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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: Konqueror DoS
From:       George Staikos <staikos () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-11-27 12:33:24
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On Tuesday 27 November 2001 07:24, Martijn Klingens wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 November 2001 12:54, George Staikos wrote:
> > > Disabling anti aliasing allows you to enter a longer line, but at some
> > > point the whole X-Server crashes then.
> >
> >   Why don't these things just get truncated after a reasonable length
> > then? Should we have a cleansing method somewhere in kdelibs for that?
>
> Hmm... towards the user that might help, but the real fix would still be
> somewhere deep inside Qt or even X IMO. The big advantage of QString &
> friends is that you hardly have to check for string lengths. I am not a big
> fan of introducing length checks everywhere in KDE.

  Of course that's a good idea too.  But when taking in data over the network 
(not talking local data), it's probably good to do this anyways.

-- 

George Staikos

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