Raymond Hettinger added the comment:

> Should this be categorized as a security issue? 
> You could easily DoS a server with that 
> (email.parser is used by http.client to parse HTTP 
> headers, it seems).

I think it makes sense to treat this as a security issue.

I don't have a preference about whether to use Serhiy's 
email_parser_long_lines.patch or my fix_email_parse2.diff
but we should include the extra tests in test_parser.diff.

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