[rabbitmq-discuss] Security/resource limit questions

Wed Jan 5 17:24:33 GMT 2011

On Jan 5, 2011, at 8:36 AM, Matthias Radestock wrote:

> Emile Joubert wrote:
>> If a long shortstr reaches the broker it will produce a "method_field_shortstr_overflow" exception in the framing layer.
> 
> That cannot happen on the inbound side. short strings are encoded with a 1-byte length prefix, so there is no way for the client to send a long shortstr. And in a standard broker setup it cannot happen on the outbound side either since the broker does not create shortstrs (except for error messages, which get truncated at 255).
> 

Great to know, thanks!