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Upload Limits - Change in Code?

Author
13 Oct 2006 2:27 PM
Andrew Virnuls
Hello all!

We run a service for children who are off school for medical reasons, and we
had a web-site that allows them to "submit" their work to teachers for
marking.  The site uses ASP code to upload the files into student folders
and the staff retrieve it.

It all works perfectly for smaller files, but if a student attempts to
upload a file larger than 1Mb they get "Request object error 'ASP 0104 :
80004005' ".

This appears to be due to a limit on the size of uploaded files (or the
request objects that contain them), with a solution as described on this
site (amongst others):

http://www.dmxzone.com/ShowDetail.asp?NewsId=5424

As our site is hosted by a commercial hosting company, and we can't
configure IIS, I was wondering whether there was a way to up the limit
through code, like you can change the time-out period using
Server.ScriptTimeOut?

Thanks

Andrew

Author
13 Oct 2006 2:56 PM
Anthony Jones
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"Andrew Virnuls" <foren***@surname.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Hello all!
>
> We run a service for children who are off school for medical reasons, and
we
> had a web-site that allows them to "submit" their work to teachers for
> marking.  The site uses ASP code to upload the files into student folders
> and the staff retrieve it.
>
> It all works perfectly for smaller files, but if a student attempts to
> upload a file larger than 1Mb they get "Request object error 'ASP 0104 :
> 80004005' ".
>
> This appears to be due to a limit on the size of uploaded files (or the
> request objects that contain them), with a solution as described on this
> site (amongst others):
>
> http://www.dmxzone.com/ShowDetail.asp?NewsId=5424
>
> As our site is hosted by a commercial hosting company, and we can't
> configure IIS, I was wondering whether there was a way to up the limit
> through code, like you can change the time-out period using
> Server.ScriptTimeOut?
>

No this can't be done.  It helps protect the service provider from one
customer's site hogging more than their fair share of memory at the expense
of their other customers.



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>
> Andrew
>
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Author
13 Oct 2006 5:30 PM
Jon Paal
hard to imagine a child having to create a homework assignment with size > 1mb....


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"Andrew Virnuls" <foren***@surname.co.uk> wrote in message news:452fa26b$0$8744$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net...
> Hello all!
>
> We run a service for children who are off school for medical reasons, and we had a web-site that allows them to "submit" their
> work to teachers for marking.  The site uses ASP code to upload the files into student folders and the staff retrieve it.
>
> It all works perfectly for smaller files, but if a student attempts to upload a file larger than 1Mb they get "Request object
> error 'ASP 0104 : 80004005' ".
>
> This appears to be due to a limit on the size of uploaded files (or the request objects that contain them), with a solution as
> described on this site (amongst others):
>
> http://www.dmxzone.com/ShowDetail.asp?NewsId=5424
>
> As our site is hosted by a commercial hosting company, and we can't configure IIS, I was wondering whether there was a way to up
> the limit through code, like you can change the time-out period using Server.ScriptTimeOut?
>
> Thanks
>
> Andrew
>
Author
13 Oct 2006 5:34 PM
Anthony Jones
"Jon Paal" <Jon nospam Paal @ everywhere dot com> wrote in message
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> hard to imagine a child having to create a homework assignment with size >
1mb....
>

Have you got children of High School age yourself?
How many Powerpoint slides can you create in less than 1MB?
My daughter submits some of her Art homework electronicaly, those files are
significantly greater the 1MB.


>
> "Andrew Virnuls" <foren***@surname.co.uk> wrote in message
news:452fa26b$0$8744$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net...
> > Hello all!
> >
> > We run a service for children who are off school for medical reasons,
and we had a web-site that allows them to "submit" their
> > work to teachers for marking.  The site uses ASP code to upload the
files into student folders and the staff retrieve it.
> >
> > It all works perfectly for smaller files, but if a student attempts to
upload a file larger than 1Mb they get "Request object
> > error 'ASP 0104 : 80004005' ".
> >
> > This appears to be due to a limit on the size of uploaded files (or the
request objects that contain them), with a solution as
> > described on this site (amongst others):
> >
> > http://www.dmxzone.com/ShowDetail.asp?NewsId=5424
> >
> > As our site is hosted by a commercial hosting company, and we can't
configure IIS, I was wondering whether there was a way to up
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> > the limit through code, like you can change the time-out period using
Server.ScriptTimeOut?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Andrew
> >
>
>
Author
13 Oct 2006 6:52 PM
Mike Brind
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"Anthony Jones" <A**@yadayadayada.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Jon Paal" <Jon nospam Paal @ everywhere dot com> wrote in message
> news:12ivja8qqgdap4e@corp.supernews.com...
>> hard to imagine a child having to create a homework assignment with size
>>  >
> 1mb....
>>
>
> Have you got children of High School age yourself?
> How many Powerpoint slides can you create in less than 1MB?
> My daughter submits some of her Art homework electronicaly, those files
> are
> significantly greater the 1MB.
>

I remember when one of mine tried to stuff a 12MB Word doc on a 3 1/2"
floppy.  32 pages.  Mainly embedded images....

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Mike Brind
Author
13 Oct 2006 8:05 PM
Jon Paal
that begs a few other questions, but that's off topic.

ok ... so

Why not just email the documents to the teacher...
bypass all the login/upload/download/markup...rinse/repeat



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"Anthony Jones" <A**@yadayadayada.com> wrote in message news:eJPQI3u7GHA.4604@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>
> "Jon Paal" <Jon nospam Paal @ everywhere dot com> wrote in message
> news:12ivja8qqgdap4e@corp.supernews.com...
>> hard to imagine a child having to create a homework assignment with size >
> 1mb....
>>
>
> Have you got children of High School age yourself?
> How many Powerpoint slides can you create in less than 1MB?
> My daughter submits some of her Art homework electronicaly, those files are
> significantly greater the 1MB.
>
>
>>
>> "Andrew Virnuls" <foren***@surname.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:452fa26b$0$8744$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net...
>> > Hello all!
>> >
>> > We run a service for children who are off school for medical reasons,
> and we had a web-site that allows them to "submit" their
>> > work to teachers for marking.  The site uses ASP code to upload the
> files into student folders and the staff retrieve it.
>> >
>> > It all works perfectly for smaller files, but if a student attempts to
> upload a file larger than 1Mb they get "Request object
>> > error 'ASP 0104 : 80004005' ".
>> >
>> > This appears to be due to a limit on the size of uploaded files (or the
> request objects that contain them), with a solution as
>> > described on this site (amongst others):
>> >
>> > http://www.dmxzone.com/ShowDetail.asp?NewsId=5424
>> >
>> > As our site is hosted by a commercial hosting company, and we can't
> configure IIS, I was wondering whether there was a way to up
>> > the limit through code, like you can change the time-out period using
> Server.ScriptTimeOut?
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> > Andrew
>> >
>>
>>
>
>
Author
16 Oct 2006 9:39 AM
Andrew Virnuls
"Jon Paal" <Jon nospam Paal @ everywhere dot com> wrote in message
news:12ivscnjk7buo6b@corp.supernews.com...
> that begs a few other questions, but that's off topic.
>
> ok ... so
>
> Why not just email the documents to the teacher...
> bypass all the login/upload/download/markup...rinse/repeat

Because it does other things as well - it records the date and time and the
student's comments in database and shows them on their page that the work
has been submitted.  It also appears as unmarked work on the staff page and
when they enter their marks and comments they are saved into the database it
feeds into the students' reports.

Also, we'd rather that staff and students don't know each other's e-mail
addresses and only communicate through our web-page so that we have more
control and a record of what was said.

Besides, we have other scripts that upload as well - such as for staff
uploading the work in the first place, or adding pages to the web-site -
that are suffering from the same problem.

Andrew

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