in reply to Beating the system

There is a way to limit the size of posts when using CGI.pm. There is a variable called $CGI::POST_MAX that contains the maximun size of posts. This certainly affects file uploads.

You can find out what the limit is on your system by using this 

use CGI;
print $CGI::POST_MAX;

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If this prints a negative value then there isn't a limit.

To find out more look at perldoc CGI.

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Re: Re: Beating the system
by mikeirw (Pilgrim) on Sep 29, 2002 at 15:29 UTC
    Thanks for the tip, but I actually have $CGI::POST_MAX set in my script to the constant MAX_FILE_SIZE, which is 1_048_576. Without setting it myself, and just printing its value, it returns -1.
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      You know... from what I said in another node I think you might have some mileage in knocking that limit down some - keep CGI's use of memory lower and all. A closer reading of CGI.pm leads me to think it's not as big a deal but perhaps... Consider using Devel::Peek on your CGI object's BUFFER member.

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      Oops. Sorry. I don't know how I missed that

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