Hi sal, Currently, API calls are limited to 1MB, but requests and responses are limited to 10M. If you want to permit larger files, you could split them up into chunks and store them in the datastore. The 30 second request limit applies only to the time your code spends processing the request, not time sent receiving the request or sending the response.
A large file API is on our roadmap, which will make handling large files from users much easier. -Nick Johnson On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:24 PM, sal <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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. > > > -- Nick Johnson, Developer Programs Engineer, App Engine --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" 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/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
