I am not sure this is what you want. Why is the data in the body and
not in a request.vars.file?
If you are uploading a file via a multipart form than there is no size
limitation. I tried one gigabyte from a virtual machine with 256M Ram.

gmail.com> wrote:
> hello,
>
> to upload the data I'm using the copystream example provided in this
> thread:http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_thread/thread/67912959c7...
>
> random_name=str(time.time())+str(randint(10000,99999))
> filename=os.path.join(request.folder,'uploads',random_name)
> copystream(request.body, open(filename,'wb'), int
> (request.env.content_length))
> db.yourtable.insert(file=filename,.....other fields....)
>
> > the cherrypy server has no limitations and I tested it.
>
> even a GB sized file?
>
> Richard
>
> On May 13, 10:48 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
>
> > the cherrypy server has no limitations and I tested it.
> > lighttpd should have none either but I cannot swear by the fcgi driver
> > that ships with web2py.
> > What's the code these tests?
>
> > Massimo
>
> > On May 13, 3:23 am, Richard <richar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > sorry I was wrong - I'm using the default cherrypy wsgiserver and not
> > > Lighttpd.
> > > What kind of streaming limitations would you expect from the cherrypy
> > > wsgiserver?
>
> > > Richard
>
> > > On May 13, 6:18 pm, Richard <richar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > hello,
>
> > > > I am running web2py with Lighttpd/Sqlite on Windows. I have found that
> > > > streaming small files (few MBs) is no problem, but a ~50MB file makes
> > > > the server seize up so that I have to reset.
> > > > Would you expect that kind of performance from Lighttpd, or do you
> > > > expect the problem is elsewhere? (Generally I use Linux but this is
> > > > for work.) I've heard Lighttpd is used by some high profile sites so
> > > > it ought to be more stable.
>
> > > > Richard
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