroy()` in `'secureConnection'` leaves the client
without `'secureConnect'` (a plain `destroy()` there matches Node); a
TLS 1.2 client that destroys in `'secureConnect'` gets no `'session'`; a
`ClientRequest` whose handshake fails with an alert emits `'error'` and
`'close'` but no `'finish'` (`writableFinished` is true).
- Once `tls.DEFAULT_CIPHERS` is assigned, `fetch.preconnect()` opens
nothing: `fetch()` then uses a context of its own, and a socket warmed
under the default one would never be picked up.
- A TLS `send()` that the kernel refuses outside a `write()` call (the
drain of unsent ciphertext) is reported with the close, as `read EPIPE`
/ `read ECONNRESET`. Node says `write EPIPE`. `main` does not report it
at all.
- Once the application has a session over a `net.Socket` (TLS in TLS,
http2 `emit("connection")`), a peer that never sends its FIN holds that
socket after the TLS socket closed, as on `main`. Node destroys it. Two
tests of #38154 are `todo` for this. Closing it any earlier (at its
`'finish'`, say) makes the kernel drop what it has not sent yet as soon
as the peer's close_notify arrives.
- Plaintext that was queued on a socket before it was wrapped (STARTTLS
with a backlog) is dropped when the TLS socket is destroyed, or its
handshake fails, before the session is accepted. Node drops it too,
except on `destroySoon()`. `main` sends it.
- Over a stream that is no `net.Socket`, `end()` can still cut what that
stream has buffered, and there is no backpressure, both as on `main`
(#43877).
- `tls.secureContext` (the undocumented door node:tls uses) is not read
by a Windows named pipe listener, which builds its context from the
options. On `upgradeTLS({ isServer: true })` the options next to it are
the policy, as with Node's `SetVerifyMode`.
- `selectServerName()` rebuilds the name tree per ClientHello for
injected sockets of a server with `addContext()` entries: 0.4 µs for 1
entry, 3.7 µs for 10, 41 µs for 100, against 631–1111 µs for a
handshake.

#### Not included

Left open, because they need a decision or are not TLS: #43877 + #44394
(see "Worth a look" 5; #43874 stays open with them), #38548, #38591
(both shrink who is trusted), #41589 (`verify-full` vs
`NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED=0`), #37197, #41706, #43216, #33487,
#33545, #36707, #32435, #37255, #28691, #40275, #30314 (features),
#38120 (needs the BoringSSL fork, as did #33517, which the stale bot has
closed since), #38529 (needs a Windows measurement), #34342, #38232,
#43089, #44454, #40451, #42710, #44527, #38088, #38093, #41898. #37896,
#42054 and #37013 stay open for the halves not taken.
`http.createServer({ key, cert })` keeps serving TLS on purpose.

One open question: `tls: {}` (an object that names no TLS option) is
plain TCP on `Bun.listen` / `Bun.connect`, here and on `main`. It is the
same trap as `tls: []`, but changing it changes a Bun default, so it is
left alone.

### How did you verify your code works?

- Every new test fails on `main` for the stated reason and passes here,
except guards that pin existing behavior, each shown to fail when its
clause is removed. `node:*` tests also pass on Node v26.3.0; the few
that cannot say which Node version has the behavior.
- 212 test files that touch TLS, sockets, http, http2, fetch, WebSocket,
SQL, Valkey and workers: 6154 pass, 2 fail. Both are seen on `main` too:
`serve.test.ts` "root range port" (the box runs as root), and
`worker_threads.test.ts` "terminate(): nothing of the worker's runs
after the request", which is flaky there and passed in the run below.
- 58 of those files the way the ASAN lane runs them (LeakSanitizer +
`BUN_JSC_validateExceptionChecks`): 58 files, 48 of them with leak
checking, 4132 pass, 3 fail. All three also fail on `main`:
`serve.test.ts` "root range port", `node-net.test.ts` "should not leak
when connect({path}) fails synchronously on a reused handle" (times out
under this environment), `worker_threads.test.ts` "process.exit() with a
shell cp in flight" (a `ShellCpTask` leak).
- 647 vendored `test-tls-*`, `test-https-*`, `test-net-*`,
`test-http2-*`: the only two failures also fail on `main`.
- The SNI matcher was diffed against both old matchers: 3 seeds × 1.23 M
lookups × 3 registration flavours, every difference in one of the
intended classes, TCP and HTTP/3 identical on every lookup.
- The headline rows were also driven by hand with scripts against this
build, `main` and Node v26.3.0: cleartext https, `crl`, `tls: []` / `{
secureContext }`, the `ca` / `requestCert` matrix, the client
certificate on a wrong-name server, late `setSession()`, `destroy()` in
`ALPNCallback`, `[rsa, ec]` identities with an intermediate from `ca`,
`WebSocket` `checkServerIdentity`, a corrupted record, the Duplex read
above, `tls.DEFAULT_CIPHERS`.
- The `setSession()` guard was checked against the real `abort()` at 43
handshake states.
- `bun run rust:check-all`: 12 of 12 targets. `tsc`, oxlint, source
lints, prettier, rustfmt, mordant clean.
- usockets' `_Nonnull` is compiled out of debug builds, so 105 of those
files were also run on a local release ASAN build with the CI runner's
environment (92 with leak checking): 4595 pass, 1 fail,
`child_process.test.ts` "spawn reports EPERM after dropping privileges",
which cannot pass as root and fails on `main` too.
- The close of a TLS socket over another stream ("Worth a look" 5):
eleven seeded differential fuzzers, 8,424 scenarios compared, each run
on a release ASAN build of this branch, on `main`, on Node v26.3.0 and
on the earlier state of the branch. Against `main`:
- Data that `main` delivers in full is cut in 5 scenarios, and about 150
that `main` cuts arrive in full. Of the 5, in 2 `main` never notices the
peer's close and keeps the socket for good, 2 call `end()` on the middle
one of three sessions over an in-memory Duplex, and 1 does the same on
Node.
- No dead timeout, no silent reset and no uncaught error that `main`
does not have (4 uncaught errors fewer).
- A socket stays open where `main` closes it in 109, and closes where
`main` keeps it in 295. 92 of the 109 do the same on Node or on the
earlier state (a `destroy()` that an in-memory Duplex does not show its
peer, half-open peers). 14 wait for a peer that paused reading and so
does not read the FIN (#42332's backpressure, as in Node); the socket's
own timeout fires there. 3 are left: one on a 5 ms timer, two with three
sessions over an in-memory Duplex.
- The earlier state of the branch cut data in 173 of the 400 scenarios
of one of them, where `main` cuts none and this cuts none.
- 23 new tests pin what they found. Each earlier attempt at this fix
fails the ones that describe it, the earlier state of the branch fails
7, and all pass on Node.
- After that change: 999 test files on the release ASAN build (20,246
pass; the 11 files that fail need a database, Docker, DNS or a non-root
user, or share a temp directory with a parallel run and pass alone), 61
on the debug build.
- TLS over a file descriptor (`openssl.c`, the path of `fetch`,
`Bun.serve`, `tls.connect`, `Bun.connect`) got the same treatment after
the rebase: seeded differential fuzzers on CI's release build of this
branch, on `main` and, for `node:*`, on Node v26.3.0. Every runtime also
against itself for the noise floor, injected faults and known bugs of
`main` as positive controls, and a difference counts only if it shows in
5 of 5 fresh processes.
- `node:tls` over TCP: 11,500 scenarios (one connection with Node as the
oracle line by line; 2 to 60 connections beside stalled neighbours; raw
peers that break the handshake). HTTPS: about 136,000 runs over
`Bun.serve` + `fetch`, `node:https`, `node:http2` and `wss://`, also
with the two ends in different runtimes. `Bun.connect` / `Bun.listen` /
`upgradeTLS`: 11,500 scenarios and 720 slow connections, with writers
driven by what `write()` returns, beside up to 6 stalled, dripping,
closing or resetting neighbours, and plain TCP as a second oracle. No
crash, hang, duplication, reordering or silent truncation, and no change
in time or in connection reuse.
- They found six things that `main` does better, none of which any test
showed. All are fixed, each with a test that fails on the build before:
what the peer sent lost behind a rejected `send()` (23 scenarios, and an
early HTTPS response lost with only `EPIPE`), the same silently for a
paused reader, `server.close()` never calling back on a half-open server
after a ClientHello and a reset (17), `closeAllConnections()` taking 12
s with a stalled client, `end()` losing up to 1.3 of 4 MiB that
`write()` had reported while the peer still uploads, and `end()` a
little after a stall never closing beside other stalled TLS sockets. The
last two fixes also deliver the 1 to 2 MiB that `main` loses there, and
close the socket that `main` keeps for good without such neighbours.
- All of them again after every fix, on CI's release build of it. That
caught one regression of a fix itself (a reader stopped for backpressure
lost 86,385 bytes, 1 of 6,000 scenarios), fixed too. On the last build:
scenarios that lose data where `main` does not 23 → 2, and Node loses it
in both, with the same `EPIPE`; `server.close()` that never calls back
17 → 0; connections held 4 → 0; requests that end in an error only where
`main` has a response 6 → 0. With a Node server in another process, a
request ends in an error only in 8 and 10 of 1,500 scenarios here, 5 and
3 on `main`, 10 with Node as the client.
- `Bun.connect` / `Bun.listen` on the last build against `main`, in
scenarios: hangs 0 against 1,031, sockets and fds never released 0
against 965, corrupted data 0 against 345, `abort()` 0 against 26
(`setSession()` after the handshake), writers that never close 0 against
101 of 720 connections. No kind of failure shows here and not on `main`.
About a third of the slow connections close later than on `main`, in 1
to 16 s instead of at once, waiting for unsent ciphertext or for the
peer's close_notify, and 79 more of them deliver all that `write()`
reported. RSS and time with 16 to 256 stalled writers are the same.
- What they found that `main` does worse: a `WebSocket` that calls
`close()` with sends pending loses messages in 81 of 999 scenarios (0
here), 37 server sockets left open, 10 `server.close()` that never call
back, 20 write callbacks that never run.
- The kqueue fix cannot be run on Linux. The `connectionListener` count
test now says what became of a missing connection, which is how the
cause was found (`'tlsClientError'` "socket hang up", then `read
ECONNRESET` at the client of the same port, after its
`'secureConnect'`). On macOS x64 it failed every attempt of the three
builds before the fix and passed at the first attempt of the build with
it.
- Windows and macOS were only run by CI. Four new tests asserted what
only the Linux kernel does (a FIN read ahead of a reset, unread bytes
surviving a reset, loopback buffer sizes, `fstat()` on a socket) and now
say so per platform.

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