From: Ben Darnell <ben@bendarnell.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 02:24:04 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Cite RFC 2730 when stripping extraneous line breaks.
X-Git-Tag: v4.1.0b1~127
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=af463164a4b75b7623e4c8ee116dfef0d3f9b4dc;p=thirdparty%2Ftornado.git

Cite RFC 2730 when stripping extraneous line breaks.
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diff --git a/tornado/http1connection.py b/tornado/http1connection.py
index 0a6d87c10..1e8196f8e 100644
--- a/tornado/http1connection.py
+++ b/tornado/http1connection.py
@@ -471,6 +471,10 @@ class HTTP1Connection(httputil.HTTPConnection):
             self._finish_future.set_result(None)
 
     def _parse_headers(self, data):
+        # The lstrip removes newlines that some implementations sometimes
+        # insert between messages of a reused connection.  Per RFC 7230,
+        # we SHOULD ignore at least one empty line before the request.
+        # http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7230#section-3.5
         data = native_str(data.decode('latin1')).lstrip("\r\n")
         eol = data.find("\r\n")
         start_line = data[:eol]