uploading file larger than max upload size doesn't inform user

[Hugh Davenport]

on artefact/file/index.php

When you choose a file to upload (mine was 10.3 MB), and the max upload size is smaller (mine is 2 MB, i know small :P)

You would expect the user to be informed that it is too large, instead a "Loading..." bar appears at the top, and it says "Uploading largefile.data to Home" with a spinning loading thingy.

In the logs, I get one error:
[Thu May 12 11:02:52 2011] [error] [client ::1] PHP Warning: POST Content-Length of 10757471 bytes exceeds the limit of 8388608 bytes in Unknown on line 0, referer: http://localhost/mahara/artefact/file/

We should detect the uploaded filesize and report to user if it is too large.

Cheers,

Hugh

[Richard Mansfield (richard-mansfield)]

See also https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/634193

Probably a much bigger problem now that we have removed the .htaccess file?

[François Marier (fmarier)]

That's a good point. Let's add some warnings / error messages in 1.4 to preempt support requests on the forums.