Re: Another File Upload question

I feared so...Do you know of any third party (and hopefully free) ActiveX
control I could use?


"Kevin Spencer" wrote:

> Hi ricardo,
>
> Wiothout some sort of ActiveX control or Java applet on the client side,
> there is no way to determine the length of the file prior to upload. The
> input only contains the path to the file to be uploaded on the client.
>
> --
> HTH,
>
> Kevin Spencer
> Microsoft MVP
> ..Net Developer
> The sun never sets on
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>
> "ricardo corbacho perez" <ricardo corbacho perez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote in message news:143AF2EB-71AC-46F5-8D19-76DD7347F9E7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Hi there,
> > I've been reading all I could find on the control 'input type=file' and
> > all
> > the trouble that it comes when uploading large binary files (>4MB) to a DB
> > server or server path.
> >
> > I've seen plenty of examples about it, and they all agree that to make
> > possible the upload of those files, it's mandatory to change the
> > web.config
> > (or machine.config) for the maxRequestLength attribute of the
> > <httpRuntime>
> > element.
> >
> > What I'd need though, is a way for NOT allowing content larger than those
> > 4MB to be uploaded. I've tryed the following on my code, but it's not
> > working (probably because I've also read that when submitting the webform,
> > the content is already sent to the server, thus if you send 50MB you'll
> > have
> > to wait until the server returns an error)
> >
> > if( FileInputAttachment.PostedFile.ContentLength ) > 1024
> > {
> > //change a label text to display an error
> > }
> >
> > Is there a way of querying for the PostedFile.ContentLength BEFORE posting
> > the data to the server? This way I could warn the users not to upload
> > files
> > larger than a MB or so...
> >
> > Thanks!!
> >
> >
>
>
>
.

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