[PATCH] stream_ReadLine: increase line length limit

[Pierre Ynard]

Rémi, is that okay with you if we go ahead and merge this, and backport
it for 3.0.12?

On Mon, Jul 20, 2020, Pierre Ynard wrote:
> Very long lines are occasionally encountered in text web resources such
> as HTML, JSON or other API data. This bumps the hardcoded limit from
> 200 kB to 4 MB, which should be sufficient to support more than most of
> them, but still reasonable to prevent any issue.
> 
> Fixes #24957
> 
> This is relevant for fixing YouTube playback in 3.0
> 
> 
> diff --git a/src/input/stream.c b/src/input/stream.c
> index 35c5a04..57b04c1 100644
> --- a/src/input/stream.c
> +++ b/src/input/stream.c
> @@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ stream_t *(vlc_stream_NewMRL)(vlc_object_t* parent, const char* mrl )
>   * \return A pointer to the allocated output string. You need to free this when you are done.
>   */
>  #define STREAM_PROBE_LINE 2048
> -#define STREAM_LINE_MAX (2048*100)
> +#define STREAM_LINE_MAX (2048*2048)
>  char *vlc_stream_ReadLine( stream_t *s )
>  {
>      stream_priv_t *priv = (stream_priv_t *)s;

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Pierre Ynard
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