If I have this in my components.xml <component class="org.jboss.seam.web.MultipartFilter"> | <property name="maxRequestSize">1000000</property> | </component> then the filter just checks the Content-Length of the HTTP request and throws the exception before reading the HTTP content if the length is bigger that the maxRequestSize. So the file is not really uploaded to the server and doesn't consume any memory resources. Whereas, with <s:fileUpload ... fileSize="#{foo.fixedSize}" /> the filter reads the content and gives my backing bean the control to decide. I'd like to have the maxRequestSize behavior in this case as well. Is it doable? Is my understanding correct? tazman View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4058169#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...