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André,

On 5/7/12 5:10 PM, André Warnier wrote:
> Christopher Schultz wrote:
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>> Mark,
>> 
>> On 5/6/12 5:05 AM, Mark Thomas wrote:
>>> On 05/05/2012 12:25, Kanatoko wrote:
>>>> Hello list,
>>>> 
>>>> It seems that the Connector attribute "maxParameterCount" is
>>>> not applied to multipart requests.
>>> Correct. This is by design.
>> 
>> Doesn't that make it trivial to launch a DOS on a server by
>> simply using multipart/form-data?
>> 
>> Why not limit parameters for multipart messages?
> 
> Impish guess : because "by design" means that it is a lot harder to
> go dig into the code borrowed from Commons/FileUpload and to modify
> it to find out and limit the number of parameters ?

Probably not: commons-fileupload isn't a dependency of Tomcat, at
least not in trunk. Tomcat performs its own multipart handling in
o.a.c.connector.Request.parseParts.

- -chris
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