[vlc-devel] [PATCH 5a/5] stream_ReadLine: control maximum length with object variable

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le maanantaina 7. syyskuuta 2020, 19.36.27 EEST Pierre Ynard via vlc-devel a 
écrit :
> > And what are you going to do when Google increases the line size
> > again? 4.0 is still a long time away.
> 
> As already addressed in the commit message, the new limit was chosen
> accordingly to avoid that. This is web: for performance reasons alone,
> a major platform isn't going to increase the weight of their web pages
> tenfold to over 4 MB in the foreseeable future.

Why not? Surely browsers have more robust HTML parsers that can handle large 
pages. 8 MiB would be peanuts compared to the overhead of an HTML5 video 
playback pipeline.

And if you use deflate compression or such, making lines longer just to screw 
the poorly designed scrapers (including VLC) is very inexpensive and feasible.

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