[mod_python] file upload very slow in fieldStorage

Nick nick at dd.revealed.net
Fri Mar 25 15:20:42 EST 2005


Nicolas Lehuen wrote:
> Like I've wrote in another mail, FieldStorage will stream only if the
> Content-Disposition header of the file part of the POST entity
> contains a filename attribute (see mod_python/util.py line 169). Maybe
> we should change this behaviour :
> 
> 1) Always stream to disk unless told otherwise

I would agree this should be done.  Regardless of whether HTTP should or 
should not be used for huge file uploads, it does leave you open to DoS.

Nick


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