On Mar 12, 2007, at 4:12 PM, Bill Walton wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> I apologize for the cross-post but could really use some feedback
> on this question.
>
> I've got both client-side and server-side validations in place, but
> wonder if I need to do more.
>
> Specifically, ...
>
> In addition to user input via browser, my Rails app can import the
> same data from XML files (using REXML). Is there a possibility of
> buffer overruns as I'm reading the data from the XML files into
> instance variables in the controller method, prior to submitting
> them to the model for validation? I can't seem to find a
> definitive statement on buffer overrun protections in Rails. Do I
> need to worry about REXML too? Or is the potential issue limited
> to Rails?
>
> Thanks much for any info.
>
> Best regards,
> Bill
Bill-
Thankfully Rails is built on Ruby which is a interpreted language
and is therefore not succeptable to buffer overflows like any
compiled C type language is, Ruby insulated you from this stuff.. The
only limit to Ruby as far as buffers go is disk space and RAM.
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