apparent file size limits

External Since: Dec 02, 2003 Posts: 5

We just updated from SBS 2000 to SBS 2003. Under IIS 5, we used an ASP script to send binary files to clients. Under IIS 6, the same script works for smaller files, but it will not send larger files. For example, 124K files are sent but 7MB files are not. On the client side, the download indicates "0 bytes downloaded in 1 second" when one of the larger files is requested. Apparently there is a file size limitation that did not exist with IIS 5 or perhaps a setting in ISA. What can we do to allow large files to be sent?

External Since: Dec 02, 2003 Posts: 2

This is a problem I spent 4 weeks trying to resolve with
MS support the answer was.. Use a third party upload
utility.
Under IIS5 uploads were not a problem but IIS6 behavior
was TOTALLY random. Because of my experience the knowledge
base article regarding ASP.NET uploads has been revised to
include a LOT of disclaimers regarding uploads
Here's my last comunication with MS.

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CASE_ID_NUM: SRZ030827000332
MESSAGE:
********************** The message for you follows
************************ Hi Humberto,

You may have or have not seen the update to the articles,
but the are complete and they are pretty much the same,
see links below. The key thing that was removed is the
line "The maximum possible size is 2 gigabytes (GB). "

I ran the wording you and I talked about regarding these
articles by a couple of other people and they did not buy
it (the suggestions we were considering). They like it the
way it is or if anything make it a little more
generalized. So hopefully the way we left the articles
will still be sufficient for your documentation. Sorry we
could not make it more specific.

Is there going to be anything else we can do for you on
this issue? If not I would like to close the case. Let me
know.

295626 PRB: Cannot Upload Large Files When You Use the
HtmlInputFile Server
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://support.microsoft.com/?id=295626" target="_blank">http://support.microsoft.com/?id=295626</a>

323245 HOW TO: Upload a File to a Web Server in ASP.NET by
Using Visual Basic
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://support.microsoft.com/?id=323245" target="_blank">http://support.microsoft.com/?id=323245</a>

I am using ASPUpload now and although still a bit flaky
is 1000% more stable than raw IIS6

>-----Original Message-----
>We just updated from SBS 2000 to SBS 2003. Under IIS 5,
we used an ASP script to send binary files to clients.
Under IIS 6, the same script works for smaller files, but
it will not send larger files. For example, 124K files are
sent but 7MB files are not. On the client side, the
download indicates "0 bytes downloaded in 1 second" when
one of the larger files is requested. Apparently there is
a file size limitation that did not exist with IIS 5 or
perhaps a setting in ISA. What can we do to allow large
files to be sent?
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