Hi Alan, Yes, the fault is not at your end, but the website. Their Web Designer (or who ever is in charge of the website) needs to up the size of the UploadReadAheadSize metabase property.
<http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jiruss/archive/2007/04/13/http-413-request-entity-too-large-can-t-upload-large-files-using-iis6.aspx> Cheers, Ronni On 24/06/2011, at 7:47 AM, Alan Smith wrote: > Thanks Ronni > > Problem would appear to be at distant end, thank goodness. Phone enquiries > to the company gave impression that it is a common issue: they just request a > supporting email attaching the offending file. I guess their IT person is > unaware of the problem which may be easily fixed according to the ASP.Net > forum found on Google. > > Cheers, Alan > > > On 22/06/2011, at 10:11 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: > > Hi Alan, > > This is a HTTPS 413 error. > "413 - Request Entity Too Large > The server is refusing to process a request because the request entity is > larger than the server is willing or able to process. The server may close > the connection to prevent the client from continuing the request. What > constitutes 'too large' depends in part by the operation being attempted. > For example a request to upload a very large file (via the HTTP PUT method) > may encounter a limitation on upload file size set by the Web server.” > > You could try “Empty Cache” in Safari, then restart Safari and try the > process again, making sure you don’t have any other pages open at the time > you are trying to do the upload. > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" > 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD > > OS X 10.6.7 Snow Leopard > Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) > > > On 22/06/2011, at 7:51 AM, Alan Smith wrote: > >> >> I receive an error message when submitting a web form: "Page was not >> displayed because the request entity is too large". Any suggestions as >> to where the cause of the problem may be? >> >> I was attempting to complete a 3-step web form for a Myer extended warranty. >> Step two requires details including a proof of purchase attachment of less >> than 4MB. My PDF scan of the receipt is 586KB. Process halts when I >> press "Step 3 - Confirmation". After a period of inactivity I receive the >> above error message. Google suggested it is HTTPS 413. >> >> I am using Safari 5.0.5. I have previously submitted web forms with >> larger attachments successfully (to a State Govt department) so it MAY not >> be my iMac or ISP. >> >> Regards, Alan >> >> Alan Smith >> iMac 21.5" Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz 4M - OSX 10.6.7 >> iPad2; ATV2 >> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
