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Problem

  • When sendTrailers() throws for a pendingTrailers block, the throw leaves the native callback: uncaught TypeError: HTTP/1 Connection specific headers are forbidden: "connection" at onStreamTrailers. The response never ends.
  • When the native side refuses the block, sendTrailers() answers false. [kTrailers] (src/js/internal/quic/quic.ts:2611) drops the answer: no trailers, no end of stream, no error.

Fix

  • [kTrailers] takes Node v26.10.0's text (nodejs/node#65863). A throw destroys the stream with the error, a false with ERR_QUIC_STREAM_ABORTED.
  • Correct because the caller made no call that can throw or answer, so stream.closed reports the failure.
  • Verified: 3 new tests in test/js/node/quic/quic-stream.test.ts (the 2 for a refused block fail on main), test/js/node/quic/ and the 235 vendored test-quic-* files.
  • Self-reviewed: 0 concerns on this hunk (Notes).

Background

  • Trailers are a header block after the body. The native side asks for them (onStreamTrailers) when the body is written.
  • sendTrailers() throws when buildNgHeaderString refuses the block (a connection field). It answers false when the native side does (U+0100 in a value).
  • quic.ts ports Node v26.3.0. This hunk is from v26.10.0.
  • Considered a native reset when lsquic refuses the block: it cannot see the throw.

Downsides

  • After a refused block, the client of a writer response reads the body and a FIN, with no error. destroy() does this on purpose (node:quic on lsquic — Node v26 compat, HTTP/3 #32602).
  • Not covered: a buffer or string body never asks for trailers (main too). Its pendingTrailers is dropped silently, and Node sends it.
  • Sending pendingTrailers runs 3 more bytecode instructions (18 to 21). Builtins grow by 251 bytes, .text by 0.
Notes

Origin. Found by a read of the code. No user reported it.

Real Node. No official Node build ships node:quic, so no reviewer can download a binary that runs these. The Node rows come from each release's own lib/internal/quic and src/quic, built out of tree against the official binary. The server sets pendingTrailers, writes body and ends. onwanttrailers is set.

pendingTrailers build server stream.closed client
{ connection: "close" } Node v26.3.0 pending, uncaught ERR_HTTP2_INVALID_CONNECTION_HEADERS read pending
Node v26.10.0 rejects ERR_HTTP2_INVALID_CONNECTION_HEADERS read pending
Bun main pending, uncaught TypeError read pending
this PR rejects ERR_HTTP2_INVALID_CONNECTION_HEADERS reads body, stream ends
{ "x-bad": "a\u0100b" } Node v26.10.0 resolves (its native side sends the block) reads body, stream ends
Bun main pending, no error read pending
this PR rejects ERR_QUIC_STREAM_ABORTED reads body, stream ends

With a body from setBody([chunk]), this PR gives the same two rejections on the server. The client reads body and then gets ERR_QUIC_STREAM_RESET.

Not in this PR. Two more places send a header block for the caller. Both are left as they are, on purpose.

  • create*Stream({ headers }): a refused block rejects the create and leaves the opened stream behind. Node v26.10.0 does the same, because #createStream opens the stream before it checks its options. A change there moves quic.ts away from Node, and changes of that kind were declined as bug-for-bug in the review of node:quic on lsquic — Node v26 compat, HTTP/3 #32602 (1, 2). It needs a maintainer's decision first.
  • A block queued on a pending stream that lsquic refuses when it opens the stream (bind_raw). node:quic: reset the stream when lsquic_stream_write fails instead of retrying on every tick #42892 works on the native refusal path, and a second PR on the same functions would collide with it.
  • One implementation of both, with its measurements, is on the branch robobun/c5650134/quic-open-stream-header-block. It is not opened as a PR.

Tests. The describe pendingTrailers has three tests. The first sets a valid block. The client gets the trailers and the body, and the server stream's closed resolves. It passes on main too. The other two wait for the answer to a later request before they read the server stream's closed state. The server asks a stream for its trailers when the body leaves, which is before it gets that request. On main the test for a throw fails with the uncaught TypeError, the test for false with "open" in place of "ERR_QUIC_STREAM_ABORTED". The test for a throw requires that the client reads body to a normal end. The test for false waits for the client's read to end and does not pin how, because #42892 makes the native side reset such a stream.

FIN after the destroy. QuicStream::destroy (src/runtime/node/quic/stream.rs) ends a response that the stream wrote and ended: it drops the owed trailers and closes the stream, which sends FIN. The first test in quic-stream.test.ts (from #32602) requires this for the other branch of [kTrailers], where onwanttrailers throws. That branch leaves the same state as a pendingTrailers block that cannot be sent. With a reset in place of the FIN, the client reads body and then its read rejects with ERR_QUIC_STREAM_RESET (tried on loopback, not in this PR).

Bodies that never ask for trailers. A writer body and a body from setBody([chunk]) end through end_write, which asks the stream for its trailers. A buffer or a string passed to setBody(), and a buffer passed as body to create*Stream(), end with FIN: attach_source (src/runtime/node/quic/stream.rs) and open_stream (src/runtime/node/quic/session.rs) set PendingEnd::Fin and do not read wants_trailers. For these bodies onwanttrailers is not called and pendingTrailers is not sent, valid or not, with no error. That is so on main and with this PR. Node v26.3.0 and v26.10.0 send the trailers for each of these bodies. This PR does not change it, because the cause is native and separate from a refused block.

Measurements. Release builds of main c814409 with and without the hunk: stripped bun 106,850,016 bytes on both, .text 81,315,157 on both, .bun_builtins 2,689,491 to 2,689,742. [kTrailers] bytecode: 33 to 52 instructions in total, 18 to 21 on the path that sends the trailers, 24 on both for the onwanttrailers path.

Suites. quic-stream.test.ts: 11 runs on the debug build and 30 runs on a release build of main with this hunk, 0 failures. quic-endpoint.test.ts, quic-sni.test.ts. Vendored test-quic-*: 233 of 235 pass on the debug build. The other two, test-quic-session-initial-rtt and test-quic-callback-error-onstream, use no trailers and depend on timing (the first asserts an RTT under 10 ms). Both pass 20 of 20 on release builds of main and of main with this hunk.

[kTrailers] takes the text of Node v26.10.0 (nodejs/node#65863). A throw
from sendTrailers() no longer leaves the native callback, and a false
answer is no longer dropped: both destroy the stream, so closed rejects
and the response ends.
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How it was reproduced, on a release build of main (c814409) and on a debug build of main (5900354):

  • A server stream sets pendingTrailers = { connection: "close" }, writes a body and ends. onwanttrailers is set. sendTrailers() throws out of onStreamTrailers (uncaught TypeError), and the client's read stays pending.
  • With pendingTrailers = { "x-bad": "a\u0100b" } there is no error. The server stream's closed stays pending, and the client's read stays pending.

Two of the three new tests in test/js/node/quic/quic-stream.test.ts are these two cases. Both fail on main and pass with this PR. The third test sets a block that can be sent. It passes on main and with this PR.

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When sending pending QUIC trailers, the stream is now destroyed if sending throws or returns false. Tests cover invalid trailers, stream close errors, and client response body behavior.

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Pending QUIC trailers

Layer / File(s) Summary
Handle pending trailer send failures
src/js/internal/quic/quic.ts, test/js/node/quic/quic-stream.test.ts
The stream is destroyed with the thrown error, or with ERR_QUIC_STREAM_ABORTED when sending returns false. Tests check invalid trailer cases and the resulting stream close and client body behavior.

Suggested reviewers: cirospaciari

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 2bafe

The fix to destroy the stream on trailer send failure looks sound. One new test does not fully check that the client read settles, so it could miss a regression. This is a small test-only fix that can be made before or after merge.

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

Beyond the inline findings, I also checked the sibling onwanttrailers branch in [kTrailers] (it already runs through safeCallbackInvoke, which destroys the stream on a throw, so the new try/catch brings the pendingTrailers branch to the same contract) and the test's ordering assumption (the server's trailer attempt fires from onStreamTrailers when the body is flushed, before the second request's headers are answered, so reading closed after that answer is not a race).

Extended reasoning...

The change wraps the single pendingTrailers send in src/js/internal/quic/quic.ts:2611-2624 so that a thrown validation error or a false native result destroys the stream, matching the cited Node v26.10.0 lines, and adds two failure-path tests in test/js/node/quic/quic-stream.test.ts. It touches no auth, crypto or input-parsing surface; the error goes through the existing ERR_QUIC_STREAM_ABORTED wrapper over $ERR_QUIC_STREAM_ABORTED. The inline findings about client-visible wire behavior and the missing success-path test are what a human should weigh, so this is a ruled-out note rather than an approval.

Comment thread src/js/internal/quic/quic.ts
Comment thread test/js/node/quic/quic-stream.test.ts
A new test sets a valid pendingTrailers block. It checks that the client
gets the trailers and the body, and that the server stream closes with
no error.

The test for a block that the native side refuses now waits for the
client's read to end. The helper no longer fails when that read ends
with an error, because the native side decides how it ends.
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Updated 2:44 PM PT - Oct 18th, 2026

✅ @robobun, your commit e7121bd3b1d155a74a6fb05e4c6973c5c72cb6f9 passed in Build #128459! 🎉


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

The new success-path test for a valid pendingTrailers block addresses the gap I noted on the previous push. Beyond the inline finding, I also checked that this.destroy(error) inside the new catch cannot itself throw back out of the native onStreamTrailers callback — destroy() only throws while validating options, which [kTrailers] never passes, and it is a no-op if the stream is already destroying.

Extended reasoning...

The diff changes only the pendingTrailers branch of QuicStream[kTrailers] in src/js/internal/quic/quic.ts (try/catch around sendTrailers, destroy on throw or falsy result, clear pendingTrailers only on success) and adds three tests in test/js/node/quic/quic-stream.test.ts; no security-sensitive surface is touched. The runtime change is small and mirrors the cited Node v26.10.0 control flow, but the inline finding about the setBody path never reaching this branch is pre-existing and worth a maintainer's call on scope.

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