Fix Issue6791 - Limit the HTTP header readline with _MAXLENGTH. Patch by Antoine Pitrou
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_httpservers.py b/Lib/test/test_httpservers.py
index 85b5ec4..19d3d17 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_httpservers.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_httpservers.py
@@ -573,6 +573,13 @@
self.assertEqual(result[0], b'HTTP/1.1 414 Request-URI Too Long\r\n')
self.assertFalse(self.handler.get_called)
+ def test_header_length(self):
+ # Issue #6791: same for headers
+ result = self.send_typical_request(
+ b'GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nX-Foo: bar' + b'r' * 65537 + b'\r\n\r\n')
+ self.assertEqual(result[0], b'HTTP/1.1 400 Line too long\r\n')
+ self.assertFalse(self.handler.get_called)
+
class SimpleHTTPRequestHandlerTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
""" Test url parsing """
def setUp(self):