How to make the ASP File Upload control accept lar

Question

I would like to upload files using the ASP FileUpload control. However, if I try and increase the limit to about 10000 kB, it doesn't work and accepts files only upto 4 MB in size and I get an error saying that the connection to the server was reset. I referred: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/books/ASPNET20FileUpload.aspx and http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa478971.aspx, but when I modified the web.config.comments file, nothing happened. Where am I going wrong?

Also, I wanted to know how this would work when I deploy it on the web server. I'm asking because in the code behind, I'm still giving a hard coded value for the path where the file is to be uploaded. How does this work?

Answer 1

<system.web>
  <httpRuntime  maxRequestLength="102400" executionTimeout="360"/>
</system.web>

This is what you are looking for. Change the executionTimeout property in web.config file.

According to this website,

maxRequestLength - Attribute limits the file upload size for ASP.NET application. This limit can be used to prevent denial of service attacks (DOS) caused by users posting large files to the server. The size specified is in kilobytes. As mentioned earlier, the default is "4096" (4 MB). Max value is "1048576" (1 GB) for .NET Framework 1.0/1.1 and "2097151" (2 GB) for .NET Framework 2.0.

executionTimeout - Attribute indicates the maximum number of seconds that a request is allowed to execute before being automatically shut down by the application. The executionTimeout value should always be longer than the amount of time that the upload process can take.