Posted by Andy Hassall on 01/20/06 22:53

On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 23:13:23 +1300, Steve <ThisOne@Aint.Valid> wrote:

>On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 03:08:20 -0800, lawrence k wrote:
>
>> What reasons, other than the POST limit, would a large upload fail?
>
>5 megs of binary data will be sent as a lot more than that of (base 64
>encoded?) ascii data.
>
>Try doubling your limit and see if it magically works.

File uploads are not base64 encoded, they are sent pretty much raw using
multipart/form-data.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.13.4.2

A 5MB file will take 5MB plus a few bytes overhead for headers.

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