Re: Restricting maximum upload size

Alfonso Martínez de Lizarrondo wrote:
> I would like to propose adding a new attribute to <input type="file">,
> named (for example) maxsize, it should contain a number, the maximum
> size in bytes allowed by for each single file to be uploaded to the
> server. If it's missing, or it isn't a positive integer, it will
> default to 0, meaning that no file check will be done at the client
> side.

> Following on that, then comes the issue of <input type="file"
> multiple>, instead of adding another attribute to the input element, I
> think that it might be better to add it to the <form>, defining the
> total size that can be sent as the body of the POST to the server, if
> the sum of files and other text data it's over the maximum allowed
> size the form will fail the validation and won't be submitted.

Or the attribute maxsize would apply per file, so the total 
permitted would be maxsize × quantity of files selected. Would that 
fit better?

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John ‘[Beta]’ Drinkwater        |      john@nextraweb.com

Received on Saturday, 11 July 2009 12:52:46 UTC