On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 06:32:55PM +0100, Matt Sergeant wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Tom Schindl wrote:
> 
> > Yes this is normal. In the standard configuration axkit only caches on
> > URL base. If you want to cache upon a URL+QueryString you have to take a
> > look into the docs at axkit.org where you'll find:
> >
> > AxAddPlugin Apache::AxKit::Plugin::QueryStringCache
> 
> Just to add to this a reason: If this weren't the default configuration it
> would be trivial to DoS an axkit installation by continually passing in
> randomly changing querystring parameters. You'd fill up the hard drive in
> no time.

I've been thinking about this.  Would adjusting ::QueryStringCache so
that you can give it a list of parameters that should be cached help?

I guess not, because the infinite number of possible values to those
parameters is still a problem..

Hmm.

N
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