doc: describe current HTTP header size limit

Document that the limit was changed from 80KB to 8KB in 1860352. Fixes: #24693 PR-URL: #24700 Reviewed-By: Matteo Collina <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Vse Mozhet Byt <[email protected]>
nodejs · Nov 29, 2018 · 68dc100 · 68dc100
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@@ -1869,9 +1869,15 @@ Creation of a [`zlib`][] object failed due to incorrect configuration.
 
 <a id="HPE_HEADER_OVERFLOW"></a>
 ### HPE_HEADER_OVERFLOW
+<!-- YAML
+changes:
+  - version: REPLACEME
+    pr-url: https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/186035243fad247e3955f
+    description: Max header size in `http_parser` was set to 8KB.
+-->
 
 Too much HTTP header data was received. In order to protect against malicious or
-malconfigured clients, if more than 80KB of HTTP header data is received then
+malconfigured clients, if more than 8KB of HTTP header data is received then
 HTTP parsing will abort without a request or response object being created, and
 an `Error` with this code will be emitted.