Question

When uploading a 42MB file through my ASP.NET Web Application, an issue is occuring where the following errors appear depending on the browser being used:

Google Chrome:

Oops! This link appears to be broken

FireFox:

XML Parsing Error: no element found

Internet Explorer

The webpage cannot be found

I don’t believe this is an issue with file size restrictions as I have the following in my web.config:

<httpRuntime maxRequestLength="409600" executionTimeout="9000" />

This is working fine on our development server (IIS6), but not on the live server (IIS7)

Why is this and how can I prevent this from happening?

Answer 1

IIS7 doesn’t seem to read:

<httpRuntime maxRequestLength="409600" />

The IIS7 alternative seems to be:

<system.webServer>
  <security>
    <requestFiltering>
      <requestLimits maxAllowedContentLength="209715200"></requestLimits>
    </requestFiltering>
  </security>
</system.webServer>