Re: DO NOT REPLY [Bug 27328] - tie content length of form fields posted with struts-validator maxlength attribute or alike

[Martin Cooper <mf...@gmail.com>]

On 17 Oct 2004 06:27:17 -0000, bugzilla@apache.org <bu...@apache.org> wrote:
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> tie content length of form fields posted with struts-validator maxlength attribute or alike
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> ------- Additional Comments From hauser@acm.org  2004-10-17 06:27 -------
> Martin,
> As per your note on unstoppability, you are saying if somebody tries to kill my
> server by uploading an excessively large file, FileUpload has no way to preempt
> that before throwing an out-of-memory exception and leaving the JVM in a
> non-determined state?

Unfortunately, yes. The issue is not related to FileUpload per se. The
problem is that the servlet spec does not provide a way for a client
to abort a request, once that request has been initiated by a client.

--
Martin Cooper


> What I orignially tried is to leverage the "safe operations parameters" that
> programmers increasingly specify via the validator.xml in a declarative way.
> 
> It would be great if an upload would stop or at least avoid OOME driven by some
> parameters (best if there is only one set of such parameters - e.g. the same as
> the ones from struts cited above).
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> This idea is basically related to Bug 22633.
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