File uploading with ColdFusion, too big of file timing out?

Question

A client has the admin ability to upload a PDF to their respective directory and have it listed on their website. All of this works dandy until a PDF reaches a certain file size that makes the server time out. This causes an error and the file uploaded will not succeed.

As mentioned in the title, we are using ColdFusion with a command. Is there any java/jquery/flash modules or applications that could resolve this issue?

Edit: For clarification, this is the web server timing out and not ColdFusion.

Answer 1

On the action page, you can use CFSETTING to extend the timeout, allowing the page to run longer than it otherwise is allowed:

<cfsetting requesttimeout="{seconds}">

Obviously, replace {seconds} with the number of seconds you want to allow.

For clarification, this is only if it is CF timing out, and not the web server or client (browser).

Also, most web servers also have a file size limit set for uploads. Make sure this is set to a reasonable size.

Answer 2

You might want to consider using the cffileupload tag. It's a flash based uploader that might give you a better result.

Alternatively, you might be able to find some way using a flash upload tool to break up the upload into chunks and put it back together again somehow to meet the hard limits of your web server.

If you figure it out please be sure to share it here, this is an interesting problem!

Answer 3

You can change setting in CFadministrator > settings > Request Size Limits