> From: Torsten Förtsch <[email protected]>
>
> Best would be if you could make an educated guess based on the Content-Length
> request header if the uploaded file will exceed the limit. Most clients send
> an "Expect: 100-continue" header and thus give the server a chance to
> decline
> the request *before* the body is sent. If the body is already on the way the
> only thing you can do is to close the connection. I don't know if httpd does
>
> that immediately or if it reads and discards the whole body.
> The code below is the relevant piece of CGI.pm. So, yes, the upload hook gets
> the data as it is written to the temp file.
>
> while (defined($data = $buffer->read)) {
> if (defined $self->{'.upload_hook'}) {
> $totalbytes += length($data);
> &{$self->{'.upload_hook'}}($filename ,$data, $totalbytes,
> $self->{'.upload_data'});
> }
> print $filehandle $data if ($self->{'use_tempfile'});
> }
>
thanks for all the knowledge Torsten (and everyone else). This stuff is the
holy grail I have been looking for for years. This is a fantastic list!
Mike Cardeiro
