Re: [Soaplab-users] How to add limits in ACD ?

[Sebastien M. <Seb...@un...>]

Martin Senger a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
>     I would like to add some limits to user inputs.
> 
> 
> A lot depends of what is the meant by the user inputs. For the examples 
> you mentioned:
>  
> 
>     Max number of sequences
> 
>     Max sequence length
> 
> 
> If these maximums are values of the command-line options, Soaplab should 
> be able to define it in the ACD files. But I am not sure now if this 
> kind of validation was already implemented.
> 
> But it is likely that you think rather about limits of the contents of 
> an input file. One can limit it by writing her/his own data input 
> adapter. But even with an adapter, the original input is transmitted 
> anyway to the Soaplab service - whcih may be what you want to avoid. In 
> such case, Soaplab cannot help - it must be validated on the client size.

What a pity !

>     Max upload size
> 
> 
> The only file uploading in Soaplab2 is in the Spinet web interface. At 
> the moment, it does not provide a property that can limit the size of 
> the uploaded size, but it would be very easy to add it there. It is a 
> good idea, and I will do it (but not in the next two weeks - I will be 
> on a conference and on a vacation in the remote parts of Asia).

I think it should be a good think for security purpose.
Maybe we can do this kind of think via Tomcat parameters.

> Cheers,
> Martin

Best regards
Sébastien

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