Marcus wrote:
>
> I was reading Lincoln Stein's WWW security FAQ and came across some C code to
>prevent buffer overflows.
> If I want to do that in Perl, is it sufficient to check the value of
>ENV{CONTENT_LENGTH}, and the size of ENV{QUERY_STRING}?
>
> I guess you do the check before calling your parameter plucker, and if the input is
>too long, go back to the input form with an error.
>
> Does anybody have any code for this in context?
It's pretty hard to overflow a Perl vrbl since they grow automagically . :)
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