Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
diff --git a/Lib/httplib.py b/Lib/httplib.py
index 403e4ee..137a9ea 100644
--- a/Lib/httplib.py
+++ b/Lib/httplib.py
@@ -571,6 +571,10 @@
### note: we shouldn't have any trailers!
while True:
line = self.fp.readline()
+ if not line:
+ # a vanishingly small number of sites EOF without
+ # sending the trailer
+ break
if line == '\r\n':
break
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index ffb1771..6ea4eea 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -83,6 +83,9 @@
Library
-------
+- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
+ implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
+
- tarfile.py: Fix reading of xstar archives.
- #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile to be used in with statements