Well you should always validate whatever you get from the users. In that validation step you can do that.
A possible way to validate it would be to do something like: ids, error = IS_LIST_OF(IS_INT_IN_RANGE(minimum=1), maximum=YOUR_MAX_NUMBER_OF_IDS)(request.vars.ids.split(',')) if error: # we didn't validate for some reason response.flash = error else: people = db(db.auth_user.id.belongs(ids))... Instead of using IS_INT_IN_RANGE you can even go a step further and use IS_IN_DB, but that would be much more heavy as it would hit the database and I don't think it's needed here due to the next step. -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.