Hi. Is there a way to limit upload file size *before* the upload is accepted?
Say I want to give people the option of uploading movie files, but I want to limit them to 4MB per movie. If I understand the upload behaviour of Django correctly, the file is first accepted into main memory (*) , after which I have access to metadata. This would mean that somebody could easily OOM my Apache just by uploading a huuuuuge file. Also, in a hosted environment, this is unnecessary traffic which I'd have to pay for. If there were a way to check the "content-length" header BEFORE accepting the upload, this problem could be prevented (the socket could just be closed and a "permission denied" response or some other HTTP error could be returned). Is there a way to do this? Daniel (*) I'm aware that there are also Django extensions which do this streaming to disk, instead of to memory; still, I'd have to accept the sender's bulk data before I could discover that it is way too big. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
