Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > But http.client needs to be able to communicate with any random server > created since the dawn of time.
Well, that sounds a bit unreasonable... > Often on 8 bit microcontrollers that haven't been updated since 1994. Anyone with such needs should write specialized software, shouldn't they? > How does keeping 0.9 client support in hurt us? In any such situation, there's typically a long-term cost in additional maintenance when patching and improving the code. More specifically, this issue came when discussing #6791. Protecting http.client against unbounded reads will be hairy if we have to support HTTP 0.9-style "simple responses". ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10711> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com