On Jan 20, 2012, at 03:15 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: >With the 1000 collision limit in place, the attacker sends their >massive request, the affected dict quickly hits the limit, throws an >unhandled exception which is then caught by the web framework and >turned into a 500 Error response (or whatever's appropriate for the >protocol being attacked).
Let's just be clear about it: this exception is new public API. Changing dictionary order is not. For me, that comes down firmly on the side of the latter rather than the former for stable releases. -Barry _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
