[Building Sakai] Supporting files over 2G

[Stephen Marquard]

Hi all,

Having recently tried to upload via DAV a file of around 2.7G, I discovered that even if you fix an issue in dav which checks the Content-Length for no real reason, ContentHostingService treats the content length throughout as an int, as does the ServletResponse API (c/f http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4187336).

I'm sort of surprised that this 2G limit has been around for so long and continues to be around. Fixing it is not trivial but not impossible either. Should we do so, or do we subscribe to Sun's view that "2G is enough"? :-)

Cheers
Stephen

Stephen Marquard, Learning Technologies Co-ordinator
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