Hi there, Look for something related to Content-length request header. Usually it contains the size of the POST data. You may need to use a mix of the exisiting solution + the Content-length for security reasons. Cheers Salih On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 8:32 PM, sirius black <padfootpost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm trying to prevent my users from uploding files larger than 500MB. I > know that I can use LimitPayloadBody and ErrorDocument 413 to redirect the > users to a page telling them their file is too large. But then it seems > like apache still has to read in the entire file before it returns the user. > Even with a simple html file like this: > > <FORM ENCTYPE='multipart/form-data' method='POST' action='http://localhost'> > > <INPUT TYPE='file' NAME='mptest'> > > <INPUT TYPE='submit' VALUE='upload'> > > </FORM> > > > it takes a long time for a 1.9GB file to upload. > > Is there a way to prevent Apache form continuing to read the socket? If I > try to break before that, I get an "Ivalid Response From the Server" or > something like that response. > > > Thanks > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx