On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 10:42 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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.
Without answering your question directly, let me just point out that even if such a limit existed in Django, it still wouldn't help your Apache process, since it is already accepting the data. Fortunately, you *can* control this at the Apache level. Look at the LimitRequestBody directive. Regards, Malcolm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
