Marcus wrote:
> On 24.10.00 at 20:13 $Bill Luebkert wrote:
> >It's pretty hard to overflow a Perl vrbl since they grow
> automagically . :)
>
> Just to clarify, does that mean I don't need to worry about
> nasty people dumping tons of data into my forms (at least
> from a server stability perspective) ?
Well, you need to take care of file uploads -- CGI.pm has a mathod to limit
the maximum file size that can be uploaded. And if your Perl process
swallows tons of data, it shouldn't buffer overflow, but your process might
start swapping like crazy.
> At what point does Perl stop letting a variable grow?
When it can't get any more memory from the operating system :)
Cheers,
Philip
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