#1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
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@@ -441,6 +441,8 @@
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+- #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
+
 - #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a server,
   httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the connection instead
   of raising ValueError.