[web-devel] limiting POST

Erik de Castro Lopo mle+hs at mega-nerd.com
Fri Jan 6 03:50:11 CET 2012


Kazu Yamamoto (山本和彦) wrote:

> Hello guys,
> 
> As you may know, "Denial of Service through hash table
> multi-collisions" was disclosed:
> 
> 	http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.full-disclosure/83694
> 
> The hashable package is affected but not affected to Yesod suite.
> However, I guess we should provide size limitation of HTTP body on
> POST to Warp.

I disagree with limiting the size. I might be better to for the Warp application
to consume the POST data in constant space.

Erik
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