Is there a way to ignore the maxRequestLength limit of 2GB file uploads?
asp.net, c#, iis, iis-7
Solution
Considering the Type of MaxRequestLength is a Int, at the moment there is no way to parse a value higher than Int.Max correctly.
I heard they might be increasing IIS8 but nothing concrete from Microsoft as of yet. The only way I've seen in .Net 4.5 is to use HttpRequest.GetBufferlessInputStream which
Gets a Stream object that can be used to read the incoming HTTP entity body, optionally disabling the request-length limit that is set in the MaxRequestLength property.
Problem
Here's where I'm setting `maxRequestLength` to 2GB (the max value), which indicates the maximum request size supported by ASP.NET: ``` <system.web> <httpRuntime maxRequestLength="2097151" executionTimeout="3600"/> ... ``` and here I'm setting the `maxAllowedContentLength` to 4GB (the max value), which specifies the maximum length of content in a request supported by IIS ``` <system.webServer> <security> <requestFiltering> <requestLimits maxAllowedContentLength="4294967295"/> </requestFiltering> </security> ... ``` I'd like to be able to upload files up to 4GB, but I'm limited by the `maxRequestLength` field. I noticed that this third party upload tool (http://www.element-it.com/onlinehelp/webconfig.html) has a `ignoreHttpRuntimeMaxRequestLength` property, which allows it to upload files up to 4GB. Does anyone know if I can ignore the `maxRequestLength` value like this other upload tool does?