#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.
diff --git a/Lib/httplib.py b/Lib/httplib.py
index c7d8e78..bb4b59e 100644
--- a/Lib/httplib.py
+++ b/Lib/httplib.py
@@ -546,7 +546,13 @@
i = line.find(';')
if i >= 0:
line = line[:i] # strip chunk-extensions
- chunk_left = int(line, 16)
+ try:
+ chunk_left = int(line, 16)
+ except ValueError:
+ # close the connection as protocol synchronisation is
+ # probably lost
+ self.close()
+ raise IncompleteRead(value)
if chunk_left == 0:
break
if amt is None: