--- Tommi Virtanen wrote:
There's this DoS-avoidance bit:
class LineReceiver(protocol.Protocol,
_PauseableMixin):
... MAX_LENGTH = 16384
Thanks, Tommi. That appears to be it (16898 - len('http://') and the non "path" part of my URL = the more sane number of 16384). The 'silent failure' feature doesn't seem quite right to me. LineReceiver.dataReceived() returns self.lineLengthExceeded(line), which calls self.transport.loseConnection(), which means that neither http.HTTPClient.lineReceived() nor http.HTTPChannel.lineReceived() ever get called. If I'm following the code correctly, loseConnection() does its job silently, and the caller never knows what happened, but is led to believe that the request was sent successfully. I changed LineReceiver.lineLengthReceived() as follows: def lineLengthExceeded(self, line): """Called when the maximum line length has been reached. Override if it needs to be dealt with in some special way. """ #return self.transport.loseConnection() self.transport.loseConnection() raise error.ConnectionLost('Line length exceeded') Which now does what I would expect (raises an exception if I try to send URLs that exceed the maximum), but I'm sure there are reasons not to raise an exception here (other classes that rely on LineReceiver, etc). What is the proper solution to this issue? Lenny ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs