On 09/20/2010 03:01 AM, Nicholas Bamber wrote: > For the purposes of my discussion we can assume that, say 5M, is a > reasonable maximum file size. The modules that I am comparing with do > slurp the entire file into memory. And by only providing a file handle > they force the caller to do it more than once.
But even 5M is still a lot to have your processes grow by on each request. For instance, a common mod_perl setup with say 100 apache children could grow by half a gig really fast and result in total machine lockup. It's not an edge case to not want to expose yourself to a DOS attack. -- Michael Peters Plus Three, LP ##### CGI::Application community mailing list ################ ## ## ## To unsubscribe, or change your message delivery options, ## ## visit: http://www.erlbaum.net/mailman/listinfo/cgiapp ## ## ## ## Web archive: http://www.erlbaum.net/pipermail/cgiapp/ ## ## Wiki: http://cgiapp.erlbaum.net/ ## ## ## ################################################################
