On 2/10/2011 7:04 AM, Rainer Jung wrote:
> Servlet 3 standardizes file uploads. It contains the ability to limit on 
> request size,
> pretty much the same as commons fileupload supported for many years.
> 
> It seems when this conditions triggers the rest of the request inout stream 
> is still
> drained at the end of the request. swallowInput is not being set to false.
> 
> It seems there's still no server-side prevention against huge uploads 
> possible. The upload
> is not put into memory, but the thread is only freed once the whole request 
> body is read.
> Shouldn't Tomcat ignore the rest of data and close the connection in this 
> case?

In HTTP, this is required if you will reject the request with a status.
The behavior is RFC-correct per Apache httpd's design, which has been
debated on plenty of occasions and the finger always goes back to
RFC 2616 correctness.

For non-HTTP connections, anything goes :)

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