1) Denial of service attack.
2) If the upload is a large file and you try to buffer the file into memory instead of writing it directly as a temp file to disk - you can get an a DOS for Out of memory.
3) If you don't take care in the writing to disk, you can DOS yourself by filling up the filesystem


-Tim

Philipp Leusmann wrote:

Ok, thanks for the answer.
But what would my worries be?

Philipp


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Betreff: Re: General session question


The short answer is: yes.


However (unless you've enabled the uploadTimeout), this is the
least of your
worries with an upload that will take several minutes.

"Philipp Leusmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Hi,

will a session timeout when one servlet takes longer to process than the
session-timeout? For example for uploading-servlets.

Thanks,
Philipp




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