Recovering from oversize upload exception ?

[Tal Dayan]

Title: RE: Session Problem

Hello,

 

We are trying to use the Oreilly servlet package to service requests from a form that is used to upload files. The form contains buttons, checkboxes, radio buttons, and several 'file' fields.

 

When request size is larger than the max size we allow, the constructor

 

new MultipartParser(req, 100000, true, true)

 

throws an exception, reporting about the size violation.

 

This is fine but when this happens, we cannot access the values of fields and buttons that were submitted. This significantly reduce our ability to to provide the user with a graceful error handling and all we can indicate in the error message that the total request size was above the limit and any setting of checkboxes and radio buttons is lost.

 

Are we missing something ? Any idea how to improve the error handling and to recover field values ?

 

Thanks,

Tal

 

 -----Original Message-----
From: Mike Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 11:37 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: Session Problem

Craig (or anyone),

> You might want to turn your thinking inside out on how to
> handle this problem
> :-).

I came in on this discussion thread mid-strand, and have a question.  Your code snipped on session handling made perfect sense, and really made the session-handling issue finally "click" for me.  My question is about timeouts; where is the timeout value set?

Thanks