[issue23952] Document the 'maxlen' member of the cgi module

2015-04-14 Thread Rob King
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. Setting the

[issue23952] Document the 'maxlen' member of the cgi module

2015-04-14 Thread Rob King
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