Re: [Snowy] Some patches

[Stuart Langridge <stuart langridge canonical com>]

Sandy Armstrong wrote:
>> Piotr -- do you have any docs on the PUT limit?  IMHO, this sounds like
>> a broken behavior to me.
> 
> It may be, but if it is the default Apache behavior and is not
> configurable on a per-user basis, using PUT will seriously get in the
> way of all the people who want to set up their own instance in shared
> hosting environments.  Most of the people inquiring about setting up
> Snowy in #tomboy and #snowy have been in that situation.  But yeah,
> seeing docs on this would be great to make sure we really understand
> it.

I can't replicate any problem like this. Trivial CGI script:

#!/usr/bin/python
import sys
print "Content-type: text/plain"
print
data = sys.stdin.read()
print len(data)

and PUT to it to confirm the output size is OK:

aquarius dell-desktop:/var/www/put$ dd if=/dev/zero bs=4 count=1
2>/dev/null | curl -X PUT -T - http://localhost/put/test.cgi
4
aquarius dell-desktop:/var/www/put$ dd if=/dev/zero bs=400 count=1
2>/dev/null | curl -X PUT -T - http://localhost/put/test.cgi
400
aquarius dell-desktop:/var/www/put$ dd if=/dev/zero bs=40000 count=1
2>/dev/null | curl -X PUT -T - http://localhost/put/test.cgi
40000
aquarius dell-desktop:/var/www/put$ dd if=/dev/zero bs=4000000 count=1
2>/dev/null | curl -X PUT -T - http://localhost/put/test.cgi
4000000
aquarius dell-desktop:/var/www/put$ dd if=/dev/zero bs=400000000 count=1
2>/dev/null | curl -X PUT -T - http://localhost/put/test.cgi
400000000

Looks OK to me. If someone's going to PUT more than 400MB of Tomboy
notes then I invite them to, er, use something else. :-)

sil