remove the arbitrary MAXLEN limit for response lines (Closes: #658346)

[apt.git] / methods / http.cc

diff --git a/methods/http.cc b/methods/http.cc
index 2721b1224e69afd8025aff8b514e4d110c9abc43..7ddf8e045b729dd21ee2abc606438b6980ea08d4 100644 (file)
--- a/methods/http.cc
+++ b/methods/http.cc
@@ -534,10 +534,6 @@ bool ServerState::HeaderLine(string Line)
    if (Line.empty() == true)
       return true;
 
-   // The http server might be trying to do something evil.
-   if (Line.length() >= MAXLEN)
-      return _error->Error(_("Got a single header line over %u chars"),MAXLEN);
-
    string::size_type Pos = Line.find(' ');
    if (Pos == string::npos || Pos+1 > Line.length())
    {