Take a look at mod_apreq (http://httpd.apache.org/apreq/)
Specifically,you may want to read http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00716.html Issac Brian McQueen wrote: > I need to be able to stop users from uploading a massive file > promptly/early. By the time the headers are read its already known > that the file will be too big, so I want to return at this point - > without delay. To wait until the body has been fully read can take > hours or days for massive files. The problem I am having is that > Apache has been so well designed in its protocol compliance, that I > can't seem to stop it from reading the rest of the request - the > entire massive body of the request! How can I make it return > immediately? I know the Expect header is the answer, but the lame > clients don't use the Expect header, and I'm talking about IE and > Firefox. The only client I've found that really works is curl! So I > need to get it to make it reply promptly and early and stop reading. > How can I do that? > > Brian
