[Nottingham] Silly big attachments in ownCloud *Calendars*

[Martin]

Mike,

Thanks for that.

Good ingenious thought but is that not going to limit all/any big docs?

... Then again it could go specially into a vhost section specially for
caldav...


Rather than risk getting people in a fluster with repeated errors, this
one is looking like user training is the path of minimum effort...

Unless something clever could be done such as subverting the attachments
to instead become https links... :-)

Is that something that could be applied to emails also...? ;-)


Ideas welcomed,

Cheers,
Martin



On 26/11/14 17:28, Mike Cardwell wrote:
> * on the Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 04:27:02PM +0000, Martin wrote:
> 
>> Folks,
>> Just had a bit of a giggle just now whereby a few 100MBytes of file
>> attachments were added into a calendar entry!...
> 
> ...
>  
>> Is there an easy fix to not have the silly big attachments accepted in
>> the first place?
>>
>> Either on ownCloud, CALDAV, or postgres? Or all?
> 
> Assuming you have Apache in front of it, you can probably bend LimitRequestBody
> to your purpose:
> 
> https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#limitrequestbody
> 
> You can limit it to a particular location in a particular vhost, so you could
> upload a test attachment and tail the logs to find what needs blocking...
> 
> Be careful though. It wouldn't surprise me to find out that some caldav clients
> will just keep trying to upload the file over and over, silently.



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