Hi Trapulo,
The AspMaxRequestEntityAllowed property specifies the maximum number of
bytes allowed in the entity body of an ASP request. If we have this set to
2 MB, then the largest size of the asp request is 2 MB and the request is
terminated if it exceeds the 2 MB.
Imagine many client hitting the server simultaneously and all of them
uploading a file > 2MB, so each request will keep a thread busy till the
time the file is completely uploaded. Therefore a bigger value of
AspMaxRequestEntityAllowed may cause threadpool starvation kinda issue
(denial of service attacks etc.), but this is still isolated only to
classic ASP pages only, since we can have altogether different application
pool for ASP.NET.
In case of ASP.Net, this is controlled by maxRequestLength:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpgenref/ht
ml/gngrfhttpruntimesection.asp
In the article 327659, it says the maximum value that can be set is
1,073,741,824 bytes. Setting this to 2 MB should not cause any problems on
your server except for what I mentioned above.
You may receive a 403 error when you use an ASP request to upload a large
file in Internet Information Services
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=327659
Please let me know if you have any further question on this.
Have a great week.
Sincerely,
WenJun Zhang
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