Re: [ ruby-Bugs-2708 ] CGI read_multipart implementaion can create Tempfiles for files less than 10KB

On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 [e-mail] wrote:

> Bugs item #2708, was opened at 2005-10-24 15:44
> You can respond by visiting:
> http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=1698&aid=2708&group_id=426
>
> Category: Standard Library
> Group: None
> Status: Open
> Resolution: None
> Priority: 3
> Submitted By: Zev Blut (zev)
> Assigned to: Nobody (None)
> Summary: CGI read_multipart implementaion can create Tempfiles for files less than 10KB
>
> Initial Comment:
> Hello,
>
> My colleagues and I have discovered a problem with the implementation
> of the CGI library's read_multipart method.
>
> When the posted content length is greater than 10 kilobytes the CGI
> read_multipart implementation will create a temporary file for each
> parsed parameter until the consumed content length is less than 10
> kilobytes.  When it is less than 10 kilobytes each data value is a
> StringIO object.
>
> The current implementation can cause problems.  We have situations
> where we send images and many select options in a post.  When the
> select options are parsed first this creates hundreds of small
> Tempfiles.  Creating large amounts of Tempfiles can cause our servers
> to become unresponsive.
>
> Attached is a patch for read_multipart to only create Tempfiles for
> each data entry greater than 10 kilobytes.

is my mailer or the noaa spam filters eating something - or is there no
attachment?

regards.

-a
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