Re: Large lang tag lists (was Re: Speaking of implementation quirks...)

[pgut001%cs.auckland.ac.nz@localhost (Peter Gutmann)]

der Mouse <mouse%Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA@localhost> writes:

>Also note that "deal with" can mean "recognize that no kex packet that can
>lead this implementation to a successful exchange can be over (say) 2000
>bytes, so, if it's larger, read and ignore it in many small pieces and fail
>the protocol".

I can just see the code comment for this, "Encountering this behaviour is the
equivalent of seeing someone wearing his underpants on his head coming down
the street towards you.  Best practice is to cross the read to avoid them.  We
now close the connection and exit..." :-).

Peter.