I am not sure if the content_length is available until the file is actually uploaded. I could be wrong on that though.
...................... Ben Nadel Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX7 Developer www.bennadel.com Need ColdFusion Help? www.bennadel.com/ask-ben/ -----Original Message----- From: Doug Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 10:39 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Any way to limit file upload size? What about something like so. Am I way off? It checks before the image is uploaded. page_1.cfm <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <title>Untitled Document</title> </head> <body> <form action="page_1.cfm" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data"> <input type="file" name="test1"> <input type="submit" name="submitThis"> </form> <cfset allowedFileSize = 1000> <cfif isDefined("form.submitThis")> <cfoutput> <cfif cgi.content_length gt "#Val(allowedFileSize)#"> Error your file is wayyyyy to big<br> </cfif> Your file size was: #cgi.CONTENT_LENGTH# and the allowed size was #allowedFileSize# </cfoutput> </cfif> </body> </html> Doug ----- Original Message ----- From: "Snake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 7:06 AM Subject: RE: Any way to limit file upload size? > There is a setting in IIS to limit the size of form posts. But I can't find > it for the life of me. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gaulin, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 05 December 2006 13:29 > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Any way to limit file upload size? > > Hi > Is there any way in CF or IIS to limit the allowed file size for a form with > a file "attached"? > > I have a situation where someone might accidentally upload a huge file when > all we want is a sample file. I would want to avoid not only creating a > huge temp file but also all of the bandwidth needed to send the file to the > server. > > Thanks > Mark > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:262891 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
