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Forwarded chain appends current hop · case 01

Forwarded chain appends current hop.

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ROOT CAUSE

The faulty implementation uses `[hop]+chain` for the forwarded-chain-appends-current-hop decision.

VERIFIED REPAIR

Apply the explicit forwarded-chain-appends-current-hop contract, including the tested boundary and negative cases.

Unsuccessful approach: The attempted repair uses `[hop]` and still violates a separate fixture.

Case contract

Bounded offline decision model: forwarded chain appends current hop. Inputs are already validated protocol fields; the explicit fixtures define the supported policy, not a complete protocol implementation.

Why this case matters

This deterministic proxy forwarding model isolates the forwarded-chain-appends-current-hop policy at a network component boundary.

1 / The failure

Exit 1
"""Failure Map reference implementation. Python standard library only."""
import json
import ipaddress
import re
from urllib.parse import urlsplit, urljoin
N = 1
observations = []
def solve(chain, hop):
    return [hop]+chain
def check(label, actual, expected):
    observations.append({"check": label, "actual": actual, "expected": expected, "passed": actual == expected})
_fixtures = ["check('fixture 1', solve(['a'], 'b'), ['a', 'b'])", "check('fixture 2', solve([], 'a'), ['a'])", "check('fixture 3', solve(['a', 'b'], 'c'), ['a', 'b', 'c'])", "check('fixture 4', solve(['a'], 'a'), ['a', 'a'])"]
for _line in _fixtures[N % len(_fixtures):] + _fixtures[:N % len(_fixtures)]:
    exec(_line)
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
fixture 2['a']['a']Passed
fixture 3['c', 'a', 'b']['a', 'b', 'c']Failed
fixture 4['a', 'a']['a', 'a']Passed
fixture 1['b', 'a']['a', 'b']Failed

SHA-256 / 8fd45df04fbb206db0c2761991144a41ee4f0867aa5674a71db668c90991aa94

2 / The unsuccessful fix

Exit 1
"""Failure Map reference implementation. Python standard library only."""
import json
import ipaddress
import re
from urllib.parse import urlsplit, urljoin
N = 1
observations = []
def solve(chain, hop):
    return [hop]
def check(label, actual, expected):
    observations.append({"check": label, "actual": actual, "expected": expected, "passed": actual == expected})
_fixtures = ["check('fixture 1', solve(['a'], 'b'), ['a', 'b'])", "check('fixture 2', solve([], 'a'), ['a'])", "check('fixture 3', solve(['a', 'b'], 'c'), ['a', 'b', 'c'])", "check('fixture 4', solve(['a'], 'a'), ['a', 'a'])"]
for _line in _fixtures[N % len(_fixtures):] + _fixtures[:N % len(_fixtures)]:
    exec(_line)
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
fixture 2['a']['a']Passed
fixture 3['c']['a', 'b', 'c']Failed
fixture 4['a']['a', 'a']Failed
fixture 1['b']['a', 'b']Failed

SHA-256 / d94e33500fab4199e08bed735131ea8be6fdc5f860a3b3cf360c6dd94a29323a

3 / The verified repair

Exit 0
"""Failure Map reference implementation. Python standard library only."""
import json
import ipaddress
import re
from urllib.parse import urlsplit, urljoin
N = 1
observations = []
def solve(chain, hop):
    return chain+[hop]
def check(label, actual, expected):
    observations.append({"check": label, "actual": actual, "expected": expected, "passed": actual == expected})
_fixtures = ["check('fixture 1', solve(['a'], 'b'), ['a', 'b'])", "check('fixture 2', solve([], 'a'), ['a'])", "check('fixture 3', solve(['a', 'b'], 'c'), ['a', 'b', 'c'])", "check('fixture 4', solve(['a'], 'a'), ['a', 'a'])"]
for _line in _fixtures[N % len(_fixtures):] + _fixtures[:N % len(_fixtures)]:
    exec(_line)
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
fixture 2['a']['a']Passed
fixture 3['a', 'b', 'c']['a', 'b', 'c']Passed
fixture 4['a', 'a']['a', 'a']Passed
fixture 1['a', 'b']['a', 'b']Passed

SHA-256 / 7ee23c1d522acf0f547619f7ca84e8d1f0c4daeb96f88ecc7bed71793b40678c

Verification & scope

Bounded deterministic policy model over validated inputs; not a complete protocol stack or an interoperability claim. The five variants rotate the same explicit fixture set. 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 2026-09-29T14:38:07.128698+00:00.

Case digest / 6010cb891432cd212d5363524f7d6ecaf746ca53c24bcf82e9e6313095b20a8a