Issue #10714: Limit length of incoming request in http.server to 65536 bytes
for security reasons. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_httpservers.py b/Lib/test/test_httpservers.py
index b03637c..85b5ec4 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_httpservers.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_httpservers.py
@@ -566,6 +566,12 @@
self.assertEqual(sum(r == b'Connection: close\r\n' for r in result[1:-1]), 1)
self.handler = usual_handler # Restore to avoid breaking any subsequent tests.
+ def test_request_length(self):
+ # Issue #10714: huge request lines are discarded, to avoid Denial
+ # of Service attacks.
+ result = self.send_typical_request(b'GET ' + b'x' * 65537)
+ self.assertEqual(result[0], b'HTTP/1.1 414 Request-URI Too Long\r\n')
+ self.assertFalse(self.handler.get_called)
class SimpleHTTPRequestHandlerTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
""" Test url parsing """