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Fixes #33082

Problem

  • Bun.serve({ http3: true }) resets a request with Expect: 100-continue when it is the first request of a QUIC connection: HTTP3StreamReset. A response with no body (204, "") hangs.
  • lsquic holds one outgoing header block per stream. On a new connection it stashes the 100 block and refuses the final block: cannot send headers while previous header block is pending (-1, errno EAGAIN).
  • sendBufferedHeaders (packages/bun-uws/src/Http3Response.h:206) drops that result and clears the header buffer. The body follows the 100 with no final HEADERS.

Fix

  • us_quic_stream_send_headers returns US_QUIC_SEND_HEADERS_RETRY for the refusal. It clears errno first, because the UDP socket leaves stale EAGAIN values.
  • Http3Response keeps the refused block and sets headersDeferred. Body bytes wait in backpressure, a FIN waits in endAfterDrain. drain() sends the block first.
  • Correct because lsquic calls on_write only after it wrote the stashed block, so the wire order is 100, final HEADERS, DATA. The lsquic API reference asks for this.
  • Verified: test/js/bun/http/serve-http3.test.ts, 10 new cases. Main 55c1106 without the fix fails 9. Also fetch-http3-*, serve-protocols, quic-stream.

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Notes

Why the 100 block is stashed. The client's SETTINGS and its first request arrive in one flight. lsquic handles SETTINGS, creates the outgoing QPACK encoder stream and queues its 1 type byte. The request handler runs in the same read pass, before any write event. lsquic_qeh_write_headers sees the queued byte and returns QWH_PARTIAL, so send_headers_ietf stashes the block (SSHS_ENC_SENDING). A warm connection has flushed the encoder stream, so the 100 goes out inline and nothing is refused.

lsquic debug log, server side, unfixed main:

qenc-hdl: wrote 1 bytes to frab list
qenc-hdl: encoded `:status': `100' -- 2 bytes to header block, 0 bytes to encoder stream
qenc-hdl: not all 0 bytes of encoder stream written out; 1 bytes buffered; header block is 2 bytes
stream: stashed 4 bytes of header block
[INFO] stream: cannot send headers while previous header block is pending
stream: still sending headers: no writing allowed
stream: encoder stream bytes have all been sent
stream: header block written out successfully      <- the 100; the body follows as DATA

With this PR the same log continues with begin encoding headers for stream 0, encoded `:status': `200', wrote all 31 bytes of header block, then the DATA frame.

Contract. vendor/lsquic/docs/apiref.rst (lsquic_stream_send_headers): a second call before the pending block is flushed "fails with -1 and sets errno to EAGAIN", and applications that send "an informational response followed by the final response, should serialize those calls and retry after LSQUIC has flushed the previous header block". lsquic_stream_wantwrite only saves the flag while a block is pending, and on_write_header_wrapper calls the user's on_write after stream_hblock_sent, so the resend runs right after the 100 is written.

endAfterDrain for the FIN. lsquic ignores eos for IETF QUIC. end_stream in us_quic_stream_send_headers is the send plus lsquic_stream_shutdown(stream, 1). A deferred block with endStream therefore sets endAfterDrain, and drain() sends the block and then shuts down. For these no-body responses markDone still runs at once, as it already does when lsquic stashes the only header block itself, so tryEnd reports completion and the Rust side does not wait for an onWritable that would never fire.

Per entry point (all on a cold connection with Expect: 100-continue):

  • tryEnd(data): returns false, Rust retries from onWritable after drain() sent the block.
  • end(data): body goes to backpressure, endAfterDrain is set.
  • tryEnd(""), endWithoutBody(): block plus FIN deferred, response marked done.
  • write(), sendTerminatingChunk(): body bytes and the FIN wait behind the block.

Fail-before, main 55c1106 (after #42860 and #42867), debug build with src/ and packages/ from main: 9 of 10 fail. 5 cases reject with HTTP3StreamReset, the empty-body and 204 cases time out, the node:quic case gets no final HEADERS, and the debug-only case fails with them. The string-body case that reads the request body first depends on timing on an unfixed build: it passed in this debug run, and the same shape rejects 3 of 3 on a release build of that commit. Before the rebase, release canary 09bb546 failed the same cases. The debug-only case is skipped on release builds. It checks that lsquic still logs the refusal, so a lsquic update that stops stashing the 100 fails there and does not let the other cases pass without the resend.

Not changed here.

  • A hard -1 from us_quic_stream_send_headers is still ignored. Response headers over 64 KB hit that path and spin the server. Reported separately.
  • The late 100 is fixed on main by http3: flush a header block when no body bytes follow it #42867 (with http3: deliver every header block that lsquic decodes while a stream is read #42860): a client that waits for the 100 now gets it at once. That change does not reach this bug. A client that sends its body at once (fetch) still has its final block refused behind the pending 100 on main. This branch is rebased on both, and main's two waiting-client cases pass on it.
  • A streamed response to a POST whose body the handler never reads leaked the request context over HTTP/3 (LeakSanitizer, RequestContext::on_buffered_body_chunk). It did not involve this change, and Bun.serve: end the request when an HTTP/2 or HTTP/3 stream closes after a streamed response #42844 fixed it on main. The ReadableStream cases cover both shapes: with and without a read of the request body.
  • A smaller shape exists: remove the automatic 100 for HTTP/3 (Http3Context.h:38). That also stops the reset, but HTTP/3 then never answers Expect, unlike HTTP/1 and HTTP/2. If that is preferred, close this PR and take the fetch-based test cases.
  • lsquic residual: after a 1xx, STREAM_HEADERS_SENT is set, so COMMON_WRITE_CHECKS no longer blocks lsquic_stream_write while a later block that lsquic accepted is still stashed, and sm_write_avail no longer advances SSHS_ENC_SENDING. The resend runs after the encoder stream drained, so it does not reach this. It is an upstream limit for any second header block.

Self-review: ran a review of the diff. It asked for the wording above about the unflushed 100, a note that -1 is unchanged, and a check that the refusal path is really reached (added as the debug-only case). The two side bugs are reported separately.

Suites run on the debug ASAN build, rebased on 55c1106, with the ASAN lane's LeakSanitizer settings: serve-http3 (82), fetch-http3-client (62), fetch-http3-adversarial (27), fetch-http3-cold-post (2), fetch-http3-syscall-fault (7), serve-protocols (20), node/quic/quic-stream (7). No failure and no leak report.


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fails on main (without fix)
ASAN without fix: 9 FAILED
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/pr_gate.xml" "test/js/bun/http/serve-http3.test.ts"
bun test v1.4.3 (09bb54630)

test/js/bun/http/serve-http3.test.ts:
(node:35985) ExperimentalWarning: quic is an experimental feature and might change at any time
(Use `bun-debug --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > basic GET [1456.76ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > POST echoes body, status, request headers [1691.01ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > 204 with no body [1721.40ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > query string is preserved [1428.49ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > large response body crosses multiple QUIC packets [1466.70ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > concurrent requests across separate connections [1319.63ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > client abort mid-response does not crash the server [1680.09ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > http1: false rejects HTTP/1.1 but accepts HTTP/3 [1361.00ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > http1: false — url/address/stop see the QUIC listener [2373.77ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > maxRequestBodySize is enforced for H3 bodies without Con
... (truncated)

release without fix: 24 failed, 2 skipped
bun test v1.4.3-canary.1 (09bb54630)

test/js/bun/http/serve-http3.test.ts:
(node:36835) ExperimentalWarning: quic is an experimental feature and might change at any time
(Use `bun --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > basic GET [150.30ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > POST echoes body, status, request headers [138.21ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > 204 with no body [148.67ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > query string is preserved [150.07ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > large response body crosses multiple QUIC packets [144.40ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > concurrent requests across separate connections [132.53ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > client abort mid-response does not crash the server [146.00ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > http1: false rejects HTTP/1.1 but accepts HTTP/3 [133.74ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > http1: false — url/address/stop see the QUIC listener [1041.94ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > maxRequestBodySize is enforced for H3 bodies without Content-Length [142.15ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > unknown route returns 404 [145.64ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > routes: handler with :params [146.22ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 
... (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/pr_gate.xml" "test/js/bun/http/serve-http3.test.ts"
bun test v1.4.3 (09bb54630)

test/js/bun/http/serve-http3.test.ts:
(node:37791) ExperimentalWarning: quic is an experimental feature and might change at any time
(Use `bun-debug --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > basic GET [1987.50ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > POST echoes body, status, request headers [1456.85ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > 204 with no body [1380.92ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > query string is preserved [1830.03ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > large response body crosses multiple QUIC packets [1583.06ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > concurrent requests across separate connections [1672.64ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > client abort mid-response does not crash the server [1454.50ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > http1: false rejects HTTP/1.1 but accepts HTTP/3 [1622.84ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > http1: false — url/address/stop see the QUIC listener [2539.27ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > maxRequestBodySize is enforced for H3 bodies without Con
... (truncated)

release with fix: 2 skipped
$ bun scripts/build.ts --profile=release
[configured] bun-profile → bun (stripped) in 688ms (unchanged)
ninja: Entering directory `/workspace/bun/build/release'
[0/125] cargo bun_runtime → libbun_runtime.a
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... (truncated)
diff hotspot
packages/bun-usockets/src/quic.c         |   5 ++
 packages/bun-usockets/src/quic.h         |   4 +
 packages/bun-uws/src/Http3Response.h     |  32 ++++++--
 packages/bun-uws/src/Http3ResponseData.h |   4 +
 test/js/bun/http/serve-http3.test.ts     | 126 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 5 files changed, 160 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

gate history · 2 passed · 0 rejected · iteration 0

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file                                      reads  edits  tests
packages/bun-usockets/src/quic.c              1      1     34
packages/bun-usockets/src/quic.h              1      1     34
packages/bun-uws/src/Http3Response.h          2      7     34
packages/bun-uws/src/Http3ResponseData.h      1      2     34
test/js/bun/http/serve-http3.test.ts          5     10     34

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Changes

The HTTP/3 server now detects deferred QUIC header transmission, preserves header blocks, and retries them before writing response data or completing streams. Tests cover Expect: 100-continue responses on fresh HTTP/3 connections.

HTTP/3 header retry handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
QUIC header retry contract
packages/bun-usockets/src/quic.h, packages/bun-usockets/src/quic.c
Adds US_QUIC_SEND_HEADERS_RETRY and maps EAGAIN from lsquic to that result after clearing errno.
Deferred response transmission
packages/bun-uws/src/Http3ResponseData.h, packages/bun-uws/src/Http3Response.h
Tracks deferred headers, preserves header buffers across retries, and defers writes, termination, and completion until headers are sent.
HTTP/3 regression coverage
test/js/bun/http/serve-http3.test.ts
Tests 100 Continue, final headers, body ordering, multiple response types, and debug-only lsquic retry logging.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner

Priority: ⬆️ High

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 39fe4

The deferred HTTP/3 header path has no identified merge-blocking risk.

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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue #33082 requires Expect: 100-continue responses to deliver interim 1xx headers and final response headers on fresh and reused HTTP/3 connections. The PR preserves deferred headers, returns a …
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The production changes implement deferred HTTP/3 header transmission and stream completion for issue #33082. The added tests exercise the same Expect: 100-continue behavior. The summary identifies n…
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the HTTP/3 change: retrying final headers when lsquic defers a preceding 100 Continue response. It is specific and directly related to the main change.
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Status: ready for review. Rebased on main 55c1106 (after #42860, #42867 and #42844), no conflicts.

Reproduced with the script from #33082. It still fails on main after those merges, because they fix the late 100, not the refused final block:

openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -keyout k.pem -out c.pem -subj /CN=localhost -days 2
bun h3.mjs        # cold REJECT HTTP3StreamReset
bun h3.mjs warm   # warm 200 body:15

With this branch both print 200 body:15 (cold 3 of 3). BUN_DEBUG_lsquic=1 on a debug build shows the refusal (cannot send headers while previous header block is pending) and then the resend of the :status 200 block right after the 100 block is written.

Tests: bun bd test test/js/bun/http/serve-http3.test.ts -t "Expect: 100-continue" (10 cases). A debug build with src/ and packages/ from main 55c1106 fails 9 of them: 5 with HTTP3StreamReset, the empty-body and 204 cases time out, the node:quic case gets no final HEADERS, and the debug-only refusal check fails with them.

CI on 39fe4a4 (build 116384): 180 of 181 jobs pass, and the HTTP/3 suites pass on every lane. The one red test is test/js/bun/http/serve-pending-promise-abort-leak.test.ts on the debian 13 x64-asan lane. It is an HTTP/1.1 garbage-collection check that this change does not touch, and it is also red in the final builds of recently merged PRs (#42867 build 116326, #42863 build 116280, #42853 build 116344). The diff is green and needs a maintainer to merge.

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I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. Because it reworks the HTTP/3 response state machine across several entry points (deferred header block + endAfterDrain + markDone interactions) in native code, a human look at the state transitions is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed

  • Traced every sendBufferedHeaders caller (flushHeaders, endWithoutBody, both internalEnd branches, drain) through the new headersDeferred path — each either sets endAfterDrain itself or falls through to the new backpressure guard, so body bytes and FIN cannot precede the retried block.
  • Checked that drain() resending with endStream=false is equivalent to the original endStream=true because endAfterDrain triggers us_quic_stream_shutdown() afterward, matching what us_quic_stream_send_headers does with end_stream.
  • Confirmed the offset-encoded hdrs/hdrBuf survive a refusal (resolved into a local copy; buffers only cleared on the non-retry path), and headersDeferred is reset in Http3ResponseData::reset().
  • Tests: port: 0, bunExe/bunEnv, no sleeps, stdout asserted before exit code, debug-only case gated on isDebug; each case uses a fresh connection so a warm one can't mask the refusal.
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Overview

This PR fixes #33082: over HTTP/3, Expect: 100-continue on the first request of a connection made lsquic refuse the final HEADERS block because the interim 100 block was still stashed, and sendBufferedHeaders dropped that failure and cleared its buffers. The fix threads a US_QUIC_SEND_HEADERS_RETRY sentinel out of us_quic_stream_send_headers (quic.c/quic.h), and in Http3Response.h keeps the refused block, sets a new headersDeferred flag on Http3ResponseData, gates write(), endWithoutBody(), sendTerminatingChunk(), and internalEnd() on it so body bytes and FIN queue behind the block, and has drain() retry the send before flushing body/backpressure. Nine new test cases in serve-http3.test.ts cover seven response shapes as first-request-of-connection, a node:quic wire-ordering assertion, and a debug-only check that lsquic actually logs the refusal.

Security risks

None identified. The change is server-side response ordering; no new parsing of client-controlled data, no auth/crypto/permission surface. The errno = 0 clear before lsquic_stream_send_headers narrows (rather than widens) which failures are treated as retryable.

Level of scrutiny

High. This is native C/C++ in the QUIC/HTTP3 stack — REVIEW.md's most-blocked category — and it edits a state machine with several entry points that must all agree on the new invariant (headers-before-body when deferred). I traced each entry point manually and the PR description's per-entry-point breakdown matches the code, but the double markDone() on the deferred no-body path (once from endWithoutBody/internalEnd, once from drain()'s endAfterDrain branch) and the HTTP_WRITE_CALLED flag being set even when the send deferred are the kind of subtleties a maintainer familiar with the Rust-side onWritable contract should confirm are intended. markDone is idempotent and us_quic_stream_shutdown_read is a no-op after the first call, so I don't see a defect — it just isn't a mechanical change.

Other factors

The test suite is thorough and follows repo conventions (concurrent, port: 0, no network, no sleeps, bunExe/bunEnv, stdout asserted before exit code, test.skipIf(!isDebug) for the log-scraping case). The PR description is unusually detailed, cites the lsquic API contract for the retry semantics, explicitly lists what is not fixed (hard -1 still ignored, 100 still not proactively flushed), and states the fail-before behavior on canary. The bug hunt exited on dry_streak with no findings and no ruled-out candidates. Given the native state-machine surface, deferring rather than approving is the right call under the guidelines.

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On the two points the review left for a maintainer. Both are intended.

  • markDone() runs twice on the deferred path with no body: once in endWithoutBody() or internalEnd(), once in drain() after the FIN. The first call is needed so that tryEnd("") reports completion and the Rust side releases the request context at once. Nothing would call its onWritable later, because markDone() clears it. The second call changes nothing: the flags are already set, and lsquic_stream_shutdown(stream, 0) is guarded by STREAM_U_READ_DONE.
  • HTTP_WRITE_CALLED is set although the block is only buffered. This matches the case where lsquic accepts the block and stashes it itself: the flag means "the header block is committed", not "it is on the wire". The Rust sink uses it to pick end() over tryEnd() on the retry, and end() then finds headersDeferred cleared.

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Jarred-Sumner pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 16, 2026
### Problem
- `Bun.serve({ http3: true })` sends its automatic `100 Continue` only
with the final response. A client that waits for the 100 waits its full
timeout: curl with `Expect: 100-continue` takes 1.01 s over
`--http3-only`, 7 ms over HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2.
- `fetch()` over HTTP/3 with a streamed request body does not reach the
server until the first chunk exists, so a body whose first chunk waits
for the server never gets there. HTTP/1.1 sends the request headers at
once.
- Cause: `lsquic_stream_send_headers` only buffers.
`us_quic_stream_send_informational`
(`packages/bun-usockets/src/quic.c:1125`) and
`us_quic_stream_send_headers` without `end_stream` (`quic.c:1136`) leave
the flush to the next body write.

### Fix
- Both writers call `us_quic_flush_from_on_write`, which asks for
`on_write`. `us_quic_on_write` flushes after `on_stream_writable`.
- Correct because `on_write` runs in the write phase of the same
`process_conns`, after lsquic wrote a held-back block. A response that
the handler wrote at once is behind the 100 by then. Both still leave in
one STREAM frame.
- Verified: `test/js/bun/http/serve-http3.test.ts` (2 new) and
`test/js/web/fetch/fetch-http3-client.test.ts` (1 new) time out without
it. Also `fetch-http3-*`, `serve-protocols`, `test/js/node/quic/`.
- Self-reviewed: 7 concerns raised, 7 addressed (Notes).

### Background
- lsquic buffers stream writes until a packet is full, the stream ends,
or a flush. `process_conns` runs read callbacks (the request handlers),
then write callbacks.
- On a new connection lsquic holds a header block back until its QPACK
encoder stream is out. A flush then does nothing. lsquic calls
`on_write` right after it writes it.
- Stacked on #42860: without it, a 100 in its own packet makes a reader
lose a final response with no body.

<details><summary>Notes</summary>

**No user reported this.** It was found while #42805 was in work. Reach:
the experimental `http3: true`, a client that sets `Expect` itself over
HTTP/3 and waits (curl does, `fetch()` does not), and a handler that
reads the body before it answers. The cost is the client's expect
timeout on each request, and the request still succeeds. The second
writer costs more: a `fetch()` body whose first chunk depends on the
server hangs until the idle timeout and rejects with `HTTP3StreamReset`.

**curl 8.14.1, 64 KB POST with `Expect: 100-continue`, three runs
each:**

| | `--http3-only` | `--http2` | `--http1.1` |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| canary 09bb546 | 1.012 s, 1.012 s, 1.010 s | 7 ms, 6 ms, 7 ms | 6
ms, 5 ms, 7 ms |
| this PR (debug build) | 0.337 s, 0.021 s, 0.017 s | 11 ms | 10 to 13
ms |

Without `Expect`, `--http3-only` takes 8 ms on canary. The first
debug-build run includes the first handshake of that process.

**Why the flush is in `on_write` and not in the two writers.**
- On the first request of a connection, `lsquic_qeh_write_headers`
returns `QWH_PARTIAL` and `send_headers_ietf` stashes the block.
`sm_n_buffered` is 0, so `lsquic_stream_flush` logs `flushing 0 bytes:
noop`. `on_write_header_wrapper` writes the block later and then calls
the user's `on_write`. The second server test covers this (lsquic debug
log: `stashed 4 bytes of header block`, once per run).
- A handler that answers in the same call writes its response in the
read phase. A flush at send time puts the 100 in its own STREAM frame
ahead of it. A flush in `on_write` keeps today's single frame
(`generated STREAM frame: stream 4, offset: 0, size: 55, fin: 1`).

**The flag is taken before the callback.** The `fetch()` client sends
its request from inside `on_stream_writable`. A block sent there is
flushed by the next `on_write`: lsquic calls it at once because
want-write is set again, or after it wrote a held-back block. No user of
`quic.c` clears want-write.

**Cost on the response path.** A response that ends in the same call
cancels the want-write in `stream_shutdown_write`, so no extra
`on_write` runs. A streamed response gets one extra `on_write`, and
`drain()` does nothing there without backpressure.

**Other details.**
- `pending_write_bytes++` in `us_quic_stream_send_informational` covers
a call from outside an lsquic callback (`uws_h3_res_write_continue`).
`us_quic_stream_send_headers` already bumps it.
- lsquic calls `on_close` and destroys a stream only from the service
phase of its tick, so the stream is valid after `on_stream_writable`
returns. A flush on a stream that the callback shut down is a no-op
(`EBADF`).
- Response headers are not a third site. `Bun.serve` has no HTTP/3
caller of `flushHeaders()`, and it sends response headers with the first
chunk on HTTP/1.1 too (701 ms on both for a first chunk that is 700 ms
late).

**#42805 (for #33082).** The two PRs change different functions and pass
together: merged locally, `serve-http3` has 74 passes. Its body says the
fix for the late 100 "needs this retry path". That is the case where the
handler answers while lsquic still holds the 100 back: lsquic refuses
the final block there, with and without this PR. This PR does not change
that case. If the maintainers take the alternative that #42805 offers
and remove the automatic 100 for HTTP/3, the 1xx half of this PR has no
caller left. The request-headers half still stands.

**`node:quic`** has its own header writer with the same gap when a
stream is opened before the handshake completes. It is tracked in #42866
and not changed here. The new-connection test takes `stream.writer`
before `sendHeaders`, as the `server.stop()` test in the same file does,
so it does not depend on that bug.

**With #42860 and this PR**, a busy `node:quic` client that receives the
100 and a later 204 in one batch gets `info 100`, `headers 204` (3 of 3
runs). Without #42860 it lost `headers 204` against this server (0 of
3).

**Suites run on the debug build:** `serve-http3` (65),
`fetch-http3-client` (61), `fetch-http3-adversarial` (27),
`fetch-http3-cold-post` (2), `fetch-http3-syscall-fault` (7),
`serve-protocols` (20), `quic-stream` (6), `quic-endpoint` (7),
`quic-sni` (6), and the other files that use HTTP/3:
`serve-http2-lifecycle` (23), `serve-direct-readable-stream` (149),
`body-stream` (9086). With the sources of #42860, the three new tests
time out.

`fetch-backpressure.test.ts` does not pass on the debug build in my
container: the HTTP/3 receive-backpressure tests time out and the S3
tests fail. It fails the same way there with the sources of
`origin/main`, and it passes in CI.

</details>

<!-- robobun:evidence:begin -->

---

**[human-review]** gate passed · iteration 1 · 3 files touched

<details><summary>fails on main (without fix)</summary>

```console
ASAN without fix: 3 FAILED
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/pr_gate.xml" "test/js/bun/http/serve-http3.test.ts" "test/js/web/fetch/fetch-http3-client.test.ts"
bun test v1.4.3 (09bb546)

test/js/bun/http/serve-http3.test.ts:
(node:409468) ExperimentalWarning: quic is an experimental feature and might change at any time
(Use `bun-debug --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > basic GET [1697.81ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > POST echoes body, status, request headers [1688.75ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > 204 with no body [1692.65ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > query string is preserved [1952.17ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > large response body crosses multiple QUIC packets [1773.99ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > concurrent requests across separate connections [1830.79ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > client abort mid-response does not crash the server [1738.99ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > http1: false rejects HTTP/1.1 but accepts HTTP/3 [1689.01ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > http1: false — url/address/stop see the QUIC listener [2766.35ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > maxReque
... (truncated)

release without fix: 1 failed, 1 skipped
bun test v1.4.3-canary.1 (96577ad)

test/js/bun/http/serve-http3.test.ts:
(node:410372) ExperimentalWarning: quic is an experimental feature and might change at any time
(Use `bun --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > basic GET [161.08ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > POST echoes body, status, request headers [139.08ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > 204 with no body [182.96ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > query string is preserved [161.93ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > large response body crosses multiple QUIC packets [155.42ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > concurrent requests across separate connections [146.86ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > client abort mid-response does not crash the server [159.51ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > http1: false rejects HTTP/1.1 but accepts HTTP/3 [148.89ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > http1: false — url/address/stop see the QUIC listener [1039.78ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > maxRequestBodySize is enforced for H3 bodies without Content-Length [150.46ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > unknown route returns 404 [145.06ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > routes: handler with :params [163.24ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3
... (truncated)
```

</details>

<details><summary>passes on PR (with fix)</summary>

```console
ASAN with fix: all passed
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/pr_gate.xml" "test/js/bun/http/serve-http3.test.ts" "test/js/web/fetch/fetch-http3-client.test.ts"
bun test v1.4.3 (09bb546)

test/js/bun/http/serve-http3.test.ts:
(node:411333) ExperimentalWarning: quic is an experimental feature and might change at any time
(Use `bun-debug --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > basic GET [2068.94ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > POST echoes body, status, request headers [1988.03ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > 204 with no body [1811.93ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > query string is preserved [2127.37ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > large response body crosses multiple QUIC packets [2005.83ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > concurrent requests across separate connections [2007.58ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > client abort mid-response does not crash the server [2383.24ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > http1: false rejects HTTP/1.1 but accepts HTTP/3 [2323.66ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > http1: false — url/address/stop see the QUIC listener [2927.11ms]
(pass) Bun.serve HTTP/3 > maxReque
... (truncated)

release with fix: 1 skipped
$ bun scripts/build.ts --profile=release
[configured] bun-profile → bun (stripped) in 1127ms (unchanged)
ninja: Entering directory `/workspace/bun/build/release'
[1/10] cc obj/packages/bun-usockets/src/node_quic_shim.c.o
[2/10] cc obj/packages/bun-usockets/src/quic.c.o
[3/10] gen generated_host_exports.rs
generated_host_exports.rs: 121 exports (host=5, lazy=10, generic=106, rust=0); 243 extern-C blocks audited
[3/10] cargo bun_runtime → libbun_runtime.a
�[1m�[92m   Compiling�[0m bun_core v0.0.0 (/workspace/bun/src/bun_core)
�[1m�[92m   Compiling�[0m bun_errno v0.0.0 (/workspace/bun/src/errno)
�[1m�[92m   Compiling�[0m bun_ptr v0.0.0 (/workspace/bun/src/ptr)
�[1m�[92m   Compiling�[0m bun_boringssl_sys v0.0.0 (/workspace/bun/src/boringssl_sys)
�[1m�[92m   Compiling�[0m bun_safety v0.0.0 (/workspace/bun/src/safety)
�[1m�[92m   Compiling�[0m bun_base64 v0.0.0 (/workspace/bun/src/base64)
�[1m�[92m   Compiling�[0m bun_cares_sys v0.0.0 (/workspace/bun/src/cares_sys)
�[1m�[92m   Compiling�[0m bun_zlib_sys v0.0.0 (/workspace/bun/src/zlib_sys)
�[1m�[92m   Compiling�[0m bun_zstd v0.0.0 (/workspace/bun/src/zstd)
�[1m�[92m   Compiling�[0m bun_picohttp v0.0.0 (/workspace/bun/
... (truncated)
```

</details>

<details><summary>diff hotspot</summary>

```
packages/bun-usockets/src/quic.c             | 24 ++++++++-
 test/js/bun/http/serve-http3.test.ts         | 73 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 test/js/web/fetch/fetch-http3-client.test.ts | 32 ++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 128 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
```

</details>

**gate history** · 2 passed · 0 rejected · iteration 1

<details><summary>evidence per changed file</summary>

```
file                                          reads  edits  tests
packages/bun-usockets/src/quic.c                 17     21     67
test/js/bun/http/serve-http3.test.ts              4      9     46
test/js/web/fetch/fetch-http3-client.test.ts      3      8     41
```

</details>

<!-- robobun:evidence:end -->
…t behind a pending 100 Continue

lsquic keeps one outgoing header block per stream. On the first request of
a QUIC connection it stashes the 100 Continue block, because the QPACK
encoder stream has not sent its type byte yet. It then refuses the final
header block with -1 and errno EAGAIN. Http3Response dropped that result,
cleared its header buffer and wrote the body, so the client saw DATA after
the 100 and reset the stream (HTTP3StreamReset).

us_quic_stream_send_headers now reports the refusal as
US_QUIC_SEND_HEADERS_RETRY. Http3Response keeps the block in hdrBuf/hdrs,
holds body bytes and the FIN behind it, and sends the block from drain()
when the stream is writable again.

Fixes #33082
…ontinue case

A streamed response to a POST whose body the handler never reads leaks the
request context over HTTP/3 on main. That fault does not involve the header
block resend, and LeakSanitizer reports it at exit. The case keeps the
ReadableStream response and reads the body first.
…continue cases

The request-context leak that this shape hit over HTTP/3 is fixed on main
(#42844), so the case no longer has to read the request body first. Both
shapes stay.
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robobun force-pushed the robobun/b067acfd/h3-100-continue-cold branch from 78a61b5 to 39fe4a4 Compare September 16, 2026 06:37

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I reviewed the pushed version of this PR and did not find any bugs, but a human look is still worthwhile: the fix's correctness rests on lsquic's on_write ordering contract (final block resent only after the stashed 100 block is flushed), which I could not confirm against the vendored lsquic source in this checkout.

What was reviewed:

  • Every Http3Response send path (write, end/tryEnd, endWithoutBody, sendTerminatingChunk, drain) gates on headersDeferred consistently; tryEnd returns false without buffering so the Rust side retries from onWritable.
  • The empty-body/204 path calls markDone twice (once at internalEnd, again from drain); it is flag-only plus a repeated read-side shutdown, so idempotent.
  • sendBufferedHeaders now resolves offsets in a copied vector, so hdrs/hdrBuf are intact for the resend; reset() clears the new flag.
  • Candidate "DATA before final HEADERS when the resent block is itself stashed" was considered; the resend runs from on_write after the encoder stream drained, so the block goes out inline, but this is the lsquic-dependent assumption a human should weigh.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

The PR touches the HTTP/3 server response path in three native layers: packages/bun-usockets/src/quic.c (maps lsquic's -1/EAGAIN from lsquic_stream_send_headers to a new US_QUIC_SEND_HEADERS_RETRY sentinel, clearing errno first), packages/bun-uws/src/Http3ResponseData.h (new headersDeferred flag, reset in reset()), and packages/bun-uws/src/Http3Response.h (sendBufferedHeaders resolves header offsets into a copied WTF::Vector, defers on RETRY, and drain() resends before flushing body backpressure; all send entry points treat headersDeferred like existing backpressure). Tests extend test/js/bun/http/serve-http3.test.ts with an 8-shape test.each matrix, a node:quic ordering test, and a debug-only lsquic-log test.

Security risks

No auth, crypto or input-parsing surface is changed. The only new external-data-driven behavior is a retry on a specific errno; a hard -1 is still ignored as before (the author states this is reported separately). No new allocation sized from peer data — the copied header vector is bounded by the server's own headers.

Level of scrutiny

This is stateful native protocol code with a new lifecycle flag and a retry path whose correctness depends on lsquic guaranteeing that the user's on_write fires only after the stashed 100 block has been written. The vendored lsquic tree is not present in this shallow checkout, so that contract could only be taken from the PR's citation of apiref.rst, not verified from source. That, plus the fact that this is a server-side HTTP/3 change that could alter wire ordering, warrants a human review rather than automated approval. Within what could be checked: every sibling send path was audited for consistent gating; tryEnd's optional path returns false without buffering (so the Rust caller retries after onWritable); the empty-body path's double markDone is idempotent; reset() clears the new flag; the copied vector fixes the prior in-place pointer rewrite so the deferred block remains resendable.

Other factors

Two earlier runs of this system posted "no issues" on prior pushed versions; three commits have since been pushed (the fix plus two test adjustments), so this run re-examined the full diff. The test additions follow harness conventions (Buffer.alloc for the large body, describe.concurrent, port: 0, concurrent pipe draining, toEqual on combined objects, skipIf(!isDebug) with a stated reason). The one investigated candidate — DATA emitted before the final HEADERS if the resent block is itself stashed — is ruled out under the assumed lsquic contract but is exactly the point a maintainer familiar with lsquic should confirm.

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The review could not check the on_write ordering against lsquic, because the vendored tree is fetched at build time. Here is where it is in vendor/lsquic/src/liblsquic/lsquic_stream.c (commit f812ceb, line numbers with bun's patches applied):

  • lsquic_stream_wantwrite (2157): while sm_send_headers_state != SSHS_BEGIN it only stores sm_saved_want_write. The want_write(1) after the refusal cannot make on_write fire early.
  • stream_write_avail_with_headers (1017): in SSHS_ENC_SENDING the stream is not writeable until the QPACK encoder stream bytes are out. Then the state moves to SSHS_HBLOCK_SENDING.
  • select_on_write (2313) then picks on_write_header_wrapper (2277), not the user callback. That function writes the stashed block, calls stream_hblock_sent (2252: state back to SSHS_BEGIN, want-write restored from the saved value), and only then calls the user's on_write.
  • So drain() runs with the 100 block fully written and sm_header_block == NULL. That is the exact condition send_headers_ietf tests at line 4137 before it refuses a block.

Two tests pin this. The debug-only case asserts that lsquic logs the refusal once and that the response is still 200 sync. The node:quic case asserts the wire order info 100, headers 200, body.

The candidate that the review ruled out (the resent block is itself stashed, so DATA goes first) is the "lsquic residual" item in the PR notes. The resend does not reach it, because the encoder stream has drained when on_write runs. It is an upstream limit for any second header block, with or without this change.

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

Comment on lines +224 to 233
if (r == US_QUIC_SEND_HEADERS_RETRY) {
/* The 100 Continue block is still unsent (#33082). endStream is
* only a shutdown after the send, so endAfterDrain carries it. */
d->headersDeferred = true;
if (endStream) d->endAfterDrain = true;
us_quic_stream_want_write((us_quic_stream_t *) this, 1);
return;
}
d->hdrBuf.shrink(0);
d->hdrs.shrink(0);

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🟣 pre-existing, not blocking: Pre-existing, left as the base does it: when lsquic hard-refuses the final header block (-1, e.g. headers over lsquic's 64 KB block buffer or a closed stream), the response is still treated as sent. sendBufferedHeaders at Http3Response.h:224 only branches on US_QUIC_SEND_HEADERS_RETRY; r == -1 falls through to hdrBuf.shrink(0) at Http3Response.h:232, and the no-body callers then markDone without a FIN, since quic.c:1220 shuts the stream down only when r == 0. Fix: on r == -1, reset or close the stream (us_quic_stream_reset) and markDone so the holder sees the failure, instead of discarding the block and continuing as if it were sent; the same applies to the retry in drain() at Http3Response.h:186.
A small fix can ride a push you are already making; otherwise a short reply is enough.

Why this was flagged

A handler on Bun.serve({ http3: true }) sets response headers that lsquic cannot encode into one block (lsquic's send_headers_ietf uses a 64 KB buffer and returns -1), or responds on a stream lsquic has already shut. us_quic_stream_send_headers at packages/bun-usockets/src/quic.c:1216-1220 returns -1 and does not call lsquic_stream_shutdown. sendBufferedHeaders at packages/bun-uws/src/Http3Response.h:222-233 checks only r == US_QUIC_SEND_HEADERS_RETRY, so -1 falls through to hdrBuf.shrink(0)/hdrs.shrink(0): the block is gone. internalEnd at Http3Response.h:247-250 and endWithoutBody at Http3Response.h:116-118 then call markDone; no HEADERS and no FIN ever go out, so the client waits until the QUIC idle timeout. The base branch behaves the same way (the diff keeps if (end_stream && r == 0)), so this is pre-existing, filed because the diff now inspects r and still swallows -1.

Verification: packages/bun-usockets/src/quic.c:1216-1220 — if (end_stream && r == 0) lsquic_stream_shutdown(s->stream, 1); — so a hard -1 performs no shutdown and no flush. packages/bun-uws/src/Http3Response.h:222-233 — only if (r == US_QUIC_SEND_HEADERS_RETRY) is handled; -1 falls through to d->hdrBuf.shrink(0); d->hdrs.shrink(0); and the callers proceed as if sent. Base branch behaviour is identical.

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Bun.serve HTTP/3: 100-continue interim response breaks the final response on a fresh QUIC connection

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