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Subject: Re: [boost] [Beast] Security issue note
From: Vinnie Falco (vinnie.falco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-06-28 05:39:46


On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 10:25 PM, Artyom Beilis via Boost
<boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> std::size_t isn't good for max_content_length, it should be unsigned long long
> or uint64_t because if you use it for file upload on 32 bit system you want to
> support files above 4GB.

Yes, and that's how I wrote it (the feature is currently in code review).

> Note: the default and reasonable max_context_length must be defined by default.

What's typical? How about 8MB for responses and 1MB for requests?


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