Re: capture http code 413 (file size too large)

hi Eric, thanks for the response. But I was looking from the point of adding the handler to apache. that way, if an uploaded file is larger than allowed size, it wont even get posted to the tmp directory and you wont end up using any bandwidth / memory with the illegal upload. its working correc

Re: capture http code 413 (file size too large)

If you wanted to do this purely within django, you could write a custom middleware that reads a 'request body max size' setting from settings.py, then checks the content-length header on incoming request against that setting and returns a custom 413 if it's too large. I believe that doing

capture http code 413 (file size too large)

I have used the LimitRequestBody directive in the apache conf to set it to 1 mb. so, any files biggers than 1 mb should be rejected. while testing it however, i found that when i try to upload a file larger than 1 mb, it ends up displaying my custom 500.html page.. how can I display another cust