upload file using cgi on Win2k IIS

Jason McWilliams jmcwill at tridog.com
Wed Oct 10 17:16:32 EDT 2001


Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Jason McWilliams wrote:
> 
> > I seem to be doing everything correctly to save a posted
> > multipart/form-data file on IIS server.  Yet, I only
> > seem to be able to save a small portion of the file, not
> > the whole thing.
> >
> > The internet user has permission to the temp directory and
> > I am not getting any errors.  It works properly with the
> > same code on unix, so it must be a IIS thing?
> >
> > I have tried file.read file.value and also tried to just
> > do one line at a time... file.readline .  I can get the
> > file name fine using cgiobj.filename  ... etc.
> >
> > I get about 498 k as the file size on the uploaded file, never
> > more and I am trying to upload a big file.  Maybe there is
> > a post limit in IIS?  I know that you can set a GET limit.
> 
> What is the value of the hidden field named "MAX_FILE_SIZE" set to? Is there
> one at all? If not, then don't expect your file input to work properly.

I did not think this variable was used in cgi.py
Isnt that a php type thing.  Isn't maxlen set to 0 inside cgi.py
to allow for unlimited post length?  That is why I thought
it might be a IIS setting somewhere.



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