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by eqvinox 10 days ago
> We disclosed to Apache on May 27, and Stefan Eissing fixed it on the same day by making cookie headers count against LimitRequestFields.

I was about to say, the bug here isn't in the protocol, it's that memory use isn't being counted & limited as it should... and, yeah.

I'm a bit surprised this happened to Apache, though. APR uses pool allocators. That should be easy enough to track and limit...