Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment:

> That's true. Near the bottom of the code, it says:
> 
>  # The status-line parsing code calls readline(), which normally
>  # get the HTTP status line.  For a 0.9 response, however, this is
>  # actually the first line of the body!
> 
> Limiting the length of the status line would break 0.9 responses so maybe 
> this issue should be closed?

Well, the HTTP 1.0 RFC was filed in 1996 and HTTP 1.1 is most commonly
used today. I don't think we need to support 0.9 anymore. I'll open a
separate issue for ripping off 0.9 support, though.

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