[Zope3-Users] Will zope server crash when uploading huge files inthe same time?

[Jonathan]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephan Richter" <srichter at cosmos.phy.tufts.edu>
To: "Jonathan" <dev101 at magma.ca>
Cc: <zope3-users at zope.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 1:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope3-Users] Will zope server crash when uploading huge files 
inthe same time?


> On Tuesday 06 February 2007 12:32, Jonathan wrote:
>> Just curious: did you implement the size quota via an apache directive 
>> (eg.
>> LimitRequestBody) or is there some way to implement a size limitation
>> within Zope without having the entire file object uploaded first and then
>> having an 'after the fact' size check (python script/external method etc)
>> which refuses to process the file object if it exceeds the size limit (as
>> this would not stop users from consuming server resources while the file 
>> is
>> initially uploaded and forwarded to zope)?
>
> It is very simple. It checks just before the file is added to the ZODB. 
> The
> chance of spamming is pretty slim in our application, sicne there is a
> registration process involved. We simply want to ensure that users do not
> blow up our database.

Thanks.  I was just wondering if there was some mechanism whereby zope was 
informed (by Apache acting as the reverse proxy) about a file 'as it was 
uploading' as opposed to 'after upload was completed' - while this would be 
a nice feature it didn't seem feasible under the current apache-zope 
interaction process (or at least my understanding of it!).

Thanks again.

Jonathan