I would be in favor of making the Examples "opt-in" like the Zope tutorial. It 
seems silly to have it in evey ZODB by default. Make people add it if they 
want it.

-Casey

On Monday 23 June 2003 05:12 am, Jamie Heilman wrote:
> seb bacon wrote:
> > No.  Just go ahead and make the changes.  It would be instructive for
> > others reading the examples to add a comment or two explaining the
> > rationale behind the extra checking code.
> 
> 'k I can do that
>  
> > The file upload vulnerability was fixed in version 1.3 of Examples.zexp,
> > though.  The reason it's still turning up in 2.6.x versions is probably
> > due to upgrades.  Therefore I suppose additionally there should be a
> > patch which examines the ZODB on startup and prints a warning if an old
> > Examples folder is present.
> 
> You know, ironically, I don't think this "advisory" even covers that hole.
> There's obvious DoS potential in the guest book and such, but thats
> easily limited without degrading the value of the example.  Anyway,
> I'll scrape over the examples and see what I can clean up.
> 
> -- 
> Jamie Heilman                   http://audible.transient.net/~jamie/
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