Re: Fwd: I-D Action: draft-melnikov-rfc2088bis-01.txt

Arnt Gulbrandsen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.imapext
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On Thursday, December 18, 2014 1:14:12 PM CEST, Alexey Melnikov wrote:
> Allowing smaller non synchronizing literal sizes in APPEND 
> might work, but the problem is that this still allows for abuse 
> if the limit is exceeded.

Not really, not if the limit is comparable to typical TCP send windows. A 
badly behaving client can send one TCP window's worth of stuff to the 
server anyway.

Specifically, the client can send
    a append inbox () "01-01-2000" {9999999999999999999999999999+}
no matter whether which part of that line is forbidden, and the server has 
to eat one whole TCP window before it can throw the client out.

Arnt

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