On 4/26/2009 12:55 PM, Shawn Walker wrote: > Petr Sobotka wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Indeed it was caused by enormous size of binary (271MB), I forgot to get rid >> of -g1 flag from compiler options. >> I didn't expect such big file ... >> >> Would be possible to change error message to say something more useful, like >> can't publish +100MB file into repo? > > The error message can't be improved beacuse of a limitation of the > server framework we're using, but the client could check the size before > attempting upload. > > The problem is that on the server-side, the http framework we're using > automatically rejects uploads greater than a specific size without > giving the application a chance to return its own error message. > > As a result, you get a generic error message instead of one actually > pointing out the real issue. > >> In my eyes this limit is not enough. >> For example some game can have intro video, which is greater than 100MB ... > > I agree, *but* it isn't really practical to publish files this size over > http. http is a lousy protocol for large file downloads as it is, and > its even worse for uploads. > > The basic python libraries for http transport are fairly pathetic, and > currently require that the entire file be read into memory for > publishing. Long-term, when a better transport system is in place, I > hope to make publishing for http occur in "chunks" so that you won't > have this file size limit. > > Finally, As I've mentioned before, you can easily workaround this by > using file-based publishing direct to a package repository instead: > > pkgsend -s file:///path/to/repository_directory ... > > (Afterwards, you must restart any depot servers pointing at the repository.) > > Cheers, Then what's a safe and modern solution that's better than HTTP and chunking? FTP is out of the question except for mirroring raw unpacked packages and SCTP is a far way off from being a realistic option.
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