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One-shot request body replay refusal: A successful retry admission leaves its failure token reusable · case 01

A successful retry admission leaves its failure token reusable

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ROOT CAUSE

A successful retry admission leaves its failure token reusable

VERIFIED REPAIR

Consume the failure token exactly once.

Unsuccessful approach: The attempted repair changes the faulty site to failed = consumed == 0 elif e[0] == 'succeed' 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 not opened:
                out.append('no-body')
            elif not failed:
                out.append('no-failure')
            elif consumed != 0:
                out.append('unreplayable')
            else:
                out.append('retry')
                failed = True
        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 fixtureActualExpectedOutcome
0[][]Passed
1['no-body']['no-body']Passed
2['no-failure', 'retry', 'retry']['no-failure', 'retry', 'no-failure']Failed
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 / fe6dc36896eb6527784ef56e682c47621f04036d962a67c12dc9f9e7b7d4fb2e

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:
                out.append('no-body')
            elif not failed:
                out.append('no-failure')
            elif consumed != 0:
                out.append('unreplayable')
            else:
                out.append('retry')
                failed = consumed == 0
        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 fixtureActualExpectedOutcome
0[][]Passed
1['no-body']['no-body']Passed
2['no-failure', 'retry', 'retry']['no-failure', 'retry', 'no-failure']Failed
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 / 2fb4bae8c4cb5137448b760660a2ce45e86636ef13051dd964e969cac856a85d

3 / The verified repair

Exit 0
"""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:
                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 fixtureActualExpectedOutcome
0[][]Passed
1['no-body']['no-body']Passed
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 / c12e429efcab33f8b6acc89e00d7b6391bf9095add0ab1702fc47db2b6155519

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 2026-09-29T14:41:43.113234+00:00.

Case digest / 505e5f51dcaf984e312d34e7ee88a0f6af64fa3bc6a7826d03b6d2b9cd674ce1