[issue45795] urllib http client vulnerable to DOS attack

[Senthil Kumaran]

Senthil Kumaran <senthil at python.org> added the comment:

> Timeout value should not be reset after client receives a data(bytes), because it can easily be abused to achieve DOS.

Interesting. I looked the server example.

Does clients like curl have something like this too?

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