The padding-rebuild branch in QuicConnectionWriter.drainOutbound computed
`padBytes = 1200 - natural`, but the QUIC long-header Length field is a
varint (RFC 9000 §16). When the natural-size payload was small enough for
Length to fit in 1 byte (body ≤ 63 bytes), the rebuild's larger body
crossed the 64-byte threshold and Length grew to 2 bytes — adding 1 wire
byte that wasn't in `natural`. PING-only PTO probe Initials therefore went
out at exactly 1199 bytes, one short of the §14.1 floor.
Fix: rebuild iteratively. After the first rebuild, measure the actual
datagram size; if still < 1200, bump padBytes by the residual and rebuild
once more. PADDING bytes inside the AEAD envelope add 1:1 to the wire
size and the Length varint grows monotonically, so the loop terminates
in ≤ 2 iterations for any reachable payload.
Same fix is applied to buildClosingDatagram so close-only Initial probes
on the boundary aren't tripped by future varint-growth changes.
Tightens the existing PTO-probe regression test to assert ≥ 1200 (was
relaxed to ≥ 1199 in 86b6c609a) and adds a new boundary test that builds
a single-byte-payload Initial and checks 1200 ≤ size ≤ 1203 — strict
floor with a tight ceiling so over-correction would also fail.
https://claude.ai/code/session_01HcvfQq1ttPV9PkRoJb4nyT
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