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+package io.quarkus.vertx.http.http2;
+
+import static io.vertx.core.http.HttpMethod.GET;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.fail;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.net.URL;
+import java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
+
+import jakarta.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped;
+import jakarta.enterprise.event.Observes;
+
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Assumptions;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.extension.RegisterExtension;
+
+import io.quarkus.test.QuarkusUnitTest;
+import io.quarkus.test.common.http.TestHTTPResource;
+import io.quarkus.vertx.core.runtime.VertxCoreRecorder;
+import io.vertx.core.http.HttpClient;
+import io.vertx.core.http.HttpClientOptions;
+import io.vertx.core.http.HttpClientRequest;
+import io.vertx.core.http.HttpVersion;
+import io.vertx.core.net.JdkSSLEngineOptions;
+import io.vertx.ext.web.Router;
+
+/**
+ * Reproduce CVE-2023-44487.
+ */
+public class Http2RSTFloodProtectionTest {
+
+    @TestHTTPResource(value = "/ping", ssl = true)
+    URL sslUrl;
+
+    @TestHTTPResource(value = "/ping")
+    URL url;
+
+    @RegisterExtension
+    static final QuarkusUnitTest config = new QuarkusUnitTest()
+            .withApplicationRoot((jar) -> jar
+                    .addClasses(MyBean.class)
+                    .addAsResource(new File("src/test/resources/conf/ssl-jks.conf"), "application.properties")
+                    .addAsResource(new File("src/test/resources/conf/server-keystore.jks"), "server-keystore.jks"));
+
+    @Test
+    void testRstFloodProtectionWithTlsEnabled() throws Exception {
+        Assumptions.assumeTrue(JdkSSLEngineOptions.isAlpnAvailable()); //don't run on JDK8
+        HttpClientOptions options = new HttpClientOptions()
+                .setUseAlpn(true)
+                .setProtocolVersion(HttpVersion.HTTP_2)
+                .setSsl(true)
+                .setTrustAll(true);
+
+        var client = VertxCoreRecorder.getVertx().get().createHttpClient(options);
+        int port = sslUrl.getPort();
+        run(client, port, false);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testRstFloodProtection() throws InterruptedException {
+        HttpClientOptions options = new HttpClientOptions()
+                .setProtocolVersion(HttpVersion.HTTP_2)
+                .setHttp2ClearTextUpgrade(true);
+        var client = VertxCoreRecorder.getVertx().get().createHttpClient(options);
+        run(client, url.getPort(), true);
+    }
+
+    void run(HttpClient client, int port, boolean plain) throws InterruptedException {
+        CountDownLatch latch = new CountDownLatch(1);
+        client.connectionHandler(conn -> conn.goAwayHandler(ga -> {
+            Assertions.assertEquals(11, ga.getErrorCode());
+            latch.countDown();
+        }));
+
+        if (plain) {
+            // Emit a first request to establish a connection.
+            // It's HTTP/1 so, does not count in the number of requests.
+            client.request(GET, port, "localhost", "/ping")
+                    .compose(HttpClientRequest::send);
+        }
+
+        for (int i = 0; i < 250; i++) { // must be higher thant the NEtty limit (200 / 30s)
+            client.request(GET, port, "localhost", "/ping")
+                    .onSuccess(req -> req.end().onComplete(v -> req.reset()));
+        }
+
+        if (!latch.await(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS)) {
+            fail("RST flood protection failed");
+        }
+    }
+
+    @ApplicationScoped
+    public static class MyBean {
+
+        public void register(@Observes Router router) {
+            router.get("/ping").handler(rc -> {
+                // Do nothing.
+            });
+        }
+
+    }
+}