On 02/05/2010 09:57, Bytecode wrote: > According to Tomcat docs, the purpose of maxPostSize is: > > The maximum size in bytes of the POST which will be handled by the container > FORM URL parameter parsing. The limit can be disabled by setting this > attribute to a value less than or equal to 0. If not specified, this > attribute is set to 2097152 (2 megabytes). > > Now the question is what's meant by "the container FORM URL parameter > parsing"? What's a FORM URL? What's the container's FORM URL parameter > parsing? Also, what is a possible use case of this parameter?
It limits the size of data that will be processed automatically by Tomcat for a POST request where the content type is application/x-www-form-urlencoded. See section 3.1.1 of the Servlet 3.0 spec. If the application parses the data then, regardless of content type, the limit does not apply. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
