[issue4330] wsgiref.validate doesn't accept arguments to readline

Ian Bicking report at bugs.python.org
Sun Nov 16 19:03:19 CET 2008


Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy.com> added the comment:

cgi started using this argument due to the potential of a DoS attack
without the length limit.  So undoing this in cgi (even as an option)
would be a regression.

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