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size limit for HTTP requests in IIS?

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by jay eckles 2 views

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Does anyone know if there is a limit to the size of an HTTP request to which IIS will respond? If so, is there a way to change the size of that limit?

Thanks,

Jay

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by jlanus

Hi Jay

There's been a long time since I don't do dev in IIS, so I might be quite outdated.
As of then (1999?) the limit was a timeout.
ASP scripts were interrupted after a while like, say, 90 seconds running in the server.
The timeout threshold was configurable in the global.asa file.
The limit then was not actually a size limit but it limited the amount of data that could be put in one single page thru a combination of the connection speed and the server's availability.

Saludos
JuanLanus
TECNOSOL
Argentina

by villechaise

I don't know if you can do this for IIS any other way than the server timeout, but in asp.net the machine (or web) .config tag

will limit requests to 4K.

by binghong

just right click the Default Web Site in IIS, get the properties window. you can change the size of http request by changing the Connections area under Web Site sub tab.

by ed woychowsky

In classic ASP there is a limit and it is about 100K. This may seem like a lot, but when a DTC page object is used the entire form is considered part of the request. Hope this helps.

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