RE: MAX_FILE_SIZE not working with file uploads

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Cohan [mailto:jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 23 September 2007 02:45
> To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  MAX_FILE_SIZE not working with file uploads
> 
> 
> 
> Dan Parry wrote:
> > I might be wrong but this would be classed as
> > 'exploitable'... Webservers should not be allowed
> > to read from or write to clients... Of course there
> > is ActiveX...
> 
> I think we're off the point.
> 
> My script is simply interrogating the value of the
> $_FILES[userfile][size] array element. It's coming up as ZERO if it
> exceeds the MAX_FILE_SIZE. That seems odd to me. But maybe that's
> the way it's SUPPOSED to work. That's why I started this thread out
> with "What am I missing?".
> 
> Said another way:
> 
> It seems that the server had to know the size of the file in order
> to know it exceeded MAX_FILE_SIZE. So how can my script find out the
> size?

I'm not sure it can... The server has to accept the file before it can
process any details on it

The MAX_FILE_SIZE input field is notoriously unreliable... I think if it
returns zero (0) then the PHP limit is reached

Dan

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