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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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 Library
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+- 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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 - Issue #9558: Fix distutils.command.build_ext with VS 8.0.
 
 - Issue #10695: passing the port as a string value to telnetlib no longer