You cannot check before it is uploaded. If you use apache or nginx, then can check and block large uploads, but you would get a web server error, not a web2py error.
On Sunday, 26 January 2014 13:32:16 UTC-6, lesssugar wrote: > > I'm using IS_LENGTH in my model to validate file size of uploaded image: > > IS_LENGTH(2097152, 1, error_message='Max image size: 2MB') > > However, the size is being checked after the file's been uploaded, which > is not very user friendly when it comes to files larger than 2MB. How can I > first validate the file size and then - if it's lower than 2MB - proceed > with upload? Can it be done with Python or do I need JS for this? > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
