Fail gracefully when resource is too large

[cjhendrix]

We are currently establishing a (functioning) limit on uploaded file size ( #2935 ) We need to provide feedback to the user when this is exceeded.

[reubano]

Related to #2406

[danmihaila]

@cjhendrix is this issue still available?

[cjhendrix]

I haven't tested it, but my upload speed is very slow for testing this. As far as I know, it still needs to be done. Not urgent, since few users will upload files that big.

[teodorescuserban]

I would suggest to use client side javascript to check the file size. Start the search here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7497404/get-file-size-before-uploading and follow jQuery links. This is the most graceful way I could think of AND it avoids partial uploads. Because it would be awful to have a file_size = max_file_size + 10 KB and to fail after uploading almost the whole file.

[danmihaila]

@cjhendrix is this still an issue?

[cjhendrix]

As far as I know, yes. We fail on large file sizes (500mb) but we don't give a clear indication to the user of what happened or why.