Re: Best Practices process

Hi Pratik,

Pratik Datta wrote:
> 2.2  Reduce opportunities for denial of Service attacks
>   Best Practice 5 Avoid RetrievalMethod
> 
>  RetrievalMethods can have bad transforms, external references and 
> infinite loops.
> 
>  Example of Retrieval methods with infinite loop : 
> 
> <RetrievalMethod Id="rm" URI="#rm"/>
> 
> Infinite loops can also happen with a circular chain of RetrievalMethods .

RetrievalMethods don't have an ID attribute. Even so, I'm not sure how 
you can get an infinite loop - can you explain that?

--Sean

Received on Tuesday, 13 May 2008 17:26:48 UTC