The container itself has to stop this. Have you tried this: http://www.ryanchapin.com/fv-b-4-667/Adding-MultipartConfig-Configuration-to-web-xml-in-JBoss-6-x-for-a-Servlet-3-0-File-Upload-Servlet.html
See if that helps. On Jan 25, 2013, at 6:18 AM, ku...@dakosy.de wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a JSF application which runs in JBoss 6.1 which uses internal the > Tomcat Servlet container. > I want to prevent too large file uploads and have set the property " > fileSizeMax" to 10MB within the class "FileUploadBase". It works, the file > upload throws an FileSizeLimitExceededException for all files larger than > 10MB. > But the main problem is, that the whole file will be transferred over the > network. I have found this out by checking the network traffic. > > How can I interrupt the file transfer when the max size is exceeded > without transferring the whole file? I assume that the file will be > transferred in multiple packages because of the web form attribute enctype > ="multipart/form-data. > > Best regards > Anton
