does maxPostSize apply to multipart/form-data file uploads

Question

I have a webapp on a Tomcat server that allows files to be uploaded. There is a limit on the size of a file upload, and I\'d like that limit to be enforced preemptively (ie,

Answer 1

There is a very informative discussion of this topic here.

As I understand it, Tomcat only enforces that limit if the content type is application/x-www-form-urlencoded. For multiparts you'll have to read the stream yourself and enforce the limit yourself. A great tool for working with multipart data is Apache FileUpload.