Describe feature request for cgi.py's FieldStorage class to improve

memory consumption in the face of large binary uploads.  Closes bug
#110674.

pep-0042.txt

@@ -139,6 +139,23 @@ Standard Library
 
       https://sourceforge.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=110678&group_id=5470
 
+    - cgi.py's FieldStorage class should be more conservative with
+      memory in the face of large binary file uploads.
+
+      https://sourceforge.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=110674&group_id=5470
+
+      There are two issues here: first, because
+      read_lines_to_outerboundary() uses readline() it is possible
+      that a large amount of data will be read into memory for a
+      binary file upload.  This should probably look at the
+      Content-Type header of the section and do a chunked read if it's
+      a binary type.
+
+      Second, because the lines that are read are stored in an
+      instance attribute (self.lines -- a list), the uploaded data is
+      never freed.  self.lines isn't definied as part of the public
+      interface it /might/ be safe to remove it.  OTOH, removing it
+      will break code clever and nosy code.
 
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