[Mongrel] Upload progress and limiting file sizes

[Zed Shaw]

On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 22:01 +0100, Mike Evans wrote:
> Thanks to all concerned with the implementation of the Upload  
> Progress plugin, it works really well.
> 
> I want to limit the size of files to be uploaded to say 10Mb. Is  
> there any way for Mongrel to 'refuse' to upload files over a certain  
> size and then pass an error onto Rails in order to display feedback  
> to the user? I don't really want to have to upload the whole file and  
> then delete it if it's over the limit.
> 
> What about the possibility of a user cancelling an upload that's  
> currently in progress?
> 
> Apologies if these questions are naive, but I've always taken web  
> servers for granted so am very much a newb.

Nope, good question.  Simples way is to write a very little handler you
put in front that simple checks the CONTENT_LENGTH and then redirects.
Then put it in front in a -S mongrel.conf:

uri "/", :handler => AhabTheMobyFileKiller.new(:path =>
"/file/upload"), :in_front => true

Or, you could modify the stock upload handler to take another parameter.
Kick back the patch if you do, other folks will probably want that.


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