10 Jul
2002
10 Jul
'02
8:25 p.m.
Kirk Lowery wrote:
Ben, would you mind expanding on this? What dangers are there? Regexes are so handy, and if I turn them on I'd like to know what the risks are...
A badly written regex can easily run in an infinite loop, hanging a thread of your Zope server. Once the number of people who cause this regex to execute is equal to the number of threads on your Zope server, you have a hung server ;-) cheers, Chris