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  r87373 | senthil.kumaran | 2010-12-18 17:55:23 +0100 (sam., 18 déc. 2010) | 3 lines

  Fix Issue6791 - Limit the HTTP header readline with _MAXLENGTH. Patch by Antoine Pitrou
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  r87381 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-12-18 18:59:18 +0100 (sam., 18 déc. 2010) | 3 lines

  NEWS entry for r87373
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_httpservers.py b/Lib/test/test_httpservers.py
index 6228279..4f1ecff 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_httpservers.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_httpservers.py
@@ -144,6 +144,13 @@
         self.assertEqual(result[0], b'HTTP/1.1 414 Request-URI Too Long\r\n')
         self.assertFalse(self.handler.get_called)
 
+    def test_header_length(self):
+        # Issue #6791: same for headers
+        result = self.send_typical_request(
+            b'GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nX-Foo: bar' + b'r' * 65537 + b'\r\n\r\n')
+        self.assertEqual(result[0], b'HTTP/1.1 400 Line too long\r\n')
+        self.assertFalse(self.handler.get_called)
+
 
 class BaseHTTPServerTestCase(BaseTestCase):
     class request_handler(NoLogRequestHandler, BaseHTTPRequestHandler):