As per review comments on 'handler' spec branch. The spec should also mandate this.
Not doing this immediately, it's a quality-of-implementation issue rather than an API freeze blocker.
*** Bug 36199 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Bug #36199 provides a concrete rationale for this, and some debug logs.
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