[issue24363] httplib fails to handle semivalid HTTP headers

[Cory Benfield]

Cory Benfield added the comment:

This is one of those bugs that's actually super tricky to correctly fix.

The correct path is to have the goal of conservatively accepting as many headers as possible. Probably this means looking ahead to the next few lines and seeing if they appear to roughly keep a header structure (\r\n line breaks and colon separated values). However, I'm not entirely sure how to structure that sentiment in code at this time.

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nosy: +Lukasa

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