Thanks for all the answers. But it still isn't clear to me what Tomcat guys are referring to by a "FORM URL." Looks like this term isn't defined anywhere else in the docs.
On 02/05/2010, at 9:42 PM, André Warnier wrote: > Mark Thomas wrote: >> On 02/05/2010 09:57, Bytecode wrote: >>> According to Tomcat docs, the purpose of maxPostSize is: >>> >>> The maximum size in bytes of the POST which will be handled by the >>> container FORM URL parameter parsing. The limit can be disabled by setting >>> this attribute to a value less than or equal to 0. If not specified, this >>> attribute is set to 2097152 (2 megabytes). >>> >>> Now the question is what's meant by "the container FORM URL parameter >>> parsing"? What's a FORM URL? What's the container's FORM URL parameter >>> parsing? Also, what is a possible use case of this parameter? >> It limits the size of data that will be processed automatically by >> Tomcat for a POST request where the content type is >> application/x-www-form-urlencoded. See section 3.1.1 of the Servlet 3.0 >> spec. >> If the application parses the data then, regardless of content type, the >> limit does not apply. > Does this mean that at the Tomcat container level, there is no way to avoid > Tomcat accepting a POST of more than a certain size ? > While apparently not mandated by the Servlet Spec, this /could/ be regarded > as a weakness, no ? > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
