On Wed, 24 Dec 2003, Craig Markwardt wrote:

> Here is a patch that builds on Dominick Meglio's --max-filesize patch from
> October. It implements a maximum file size even for those servers which
> don't report a file size in their HTTP header or FTP SIZE command. The idea
> is to prevent someone malicious or inadvertant from serving a huge file,
> which might ultimately deny net or disk resources.

I agree with Dominick about doubting the usefulness of this one. I don't see
the point with this additional functionality, as you could easily add this
check in your own write callback, should you need this functionality.

The spirit of the "max-filesize" approach is to deny downloading if the file
is too big, already before any data is actually transfered.

Or am I missing something?

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