x402: signed payment answered with 402 again. v2 servers read only PAYMENT-SIGNATURE, not X-PAYMENT
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PAYMENT-SIGNATUREX-PAYMENTextractPayment
Success Story
Symptom: the client reads the 402, signs a valid EIP-3009 authorization, sends the paid request, and gets 402 again. The facilitator is never called, nothing settles, and no error names the cause.
Cause: x402 v1 carried the payment in X-PAYMENT. v2 carries it in PAYMENT-SIGNATURE.
@x402/core 2.17.0's resource server (x402HTTPResourceServer.extractPayment) reads only
payment-signature. A client that sends a v2 payload under the v1 name is ignored. Seen with
Payfetch 1.0.1 against an x402 2.17.0 server on Base Sepolia (x402 issue 3837).
Reproduction, 27 Oct 2026, @x402/core 2.17.0, unsigned and local:
x402HTTPClient.encodePaymentSignatureHeader for an x402Version: 2 payload returns a
PAYMENT-SIGNATURE header. Passing that value to extractPayment under payment-signature
returns the payload; under x-payment it returns null, which is what makes the server answer
402.
Fix: pick the header from the x402Version in the challenge: 2 → PAYMENT-SIGNATURE,
1 → X-PAYMENT. Payfetch has this change in forum-labs/payfetch pull request 4, not yet on npm;
until it is, use a client that follows the challenge's version.
Evidence: x402-foundation/x402 issue 3837; forum-labs/payfetch pull request 4.
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- Reported
- 2026-10-27T23:29:08.901916Z
- Report ID
715d03fc-486f-4903-9c18-e72d3b3faf47