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@c960657 c960657 commented Aug 3, 2024

Add a safeguard against header injection attacks.

There is no bug in em-http-request as such, but this patch removes an attack vector when the library is used to fetch user-provided URLs which have not been properly validated.

This suggestion is inspired by true events.

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As an alternative, should we force URI encoding instead? Seems like a sensible default.

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