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curl — Encoder stream setting a dynamic table capacity above the client's limit

The suite could not establish what this client does here. That is a shortcoming of the run rather than anything about the client, and every one of these is on our list to remove.

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Every one of these is a page: what the server emits, the clause it is judged against, and how each client answered. The full list carries the verdict tallies too.

Inconclusive

Objected, but at the QUIC layer (rejected at the QUIC layer with INTERNAL_ERROR), so the HTTP/3 error code could not be read. §8.1 carries an HTTP/3 connection error in an application close, and this test asks for 0x201 specifically — whether that was the client's reasoning is not observable from here.

The suite could not establish what this client does here. That is a shortcoming of the run rather than anything about the client, and every one of these is on our list to remove.

What was measured

Client
curl — ngtcp2 + nghttp3, ngtcp2/1.11.0
Test
Encoder stream setting a dynamic table capacity above the client's limith-qpack-encoder-overflow
Clause
RFC 9204 §4.3.1, §6 (MUST)
Class
correctness — Rejected something invalid, with the code the RFC names.
Required behaviour
Close the connection with QPACK_ENCODER_STREAM_ERROR (0x201). §4.3.1 says the new capacity "MUST be lower than or equal to the limit" the decoder advertised, and that a decoder "MUST treat a new dynamic table capacity value that exceeds this limit as a connection error of type QPACK_ENCODER_STREAM_ERROR". Unlike the other two dynamic-table tests, this one runs against every client: they all advertise a capacity of zero, and any capacity at all exceeds a limit of zero.
Measured
2026-09-18

Reproduce it

The suite is the judge, so the reproduction is to point the same client at the same test and let the server report what it saw.

SESSION=$(curl -sX POST https://conformance.pqcrypta.com/session | jq -r .id)
# then drive curl at the test URL and read the verdict:
curl -s https://conformance.pqcrypta.com/report/$SESSION.json | jq '.results["h-qpack-encoder-overflow"]'