Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment:

> It does. Doesn't it? Because I saw in your patch that you fall back on
> HTTP 1.0 behaviour when the server does not return a status line and
> in which case a Exception will be raise and this issue won't be
> observed.

I don't think you understood the issue here. Calling readline() without
a maximum length means the process memory potentially explodes, if the
server sends gigabytes of data without a single "\n".

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