The request limit was raised to 10MB in February 2009:
http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2009/02/skys-almost-limit-high-cpu-is-no-more.html


On Apr 2, 3:20 pm, Jeff Schnitzer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Storage density is going up, networks are getting faster, datasets are
> growing larger, and verbose text-based serialization formats are the
> dominant interchange format.  1 megabyte is starting to look awfully
> small.  But this is the GAE limit for both URLFetch requests and for
> user-facing requests.
>
> I'm about to launch a feature that moves a lot of JSON-encoded polygon
> data through appengine.  The vast majority of my requests will fit
> into 1M, but the outliers might get uncomfortably close to this limit.
>  All it would take is several polygons with large numbers of points
> (or very long descriptions).
>
> First question:  Does the 1M limit apply before or after gzipping?
> I'm guessing the answer is before, which is unfortunate because JSON
> polygon data will probably compress to a small fraction its original
> size.  My clients will happily download a couple hundred k of polygon
> data if appengine can send it.
>
> Second question:  Is it possible to start a discussion of raising this
> limit?  Even just doubling to 2M would provide some breathing room.
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff

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