Re: bug in ftp(1)?

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost (Thomas Klausner) writes:

>ftp: Receiving HTTP reply: Input line is too long

#define       FTPBUFLEN       (4 * MAXPATHLEN)
char buf[FTPBUFLEN];

That's 4kB.

>curl -v https://sourceforge.net/projects/courier/files/courier-unicode/2.3.=
>0/courier-unicode-2.3.0.tar.bz2

This returns a 5kB HTTP header "content-security-policy".

There is no protocol limit, but common server implementations do limit header
lines to something between 4k (some nginx versions) to 48k (tomcat).