[PATCH 5/8] Return 503 when Vary-headers references header names more than 127 (out limit) characters long.

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Tue Mar 19 13:50:46 CET 2013


In message <CANTn4cq0uCpwzJf=198QJL78rS7eX0jkP+YhGNwxE8LYWyg9mg at mail.gmail.com>, Martin Blix Grydeland wr
ites:

>True, but that isn't the only place where that is used as an unsigned char
>(e.g. http_findhdr). So Varnish header names are limited to signed char I
>believe.

Are there real world examples of non-insane uses of headers longer
than 127 characters ?

Poul-Henning

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