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One-shot request body replay refusal: Retry proceeds before a request body was opened · case 01

Retry proceeds before a request body was opened

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ROOT CAUSE

Retry proceeds before a request body was opened

THE FAILURE

Retry proceeds before a request body was opened

Unsuccessful approach: The attempted repair changes the faulty site to elif not opened and failed: but still violates a regression oracle.

Case contract

Events open, send(nonnegative bytes), fail(known_unprocessed bool), retry, succeed. State tracks whether any bytes were emitted by a one-shot stream. A failure known unprocessed does not restore consumed stream bytes. Only an open stream with zero consumed bytes may retry. Terminal success closes the logical request. Output one decision per retry and terminal success.

Why this case matters

Offline deterministic model of HTTP request retries.

1 / The failure

Exit 1

"""Failure Map reference implementation. Python standard library only."""
import json

N = 1
observations = []
def solve(events):
    opened = False; consumed = 0; failed = False; terminal = False; out = []
    for e in events:
        if e[0] == 'open':
            opened = True
            consumed = 0
            failed = False
            terminal = False
        elif e[0] == 'send' and opened and not terminal:
            consumed += e[1]
        elif e[0] == 'fail' and opened and not terminal:
            failed = True
        elif e[0] == 'retry':
            if terminal:
                out.append('terminal')
            elif opened:
                out.append('no-body')
            elif not failed:
                out.append('no-failure')
            elif consumed != 0:
                out.append('unreplayable')
            else:
                out.append('retry')
                failed = False
        elif e[0] == 'succeed' and opened and not terminal:
            terminal = True
            out.append('success')
    return out
def check(label, actual, expected):
    observations.append({"check": label, "actual": actual, "expected": expected, "passed": actual == expected})
check('0', solve([]), [])
check('1', solve([('retry',)]), ['no-body'])
check('2', solve([('open',),('retry',),('fail',True),('retry',),('retry',)]), ['no-failure','retry','no-failure'])
check('3', solve([('open',),('send',1),('send',0),('fail',True),('retry',)]), ['unreplayable'])
check('4', solve([('open',),('send',N),('fail',False),('retry',),('open',),('fail',False),('retry',)]), ['unreplayable','retry'])
check('5', solve([('open',),('succeed',),('retry',),('open',),('fail',True),('retry',)]), ['success','terminal','retry'])
check('6', solve([('open',),('send',0),('fail',False),('retry',),('succeed',),('retry',)]), ['retry','success','terminal'])
print(json.dumps({"observations": observations, "passed": all(x["passed"] for x in observations)}, ensure_ascii=False))
raise SystemExit(0 if all(x["passed"] for x in observations) else 1)

Boundary fixture	Actual	Expected	Outcome
0	`[]`	`[]`	Passed
1	`['no-failure']`	`['no-body']`	Failed
2	`['no-body', 'no-body', 'no-body']`	`['no-failure', 'retry', 'no-failure']`	Failed
3	`['no-body']`	`['unreplayable']`	Failed
4	`['no-body', 'no-body']`	`['unreplayable', 'retry']`	Failed
5	`['success', 'terminal', 'no-body']`	`['success', 'terminal', 'retry']`	Failed
6	`['no-body', 'success', 'terminal']`	`['retry', 'success', 'terminal']`	Failed

SHA-256 / 19fa305545b6263b604f2f92ceb9f9a971d6bcfec5975325033be9f1b1424b5d

2 / The unsuccessful fix

Exit 1

"""Failure Map reference implementation. Python standard library only."""
import json

N = 1
observations = []
def solve(events):
    opened = False; consumed = 0; failed = False; terminal = False; out = []
    for e in events:
        if e[0] == 'open':
            opened = True
            consumed = 0
            failed = False
            terminal = False
        elif e[0] == 'send' and opened and not terminal:
            consumed += e[1]
        elif e[0] == 'fail' and opened and not terminal:
            failed = True
        elif e[0] == 'retry':
            if terminal:
                out.append('terminal')
            elif not opened and failed:
                out.append('no-body')
            elif not failed:
                out.append('no-failure')
            elif consumed != 0:
                out.append('unreplayable')
            else:
                out.append('retry')
                failed = False
        elif e[0] == 'succeed' and opened and not terminal:
            terminal = True
            out.append('success')
    return out
def check(label, actual, expected):
    observations.append({"check": label, "actual": actual, "expected": expected, "passed": actual == expected})
check('0', solve([]), [])
check('1', solve([('retry',)]), ['no-body'])
check('2', solve([('open',),('retry',),('fail',True),('retry',),('retry',)]), ['no-failure','retry','no-failure'])
check('3', solve([('open',),('send',1),('send',0),('fail',True),('retry',)]), ['unreplayable'])
check('4', solve([('open',),('send',N),('fail',False),('retry',),('open',),('fail',False),('retry',)]), ['unreplayable','retry'])
check('5', solve([('open',),('succeed',),('retry',),('open',),('fail',True),('retry',)]), ['success','terminal','retry'])
check('6', solve([('open',),('send',0),('fail',False),('retry',),('succeed',),('retry',)]), ['retry','success','terminal'])
print(json.dumps({"observations": observations, "passed": all(x["passed"] for x in observations)}, ensure_ascii=False))
raise SystemExit(0 if all(x["passed"] for x in observations) else 1)

Boundary fixture	Actual	Expected	Outcome
0	`[]`	`[]`	Passed
1	`['no-failure']`	`['no-body']`	Failed
2	`['no-failure', 'retry', 'no-failure']`	`['no-failure', 'retry', 'no-failure']`	Passed
3	`['unreplayable']`	`['unreplayable']`	Passed
4	`['unreplayable', 'retry']`	`['unreplayable', 'retry']`	Passed
5	`['success', 'terminal', 'retry']`	`['success', 'terminal', 'retry']`	Passed
6	`['retry', 'success', 'terminal']`	`['retry', 'success', 'terminal']`	Passed

SHA-256 / 40862ceecf10c757bbf45f85aeaed70b47c1fef81d8498c219f96927aaab59f8

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Verification & scope

Stipulated bounded simulator, not a complete HTTP implementation or a standards conformance claim. This reproducer isolates one failure mechanism. Results cover the supplied fixtures. Variants within a family share a test contract and should remain grouped when constructing evaluation splits. Related mechanisms with a shared evaluation_group must also remain together; these controlled models are not independent production incidents.

Observations recorded using Python 3.12.14 at 2026-09-29T14:41:43.113706+00:00.

Case digest / e5f251c522adc8cfa5ed33ba9454a470f3717bb3d960a25ba4a1f63ab8e6a925