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#29800 new Bug

Reported by:	Alexander Charykov	Owned by:	nobody
Component:	HTTP handling	Version:	2.1
Severity:	Normal	Keywords:
Cc:	Herbert Fortes, Sam Kuffer, Natalia Bidart	Triage Stage:	Accepted
Has patch:	no	Needs documentation:	no
Needs tests:	no	Patch needs improvement:	no
Easy pickings:	no	UI/UX:	no
Pull Requests:	How to create a pull request

When sending incorrect content-length header to application, django hangs on reading request.body.

Steps to reproduce:

curl -v -X POST -H "Accept: */*" -H "Content-Length: 22" -d "1" http://127.0.0.1:8000

with following handler:

def index(request):
    return HttpResponse(content=request.body)

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