[ic] Extended Value Access and File Upload
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interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
Tue Apr 23 19:12:01 2002
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 03:57:05PM -0500, Ryan Hertz wrote:
> At 12:45 PM 4/23/02 -0700, Paul Jordan wrote:
> >> Extended Value Access and File Upload: Is it possible to limit
> >> the file size
> >> to say... 50K?
> >>
> >> I checked everywhere, can't find info on this...
> >>
> >> Jim Webster
> >>
> >
> >Maybe the a completed upload could trigger a cron, or you can run a cron to
> >clean up files in a certain dir over a certain size limit. Not the most
> >automatic though.
> >
> >Paul
>
> I know that there isn't a method of limiting the size of the upload via the
> browser/form. That is, I believe you don't know how big it is until it's
> done. If it comes in as a multipart/form-data post I believe you will
> have a contentlength in the headers, otherwise you could check the length
> of the data. Besides that, you can limit the maximum size of a
> multipart/form-data post through your webserver configuration if you're so
> inclined.
>
> But I think you should allow up to a few megs or so and pipe it through
> Gimp to resize/downsample automatically if > 50k. That'd be much
> cooler. While you're at it, if you start using Gimp, you could make
> dynamic image buttons that display the customer's first name, like "Ryan's
> Store" and.... huh... oh? Right, Amazon already did that? It's not
> patented, is it?.....Dang.
You want imagemagick/convert not gimp. Set a bounding box and
scale approprately. There are also perlmagick libraries.
>
> -Ryan
>
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