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The documented limit of 2000 refers to header pairs (counting both keys and values), which gives an effective limit of 1000 headers.

This applies to both client and server; they have the same mechanism.

This fixes issue #65470, see the details added there for verification of the discrepancy.

The documented limit of 2000 refers to header pairs (counting both
keys and values), which gives an effective limit of 1000 headers.

This applies to both client and server; they have the same mechanism.

Signed-off-by: Aryn H <arynh@protonmail.com>
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