Increase HTTP Post maxPostSize in Spring Boot

Question

I\'ve got a fairly simple Spring Boot web application, I have a single HTML page with a form with enctype=\"multipart/form-data\". I\'m getting this error:

Answer 1

In Spring Boot >2 version, you can simply add following to the "application.properties" file:

spring.servlet.multipart.max-file-size=10MB
spring.servlet.multipart.max-request-size=20MB

Answer 2

If you are using using x-www-form-urlencoded mediatype in your POST requests (as I do), the multipart property of spring-boot does not work. If your spring-boot application is also starting a tomcat, you need to set the following property in your application.properties file:

# Setting max size of post requests to 6MB (default: 2MB)
server.tomcat.max-http-post-size=6291456

I could not find that information anywhere in the spring-boot documentations. Hope it helps anybody who also sticks with x-www-form-urlencoded encoding of the body.

Answer 3

Found a solution. Add this code to the same class running SpringApplication.run.

// Set maxPostSize of embedded tomcat server to 10 megabytes (default is 2 MB, not large enough to support file uploads > 1.5 MB)
@Bean
EmbeddedServletContainerCustomizer containerCustomizer() throws Exception {
    return (ConfigurableEmbeddedServletContainer container) -> {
        if (container instanceof TomcatEmbeddedServletContainerFactory) {
            TomcatEmbeddedServletContainerFactory tomcat = (TomcatEmbeddedServletContainerFactory) container;
            tomcat.addConnectorCustomizers(
                (connector) -> {
                    connector.setMaxPostSize(10000000); // 10 MB
                }
            );
        }
    };
}

Edit: Apparently adding this to your application.properties file will also increase the maxPostSize, but I haven't tried it myself so I can't confirm.

multipart.maxFileSize=10Mb # Max file size.
multipart.maxRequestSize=10Mb # Max request size.

Answer 4

For me this worked in yaml

spring:
    profiles: ....
    application:
        name:"...."
    http:
        multipart:
            max-file-size: 2147483648
            max-request-size: 2147483648

Answer 5

First, make sure you are using spring.servlet instead of spring.http.

---
spring:
  servlet:
    multipart:
      max-file-size: 10MB
      max-request-size: 10MB

If you have to use tomcat, you might end up creating EmbeddedServletContainerCustomizer, which is not really nice thing to do.

If you can live without tomat, you could replace tomcat with e.g. undertow and avoid this issue at all.

Answer 6

For me nothing of previous works (maybe use application with yaml is an issue here), but get ride of that issue using that:

import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.web.servlet.MultipartConfigFactory;
import org.springframework.boot.web.servlet.ServletComponentScan;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.util.unit.DataSize;

import javax.servlet.MultipartConfigElement;

@ServletComponentScan
@SpringBootApplication
public class App {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(App.class, args);
    }

    @Bean
    MultipartConfigElement multipartConfigElement() {
        MultipartConfigFactory factory = new MultipartConfigFactory();
        factory.setMaxFileSize(DataSize.ofBytes(512000000L));
        factory.setMaxRequestSize(DataSize.ofBytes(512000000L));
        return factory.createMultipartConfig();
    }
}