A larger limit is totally fine. The check protects against DoS with hundreds of MB.

I'm currently travelling and won't be available much until next week.

Am 16. Dezember 2016 19:37:03 MEZ, schrieb Xiang Zhang <report@bugs.python.org>:
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>Xiang Zhang added the comment:
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>Xavier's plan sounds good. We could increase the line length limitation
>to 64K and add another limitation of the maximum lines a multi-line
>block could contain. Any limitation is violated the connection is
>refused. This situation seems quite similar to
>http.client.parse_headers, which doesn't get a standard length
>limitation or number limitation either.
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