Assert error in WSLR() on SLT_HttpGarbage

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <CAK6bCax=JYWzHr9r5z_=wyLMyYQfnsdP6e1Kinmdx_sauL_MmA at mail.gmail.com>
, Jean-Baptiste Quenot writes:

>1) is it a difficult task to provide a meaningful error message in the
>crash report?

It's a bug which only got fixed just after 3.0.1 unfortunately.

>2) why not issue a 413 entity too large when some headers longer than
>http_req_hdr_len, instead of crashing?

History.

At the time the consensus was that if we saw something that was too
long, it was probably an attack of some kind and just closing was
the best idea.

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