Thanks Jason and Evan.  This was exactly the application that I had in mind
for such a configuration so the explanations were spot on.  I suppose that
any kind of upload exposes a certain level of risk and I was just curious
how others had managed it.  Makes sense to look further up the processing
chain.

-Charles.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Evan LaForge" 
To: 
Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 12:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Quixote-users] upper size limit on POST data?


>
> > > Is there a way to limit the maximum size of data submitted in a POST
in
> > > Quixote?  Maybe the right answer is to just use Apache's
LimitRequestBody
> > > configuration?
> >
> > I assume you're concerned about some kind of DoS, or the like... My
answer
> > reflects that assumption.  Maybe someone else can shed some more light
on thi
> > s,
> > but...
> >
> > ...the short answer is no.
>
> You can set cgi.maxlen and then catch the ValueError from
> publisher.parse_request, but if apache (or whatever web server) does
indeed
> read the whole POST instead of handing the socket directly to the CGI
script
> then this will just save some extra parsing time, not save your RAM.
>
> LimitRequestBody looks like what you want.
>
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