* Jérémy Lal: > I believe this commit should partly be applied to http-parser: > https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a8532d4d2 > > Specifically setting HTTP_MAX_HEADER_SIZE to a more reasonnable > default (8192 instead of 81920 bytes) should be good for all other > software depending on http-parser...
The default limit doesn't look so bad to me. The kernel will happily allocate much more for a typical TCP connection, for example. Lowering the limit in a Debian release could introduce regressions.
