Forum OpenACS Q&A: Limiting file upload size from aolserver

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1: Limiting file upload size from aolserver
Posted by Jose Agustin Lopez Bueno on 02/05/04 10:01 AM
Hello, all!

I want to limit the upload file size for avoid
that the users can upload very big files.

I know that I can limit that from OpenACS but
I want to limit at AOLserver level. I would like
abort one upload connection if that is bigger
that one parameter.

Any pointer?

I am using AOLserver 4.

Regards,
Agustin

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2: Re: Limiting file upload size from aolserver (response to 1)
Posted by Torben Brosten on 02/05/04 11:32 AM

This quote from Vinod on the aolserver listserv might help:

...AOLserver from CVS from the tip of the aolserver_v40_bp branch.. has this change in it:

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/aolserver/aolserver/nsd/driver.c?r1=1.17&r2=1.17.2.1

It basically adds a parameter 'maxinput' inside ns/server/${servername}/module/nssock. The default of this parameter is 1 MB, so uploads above that size silently fail.

Otherwise, you might check at aolserver.com (and post your findings here for others, please.)

cheers,

Torben

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3: Re: Limiting file upload size from aolserver (response to 1)
Posted by Jose Agustin Lopez Bueno on 02/05/04 12:40 PM
Hi!

Thanks for the quickly reply.

Ok. I have download nsd.h and  driver.c from cvs
and I have recompilate aolserver 4.

I have put the 'maxinput' parameter in config.tcl:

ns_section ns/server/${server}/module/nssock
ns_param  maxinput          5000000

And works fine!
Uploads bigger than maxinput are killed.

Regards,
Agustin