I haven't needed to upload such large files, but I wonder if using the ftp functions in php would bypass this problem: http://us3.php.net/manual/en/ref.ftp.php Andrew On 2/9/07, Thomas Dowling <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I have always depended on the kindness of strange PHP gurus. > > I am trying to rewrite a perpetually buggy system for uploading large > PDF files (up to multiple tens of megabytes) via a web form. File > uploads are very simple in PHP, but there's a default maximum file size > of 2MB. Following various online hints I've found, I've gone into > php.ini and goosed up the memory_limit, post_max_size, and > upload_max_size (and restarted Apache), and added an appropriate hidden > form input named MAX_FILE_SIZE. The 2MB limit is still in place. > > Is there something I overlooked? Or, any other suggestions for how to > take in a very large file? > > [My current Perl version has a history of getting incomplete files in a > non-negligible percentage of uploads. Weirdness ensues: whenever this > happens, the file reliably cuts off at the same point, but the cutoff is > not a fixed number of bytes, nor is it related to the size of the file.] > > > -- > Thomas Dowling > [log in to unmask] > -- Andrew Darby Web Services Librarian Ithaca College Library http://www.ithaca.edu/library/ [log in to unmask]