That answers my questions (and more) perfectly. Thanks a lot.

On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Christopher Schultz <
ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote:

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> Jamie,
>
> On 10/2/15 11:23 AM, Jamie Jackson wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 5:25 PM, Christopher Schultz <
> >> Are you trying to get this value from application code using
> >> standard APIs, or are you trying to locate the value from within
> >> something like a Valve, which is Tomcat-specific?
> >
> > *Anywhere* is fine with me.
> >
> > I'm having some trouble with file uploads in an app. I'm asking
> > about it in the language's (Lucee's) forums, and people seem to be
> > hung up on the idea that it's a Tomcat setting (specifically this
> > maxFileSize setting) -- they're claiming it's got a default of 50MB
> > that I need to increase, but I'm seeing no evidence of such a
> > default. (There are apps in the wild, including the manager app,
> > which have a 50MB limit *specified in web.xml*, but I can find no
> > evidence that Tomcat, itself, has such a default.)
>
> Tomcat has a couple of defaults, but only one of them is Tomcat-specific
> :
>
> <Connector> maxPostSize - default is 2MiB
> http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/http.html
> http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/ajp.html
>
> If you are using Java Servlet 3.0 multipart upload, then your file
> limits may be specified in web.xml like this:
>
> <servlet>
>   ...
>   <multipart-config>
>     <location>/tmp</location>
>     <max-file-size>20848820</max-file-size>
>     <max-request-size>418018841</max-request-size>
>     <file-size-threshold>1048576</file-size-threshold>
>   </multipart-config>
> </servlet>
> https://docs.oracle.com/javaee/6/tutorial/doc/gmhal.html
>
> The spec-defined limits for the max-file-size and max-request-size are
> both "unlimited" and the default for file-size-threshold is 0 bytes
> (always store the file on disk).
>
> You can also define these limits using an @MultipartConfig annotation
> on the code.
>
> I'm not sure which "wins" if these two are in conflict, but I would
> hope that the web.xml-defined values would win, since that doesn't
> require a re-compile of the source to modify them.
>
> Lastly, you may have some application-defined limits. Of course, we
> know nothing about those.
>
> But Tomcat has no magical 50MiB limit on anything. (Except for
> file-uploads specifically for the manager application.)
>
> - -chris
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