[Lispweb] Re: Allegroserve/Webactions POST filesize limit?

[John DeSoi]

On Jul 27, 2005, at 5:18 AM, Petter Gustad wrote:

> Are there any other ways to restrict the file size for uploaded files
> in Allegroserve? If not then somebody can really kill your server by
> uploading files which are way bigger than your physical memory.


I don't recall the exact design in AllegroServe, but what you want to  
do read only the headers of the post request and look at the Content- 
Length header. If it is too large or not provided, then kill the  
request and send an error message.


John DeSoi, Ph.D.
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