node:http2: close a client's open requests like node on session.destroy()

[robobun]

Problem

• A plain session.destroy() on a client session makes each open request emit 'error' ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_CANCEL and report rstCode 8. Node v26.3.0 emits no 'error' and reports rstCode 0. A finally { session.destroy() } rejects every request in flight.
• Cause: ClientHttp2Session#destroy() (src/js/node/http2.ts:5852) stores a synthesized cancel error as the session's error and sweeps its open streams with NGHTTP2_CANCEL. Node's closeSession() gives that error to pending streams only.

Fix

• destroy() no longer synthesizes the error, and its sweep code defaults to NGHTTP2_NO_ERROR. A swept stream goes to destroyStreamForSessionDestroy, as on the server: the session's error if there is one, and the session's code.
• Internal teardowns relied on that error. The quiet socket-error paths in #onError now give open requests the socket error (ECONNRESET, rstCode 2), as in node. An engine-ended session still cancels them.
• Requests made before the connect are submitted from a 'connect' listener that the first request() adds, as in node. A 'connect' listener that destroys the session still finds them pending.
• Correct because 'error', rstCode and the events match node for every destroy(error, code) shape (Notes). Verified: 26 new tests in test/js/node/http2/node-http2.test.js, 21 fail on main. Also test/js/node/http2/, the vendored test-http2-* files, grpc-js.

Background

• A pending request has no stream id yet (the socket still connects). An open one is on the wire.
• rstCode is the RST_STREAM code a stream closed with: 0 NO_ERROR, 2 INTERNAL_ERROR, 8 CANCEL. grpc-js maps it to a call status.
• parser.emitErrorToAllStreams(code) is the native sweep: it closes each open native stream and calls the JS streamError handler.

Notes

Repro (node v26.3.0 prints req:close(rst=0) ses:close, main prints ses:close req:error(ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_CANCEL) req:close(rst=8), this PR prints ses:close req:close(rst=0)):

import http2 from "node:http2";
const srv = http2.createServer();
srv.on("stream", s => { s.on("error", () => {}); s.session.on("error", () => {}); s.respond({ ":status": 200 }); s.write("partial"); });
srv.listen(0, "127.0.0.1", () => {
  const ses = http2.connect(`http://127.0.0.1:${srv.address().port}`), ev = [];
  ses.on("error", e => ev.push(`ses:error(${e.code || e.message})`));
  ses.on("close", () => ev.push("ses:close"));
  const req = ses.request({ ":path": "/" });
  req.on("error", e => ev.push(`req:error(${e.code || e.message})`));
  req.on("close", () => ev.push(`req:close(rst=${req.rstCode})`));
  req.on("data", () => { ses.destroy(); setTimeout(() => { console.log(ev.join(" ")); process.exit(0); }, 200); });
});

What an open request reports: 'error', rstCode. Measured with node v26.3.0, canary 1.4.3 367d939d9 (same http2.ts as main) and this branch.

case	node	main	this PR
destroy()	none, 0	ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_CANCEL, 8	none, 0
destroy(0)	none, 0	ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_CANCEL, 2	none, 0
destroy(null, 8)	none, 8	ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_CANCEL, 8	none, 8
destroy(null, 7)	ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_ERROR, 7	ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_CANCEL, 7	ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_ERROR, 7
destroy(8), destroy(err), destroy(err, 7)	session error, 8 / 2 / 7	same	same
destroy(), request has no 'error' listener	none, 0	none, 8	none, 0
GOAWAY(11) received, the 'goaway' listener calls destroy()	ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_ERROR, 11	ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_CANCEL, 11	ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_ERROR, 11
req.close(5), then destroy()	ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_ERROR, 5	ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_CANCEL, 5	ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_ERROR, 5
socket ECONNRESET, no 'error' listener on the session	ECONNRESET, 2	ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_CANCEL, 8	ECONNRESET, 2
socket ECONNRESET, session already close()d	ECONNRESET, 2	ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_CANCEL, 8	ECONNRESET, 2
socket ECONNRESET behind a GOAWAY(0)	none, 0	ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_CANCEL, 8	ECONNRESET, 2

The request's own events also match node: end, close for a flowing request with no error, aborted, end, close when its body is still open, close alone before the response begins, error, close with an error.

Differences from node that are on purpose.

• The last row. Node calls session.destroy() with no error for an ECONNRESET behind a GOAWAY. The request gets no 'error' and rstCode 0, so a response that the reset cut short looks complete. Main reports an error to the request there today. This PR keeps an error and makes it the real one. In the two rows above it node also emits the error on the session. Bun keeps the session quiet there, as before.
• A request with no 'error' listener does not get the socket error in those paths (node emits it and the process dies). It reports rstCode 8, as on main, so that the cut response does not read as complete. destroyStreamForSessionDestroy sets that code when it withholds an error from a stream that has no code. A null error is no error there (a server's destroy(null, code) passes null).
• The engine ends a client session itself, with GOAWAY(NO_ERROR) and no error, after a trailer block that HPACK cannot encode (one header over 64 KB). Node resets only that request and keeps the session. Bun has lost the HPACK state and ends the session. Its other open requests still get ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_CANCEL and rstCode 8 there, as on main: the end handler queues that for them before it calls destroy(). The request with the bad trailers now reports ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_ERROR and rstCode 6, as in node. Main reports ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_CANCEL for it.
• destroy(null): node stores undefined as the session's code and reports ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_ERROR with rstCode undefined. This PR reports no error and 0, like destroy().

Requests made before the connect. Main submits them inside #onConnect, before any 'connect' listener runs. Node submits them from one 'connect' listener that the first request() adds (core.js#L1919-L1922). With http2.connect(url, () => client.destroy()) and a request made before the connect, node still has a pending request and cancels it with ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_CANCEL. On main the request is already open there, which did not show while destroy() cancelled open requests too. This PR takes node's order: the first request queued before the connect adds the 'connect' listener that submits the queue, and nothing else submits it earlier. A 'connect' listener added after that request() finds the request open, as in node. If a listener that runs before the flush calls close(), the flush destroys the queued requests with ERR_HTTP2_GOAWAY_SESSION, like node's requestOnConnect, and sends no HEADERS behind the GOAWAY. A request made after the connect does not wait behind that queue: it goes out at once and gets the lower stream id, as in node ({earlyId: 3, ownId: 1} in both). If the connect callback makes a request and then calls close(), node's nghttp2 refuses that request (ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_ERROR, rstCode 7), because the GOAWAY is submitted in the same tick. Bun has written its HEADERS by then, so the request finishes, as on main. The requests made before the connect go out one tick later than on main. Removed with this: the stream sweep in the closed branch of #onConnect, which can find no stream now that nothing is submitted before the 'connect' listener runs. The goaway handler and the two closed paths reject the queue through one helper, #rejectPendingRequests.

A paused request no longer gets its buffered data. emitStreamErrorNT calls resume() before it destroys the stream, so main emits one late 'data' to a paused request, also for destroy(err). Node and this PR emit none.

Not changed.

• The event order. The session's 'close' still comes before the stream's events, and a stream is destroyed one tick after destroy() returns. node:http2: destroy streams before the native sweep in session teardown #42717 changes that. If it lands first, its client pre-pass (cancelStreamForSessionDestroy) takes destroyStreamForSessionDestroy and the new default code. If this lands first, the same applies to its rebase.
• The rstCode of pending requests (node:http2: give pending requests cancelled by session.destroy() node's rstCode #37744), and a fully received response that nobody read, which gets no 'close' (node:http2: destroy a closed stream with unread data when its session is torn down #43433).
• The server. ServerHttp2Session#destroy() never synthesized a cancel error, so a server's destroy() already matches node. Two server paths are left as on main, where the open streams end with no error and rstCode 0: the two quiet branches of the server's #onError (node gives the streams the socket error), and an engine-ended server session (trailers that HPACK cannot encode). The client halves are fixed here because this PR changed them. The server halves behave the same on main.

Found on the way, not fixed here.

• A stream that user code close()d with code 0 before the destroy. req.close(); client.destroy(err) reports rstCode 2, node reports 0. req.close(); client.destroy(null, 8) reports 8, node reports 0. req.close(); req.destroy(err) reports 2, node 0. All need _destroy and destroyStreamForSessionDestroy to keep the code of a closed stream (StreamState.Closed). node:http2: destroy a closed stream with unread data when its session is torn down #43433 edits the same _destroy line for StreamState.NativeClosed.
• A client sendTrailers() ignores maxSendHeaderBlockLength. Node emits 'frameError' and destroys the stream with ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_ERROR (rstCode 6).
• A pending request that a quiet socket-error path cancels gets ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_CANCEL with no cause. Node sets the socket error as the cause. destroy() builds that error from its own error argument, which is undefined there. The line belongs to the pending-request path that node:http2: give pending requests cancelled by session.destroy() node's rstCode #37744 changes.
• A peer RST_STREAM with a code other than 0 and 8 on a request with no 'error' listener reports rstCode 0 (emitStreamErrorNT sets the code only when a listener exists). Node reports the code and emits the error. The same path now applies to a request with no 'error' listener whose own oversized trailers failed: main raised an uncaught ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_CANCEL for it, because of the synthesized session error. It now ends with rstCode 0. Node raises an uncaught ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_ERROR.

Each clause of the fix has a test that fails without it (checked by reverting one clause at a time): without the streamError branch the tests for a request's own code and the two paused cases fail, without the #onError line the socket-error tests fail, with the old default code the plain destroy() tests fail, without the NGHTTP2_CANCEL line the test for a request with no 'error' listener fails, without the end handler line the engine-ended test fails, with error !== undefined the server destroy(null, NO_ERROR) test fails, and with the flush back in #onConnect the test for a 'connect' listener added before the first request() fails.

Suites. Release build of this branch: node-http2.test.js 413 pass, h2-conformance.test.ts 70 pass (its snapshot for the sendTrailers re-entrancy case loses the req error ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_CANCEL line), the other nine files in test/js/node/http2/, all 279 vendored test-http2-* and test-diagnostics-channel-http2-* files, grpc-js (27 of 29 files pass, test-resolver and test-tonic fail the same way without the change: public DNS names and the tonic server), undici-h2 11, wpt-h2 20, AsyncLocalStorage.test.ts 62, serve-http2*.test.ts, fetch-http2-client.test.ts, the http2 regression tests. Debug+ASAN build: the new tests, and the vendored files.

Self-reviewed: 13 concerns raised, 9 addressed in the diff (the rstCode of a request with no listener, an engine-ended session, test coverage of the GOAWAY branch, the request's events, a positive control for the paused case, failure paths in the waits). 4 are named above: 2 belong to #37744 and #43433, 2 are listed as found on the way or on purpose.

[robobun]

^{Updated 8:46 PM PT - Sep 19th, 2026}

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[robobun]

Status: the fix is ready for review in #43591.

How I reproduced it. The script in the Notes of the PR body opens one request, waits for the first DATA of its response and calls session.destroy().

• node v26.3.0: req:close(rst=0) ses:close
• bun canary 1.4.3 367d939d9 and a debug build of main 26e7a4b369: ses:close req:error(ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_CANCEL) req:close(rst=8)
• this branch: ses:close req:close(rst=0)

With the src/ of main, 21 of the 26 new tests in test/js/node/http2/node-http2.test.js fail on a debug build. With this branch all of them pass.

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Walkthrough

HTTP/2 session and transport teardown now preserve stream errors, reset codes, and GOAWAY codes. Client requests queued before connection wait for the connect event. Tests cover destruction, transport failures, event ordering, and server teardown.

Changes

HTTP/2 teardown behavior

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Session destruction and stream cleanup src/js/node/http2.ts	Session destruction passes stored errors and reset codes to streams, suppresses unobserved errors, cancels open streams when required, and propagates GOAWAY or destroy codes.
Transport error propagation and connection flushing src/js/node/http2.ts	Client transport errors are stored for open streams. Connection teardown rejects queued requests with ERR_HTTP2_GOAWAY_SESSION. Requests queued before connection flush after existing connect listeners run.
Teardown behavior validation test/js/node/http2/node-http2.test.js, test/js/node/http2/h2-conformance.test.ts	Tests cover destroy arguments, event ordering, reset codes, buffered requests, GOAWAY handling, transport failures, server teardown, and trailer-processing expectations.

Suggested reviewers: cirospaciari

Priority: ➖ Normal

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the main change: matching Node's client HTTP/2 request behavior during session destruction.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description clearly explains the problem, implementation, scope, known differences, and verification results. It does not use the exact template headings, but it provides the required information …
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[claude]

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

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

• 🔴 src/js/node/http2.ts — Clients whose session the engine tears down itself now see every other in-flight response end cleanly, with rstCode 0 and no 'error', where the base cancelled them with ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_CANCEL. The engine's GOAWAY(NO_ERROR) after a header-encode failure (h2_frame_parser.rs:5670) dispatches only onEnd, so the end handler at src/js/node/http2.ts:5312 calls destroy() with no error and the sweep at :5867 now defaults to NGHTTP2_NO_ERROR. Fix: an engine-initiated end must not present truncated responses as complete: pass an error or a non-zero code from the end handler (or stop tearing the session down there, as node does), and cover the sibling engine GOAWAY sites that reach onEnd.

  Extended reasoning...

  A client has several requests in flight on one session. One sendTrailers() (or header submission) fails HPACK encoding in h2_frame_parser.rs:5650-5677. The engine ends that stream with FRAME_SIZE_ERROR, then calls send_go_away(NO_ERROR, emit_error=true). send_go_away at h2_frame_parser.rs:2241-2255 skips onError because rst_code is NO_ERROR and dispatches onEnd only. The client end handler at src/js/node/http2.ts:5312 calls self.destroy() with no arguments. In destroy(), error is undefined so code becomes undefined (:5806-5810); kSessionDestroyError is never set. The sweep at :5867 now sends NGHTTP2_NO_ERROR (base sent NGHTTP2_CANCEL with a synthesized ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_CANCEL). Each open stream reaches streamError with #destroying true (:5040) and is destroyed via destroyStreamForSessionDestroy(undefined, 0, stream) (:5044). _destroy at :2588-2599 sets rstCode 0 and emits no error. The consumer sees 'end' then 'close' with rstCode 0: a partial response body looks complete. Node never ends the session here; only the offending stream errors. The author lists this under 'Not changed' as an…

  Verification: normal (rare trigger, but the outcome is a truncated response silently reported as complete) — acknowledged in diff: the PR description's "Not changed" section says "When the engine ends the session itself with no error (onEnd with no onError first, only after a header block that HPACK cannot encode), open requests now close as after destroy(). Main cancelled them. Node does not end the…

• 🟣 src/js/node/http2.ts — Callers inspecting err.cause on a cancelled pending request cannot see the ECONNRESET that killed the session, while node's closeSession(error) sets it as the cause. On the three quiet paths in #onError (:5425-5440) destroy() runs with no argument, so createPendingStreamCancelError(error) at :5831 receives undefined even though the socket error was just stored at :5424. Fix: build the pending-request cancel error from this[kSessionDestroyError] (which now holds the socket error) so pending and open requests report the same underlying failure on every quiet path.

  Extended reasoning...

  A pooled client session has requests queued behind the connect or the concurrency limit (pending, no stream id) when the peer resets the connection. Node's socketOnError calls session.destroy(error) for the no-listener ECONNRESET case, and closeSession builds new ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_CANCEL(error), so req.on('error') receives an error whose cause.code is 'ECONNRESET'. In Bun, #onError at :5433 takes the quiet branch and calls this.destroy() with no argument. destroy() at :5806 sets code undefined and skips :5818 because error is undefined, then :5831 calls createPendingStreamCancelError(undefined). The pending request is destroyed at :5836 with a cancel error that has no cause. Open streams on the same session do get the socket error via :5044, so the two request kinds on one session disagree about why they failed. A retry layer that checks err.cause?.code === 'ECONNRESET' retries the open request but not the pending one. The PR explicitly moved the socket error into kSessionDestroyError for open streams; the pending path at :5831 still ignores it. Remedy: pass this[kSessionDestroyError]…

  Verification: pre-existing. Triggering condition: a client session with no 'error' listener has requests queued behind SETTINGS_MAX_CONCURRENT_STREAMS (queued at src/js/node/http2.ts:6200-6228 when this.#activeRequestCount >= maxConcurrentStreams) or behind the connect, and the peer resets the connection. Mechanism verified in the head checkout: #onError stores the socket error at :5424… | pre-existing.…

[robobun]

Reply to the two findings outside the diff.

Engine-ended session (the end handler). Correct, and it is reachable: a client sendTrailers() with one trailer value over 64 KB fails the HPACK encode. The engine then sends GOAWAY(NO_ERROR) and dispatches only onEnd. Fixed in fa4c972. The end handler now queues ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_CANCEL with NGHTTP2_CANCEL for each open request before it calls destroy(), so those requests end as they do on main. The new test "and cancels the other requests when the engine ends the session over trailers that HPACK cannot encode" covers it. The request with the bad trailers reports ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_ERROR and rstCode 6, like node v26.3.0. The other request reports ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_CANCEL and rstCode 8. Node keeps the session in this case. I did not change that: the earlier headers of the failed block are already in the HPACK table of the encoder, so the session cannot continue.

The cause of a cancelled pending request on the quiet #onError paths. Correct, and older than this PR. I did not change it here. The line is part of the pending-request path that #37744 changes. The PR Notes list it under "Found on the way".

[claude]

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

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

• 🟣 src/js/node/http2.ts — pre-existing: a client request with no 'error' listener that the peer resets with RST_STREAM(code != 0) still ends as if complete, rstCode 0, 'end' then 'close'. emitStreamErrorNT only assigns stream.rstCode inside its listenerCount("error") > 0 branch (http2.ts:3724-3733), so the unlistened stream reaches _destroy with rstCode undefined and http2.ts:2598 sets it to 0. The new guard at http2.ts:2269 applies the PR's own rule (a cut stream must not read as cleanly closed) only on the session-destroy path. Fix: record the peer's code on the stream before the listener check in emitStreamErrorNT (set stream.rstCode = error for numeric codes regardless of listeners, keep the no-listener error suppression), so both sites agree.

  Extended reasoning...

  Node reports rstCode 8 and no 'error' for a peer RST_STREAM(CANCEL) on an unlistened request; Bun reports rstCode 0. Peer sends RST_STREAM(8) for an open client request that has no 'error' listener. Native dispatches onStreamError; the streamError handler at http2.ts:5041-5051 is not #destroying, so it queues emitStreamErrorNT(self, stream, 8, true, ...). In emitStreamErrorNT http2.ts:3716 does nothing because kSessionDestroyError is unset. http2.ts:3724 listenerCount is 0, so the block that sets stream.rstCode = error at http2.ts:3726 is skipped and error_instance stays undefined. http2.ts:3734-3736 resume the stream and push null, so 'end' fires. http2.ts:3741 calls stream.destroy(undefined, undefined). In _destroy http2.ts:2588-2599 rstCode is undefined and err is null, so this.rstCode becomes 0. Line 2614 is skipped. The stream closes with rstCode 0 and no error: a truncated response is indistinguishable from a complete one. The same happens for any non-zero code (REFUSED_STREAM 7, INTERNAL_ERROR 2). The diff also changes one instance of this from loud to silent: the trailer-overflow…

  Verification: pre-existing — triggered when a peer resets an open client request with a non-CANCEL RST_STREAM code (e.g. REFUSED_STREAM 7, INTERNAL_ERROR 2) and the request has no 'error' listener. The candidate's own example (code 8 / CANCEL) is the one code where this does NOT happen: /home/claude/bun/src/runtime/api/bun/h2_frame_parser.rs:4190-4198 routes a peer CANCEL to onAborted, and the client…

• 🟣 src/js/node/http2.ts — Pre-existing sibling: a server whose engine ends the session over a trailer block HPACK cannot encode still sees its other open streams end as if complete (rstCode 0, 'end' then 'close', no 'error'), while the client now cancels them. The server end handler at http2.ts:4287 calls self.destroy() with no pre-pass, unlike the client's cancelStreamForEngineEnd sweep at http2.ts:5316. Fix: give the server end handler the same forEachStream(cancelStreamForEngineEnd) pre-pass when not #destroying, so every engine-ended session (client or server) cancels its cut streams with ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_CANCEL and rstCode 8.

  Extended reasoning...

  The native send_trailers path in src/runtime/api/bun/h2_frame_parser.rs:5656-5676 is shared by client and server streams (its comment cites test-http2-exceeds-server-trailer-size.js). On an over-limit header it ends only the offending stream with FRAME_SIZE_ERROR and then calls send_go_away(NO_ERROR, emit_error=true), which dispatches onEnd at h2_frame_parser.rs:2250 with no preceding onError. On the client this PR adds cancelStreamForEngineEnd at http2.ts:4897-4900 and runs it from the end handler at http2.ts:5316 so sibling streams get ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_CANCEL and rstCode 8. The server end handler at http2.ts:4285-4288 only calls self.destroy(). ServerHttp2Session#destroy() at http2.ts:4767-4771 computes streamRstCode = kGoawayCode || code || NGHTTP2_NO_ERROR = 0 and calls destroyStreamForSessionDestroy(undefined, 0) for each stream. At http2.ts:2270 that is stream.destroy(undefined); _destroy at http2.ts:2568 does push(null) so the request body emits 'end' and rstCode is 0 at http2.ts:2598. A server handler still reading another request's body on that session sees it end as complete and…

  Verification: pre-existing (the base branch fails the same way by the same route; this PR fixes the client half of the class and leaves the server sibling untouched) — triggered when a server stream calls sendTrailers() with a header block HPACK cannot encode (>64 KB, the exact case of the vendored test-http2-exceeds-server-trailer-size.js) while another stream on the same server session is still open.…

[robobun]

Reply to the two pre-existing findings. Neither changes in this PR. Both are in the PR Notes now.

A peer RST_STREAM on a request with no 'error' listener reports rstCode 0. Correct, and older than this PR. The generic path of emitStreamErrorNT sets the code only when a listener exists. If it set the code without a listener, _destroy would build ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_ERROR from that code and emit it with no listener. So the fix needs a way for _destroy to keep the code and skip the error, and a decision whether bun stays quiet there (node does not). That is a separate change. One case did move with this PR: a request with no 'error' listener whose own oversized trailers fail. Main raised an uncaught ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_CANCEL for it, because of the synthesized session error. It now ends with rstCode 0. Node raises an uncaught ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_ERROR.

The server's end handler. Correct. The other open streams of an engine-ended server session end with no error and rstCode 0. Main does the same, because ServerHttp2Session#destroy() never cancelled its streams. I fixed the client half because this PR changed it. I left the server half as it is on main, so that this PR changes no server behavior beyond the null guard. cancelStreamForEngineEnd works for the server handler as it is.

[claude]

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

• 🔴 src/js/node/http2.ts — Callers who queue a request before the socket connects and destroy the session from their 'connect' listener now get a silent 'close' with rstCode 0 instead of ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_CANCEL. #onConnect submits the queued requests at http2.ts:5403 before the 'connect' tick queued at http2.ts:5385 runs, so by the time the listener calls destroy() the request is open, and the sweep at http2.ts:5870 now uses NGHTTP2_NO_ERROR with no synthesized error. Fix: a request queued before connect must still be cancelled with ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_CANCEL when destroy() runs from a 'connect' listener, e.g. flush #pendingRequests from a 'connect' listener registered by the first request() (node's order) so those streams are still pending in destroy()'s pending loop at http2.ts:5833-5841. …

  Extended reasoning...

  …The PR notes this divergence as found but unfixed; on the base and in node the request errors.

  Trigger: const client = http2.connect(url, () => client.destroy()); const req = client.request({':path':'/'}); req.on('error', reject); req.on('response', resolve); — the listener form of connect() registers the 'connect' listener before request() runs, so it runs first, as in node. Any 'connect' listener that rejects the session (e.g. checks socket.authorized or remoteSettings and destroys) hits the same path.
  request() on a connecting session queues the stream in #pendingRequests (http2.ts:6203-6231), no id.
  Socket connects → #onConnect: http2.ts:5385 queues process.nextTick(emitConnectNT), then http2.ts:5403 #flushPendingRequests() submits the queued request natively (id 1, HEADERS queued) synchronously.
  nextTick: 'connect' emitted → user listener → client.destroy().
  destroy(): error undefined → code undefined; #pendingRequests is already null so the pending loop at http2.ts:5833-5841 cancels nothing; http2.ts:5870 parser.emitErrorToAllStreams(0).
  Native marks stream 1 CLOSED…

  Verification: normal (narrow trigger; acknowledged in diff: the PR description's "Found on the way, not fixed here" lists exactly this case and its statement — node still has a pending request giving ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_CANCEL/rstCode 2, main gives ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_CANCEL/8, this PR gives no error/0 — is accurate) — triggered when a request is made on a still-connecting client session and a 'connect' listener…

• 🟣 src/js/node/http2.ts — pre-existing: a server handler still sees a request body cut by the peer's ECONNRESET end as complete ('end', rstCode 0, no 'error'), while node's socketOnError gives the stream ECONNRESET. The client twin of this path is what this PR fixes at http2.ts:5427, but ServerHttp2Session#onError at http2.ts:4331 and http2.ts:4342 still calls destroy() without storing the transport error, so its sweep passes error undefined. Fix: give open server streams the socket error on both quiet branches, e.g. set this[kSessionDestroyError] = error before destroy() as the client now does, so destroyStreamForSessionDestroy delivers it to listening streams and marks the rest NGHTTP2_CANCEL. The PR text says server streams already match node; on this path they do not.

  Extended reasoning...

  The comment at http2.ts:4337 says 'the destroy still errors any remaining streams', which was only ever true for the client, whose destroy() synthesized a cancel error; the server never did. Trigger: a client sends GOAWAY(NO_ERROR) (session.close()) and then its connection is reset mid-upload, or a standalone server session with no 'error' listener is reset. ServerHttp2Session#onError at 4330 or 4334 calls this.destroy() with no argument. ServerHttp2Session#destroy at 4692 defaults error to NGHTTP2_NO_ERROR, 4718-4720 turn that into code 0 and error undefined, kSessionDestroyError stays unset. 4767 computes streamRstCode = kGoawayCode (0 after GOAWAY(NO_ERROR)) || 0 || 0 = 0. 4769 calls destroyStreamForSessionDestroy(undefined, 0, stream) for every open stream. At 2253 NativeClosed is not set for a natively open stream, so it falls to 2270 stream.destroy(undefined). _destroy at 2568 pushes null; with rstCode 0 no error is created at 2614, callback() runs with no error. A handler that already ended its response and is reading the request body gets 'end' then 'close' with rstCode 0 and…

  Verification: pre-existing (identical on the base commit; the diff does not touch ServerHttp2Session#onError or #destroy, only the client twin and the shared helper's error!=null branches). Triggering condition: a server session whose socket reports ECONNRESET while a request body is still being uploaded, on one of the two "quiet" branches of ServerHttp2Session#onError. Mechanism verified in… | pre-existing…

[robobun]

Reply to the latest two findings.

A request queued before the connect, then destroy() from a 'connect' listener. Correct, and this PR made it visible. Fixed in 78c4ae4 with node's order. The first request() that is queued before the connect adds one 'connect' listener, and that listener submits the queue (node does the same). #onConnect does not submit it any more, and nothing else submits it before that listener ran. Two new tests cover both orders, with the values of node v26.3.0. A 'connect' listener added before the first request() finds the request pending, and destroy() gives it ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_CANCEL. A listener added after it finds the request open, and the request closes with no error. The requests now go out one tick later than on main. All of test/js/node/http2/, the 279 vendored test-http2-* files, grpc-js, serve-http2*.test.ts and fetch-http2-client.test.ts pass on a release build of that commit. The 39 vendored client, connect and session files also pass on the debug+ASAN build.

ServerHttp2Session#onError. Correct, and the same on main. The PR text said that server streams already match node. That holds for destroy(), not for the two quiet branches of the server's #onError. I corrected the text. I did not change the server in this PR: the same line that the client has would work there, but it is a server behavior change that this fix does not need.

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In `@src/js/node/http2.ts`:
- Line 5049: Update the client stream error handling around
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- Line 2269: Update the unobserved open-stream handling in the stream reset
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[claude]

Beyond the inline finding, I also checked whether the new once('connect') flush can strand queued requests when the session is destroyed before the socket connects — destroy() (src/js/node/http2.ts:5830-5841) sweeps #pendingRequests itself, so the never-fired 'connect' listener leaves nothing behind. The code || NGHTTP2_NO_ERROR change is a no-op for destroy(0) since NO_ERROR is 0.

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A confirmed finding on the connect-flush ordering is posted inline, so this run does not approve. Separately from that finding, two adjacent concerns in the same diff were examined and ruled out: (1) a request queued before connect whose session is destroyed before the 'connect' event — the #flushOnConnect listener never runs, but ClientHttp2Session#destroy() independently drains #pendingRequests and destroys each queued request with ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_CANCEL, so no request is stranded and the stale flag is harmless on a destroyed session; (2) the code !== undefined ? code : CANCEL to code || NO_ERROR change in emitErrorToAllStreams — for destroy(0) both the old and new expression yield the same wire code once the CANCEL default is dropped, so only the intended undefined case changes.

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

• 🟡 src/js/node/http2.ts — nit: the pending-queue rejection now exists as a helper, but one copy of the block stays inline. #rejectPendingRequests() (http2.ts:5399-5407) is byte-identical to the loop in the client goaway handler at http2.ts:5288-5294. Fix: call self.#rejectPendingRequests() there, so every site that rejects the connect/concurrency queue with ERR_HTTP2_GOAWAY_SESSION goes through the one helper.

  Extended reasoning...

  The PR extracts #rejectPendingRequests from #onConnect and reuses it in #flushPendingRequestsOnConnect (http2.ts:6297). The client goaway handler at 5288-5294 reads self.#pendingRequests, nulls it, and loops streamRejectedByGoawaySession(pendingRequests[i].req) — the same statements as the helper body at 5400-5406. The handler is a static method on the same class, so self.#rejectPendingRequests() is callable there. No behavior changes; this is a maintenance nit only.

  Verification: nit — triggered whenever anyone maintains the pending-queue rejection logic; no runtime behavior differs. Verified in /home/claude/bun/src/js/node/http2.ts: the PR adds #rejectPendingRequests() at lines 5399-5407 (const pendingRequests = this.#pendingRequests; this.#pendingRequests = null; if (pendingRequests !== null) { for (...) streamRejectedByGoawaySession(pendingRequests[i].req); }) and…

• 🟣 src/js/node/http2.ts — pre-existing, nit: callers of a plain session.destroy() still see a request that never connected report rstCode 8, where node reports 2. http2.ts:5841 assigns code !== undefined ? code : NGHTTP2_CANCEL to each queued request before destroying it with the cancel error, so destroy() gives 8 and destroy(0) gives 0; node's Http2Stream._destroy derives the code from the session's destroy code (0) and, because the cancel error is present and not an AbortError, upgrades it to NGHTTP2_INTERNAL_ERROR. Fix: give a pending request the code node computes: the session code when it is non-zero, otherwise NGHTTP2_INTERNAL_ERROR, for every destroy(error, code) shape, while keeping the ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_CANCEL error it emits today.

  Extended reasoning...

  This is in ClientHttp2Session#destroy, which the PR edits a few lines below (5866-5873) to match node's rstCode for open requests; the pending-request branch above it keeps the old value, so the table in the description is right for open requests but the queued ones still differ. A user calls http2.connect(url), makes a request before the socket connects (it is queued at http2.ts:6212-6240 with no id), and calls session.destroy() before 'connect'. destroy() reaches http2.ts:5834-5844: code is undefined (5812-5816), so line 5841 sets req.rstCode = NGHTTP2_CANCEL (8) and line 5842 destroys it with createPendingStreamCancelError(). _destroy at 2588-2601 keeps rstCode 8. The request emits 'error' ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_CANCEL and 'close' with rstCode 8. Node v26 (lib/internal/http2/core.js Http2Stream._destroy) computes the code for a stream that is not closed as sessionState.goawayCode || sessionState.destroyCode, which is 0 for destroy(), and because err is the cancel error and not an AbortError it replaces NGHTTP2_NO_ERROR with NGHTTP2_INTERNAL_ERROR, so node reports 2. The same applies to…

  Verification: pre-existing — triggered when a client makes a request before the socket connects (queued with no id at /home/claude/bun/src/js/node/http2.ts:6205-6240) and then calls plain session.destroy() before 'connect'. Mechanism verified: ClientHttp2Session#destroy() sets code = undefined for destroy() (line 5812-5816), then the pending-request branch at line 5841 does `req.rstCode = code !==…

[robobun]

Reply to the two findings outside the diff.

The copy of the loop in the goaway handler. Done in 2a3bf06: the handler calls #rejectPendingRequests().

rstCode 8 on a pending request after a plain destroy(). Correct, and older than this PR. #37744 changes exactly that line to node's values, so I left it alone here. The PR Notes list it under "Not changed".

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🟠 Major · Do not retain the socket error for clean GOAWAY teardown. · http2.ts:5423

src/js/node/http2.ts:5423
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Do not retain the socket error for clean GOAWAY teardown.

Line 5423 stores error before the #closed and isEconnresetAfterGoaway() branches. If a peer sends GOAWAY and then closes with ECONNRESET, destroy() runs without an error but deferred stream teardown reads kSessionDestroyError and emits ECONNRESET on observed requests. Store the error only after the clean-teardown branches.

Proposed fix

     this[bunHTTP2Socket] = null;
-    this[kSessionDestroyError] = error;
     if (this.#closed) {
       this.destroy();
       return;
     }
     if (isEconnresetAfterGoaway(this, error)) {
       this.destroy();
       return;
     }
+    this[kSessionDestroyError] = error;

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In `@src/js/node/http2.ts` at line 5423, Move the assignment to
kSessionDestroyError in the session teardown method so it occurs only after the
`#closed` and isEconnresetAfterGoaway() early-return branches; clean GOAWAY
teardown must not retain or propagate the socket error, while other teardown
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In `@src/js/node/http2.ts`:
- Line 5423: Move the assignment to kSessionDestroyError in the session teardown
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early-return branches; clean GOAWAY teardown must not retain or propagate the
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[robobun]

Reply to the CodeRabbit finding on #onError ("Do not retain the socket error for clean GOAWAY teardown"). Not changed, on purpose.

• The #closed branch. Node gives the open requests the socket error there too. Measured on node v26.3.0 with a real socket: the client calls close(), then the peer resets the connection, and the request reports ECONNRESET with rstCode 2. The proposed move would end that request with no error and rstCode 0.
• ECONNRESET behind a GOAWAY. Node gives the request nothing there (rstCode 0, no 'error'), so a response that the reset cut short reads as complete. Main reports an error to that request today (ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_CANCEL, rstCode 8). This PR keeps an error and makes it the real one. The source comment on that line, the test "when a GOAWAY(NO_ERROR) closed the session" and the PR Notes ("Differences from node that are on purpose") say so.

The session itself stays quiet on both branches, as before.

[claude]

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