Name: tb29552 Date: 01/29/98


Requested by:
(company - Mobile Telephone Networks , email - ###@###.###)

This would allow a programmer to read a line of text
not more than a certain number of characters.

Eg. reading a socket that does text IO (like SMTP)
one wants to read a line but not more than a certain
number of characters.

To use readLine() as is would be convinient but opens
such a socket reader to denial of service attacks
when a client spams volumes of text to the socket
with no new line characters. The BufferedReader
will read all of the text and eventually run out
of memory.

(Review ID: 24018)
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