Hi Monks,
I have couple of questions about form validation. Specifically about the length of a field and amount of data that can be submitted to my form.

Don't worry I know about length.
My main questions are:

How do you handle it?

Obviously you don't want people submitting a couple of megs of data to your form.
I read up on how CGI.pm can handle DOS attacks of this sort and set the $CGI::POST_MAX variable accordingly. Well that solved my maximum amount of data problem. (I hope)

My second question is. How do you handle the length of your fields?

I have currently been doing something like this.
#$valids is an array reference returned by HTML::FormValidator
my @error;
foreach (@$valids) {

#%error_msg contains something like "first => "First name is too long 
+"
#%error_length contains something like "first => 45"

push @error, { message => $error_msg{$_} } if $_  >= $error_length{$_}
};

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Have I covered all my bases on this issue?
Is there a better way to do it?

Thanks
dwiz

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