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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