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doc: describe current HTTP header size limit

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Document that the limit was changed from 80KB to 8KB in 186035243.

Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/24693

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/24700
Reviewed-By: Matteo Collina <matteo.collina@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Vse Mozhet Byt <vsemozhetbyt@gmail.com>
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Sam Roberts 2018-11-28 09:02:17 -08:00 committed by Rich Trott
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@ -1880,9 +1880,15 @@ Creation of a [`zlib`][] object failed due to incorrect configuration.
<a id="HPE_HEADER_OVERFLOW"></a> <a id="HPE_HEADER_OVERFLOW"></a>
### HPE_HEADER_OVERFLOW ### HPE_HEADER_OVERFLOW
<!-- YAML
changes:
- version: REPLACEME
pr-url: https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/186035243fad247e3955f
description: Max header size in `http_parser` was set to 8KB.
-->
Too much HTTP header data was received. In order to protect against malicious or Too much HTTP header data was received. In order to protect against malicious or
malconfigured clients, if more than 80KB of HTTP header data is received then malconfigured clients, if more than 8KB of HTTP header data is received then
HTTP parsing will abort without a request or response object being created, and HTTP parsing will abort without a request or response object being created, and
an `Error` with this code will be emitted. an `Error` with this code will be emitted.