Form too Large Exception

Question

When I send a large file using a post request the system shows an exception:

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Form too large1105723>200000
at org.mortbay.jetty.Request.extractParameters(Request.java:1404)
at org.mortbay.jetty.Request.getParameter(Request.java:749)......

When I search help for this in Google they give some help e.g., webappcontext.setMaxFormContentSize(5000000);

I am using this code but the problem is not solved

Also I am using the code jettyServer.setAttribute("org.mortbay.jetty.Request.maxFormContentSize", 5000000);

But no result

Note:-I am using Jetty-6.1.0

Solution 1

Try setting System properties via jetty.xml

    <Call class="java.lang.System" name="setProperty">
      <Arg>org.mortbay.jetty.Request.maxFormContentSize</Arg>
      <Arg>500000</Arg>
    </Call>

ok you can configure it from your web app

Add WEB-INF/jetty-web.xml file in your web application and configure the parameter in that file:

  <?xml version="1.0"?>
  <!DOCTYPE Configure PUBLIC "-//Mort Bay Consulting//DTD Configure//EN"
  "http://jetty.mortbay.org/configure.dtd">

  <Configure id="WebAppContext" class="org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext">
          <Set name="maxFormContentSize" type="int">600000</Set>
  </Configure>

Document

Version 7 or Higher

Since version 7, Jetty's classes have moved to a different package. You must replace org.mortbay... with org.eclipse... (Thanks to David for his comment).

Solution 2

import org.mortbay.jetty.Server;
//... other code here...//
int port = 8080;
Server server = new Server(port);
server.setAttribute("org.mortbay.jetty.Request.maxFormContentSize", -1);

This code works on jetty 6.0.2 which I'm using.
The size of "-1" means the form has no limit I tryed to post a form large 20,000,000 bytes and I had no problem.
For eclipse releases of Jetty(jetty 7) you have to use the following code:

import org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server;
//... other code here...//
int port = 8080;
Server server = new Server(port);
server.setAttribute("org.eclipse.jetty.server.Request.maxFormContentSize", -1);

Solution 3

Unfortunately, I'm not able to make any changes to jetty.xml, so instead I simply set some options to adjust the maxFormContentSize like so:

JVM_OPTS="$JVM_OPTS -Dorg.eclipse.jetty.server.Request.maxFormContentSize=5000000"

This exists in the shell script that we use to launch our instance of Solr.

Solution 4

More documentation on form size: http://wiki.eclipse.org/Jetty/Howto/Configure_Form_Size

Solution 5

I came across this problem too (running Jetty embedded in another application, so I'm not using jetty.xml).

I used the setMaxFormContentSize method on the ContextHandler class, which fixed the "form too large" exception. (See http://wiki.eclipse.org/Jetty/Tutorial/Embedding_Jetty#Setting_a_ServletContext for an example of creating/using a context handler).

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