[Lispweb] Re: Allegroserve/Webactions POST filesize limit?

[Petter Gustad]

John DeSoi <desoi <at> pgedit.com> writes:


> On Jul 27, 2005, at 5:18 AM, Petter Gustad wrote:
> 
> > Are there any other ways to restrict the file size for uploaded files
> > in Allegroserve? If not then somebody can really kill your server by
> > uploading files which are way bigger than your physical memory.
> 
> I don't recall the exact design in AllegroServe, but what you want to  
> do read only the headers of the post request and look at the Content- 
> Length header. If it is too large or not provided, then kill the  
> request and send an error message.


I was hoping there was a hook or a variable one could set to do this
(or that it would read a small chunk of the content and check
MAX_FILE_SIZE).

Petter