From 99412e559bea9179394366a95ae1a2c1b0723c47 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 04:27:47 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Merged revisions 70940 via svnmerge
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  r70940 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 23:21:14 -0500 (Di, 31 Mär 2009) | 2 lines

  The SimpleXMLRPCServer's CGI handler now runs like a pony.
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---
 Lib/xmlrpc/server.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/xmlrpc/server.py b/Lib/xmlrpc/server.py
index 4ddc0049d6..eb807c484b 100644
--- a/Lib/xmlrpc/server.py
+++ b/Lib/xmlrpc/server.py
@@ -588,8 +588,12 @@ class CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler(SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher):
             self.handle_get()
         else:
             # POST data is normally available through stdin
+            try:
+                length = int(os.environ.get('CONTENT_LENGTH', None))
+            except ValueError:
+                length = -1
             if request_text is None:
-                request_text = sys.stdin.read()
+                request_text = sys.stdin.read(length)
 
             self.handle_xmlrpc(request_text)
 
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