[Phpmyadmin-devel] Limits imposed by Suhosin

[Marc Delisle]

Le 2011-08-06 07:59, Madhura Jayaratne a écrit :
> Hi all,
> 
> While attending to a bug [1], I came across the following.
> Suhosin imposes a limit of 512 on the length of the variable that can be
> passed via a GET [2]. This is often problematic as in PMA we encounter long
> parameters (long sql queries, where clauses when no unique key is there
> etc). Due to the same problem [3] $cfg['LinkLengthLimit'] configuration was
> lowered to more stricter 1000 from 2000, which is more acceptable.
> 
> In this particular bug the problem is that, though the URL length is under
> 1000, one parameter, 'sql_query', violates the Suhosin limit. What
> should be our stand on this. Should we adhere to Suhosin default values?
> 
> In 3.5 we have a possible solution for this [4] and we can still lower
> $cfg['LinkLengthLimit'] value without losing the look and feel. However this
> needs to have JS enabled and I'm not sure whether we want to impose that
> condition for the 3.4 series.

Madhura,
see Documentation.html, FAQ 1.38. You might want to add a suggestion
there about suhosin.get.max_value_length.

As you can deduce from this FAQ entry, it was not our intention to adapt
to Suhosin's limits.

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Marc Delisle
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