quico 0.4.0 → 0.7.0

package/src/h3_client.js

@@ -14,8 +14,15 @@
 
 import dns from 'node:dns';
 import { DEBUG } from './utils.js';
-import { H3Connection } from './h3.js';
+import { H3Connection, H3_ERR_NAME } from './h3.js';
 import { createQuicClientSocket } from './quic_socket.js';
+import { parseVersionList } from './quic_version.js';
+import { checkConnectionOptions, CONNECTION_OPTIONS } from './quic_connection.js';
+import { trailerFields, formatPriority } from './http_common.js';
+
+// What the body takes before write() says wait — written while connecting,
+// or not yet sent on the stream.
+var BODY_HIGH_WATER = 64 * 1024;
 
 
 // ============================================================
@@ -40,6 +47,11 @@ function request(options, callback) {
   // one transport this library exists for the only one that can't reach a
   // self-signed or private-CA server (H2/H1.1 fallbacks honour the option).
   var rejectUnauthorized = options.rejectUnauthorized !== false;
+  // Checked now, as https.request checks its options: thrown here, not from
+  // inside the socket's callback later.
+  parseVersionList(options.quicVersions, 'quicVersions');
+  // The connection options it sets, checked now (thrown here, as above).
+  (function () { var o = {}; for (var k in CONNECTION_OPTIONS) if (k !== 'carefulResume' && options[k] != null) o[k] = options[k]; checkConnectionOptions(o, 'request'); })();
   var ca = options.ca || null;
   var port = options.port || 443;
   var path = options.path || '/';
@@ -65,6 +77,28 @@ function request(options, callback) {
   var udpSocket = existingConn ? existingConn.udpSocket : null;
   var streamId = null; // assigned when connection is ready
   var connected = existingConn ? true : false;
+  var requestSent = false;   // HEADERS went out on streamId
+  var readyDone = false;     // the stream exists and the request is this one's to send (ready)
+  // 0-RTT (RFC 9001 §4.6, RFC 8470): with earlyData and a saved session, a
+  // request that may be replayed safely — GET, HEAD, OPTIONS — goes before
+  // the handshake ends. res.earlyData: 'accepted' (it went early and was
+  // taken), 'rejected' (refused — by the server's TLS, or by a 425 — and
+  // sent again after the handshake), null (not tried).
+  // Decided when a connection is made (startConnection): the session is
+  // read there — the unified client's is taken from its agent on that read,
+  // and a request on a connection already open must not use one up.
+  var earlyWanted = false;
+  var earlyTried = false;     // set up on the early key (onEarly)
+  var earlyResult = null;
+  var earlyBody = null;       // what went early, to send again if refused
+  var handshaken = false;     // onConnect has come
+  var retry425 = false;       // the server answered the early request 425: again, after the handshake
+  var after425 = null;        // to run at onConnect, when the 425 came first
+  var streaming = false;     // HEADERS sent before the body ended: DATA follows as written
+  var reqBodyBytes = 0, needDrain = false, drainWaiting = false;
+  var reqTrailers = null;
+  var finished = false;      // the response ended or failed
+  var cancelled = false;     // destroy() was called
 
   var clientReq = {
     on: function (event, fn) {
@@ -72,22 +106,70 @@ function request(options, callback) {
       return clientReq;
     },
 
+    // The body, as node:http's: held while connecting (write() false past
+    // BODY_HIGH_WATER, then 'drain'), then streamed — HEADERS on the first
+    // write once the stream exists, DATA as written, with the stream's
+    // backpressure.
     write: function (chunk) {
+      if (finished || cancelled || reqFinished) return false;
       if (typeof chunk === 'string') chunk = new TextEncoder().encode(chunk);
+      if (!chunk || chunk.byteLength === 0) return !needDrain;
+      if (!streaming && readyDone && !requestSent) startStreaming();
+      if (streaming) return streamOut(chunk);
       reqBody.push(chunk);
+      reqBodyBytes += chunk.byteLength;
+      if (reqBodyBytes >= BODY_HIGH_WATER) { needDrain = true; return false; }
       return true;
     },
 
-    end: function (chunk) {
-      if (chunk) clientReq.write(chunk);
+    // RFC 9218: the `priority` header while the request has not gone, a
+    // PRIORITY_UPDATE on the control stream after.
+    setPriority: function (p) {
+      if (requestSent) { if (h3 && !finished && !cancelled) h3.sendPriorityUpdate(streamId, p); return; }
+      for (var k in headers) if (k.toLowerCase() === 'priority') delete headers[k];
+      var v = formatPriority(p);
+      if (v) headers.priority = v;
+    },
+
+    // `trailers` (node:http's addTrailers, through the unified client): a
+    // HEADERS frame after the body, ending the stream (RFC 9114 §4.1).
+    end: function (chunk, trailers) {
+      if (reqFinished) return clientReq;
+      if (typeof chunk === 'string') chunk = new TextEncoder().encode(chunk);
+      reqTrailers = trailerFields(trailers);
+      if (streaming) {
+        reqFinished = true;
+        if (chunk && chunk.byteLength) h3.sendBody(streamId, chunk, !reqTrailers);
+        else if (!reqTrailers) h3.sendBody(streamId, null, true);
+        if (reqTrailers) h3.sendHeaders(streamId, reqTrailers, true);
+        return clientReq;
+      }
+      if (chunk && chunk.byteLength) { reqBody.push(chunk); reqBodyBytes += chunk.byteLength; }
       reqFinished = true;
-      if (connected) sendRequest();
+      if (readyDone) sendRequest();
       return clientReq;
     },
 
+    // Cancel this request. Its stream is what ends (RFC 9114 §4.1.1:
+    // STOP_SENDING and RESET_STREAM with H3_REQUEST_CANCELLED) — not the
+    // connection, which may carry other requests (a pooled one does). This
+    // closed the whole connection, every other request on it included.
+    // A connection that is this request's alone is closed with it.
     destroy: function () {
-      if (quic) quic.close(0, 'client destroy');
-      if (udpSocket) { try { udpSocket.close(); } catch (e) {} }
+      if (cancelled || finished) return;
+      cancelled = true;
+      var conn = clientReq._connection || existingConn;
+      if (conn && conn._streamHandlers && streamId !== null) delete conn._streamHandlers[streamId];
+      // Still connecting: closed in onConnect (or ends by itself if the
+      // handshake fails) — closing the socket under a handshake in progress
+      // would leave its timers sending into a closed socket.
+      if (autoClose) { if (quic) closeConnection(); return; }
+      // Sent or not: its stream ID is taken, and a later request's higher
+      // one opens it at the server (RFC 9000 §3.2) — where nothing would
+      // ever end it, a stream of the connection's limit lost for good. So it
+      // is cancelled either way; never written, its RESET_STREAM carries a
+      // final size of 0 (sendRequest() will not run).
+      if (h3 && streamId !== null) h3.abortStream(streamId, 0x10c);   // H3_REQUEST_CANCELLED
     }
   };
 
@@ -95,14 +177,26 @@ function request(options, callback) {
   var clientRes = {
     statusCode: 0,
     headers: {},
+    trailers: {},
+    rawTrailers: [],
     _listeners: {},
     _headersReceived: false,
 
     on: function (event, fn) {
       (clientRes._listeners[event] = clientRes._listeners[event] || []).push(fn);
       return clientRes;
-    }
+    },
+
+    // The body's flow-control credit, returned as the layer above reads it
+    // rather than as it arrives (h3's holdBody) — as the server does with a
+    // request body. Credited on delivery, a response nobody read yet was
+    // taken in as fast as the server could send it: a slow consumer of a
+    // large download held all of it in memory, and the server never slowed.
+    _holdBody: function () { if (respConn && respConn.h3) respConn.h3.holdBody(streamId); },
+    _creditBody: function (n) { if (respConn && respConn.h3) respConn.h3.creditBody(streamId, n); },
+    _releaseBody: function () { if (respConn && respConn.h3) respConn.h3.releaseBody(streamId); }
   };
+  var respConn = null;   // the connection the response comes on (setupResponseHandlers)
 
   function emit(obj, event, data) {
     var listeners = (obj._listeners || obj)[event] || [];
@@ -122,7 +216,7 @@ function request(options, callback) {
     streamId = allocateStreamId(existingConn);
     installSharedHandlers(existingConn);
     setupResponseHandlers(existingConn);
-    if (reqFinished) sendRequest();
+    ready(existingConn);
   } else {
     resolveAndConnect(hostname, port);
   }
@@ -147,20 +241,122 @@ function request(options, callback) {
 
 
   function startConnection(remoteIp, remotePort) {
+    if (cancelled) return;
+    var sessionNow = options.session || null;
+    earlyWanted = options.earlyData === true && !!sessionNow &&
+                  (method === 'GET' || method === 'HEAD' || method === 'OPTIONS');
     udpSocket = createQuicClientSocket({
       remoteIp: remoteIp,
       remotePort: remotePort,
-      hostname: hostname,
+      // SNI and the name the certificate is checked for: tls.connect's
+      // servername where given.
+      hostname: options.servername || hostname,
       rejectUnauthorized: rejectUnauthorized,
       ca: ca,
+      // A client certificate, for a server that asks (https.request's names).
+      key: options.key || null, cert: options.cert || null, passphrase: options.passphrase,
+      // A saved session to resume with, and the request's 'session' event for
+      // each the server sends — as https.request does (its socket's
+      // 'session'). Only the request that opened the connection has one: a
+      // request on a connection already open sees no handshake.
+      session: sessionNow,
+      // The server's stapled OCSP response, as the request's 'OCSPResponse'
+      // (tls.connect's requestOCSP) — on the request that opened the connection.
+      requestOCSP: options.requestOCSP === true,
+      // Encrypted Client Hello: the server's ECHConfigList, or GREASE ECH.
+      ech: options.ech || null,
+      echGrease: options.echGrease === true,
+      // The key-exchange groups to offer (tls.connect's ecdhCurve).
+      ecdhCurve: options.ecdhCurve,
+      // The signature schemes to offer (tls.connect's sigalgs).
+      sigalgs: options.sigalgs,
+      quicVersions: options.quicVersions,
+      // This client's connection options (quic_connection's CONNECTION_OPTIONS):
+      // Startup's cap on what it sends (an upload's), path MTU discovery, the
+      // largest UDP payload, the RTT assumed before a sample, the reordering
+      // a packet is allowed, the initial window.
+      startupCap: options.startupCap,
+      pmtuDiscovery: options.pmtuDiscovery,
+      maxUdpPayloadSize: options.maxUdpPayloadSize,
+      initialRtt: options.initialRtt,
+      reorderWindow: options.reorderWindow,
+      initialCongestionWindow: options.initialCongestionWindow,
+      // A NEW_TOKEN token for the Initial (the agent keeps them), and the
+      // request's 'newToken' event for the one the server gives for next time.
+      token: options.token || null,
+      earlyData: earlyWanted,
+      onEarly: function (q, s) {
+        if (cancelled) return;
+        earlyTried = true;
+        earlyResult = 'accepted';   // until the server says otherwise
+        setUp(q, s);
+      },
+      onSocket: function (q) {
+        q.on('session', function (buf) { emit(reqListeners, 'session', buf); });
+        q.on('new_token', function (buf) { emit(reqListeners, 'newToken', buf); });
+        q.on('OCSPResponse', function (buf) { emit(reqListeners, 'OCSPResponse', buf); });
+      },
 
       onError: function (err) {
+        if (cancelled) return;
         emit(reqListeners, 'error', err);
       },
 
       onConnect: function (q, s) {
+        // Sent early: taken, nothing more to do — or refused, and the
+        // connection has forgotten it: HTTP/3 starts over on it, and the
+        // request goes again, in 1-RTT.
+        if (earlyTried) {
+          handshaken = true;
+          if (cancelled) { closeConnection(); return; }
+          if (after425) { var a425 = after425; after425 = null; a425(); return; }
+          if (q.earlyDataStatus !== 'rejected') return;
+          earlyResult = 'rejected';
+          redoAfterEarly();
+          return;
+        }
+        setUp(q, s);
+      }
+      // onClose: the helper closes the UDP socket; nothing extra needed here.
+    });
+  }
+
+  // What was sent early, refused: this request's stream and the HTTP/3
+  // layer it went through are dropped, and both made again.
+  function redoAfterEarly() {
+    var old = respConn;
+    if (old && old._streamHandlers) delete old._streamHandlers[streamId];
+    if (h3 && h3.detach) h3.detach();
+    requestSent = false; readyDone = false; streaming = false;
+    if (earlyBody) { reqBody = earlyBody.body; reqTrailers = earlyBody.trailers; reqBodyBytes = 0; }
+    setUp(quic, udpSocket);
+  }
+
+  // The early request answered 425: on a new stream of the same connection,
+  // once the handshake is done (now, or at onConnect).
+  function againAfter425() {
+    function go() {
+      if (cancelled || finished) return;
+      var conn = respConn;
+      requestSent = false; readyDone = false; streaming = false;
+      if (earlyBody) { reqBody = earlyBody.body; reqTrailers = earlyBody.trailers; }
+      earlyBody = null;
+      retry425 = false;
+      streamId = allocateStreamId(conn);
+      setupResponseHandlers(conn);
+      ready(conn);
+    }
+    if (handshaken) go(); else after425 = go;
+  }
+
+  function setUp(q, s) {
+    (function () {
         quic = q;
         udpSocket = s;
+        // Cancelled while connecting: the connection was for this request
+        // (an owned one, or a pool lead whose followers have been released),
+        // and nobody else holds it.
+        if (cancelled) { closeConnection(); return; }
         if (DEBUG) console.log('[client] QUIC connected');
 
         h3 = new H3Connection({ quicConnection: quic, isServer: false });
@@ -178,12 +374,8 @@ function request(options, callback) {
         clientReq._connection = conn;
 
         setupResponseHandlers(conn);
-
-        // Send request if body is ready
-        if (reqFinished) sendRequest();
-      }
-      // onClose: the helper closes the UDP socket; nothing extra needed here.
-    });
+        ready(conn);
+    })();
   }
 
 
@@ -219,12 +411,80 @@ function request(options, callback) {
       var h = conn._streamHandlers[sid];
       if (h) h.onBody(data);
     });
+    h3c.on('http_trailers', function (sid, trailers) {
+      var h = conn._streamHandlers[sid];
+      if (h && h.onTrailers) h.onTrailers(trailers);
+    });
     h3c.on('http_end', function (sid) {
       var h = conn._streamHandlers[sid];
       if (!h) return;
       delete conn._streamHandlers[sid];  // free per-stream state before dispatch
       h.onEnd();
     });
+    // The response stream was ended over what the server sent on it (an
+    // oversized HEADERS, a stream with no response): the request fails,
+    // rather than waiting for an end that will not come.
+    h3c.on('stream_error', function (sid, code, reason) {
+      var h = conn._streamHandlers[sid];
+      if (!h) return;
+      delete conn._streamHandlers[sid];
+      if (h.onError) h.onError(code, reason);
+    });
+    // The server reset the request stream (RESET_STREAM): the response, or
+    // what is left of it, will not come. Nothing listened, and a response
+    // cut off this way never ended nor failed — it hung.
+    h3c.on('stream_reset', function (sid, code) {
+      var h = conn._streamHandlers[sid];
+      if (!h) return;
+      delete conn._streamHandlers[sid];
+      if (h.onReset) h.onReset(code);
+    });
+    // The server will not read the rest of the request (STOP_SENDING; QUIC
+    // has reset our sending part in answer). Not heard before: a request
+    // the server refused this way went on "writing" into nothing, and was
+    // never told.
+    h3c.on('stop_sending', function (sid, code) {
+      var h = conn._streamHandlers[sid];
+      if (h && h.onStopSending) h.onStopSending(code);
+    });
+
+    // GOAWAY (RFC 9114 §5.2): requests on streams from its id on were not,
+    // and will not be, processed — retryable, as HTTP/2's (h2_client). And
+    // the connection's end ends every request still on it. Neither was
+    // heard: a request sent as the server's GOAWAY was on its way — the
+    // server rejected it and closed, its RESET_STREAM behind the close —
+    // waited for a response forever.
+    function failAll(fromId, make) {
+      for (var sid in conn._streamHandlers) {
+        if (Number(sid) < fromId) continue;
+        var h = conn._streamHandlers[sid];
+        delete conn._streamHandlers[sid];
+        if (h.onGone) h.onGone(make(Number(sid)));
+      }
+    }
+    conn._goawayId = Infinity;
+    h3c.on('goaway', function (id) {
+      var goawayId = conn._goawayId = Math.min(conn._goawayId, Number(id));
+      // For a pool: no new requests here (as an HTTP/2 session's goingAway).
+      // The GOAWAY can come before the response that puts the connection in
+      // the pool, so the pool asks rather than waits for the event.
+      conn.goingAway = true;
+      failAll(goawayId, function () {
+        var e = new Error('HTTP/3 request not processed before GOAWAY');
+        e.code = 'ERR_HTTP3_GOAWAY_UNPROCESSED';
+        e.retryable = true;
+        return e;
+      });
+    });
+    conn.quic.on('close', function () {
+      failAll(0, function (sid) {
+        var e = new Error('HTTP/3 connection closed before the response ended');
+        e.code = 'ERR_HTTP3_CONNECTION_CLOSED';
+        // Past a GOAWAY's id the server said it did not process it.
+        e.retryable = sid >= conn._goawayId;
+        return e;
+      });
+    });
   }
 
 
@@ -234,11 +494,37 @@ function request(options, callback) {
    * routing is now by map key, so no per-listener streamId check is needed.
    */
   function setupResponseHandlers(conn) {
+    respConn = conn;
+    // A connection the server is done with — GOAWAY'd below this stream, or
+    // gone — takes no request: it fails now, as it would have on the wire.
+    // On the next tick: the caller has not attached its listeners yet.
+    var state = conn.quic ? conn.quic.state : 'closed';
+    if (streamId >= conn._goawayId || state === 'closed' || state === 'closing' || state === 'draining') {
+      var gone = new Error(streamId >= conn._goawayId ? 'HTTP/3 request not processed before GOAWAY' : 'HTTP/3 connection closed before the response ended');
+      gone.code = streamId >= conn._goawayId ? 'ERR_HTTP3_GOAWAY_UNPROCESSED' : 'ERR_HTTP3_CONNECTION_CLOSED';
+      gone.retryable = true;
+      process.nextTick(function () { fail(gone); });
+      return;
+    }
     conn._streamHandlers[streamId] = {
       onHeaders: function (hdrs) {
+        // 1xx (103 Early Hints): informational — the response follows on the
+        // same stream. node:http's 'information', not the response: taken as
+        // it, the request got status 103 and the real head was lost.
+        var st1 = parseInt(hdrs[':status'], 10);
+        if (st1 >= 100 && st1 < 200) {
+          var ih = {}, raw = [];
+          for (var hn in hdrs) { if (hn[0] !== ':') { ih[hn] = hdrs[hn]; raw.push(hn, String(hdrs[hn])); } }
+          emit(reqListeners, 'information', { statusCode: st1, statusMessage: '', httpVersion: '3.0', httpVersionMajor: 3, httpVersionMinor: 0, headers: ih, rawHeaders: raw });
+          return;
+        }
+        // 425 Too Early to what went in 0-RTT (RFC 8470 §5.2): not the
+        // response — the request goes again once the handshake is done.
+        if (st1 === 425 && earlyBody && !retry425) { retry425 = true; earlyResult = 'rejected'; return; }
         clientRes.headers = hdrs;
         clientRes.statusCode = parseInt(hdrs[':status']) || 0;
         clientRes._headersReceived = true;
+        clientRes.earlyData = earlyTried ? earlyResult : null;
 
         // Fire callback with response (once)
         if (typeof callback === 'function') {
@@ -249,62 +535,195 @@ function request(options, callback) {
       },
 
       onBody: function (data) {
+        if (retry425) return;
         emit(clientRes, 'data', data);
       },
 
+      // The response's trailers: res.trailers / res.rawTrailers, as node:http
+      // has them by 'end' (gRPC's grpc-status).
+      onTrailers: function (trailers) {
+        clientRes.trailers = trailers;
+        clientRes.rawTrailers = [];
+        for (var tn in trailers) clientRes.rawTrailers.push(tn, String(trailers[tn]));
+      },
+
+      onError: function (code, reason) {
+        var err = new Error('HTTP/3 stream error: ' + reason);
+        err.code = 'ERR_HTTP3_STREAM_ERROR';
+        err.errorCode = code;
+        fail(err);
+      },
+
+      onReset: function (code) {
+        var name = H3_ERR_NAME[code] || ('0x' + Number(code).toString(16));
+        var err = new Error('HTTP/3 stream reset by the server: ' + name);
+        err.code = 'ERR_HTTP3_STREAM_RESET';
+        err.errorCode = code;
+        // H3_REQUEST_REJECTED: the server did not process it (RFC 9114 §4.1.1)
+        // — safe to retry, as HTTP/2's REFUSED_STREAM. Any other code is the
+        // server's answer, not a failure to reach it: not sent again over TCP.
+        err.retryable = (code === 0x10b);
+        if (!err.retryable) err.requestError = true;
+        fail(err);
+      },
+
+      // H3_NO_ERROR: the server answers without the rest of the body (RFC
+      // 9114 §4.1.2) — the response comes, and is not to be discarded. Any
+      // other code before a response: the request is refused or cancelled,
+      // as by a reset (H3_REQUEST_REJECTED retryable).
+      onStopSending: function (code) {
+        if (code === 0x100 || clientRes._headersReceived) return;
+        var h = conn._streamHandlers[streamId];
+        if (h) delete conn._streamHandlers[streamId];
+        var name = H3_ERR_NAME[code] || ('0x' + Number(code).toString(16));
+        var err = new Error('HTTP/3 request stopped by the server: ' + name);
+        err.code = 'ERR_HTTP3_STREAM_RESET';
+        err.errorCode = code;
+        err.retryable = (code === 0x10b);
+        if (!err.retryable) err.requestError = true;
+        fail(err);
+      },
+
+      // The connection gone (or past GOAWAY) under it. Sent, not processed
+      // per GOAWAY, and not idempotent: the server may have acted on it — not
+      // sent again over TCP (RFC 9110 §9.2.2).
+      onGone: function (err) {
+        if (!err.retryable && requestSent && !({ GET: 1, HEAD: 1, OPTIONS: 1, TRACE: 1, PUT: 1, DELETE: 1 })[method]) err.requestError = true;
+        fail(err);
+      },
+
       onEnd: function () {
+        if (retry425 && !clientRes._headersReceived) { againAfter425(); return; }
+        finished = true;
+        clientRes._releaseBody();   // all of it has arrived: nothing more to wait for
         emit(clientRes, 'end');
-
-        // Auto-close only if we own the connection (see `autoClose` above).
-        if (autoClose) {
-          setTimeout(function () {
-            if (quic) quic.close(0, 'done');
-            if (udpSocket) { try { udpSocket.close(); } catch (e) {} }
-          }, 100);
-        }
+        closeIfOwned();
       }
     };
   }
 
+  // The request failed. Before the response began, the request reports it
+  // ('error' — a fallback may still be tried); after, the response does —
+  // the request's error was reported to a caller that had moved on to the
+  // response, and the response hung.
+  function fail(err) {
+    if (finished) return;
+    finished = true;
+    clientRes._releaseBody();
+    if (clientRes._headersReceived) emit(clientRes, 'error', err);
+    else emit(reqListeners, 'error', err);
+    closeIfOwned();
+  }
 
-  function sendRequest() {
-    if (!h3 || !connected) return;
+  // Auto-close only if we own the connection (see `autoClose` above) — after
+  // the response ends, or fails.
+  // An answer to early data can come before the handshake is confirmed,
+  // and with it the server's session ticket: the close waits for that, or
+  // the next visit would have no ticket to resume (and send early) with.
+  function closeIfOwned() {
+    if (!autoClose) return;
+    if (earlyTried && quic && quic.whenConfirmed) quic.whenConfirmed(function () { setTimeout(closeConnection, 100); });
+    else setTimeout(closeConnection, 100);
+  }
 
-    if (DEBUG) console.log('[client] sendRequest method=' + method + ' path=' + path + ' stream=' + streamId);
+  // RFC 9114 §5.2: closed with an HTTP/3 code in the application space.
+  // H3_NO_ERROR. The UDP socket closes when the connection does — its
+  // closing period over (quic_socket, on 'close') — not here: closed at once,
+  // the CONNECTION_CLOSE just queued on it was cancelled with it, and the
+  // server never learned the connection was over. A request with agent:
+  // false left the server's connection (and a response it was still
+  // writing) up until its idle timeout.
+  function closeConnection() {
+    if (quic) quic.close(0x0100, 'done', true);
+    else if (udpSocket) { try { udpSocket.close(); } catch (e) {} }
+  }
 
-    // MUST send control streams (SETTINGS) before any request
-    h3.sendControlStreams();
 
-    // Build H3 request headers
+  // The stream exists. options.onReady (the unified client) may still turn
+  // the request down — another protocol was ready first and carries it:
+  // nothing goes out, and 'superseded' says so (the connection stays, for
+  // the pool). Otherwise: sent whole if the body is complete, streamed if
+  // some of it was written, or on the first write or end().
+  function ready(conn) {
+    if (typeof options.onReady === 'function' && !options.onReady()) {
+      finished = true;
+      if (conn && conn._streamHandlers && streamId !== null) delete conn._streamHandlers[streamId];
+      // Its stream ID, taken and never used: cancelled, as by destroy()
+      // (an unused ID below a later request's is opened by that request).
+      if (!autoClose && conn && conn.h3 && streamId !== null) { try { conn.h3.abortStream(streamId, 0x10c); } catch (e) {} }
+      // Next tick: on a pooled connection this runs inside request(), before
+      // the caller has its listeners on.
+      process.nextTick(function () { emit(reqListeners, 'superseded'); });
+      if (autoClose && quic) closeConnection();
+      return;
+    }
+    readyDone = true;
+    if (reqFinished) sendRequest();
+    else if (reqBody.length) startStreaming();
+  }
+
+  function requestHeaders() {
     var h3Headers = {
       ':method': method,
       ':scheme': 'https',
       ':authority': hostname + (port !== 443 ? ':' + port : ''),
       ':path': path
     };
-
-    // Add user headers
-    for (var name in headers) {
-      h3Headers[name.toLowerCase()] = String(headers[name]);
-    }
-
-    // Default headers
+    for (var name in headers) h3Headers[name.toLowerCase()] = String(headers[name]);
     if (!h3Headers['user-agent']) h3Headers['user-agent'] = 'quico/1.0';
     if (!h3Headers['accept']) h3Headers['accept'] = '*/*';
     if (!h3Headers['accept-encoding']) h3Headers['accept-encoding'] = 'identity';
+    return h3Headers;
+  }
 
-    // Send body if any
-    if (reqBody.length > 0) {
-      // Send headers without FIN, then body chunks
-      h3.sendHeaders(streamId, h3Headers, false);
-      for (var i = 0; i < reqBody.length; i++) {
-        var isLast = (i === reqBody.length - 1);
-        h3.sendBody(streamId, reqBody[i], isLast);
-      }
-    } else {
-      // No body — send headers with FIN directly
-      h3.sendHeaders(streamId, h3Headers, true);
-    }
+  // The request whole: ended before it could go — headers, the body, the
+  // trailers; FIN on the last of them.
+  function sendRequest() {
+    if (!h3 || !connected || cancelled || finished || requestSent) return;
+    requestSent = true;
+    if (DEBUG) console.log('[client] sendRequest method=' + method + ' path=' + path + ' stream=' + streamId);
+    h3.sendControlStreams();   // SETTINGS before any request
+    var body = reqBody; reqBody = []; reqBodyBytes = 0;
+    // Early: kept, to go again if the server refuses it.
+    if (earlyTried && !handshaken) earlyBody = { body: body.slice(), trailers: reqTrailers };
+    if (body.length === 0 && !reqTrailers) { h3.sendHeaders(streamId, requestHeaders(), true); return; }
+    h3.sendHeaders(streamId, requestHeaders(), false);
+    for (var i = 0; i < body.length; i++) h3.sendBody(streamId, body[i], i === body.length - 1 && !reqTrailers);
+    if (reqTrailers) h3.sendHeaders(streamId, reqTrailers, true);
+  }
+
+  // The body streamed: HEADERS now, without FIN, then what was held.
+  function startStreaming() {
+    if (!h3 || cancelled || finished || requestSent) return;
+    requestSent = true;
+    streaming = true;
+    if (DEBUG) console.log('[client] streaming request method=' + method + ' path=' + path + ' stream=' + streamId);
+    h3.sendControlStreams();
+    h3.sendHeaders(streamId, requestHeaders(), false);
+    var held = reqBody; reqBody = []; reqBodyBytes = 0;
+    var more = true;
+    for (var i = 0; i < held.length; i++) more = streamOut(held[i]);
+    if (more && needDrain) { needDrain = false; emit(reqListeners, 'drain'); }
+  }
+
+  // One piece of a streamed body. Returns whether more may be written now:
+  // false while more than BODY_HIGH_WATER of the stream is not yet sent,
+  // and 'drain' when it is (the stream's send side, whenStreamSent).
+  function streamOut(chunk) {
+    h3.sendBody(streamId, chunk, false);
+    if (drainWaiting) { needDrain = true; return false; }
+    var later = false, over = true;
+    quic.whenStreamSent(streamId, BODY_HIGH_WATER, function () {
+      over = false;
+      if (!later) return;
+      drainWaiting = false;
+      if (needDrain) { needDrain = false; emit(reqListeners, 'drain'); }
+    });
+    later = true;
+    if (!over) return true;
+    drainWaiting = true;
+    needDrain = true;
+    return false;
   }