RE: Tomcat and restricting the size of HttpServletRequest

2004-04-23 Thread Justin Ruthenbeck
At 07:03 AM 4/23/2004, you wrote: This also begs the question as to when my servlet gets to see an incoming request - I was concerned that by the time my servlet gets to see the incoming request Tomcat had already read the incoming data and stored it in the HttpServletRequest object - in which

Re: Tomcat and restricting the size of HttpServletRequest

2004-04-23 Thread Tim Funk
Content length should be the same value as the Content-Length header. Otherwise - I think it should be unknown. (Since it mirrors the cgi env var CONTENT_LENGTH) If possible - you should try to force the client to send a Content-Length -Tim Varley, Roger wrote: There is a max POST size lim

Re: Tomcat and restricting the size of HttpServletRequest

2004-04-23 Thread Parsons Technical Services
- Original Message - From: "Varley, Roger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 10:18 AM Subject: RE: Tomcat and restricting the size of HttpServletRequest > > I remember a previous discussion on this and

RE: Tomcat and restricting the size of HttpServletRequest

2004-04-23 Thread Varley, Roger
> > I remember a previous discussion on this and one of the > solutions was to use > an applet that would check the file size prior to transmission. > I can do that if the remote end is using my client - my concern is that once the URL is "known" anyone could write a program that writes huge a

Re: Tomcat and restricting the size of HttpServletRequest

2004-04-23 Thread Parsons Technical Services
size? Just a thought. Doug www.parsonstechnical.com - Original Message - From: "Varley, Roger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 10:03 AM Subject: RE: Tomcat and restricting the size of HttpServletRe

RE: Tomcat and restricting the size of HttpServletRequest

2004-04-23 Thread Varley, Roger
> > There is a max POST size limit attribute on the Connectors. > > Otherwise - you can code for it too: > request.getContentLength() == Size of posted content. -1 if > the client did > not provide a Content length. > I wondered about request.getContentLength() but was worried that it was c

Re: Tomcat and restricting the size of HttpServletRequest

2004-04-23 Thread Tim Funk
There is a max POST size limit attribute on the Connectors. Otherwise - you can code for it too: request.getContentLength() == Size of posted content. -1 if the client did not provide a Content length. -Tim Varley, Roger wrote: Hi I have an application where a client transmits data to a servle