@bankbunk reported (#460) that on a 1 Gbps VPS, raw MP4 streams in Full
mode died with `batch JSON parse error: EOF while parsing a string at
line 1 column 52428685` minutes into playback. Root cause: drain_now
took the entire per-session read buffer in one shot. On high-bandwidth
VPS the reader task fills the buffer with tens of MiB between polls;
the resulting batch response (raw + base64 1.33× + JSON envelope)
exceeded Apps Script's ~50 MiB hard cap; Apps Script truncated mid-base64;
the client's serde_json parse hit EOF and the stream tore.
Fix: drain_now now returns at most TCP_DRAIN_MAX_BYTES (16 MiB) per call
and leaves the tail in the buffer for the next poll. EOF is held back
until the buffer is fully drained so partial drains don't tear the
session prematurely. Three regression tests cover the cap, the under-cap
pass-through, and the EOF-holdback case (33 tunnel-node tests passing).
@bankbunk's wondershaper rate-limit workaround (40 Mbps cap on the VPS
interface) is no longer necessary — high-bandwidth VPS users can run at
line rate again.
therealaleph