New submission from Rob King:
The cgi module has a global variable, 'maxlen', that specifies the maximum
length of a POST request. By default, this limit is 0, meaning an unlimited
POST request size.
Having an unlimited default opens up CGI scripts to resource-exhaustion
attacks. S
Changes by Rob King :
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versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.2, Python 3.3
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New submission from Rob King:
Hello, everyone.
I've noticed an issue that could be just a documentation inaccuracy or a
genuine, minor bug in cgi.FieldStorage.
The documentation for the module states:
"You can test for an uploaded file by testing either the filename attribute or
