Tornado: Urlencoded body parsing omits max_num_fields, so one request can stall the event loop
Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library. Prior to 6.5.8, Tornado parses application/x-www-form-urlencoded request bodies with urllib.parse.parse_qs in tornado/escape.py without passing max_num_fields. RequestHandler._execute in tornado/web.py parses the body before handler dispatch through…
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Published 2026-08-31T21:28:13.958Z. Updated 2026-09-02T17:39:41.238Z.