[issue19996] httplib infinite read on invalid header

[brian yardy]

brian yardy added the comment:

import http.client
    h = http.client.HTTPConnection('http://www.einstantloan.co.uk/')
    h.request('GET', '/', headers={'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip'})
    r = h.getresponse()
    hdrs = r.getheaders()
    body = r.read()  # Hang here.

curl --compressed http://www.einstantloan.co.uk/

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nosy: +brianyardy

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