File size limit for webdav upload

[Former Member]

Dear Experts,

we set up what we thought to be a restriction of the file size allowed for upload. We did this in the portal via

System administration --> system configuration --> Knowledge Management --> Protocols --> WebDav --> Max WebDAV request size: 15728640 bytes.

We would have expected that to not allow us uploading any files larger than 15 MB. Turns out we were wrong and it does not work. Here is a http-trace of an upload of a 21 MB file.

Note the content length in the outbound message is 21832627.

========= Outbound Message =========
PUT /irj/go/km/docs/documents/LSO/WBT/Academy_test_area/upload/secondUpload/SCORM%5B1%5D.2004.3ED.DocSuite.zip/SCORM%5B1%5D.2004.3ED.DocSuite.zip HTTP/1.1
Host: ****hostname****:443
Connection: TE
TE: trailers, deflate, gzip, compress
User-Agent: UCI DAV Explorer/0.91 RPT-HTTPClient/0.3-3E
Translate: f
Cookie: j_authscheme=basicauthentication; saplb_*=(J2EE405983900)405983952; JSESSIONID=(J2EE405983900)ID1262004252DB00846306331792142983End
Cookie2: $Version="1"
Authorization: Basic NDkwNjIyNzE6TGVybnRlNzg=
Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip, x-gzip, compress, x-compress
Content-type: application/zip
Content-length: 21832627


**** Lots of Content ****

* 21 MB of bits and bytes

**** / Lots of Content


========= Inbound Message =========
HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:39:07 GMT
Server: SAP J2EE Engine/7.01
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Cache-Control: no-cache
Vary: accept-encoding,accept-language,cookie,translate
ETag: "1589137901012"
Last-Modified: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:39:15 GMT
Content-Length: 0
Via: 1.1 ****hostname****:443

Would anyone know any other way of preventing the upload of large files via a webDAV client?

Thank you very much.

Regards

Michael

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello,

check this http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/25/b0a4f6f2b03a43a727a165a4d6a555/frameset.htm

this applies not only for WebDAV though

hope it helps,

Rafael

[Former Member]

We did not implement the solution proposed as it could not be clearified whether the upload file size limit would block other applications. Thanks a lot for helping us out, though. It is good to see the community working well

Best regards

Michael

[Former Member]

Hi Michael,

This cannot be possible in portal but you can upload the max size file through portal drive or webdev . Through portal drive you can upload 50mb or any format file size you can upload through portal but portal you cannot upload you can get the message of file uploading failure or connectivity issues like these messgae appears at every interval so go through the portal drive or webdev.

But best option for uploading huge file size is Portal drive. This will helpful for you.

Regards

RS

[Former Member]

That property only applies to WebDAV requests such as PROPFIND, PROPPATCH or REPORT. PUT is part of the base HTTP/1.1 protocol.

There are other places you could try to enforce the limit, such as in the servlet engine itself (doesn't NetWeaver a limit for all requests...?).