I'm facing the folowing problem:

I have a very simple ASP (not aspx) page that is used to dowload binary
files.

//==========================================================
<%@ Language=JavaScript %>

<%
function GetBinaryFile( strFilePath )
{
  var  oStream;
  oStream = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Stream");
  oStream.Open();
  oStream.Type = 1; // 1 = Binary
  oStream.LoadFromFile(strFilePath) // Retreive binary data from the file

  return oStream.read //Return the binary data to the caller
}

var file2Return = "file.bin";
Response.Clear();
Response.ContentType = "binary/octet-stream";
Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition","attachment;filename="+file2Return); var fileLocation = Server.MapPath(file2Return); Response.BinaryWrite(GetBinaryFile(fileLocation));%>//==========================================================When the file to be dowloaded is more than 20 MB, the download fails.Previously, there was a limit at 4MB, but I found a setting responsible forthat(AspBufferingLimit). I've changed that to 100MB, but it helped only forfilessmaller than 20MB.What else is responsible for the constraint ??I'm running IIS 6 (Win2003 Server).The problem DOES NOT exist with IIS 5.1 (XP Pro) Please help Micha³ Januszczyk

Micha³ Januszczyk wrote:
http://www.aspsmart.com/scripts/aspSmartUpload/publigen/content/templates/show.asp?P=267&L=EN

quote:
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Using IIS 6: If you get the above error when you click on an attachment, the
attachment is larger than IIS is configured to allow. Change the
AspBufferingLimit setting in Metabase.xml to a larger size. The default
value is 4194304, which is about 4 MB. Change this to whatever limit is
reasonable for the types of files your users will be attaching.
//======================

However, I've already changed this (AspBufferingLimit) to very big value
(~100MB) , and I was able to download files bigger than 4 MB (original
AspBufferingLimit setting) but not larger than 20MB.
I'm asking how to increase this 20MB constraint.

    Regards,
    Micha³ Januszczyk

Micha³ Januszczyk wrote:
http://www.aspsmart.com/scripts/aspSmartUpload/publigen/content/templates/show.asp?P=267&L=EN
Show quoteHide quoteThe formatting of your original message made it very hard to read, so I
missed where you said that.

I don't know the answer to your questtion. I suggest posting to
..inetserver.iis if you don't receive an answer here.

You may need to resort to ftp. 20 MB is not a file I would be using ASP to
handle. You really don't want to be tying up a thread for the length of time
it would take to transfer a file of this size.

Bob Barrows

"Micha³ Januszczyk" wrote in message
http://www.aspsmart.com/scripts/aspSmartUpload/publigen/content/templates/show.asp?P=267&L=EN
Show quoteHide quoteIs this file already in a compressed format?  And ditto on using FTP.  It's
just as easy to point someone to an anonymous ftp site as using HTTP.

I'm having exactly the same problem. Have you found a solution yet?

Peace
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lau_gu wrote:
Are you sure it's not a timeout issue?

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