You could potentially do it with JS, but that is obviously easily bypassed and may not work on all browsers.
"This e-mail is from Reed Exhibitions (Gateway House, 28 The Quadrant, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 1DN, United Kingdom), a division of Reed Business, Registered in England, Number 678540. It contains information which is confidential and may also be privileged. It is for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient(s) please note that any form of distribution, copying or use of this communication or the information in it is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error please return it to the sender or call our switchboard on +44 (0) 20 89107910. The opinions expressed within this communication are not necessarily those expressed by Reed Exhibitions." Visit our website at http://www.reedexpo.com -----Original Message----- From: Ben Nadel To: CF-Talk Sent: Tue Dec 05 15:42:31 2006 Subject: RE: Any way to limit file upload size? I am not sure if the content_length is available until the file is actually uploaded. I could be wrong on that though. ....................... Ben Nadel Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX7 Developer www.bennadel.com Need ColdFusion Help? www.bennadel.com/ask-ben/ -----Original Message----- From: Doug Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 10:39 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Any way to limit file upload size? What about something like so. Am I way off? It checks before the image is uploaded. page_1.cfm <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <title>Untitled Document</title> </head> <body> <form action="page_1.cfm" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data"> <input type="file" name="test1"> <input type="submit" name="submitThis"> </form> <cfset allowedFileSize = 1000> <cfif isDefined("form.submitThis")> <cfoutput> <cfif cgi.content_length gt "#Val(allowedFileSize)#"> Error your file is wayyyyy to big<br> </cfif> Your file size was: #cgi.CONTENT_LENGTH# and the allowed size was #allowedFileSize# </cfoutput> </cfif> </body> </html> Doug ----- Original Message ----- From: "Snake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <cf-talk@houseoffusion.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 7:06 AM Subject: RE: Any way to limit file upload size? > There is a setting in IIS to limit the size of form posts. But I can't find > it for the life of me. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gaulin, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 05 December 2006 13:29 > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Any way to limit file upload size? > > Hi > Is there any way in CF or IIS to limit the allowed file size for a form with > a file "attached"? > > I have a situation where someone might accidentally upload a huge file when > all we want is a sample file. I would want to avoid not only creating a > huge temp file but also all of the bandwidth needed to send the file to the > server. > > Thanks > Mark > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:262990 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
