[thelist] .NET: Uploading & downloading large documents

Anthony Baratta anthony at baratta.com
Fri Jan 12 18:49:40 CST 2007


Casey Crookston wrote:
> First of all, when the file size approaches 7 or 8 MB, it will time out.
> I think it is fair to cap the file size at 10MB, but is there a way to
> bump up the time out value?  Would this be an IIS setting?

This is a limit of IIS 6. There is a place to change this I think in the 
Machine.Config file or web.config. Been a long time since I dealt with 
this issue.

Here's three links I found.

http://weblogs.asp.net/skoganti/archive/2004/02/22/78124.aspx

http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.webservices&tid=8d7e886f-816e-49a3-b806-711662bc8e28

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;295626




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