handler := newHandlerChain(t, requestHandler, controller, userName, time.Minute)
		server, requestGetter := newHTTP2ServerWithClient(handler, 2*time.Minute)
		defer server.Close()

		// we send two requests synchronously, one at a time
		//  - first request is expected to panic as designed
		//  - second request is expected to succeed
		_, err := requestGetter(firstRequestPathPanic)

		// did the server handler panic, as expected?
		select {

				w.Write([]byte("OK"))
			})
			reconciler := newFakePeerEndpointReconciler(t)
			handler := newHandlerChain(t, lastHandler, reconciler, tt.informerFinishedSync, tt.svdata)
			server, requestGetter := createHTTP2ServerWithClient(handler, requestTimeout*2)
			defer server.Close()

			if tt.reconcilerConfig.do {
				// need to enable feature flags first