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This can be vulnerable to denial of service (DOS) attacks since significant memory and CPU can be consumed if a malicious clients sends very large form content or large number of form keys.
Thus Jetty limits the amount of data and keys that can be in a form posted to Jetty.</p><p>The default maximum size Jetty permits is 200000 bytes and 1000 keys.
You can change this default for a particular webapp or for all webapps on a particular Server instance.</p><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="_configuring_form_limits_for_a_webapp"></a>Configuring Form Limits for a Webapp</h3></div></div></div><p>To configure the form limits for a single web application, the context handler (or webappContext) instance must be configured using the following methods:</p><pre xmlns:jfetch="java:org.eclipse.jetty.xslt.tools.JavaSourceFetchExtension" xmlns:fetch="java:org.eclipse.jetty.xslt.tools.SourceFetchExtension" xmlns:d="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:l="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/xmlns/l10n/1.0" xmlns:xslthl="http://xslthl.sf.net" xmlns:gcse="http://www.google.com" xmlns:date="http://exslt.org/dates-and-times"><code>ContextHandler.setMaxFormContentSize(int maxSizeInBytes);
ContextHandler.setMaxFormKeys(int formKeys);</code></pre><p>These methods may be called directly when embedding Jetty, but more commonly are configured from a context XML file or WEB-INF/jetty-web.xml file:</p><pre xmlns:jfetch="java:org.eclipse.jetty.xslt.tools.JavaSourceFetchExtension" xmlns:fetch="java:org.eclipse.jetty.xslt.tools.SourceFetchExtension" xmlns:d="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:l="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/xmlns/l10n/1.0" xmlns:xslthl="http://xslthl.sf.net" xmlns:gcse="http://www.google.com" xmlns:date="http://exslt.org/dates-and-times"><code>&lt;Configure class="org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext"&gt;

  ...

  &lt;Set name="maxFormContentSize"&gt;200000&lt;/Set&gt;
  &lt;Set name="maxFormKeys"&gt;200&lt;/Set&gt;
&lt;/Configure&gt;</code></pre></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="_configuring_form_limits_for_the_server"></a>Configuring Form Limits for the Server</h3></div></div></div><p>If a context does not have specific form limits configured, then the server attributes are inspected to see if a server wide limit has been set on the size or keys.
The following XML shows how these attributes can be set in <code class="literal">jetty.xml</code>:</p><pre xmlns:jfetch="java:org.eclipse.jetty.xslt.tools.JavaSourceFetchExtension" xmlns:fetch="java:org.eclipse.jetty.xslt.tools.SourceFetchExtension" xmlns:d="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:l="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/xmlns/l10n/1.0" xmlns:xslthl="http://xslthl.sf.net" xmlns:gcse="http://www.google.com" xmlns:date="http://exslt.org/dates-and-times"><code>&lt;configure class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server"&gt;

  ...

  &lt;Call name="setAttribute"&gt;
    &lt;Arg&gt;org.eclipse.jetty.server.Request.maxFormContentSize&lt;/Arg&gt;
    &lt;Arg&gt;100000&lt;/Arg&gt;
   &lt;/Call&gt;
  &lt;Call name="setAttribute"&gt;
    &lt;Arg&gt;org.eclipse.jetty.server.Request.maxFormKeys&lt;/Arg&gt;
    &lt;Arg&gt;2000&lt;/Arg&gt;
   &lt;/Call&gt;
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