[Python-checkins] cpython (merge 3.5 -> default): Issue #26586: Merge excessive HTTP header handling from 3.5
martin.panter
python-checkins at python.org
Sat Apr 2 22:02:20 EDT 2016
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/e8edddb4f74b
changeset: 100837:e8edddb4f74b
parent: 100835:23d986228c6b
parent: 100836:f5247195238f
user: Martin Panter <vadmium+py at gmail.com>
date: Sun Apr 03 01:28:49 2016 +0000
summary:
Issue #26586: Merge excessive HTTP header handling from 3.5
files:
Lib/http/server.py | 7 +++++++
Lib/test/test_httpservers.py | 7 +++++++
Misc/NEWS | 4 ++++
3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Lib/http/server.py b/Lib/http/server.py
--- a/Lib/http/server.py
+++ b/Lib/http/server.py
@@ -338,6 +338,13 @@
HTTPStatus.BAD_REQUEST,
"Line too long")
return False
+ except http.client.HTTPException as err:
+ self.send_error(
+ HTTPStatus.REQUEST_HEADER_FIELDS_TOO_LARGE,
+ "Too many headers",
+ str(err)
+ )
+ return False
conntype = self.headers.get('Connection', "")
if conntype.lower() == 'close':
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_httpservers.py b/Lib/test/test_httpservers.py
--- a/Lib/test/test_httpservers.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_httpservers.py
@@ -859,6 +859,13 @@
self.assertFalse(self.handler.get_called)
self.assertEqual(self.handler.requestline, 'GET / HTTP/1.1')
+ def test_too_many_headers(self):
+ result = self.send_typical_request(
+ b'GET / HTTP/1.1\r\n' + b'X-Foo: bar\r\n' * 101 + b'\r\n')
+ self.assertEqual(result[0], b'HTTP/1.1 431 Too many headers\r\n')
+ self.assertFalse(self.handler.get_called)
+ self.assertEqual(self.handler.requestline, 'GET / HTTP/1.1')
+
def test_close_connection(self):
# handle_one_request() should be repeatedly called until
# it sets close_connection
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -237,6 +237,10 @@
Library
-------
+- Issue #26586: In http.server, respond with "413 Request header fields too
+ large" if there are too many header fields to parse, rather than killing
+ the connection and raising an unhandled exception. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
+
- Issue #26676: Added missing XMLPullParser to ElementTree.__all__.
- Issue #22854: Change BufferedReader.writable() and
--
Repository URL: https://hg.python.org/cpython
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