From 733177ebd3ecf3a03c2acb6b244c8b3d1b4a3981 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Wladimir J. van der Laan" <laanwj@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 13:03:58 +0200
Subject: Remove size limit in RPC client, keep it in server

The size limit makes a lot of sense for the server, as it never has to
accept very large data.

The client, however, can request arbitrary amounts of data with
`listtransactions` on a large wallet.

Fixes #4604.
---
 src/rpcprotocol.cpp | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'src/rpcprotocol.cpp')

diff --git a/src/rpcprotocol.cpp b/src/rpcprotocol.cpp
index 48c6c68eb1..643208b3b6 100644
--- a/src/rpcprotocol.cpp
+++ b/src/rpcprotocol.cpp
@@ -201,14 +201,14 @@ int ReadHTTPHeaders(std::basic_istream<char>& stream, map<string, string>& mapHe
 
 int ReadHTTPMessage(std::basic_istream<char>& stream, map<string,
                     string>& mapHeadersRet, string& strMessageRet,
-                    int nProto)
+                    int nProto, size_t max_size)
 {
     mapHeadersRet.clear();
     strMessageRet = "";
 
     // Read header
     int nLen = ReadHTTPHeaders(stream, mapHeadersRet);
-    if (nLen < 0 || nLen > (int)MAX_SIZE)
+    if (nLen < 0 || (size_t)nLen > max_size)
         return HTTP_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR;
 
     // Read message
-- 
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