Author: fanningpj
Date: Tue Oct 24 21:51:04 2023
New Revision: 1913303
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1913303&view=rev
Log:
security docs
Modified:
poi/site/src/documentation/content/xdocs/security.xml
Modified: poi/site/src/documentation/content/xdocs/security.xml
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/poi/site/src/documentation/content/xdocs/security.xml?rev=1913303&r1=1913302&r2=1913303&view=diff
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--- poi/site/src/documentation/content/xdocs/security.xml (original)
+++ poi/site/src/documentation/content/xdocs/security.xml Tue Oct 24 21:51:04
2023
@@ -79,6 +79,13 @@
If this is a concern, make sure to have a way to stop
processing after some time, maybe by the
sandboxing approach described below.
</li>
+ <li><strong>Memory use can be very high</strong><br/>
+ The data in Microsoft format files is usually compressed so
even small files can have a lot of data.
+ <br/>
+ The core POI APIs are not optimized to avoid excessive memory
use. POI has streaming APIs for reading
+ and writing xlsx files - so if you are working with large xlsx
files, you should consider using the
+ streaming APIs.
+ </li>
<li><strong>Consider sandboxing document-parsing</strong><br/>
If you operate in a highly sensitive enviornment and would
like to avoid any side effect from
parsing documents on your application, then consider
extracting the parsing logic into a separate
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