java - Aborting upload from a servlet to limit file size

Question

I'd like to limit the size of the file that can be uploaded to an application. To achieve this, I'd like to abort the upload process from the server side when the size of the file being uploaded exceeds a limit.

Is there a way to abort an upload process from the server side without waiting the HTTP request to finish?

Answer 1

With JavaEE 6 / Servlet 3.0 the preferred way of doing that would be to use the @MultipartConfig annotation on your servlet like this:

@MultipartConfig(location="/tmp", fileSizeThreshold=1024*1024, 
    maxFileSize=1024*1024*5, maxRequestSize=1024*1024*5*5)
public class UploadFileServiceImpl extends HttpServlet ...