From 0930c074fa7d8dabed00af2ba39a177a8d00167f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "myk%mozilla.org" <>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 15:33:03 +0000
Subject: Fix for bug 72184: prevents users from entering too-large
 comments/descriptions that get rejected by MySQL's MAX_PACKET_SIZE
 restrictions. Patch by Myk Melez <myk@mozilla.org>. r=bbaetz,gerv

---
 CGI.pl | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

(limited to 'CGI.pl')

diff --git a/CGI.pl b/CGI.pl
index f91cbd670..0882a967c 100644
--- a/CGI.pl
+++ b/CGI.pl
@@ -324,6 +324,19 @@ sub ValidateBugID {
 
 }
 
+
+sub ValidateComment {
+    # Make sure a comment is not too large (greater than 64K).
+    
+    my ($comment) = @_;
+    
+    if (defined($comment) && length($comment) > 65535) {
+        DisplayError("Comments cannot be longer than 65,535 characters.");
+        exit;
+    }
+}
+
+
 # check and see if a given string actually represents a positive
 # integer, and abort if not.
 # 
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