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From Lamar Owen
Subject Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 7.2.2: Security Release
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Msg-id 200208241353.22170.lamar.owen@wgcr.org
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In response to Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 7.2.2: Security Release  (Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>)
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On Saturday 24 August 2002 10:51 am, Vince Vielhaber wrote:
> And what are the odds your application is going to bomb due to a buffer
> overflow before it even gets to the database.  I can see maybe with php,
> but a web form should always be length limited.

IIRC, web forms are limited to 32k in an input field of any kind.  TEXTAREA 
is, I believe, the limit.

There are other limits -- but a web browser may not be the source of the POST 
formdata.
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Lamar Owen
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