Episode Details

Joel and Aaron show how ignoring GET request validation can cause performance issues and open your application to abuse. They highlight the importance of bounding pagination and share tips for using form requests to handle unexpected user input.

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• (00:00) - Quiz on Laravel’s default pagination limit
• (01:00) - Performance concerns with large datasets
• (03:20) - Validating per-page requests in controllers
• (05:45) - Why you should block negative page numbers
• (09:20) - Silly bit