[STR-1984] warn that maxlength validator only active after physical upload (unfortunately not "fast-fail")

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.1.0
• Fix Version/s: Future
• Component/s: Documentation
• Environment: Operating System: other; Platform: Other
• Bugzilla Id: 27062
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Ralf Hauser
• Created: 19/Feb/04 16:13
• Updated: 08/Jun/08 06:19

Description

at the above URL, I suggest to mention that the validator only becomes effective
AFTER the upload has been completed.

When testing the bounday, I had no problems uploading 110k of data into a field
configured to hold only 100 characters.

Not particularly Denial-of-Service Attack resistant.

I guess this is a related topic to the file size validator as per STR-1705 and
STR-1394.

As a side note - when loading 110 K into a simple text form field, my two weeks
old Mozilla build no longer displays any "ink", but just whitespaces.
Upon the error, struts sends the humongeous string value back as
<input name="forename" size="75" tabindex="1" value= type="text">
Obviously, the whitespace is a lot longer. When trying to hilight the value=...
all of a sudden, the content becomes visible...