anonymous wrote : Yes, I meant upload. One of these days I will learn how to spell. Or type. Or just plain learn to keep my mind focused on the topic at hand instead of wandering off in 18 related and unrelated directions. (I have no hope whatsoever of achieving that final goal.) good to hear, I'm not the only one with those problems :) for the tests: well, I did already test it, but the results left me puzzled: I am not sure, how to interpret the testresults, or maybe its a problem of my test environment (server and client on same machine) so I hoped someone could tell me the facts about uploading right away. anyway: this is how I tried to test: * I use a multipart form with an input element of type="file" - I select a big file: 600MB | * I press upload | * what happens now is:* CPU load of my browser increases (no networktraffic yet): I suppose the client is building the complete multipart-form request (some seconds) | | * networktraffic starts: I suppose the complete request is now sent to the server | | * my servlet is receiving the request | | * after a short time (1 sec), the commons file upload lib throws a SizeLimitExceededException exception | | * I catch this exception and in the servlet I send a redirect to an error page | | * the browser is still busy and keeps sendig the request (takes about 30 seconds) | | so I am not sure what happens:* is there a way to inform the browser to abort sending the large request immediately? | maybe a redirect is wrong here? | * since the client keeps sending data, I suppose the server will still be busy: well at least the bandwidth of the server will still be receiving the data, that the browser is still sending View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4128635#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...