Thanks for the info Joshua.  Its what I feared.

Maybe someone from Google can chime in?  I would be willing to pay for
the resources used for this... is there any plans to allow this in the
near future for GAE? Or possibly some workaround. I would like to keep
the application in GAE for simplicity...

thanks again,

- Sal

On Sep 16, 3:18 pm, Joshua Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> You read correctly.  There is no way.
>
> We use Amazon S3 to handle the big files in our apps (5GB limit, very  
> cheap, easy to set up, and edge-served if you want).
>
> It's not that hard to use these together.  The GAE app puts together a  
> form that posts to Amazon S3 and redirects back to GAE.  And then you  
> can use a HTTP head fetch to get info about the file that was uploaded.
>
> -Joshua
>
> On Sep 16, 2009, at 4:12 PM, sal wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > Is there a way to allow users to upload and download large files into
> > GAE?  I've read a limit of 1Meg or so on API calls and a 30 second
> > timeout limit.
>
> > If its true, then no download can exceed 30 seconds?  Also no
> > uploads?  And the actual file size limit cannot exceed 1 meg?
>
> > Does enabling billing fix any of these issues?  Thanks much in advance
> > for any help - I just want to make sure I'm not heading towards a  
> > dead-
> > end before investing lots of time into the feature.
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