Rails - May 2006 - Beware of a bug of WEBrick

Hi all,

I''m not sure that here is the right place to post(so sorry if it is 
not),
but it seems that WEBrick is not being maintained any more.

I found that WEBricks freezes with 100% of CPU usage whenever it takes a 
POST message of invalid format(multipart/form-data with invalid 
boundary). Then the server is able to process any other requests no 
longer.

Be careful if you''re doing some serious things with script/server.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: rails-bounces@lists.rubyonrails.org 
> [mailto:rails-bounces@lists.rubyonrails.org] On Behalf Of Sangjin Han
> Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 9:35 AM
> To: rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> Subject: [Rails] Beware of a bug of WEBrick
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I''m not sure that here is the right place to post(so sorry if it
is
> not),
> but it seems that WEBrick is not being maintained any more.
> 
> I found that WEBricks freezes with 100% of CPU usage whenever 
> it takes a 
> POST message of invalid format(multipart/form-data with invalid 
> boundary). Then the server is able to process any other requests no 
> longer.
> 
> Be careful if you''re doing some serious things with script/server.
If you could provide a short, standalone script (using net/http or
whatever) that demonstrates this issue, the Ruby core team should be
able to fix it.

Regards,

Dan


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