Nick Kew wrote: > Firefox probably asked for a keepalive connection. Your telnet didn't.
I did set KeepAlive to 'off' in httpd.conf when testing; not sure what difference this would make. > Is your backend script being passed the oversized request, > or is it just an issue of keeping the connection alive? I've tested this just now and it turns out that it isn't. So it seems to be an issue with the connection only. > Could it be that you're getting an immediate response, but > Firefox isn't telling you immediately? That seems likely, since with Opera the upload is canceled immediately if the Content-Length header is too large. Apparently, Opera is about the only browser that checks for a response before it's finished sending a request, so the difference in behavior makes sense. I was expecting LimitRequestBody to close the connection if the limit was exceeded, so that users of other browsers would at least not be waiting too long for an error message, even if the error they get isn't a proper 413. However, I understand that the LimitRequestBody directive may simply not be designed to do this, in which case there would appear to be no bug(let). thanks for the response, Alex --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
