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 -- 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.
