[Gllug] Apache 2 and POST

Pete Ryland pdr at pdr.cx
Wed Jan 29 12:30:10 UTC 2003


On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 12:08:25PM +0000, Xander D Harkness wrote:
> I am running Apache 2 (default bug fix from redhat) with squirrelmail.
> 
> I get the following error when trying to attach a file greater than 512k
> 
> 
>  Request entity too large!
> 
>    The POST method does not allow the data transmitted, or the data
> volume exceeds the capacity limit.

You need to use a beast called "mulitpart form-data" which allows for large
data transfers (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2388.txt), but this is only
available in HTTP 1.1.

Pete
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