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authorMiss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>2021-05-06 08:52:26 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2021-05-06 08:52:26 (GMT)
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bpo-44022: Fix http client infinite line reading (DoS) after a HTTP 100 Continue (GH-25916) (#25933)
Fixes http.client potential denial of service where it could get stuck reading lines from a malicious server after a 100 Continue response. Co-authored-by: Gregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org> (cherry picked from commit 47895e31b6f626bc6ce47d175fe9d43c1098909d) Co-authored-by: Gen Xu <xgbarry@gmail.com>
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+mod:`http.client` now avoids infinitely reading potential HTTP headers after a
+``100 Continue`` status response from the server.