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API Development Quiz Practice
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Question 1 of 1
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API Development
Why does an unbounded, client-supplied page limit pose a real risk?
A
It has no real risk, clients should be trusted
B
A very large requested limit forces the database and response payload to handle a correspondingly large amount of data per request — a real resource-exhaustion vector
C
This only matters for cursor pagination, not offset
D
Limits are automatically capped by HTTP itself
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