[issue16038] ftplib: unlimited readline() from connection

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

> I suggest that we use twice the size of the largest limit (8192) for
> the DoS fix and reduce it to 2048 for Python 3.4. 8192 is still a
> small number for modern computers.

Why do you want to reduce it? It doesn't bring any additional security.

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