What is the downside to setting large value or disabling the maxPostSize and maxSavePostSize limitations in JBoss EAP/JBossWeb/Tomcat?
Issue
- We have a requirement to have a higher POST size than the 2M limit. What is the downside of setting this to large value or -1 (unlimited) to
maxPostSize
andmaxSavePostSize
in EAP 4.x/5.x? - We have a requirement to have a higher POST size than the 2M limit. What is the downside of setting this to large value or -1 (unlimited) to
max-post-size
andmax-save-post-size
in EAP 6?
Environment
- Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)
- 4.x
- 5.x
- 6.x
- 7.x
- JBossWeb
- Tomcat
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