[Zope] DTML, Zope and Regex

[Chris Withers]

Kirk Lowery wrote:
> 
> Ben, would you mind expanding on this? What dangers are there? Regexes
> are so handy, and if I turn them on I'd like to know what the risks are...

A badly written regex can easily run in an infinite loop, hanging a thread of
your Zope server. Once the number of people who cause this regex to execute is
equal to the number of threads on your Zope server, you have a hung server ;-)

cheers,

Chris