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  r87317 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-12-16 17:48:36 +0100 (jeu., 16 déc. 2010) | 4 lines

  Issue #10714: Limit length of incoming request in http.server to 65536 bytes
  for security reasons.  Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
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(also backport some tests)
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@@ -442,6 +442,7 @@
 Ivan Krstić
 Andrew Kuchling
 Vladimir Kushnir
+Ross Lagerwall
 Cameron Laird
 Łukasz Langa
 Tino Lange