On 14/03/2011 14:41, André Warnier wrote: > It still seems to leave open the question as to what "the size limit of > a MultiPart upload" means exactly.
That is defined by the Servlet 3.0 specification. > Under Tomcat 7, is this the maxPostSize even for multipart POSTs, or is this > settable somewhere else ? Again, maxPostSize plays *no* role in limiting multi-part uploads. It only applies when processing POSTs with a content type of: application/x-www-form-urlencoded > Also, "the servlet sets the response status to 413" seems to imply that > the servlet can detect the size of the POST. But does it know if before > the client has finished posting ? That would be the content-length header on the request. > Is there a detailed description somewhere of how POSTs are handled ? The Servlet 3.0 spec. Or of you want the implementation detail then the source code is always available. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org