This is a limitation of the wsgiserver that comes with web2py. In a production environment if you use apache+mod_wsgi you will not have this problem.
On Nov 12, 9:45 pm, leo <[email protected]> wrote: > I run into some weirdness when submitting a form that contains a file > upload field. I am using the auto-generated form in the appadmin page > that inserts new records into a database table with an upload field. > > File sizes over a certain limit (not very large, only around 100kb) > make the upload last disproportionally longer after clicking the > 'submit' button (i.e., 99kb uploads almost instantaneously; 100kb > lasts for several seconds), and then the browser comes back with a > completely blank page (no ticket, no error message, nothing), and no > database insert has actually taken place. > > This strangeness occurs only when connecting using https (server > started with the -c server.crt -k server.key arguments). With an > ordinary http connection everything works fine with any upload file > size. > > I have been able to nail it down to an exact file size that still > uploads correctly; add one byte to it, and it hangs. It seems to have > something to do with the total POST size being sent to the server, > because when I add one more character to one of the other fields in > the form, I have to reduce the file size by one byte to make it work. > > Has anyone run into a phenomenon like this in the past? > > Best wishes, > Leo --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" 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/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
