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Version 7, changed by jotspot_jim. 11/18/2004.   Show version history

Bug ID#: Bug110

Summary (short description): Cannot upload a powerpoint attachment
OS: WinXP
Browser: Internet Explorer
Bug Description:

Tried to upload a powerpoint presentation and it gave me the following error

HTTP Status 500 -


type Exception report

message

description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception

java.io.IOException: Posted content length of 9668957 exceeds limit of 5242880
com.oreilly.servlet.multipart.MultipartParser?.<init>(MultipartParser?.java:172)
com.oreilly.servlet.multipart.MultipartParser?.<init>(MultipartParser?.java:119)
com.oreilly.servlet.multipart.MultipartParser?.<init>(MultipartParser?.java:100)
com.s3.ui.params.ServletParameters?.processMultipart(ServletParameters?.java:185)
com.s3.ui.params.ServletParameters?.setPostArgs(ServletParameters?.java:110)
com.s3.ui.params.ServletParameters?.<init>(ServletParameters?.java:94)
com.s3.ui.Main.getImpl(Main.java:55)
com.s3.ui.Main.doPost(Main.java:187)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet?.service(HttpServlet?.java:717)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet?.service(HttpServlet?.java:810)


note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/5.0.25 logs.



Apache Tomcat/5.0.25

Steps to Reproduce: Upload a .ppt file to a page
Your name: Sunil
Your wiki domain name (*.jot.com): dhar.jot.com

Comments (1)

jotspot_michael said, 10/26/2004:

Hello Sunil. Sorry you ran into this ugly error message. It basically means that the size of the PowerPoint presentation you uploaded is greater than our current upload limit of 5 Megabytes. If you can't make the file smaller, then you could try to ZIP it with a tool such as Winzip. I added a task to our internal todo list to show a 'friendlier' error message when you upload a file that is too big.

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