http request entity too large

Keith Rarick

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Jul 13, 2012, 9:02:53 PM7/13/12

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I'm using http.MaxBytesReader and I'd like to return
either status 413 or status 500 to the client, depending
on whether the limit was reached or some other error
happened.

How about making errors.New("http: request body too large")
into a public variable of package http?

kr

Brad Fitzpatrick

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Jul 13, 2012, 11:05:05 PM7/13/12

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Connect the dots for me.

What does making it public accomplish? Can't you just return that error message/code on your own?

Patrick Mylund Nielsen

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Jul 13, 2012, 11:15:37 PM7/13/12

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Just guessing -- it's to "catch" that error, not return it:

if err == http.RequestBodyTooLarge {

http.Error(w, "File too large", http.StatusRequestEntityTooLarge)

} else {

http.Error(w, "Oops, there was an error. Please try again later.", http.StatusInternalServerError)

Keith Rarick

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Jul 14, 2012, 5:01:40 PM7/14/12

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Yeah, that. Sorry I didn't say so in the first place.

kr

Nicolas Martyanoff

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Feb 1, 2017, 6:07:52 AM2/1/17

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Is there any update regarding this issue ? The inability to make the difference between an error triggered by the request size and any other error is a real problem.

Stevo Slavić

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Mar 10, 2019, 6:37:08 AM3/10/19

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I've just created improvement request https://github.com/golang/go/issues/30715

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