[Web-SIG] transaction progress with cgi.FieldStorage

[Chris McDonough]

> An aside on cgi.FieldStorage itself. It reads data using readline
> instead of reading in blocks of limited size. doing this I think means
> a file with very long lines, 20MB, 100MB, ... could cause excessive
> memory consumption.

This was reported and solved a long time ago (but not yet fixed in  
any Python distro):

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/? 
func=detail&aid=1112549&group_id=5470&atid=105470