topic Re: Configure WebDav on existing drive/data? in Alfresco Archive

Configure WebDav on existing drive/data?

rbkprod — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:30:26 GMT

Good day.We're testing Alfresco 3.4(b) on one of our servers, we currently have two hard drives (C:\ & D:\). Our D:\ drive contains quite a lot of data and we would like to start managing that with Alfresco, so we would like all our data on D:\ to be accessible through Alfresco WebDav. Any ideas

Re: Configure WebDav on existing drive/data?

gyro_gearless — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:59:01 GMT

I guess you will hit some limits when you try to manage files of size 6GB!

Since WEBDAV is based on HTTP, i think there is an inherent limitation on the size of an HTTP transfer, as the the content length parameter for a ServletResponse is defined as "int" and would thus allow only 2GB to be transferred - see http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17802_01/products/products/servlet/2.2/javadoc/javax/servlet/ServletResponse.html#setContentLength%28int%29

Cheers
Gyro

Re: Configure WebDav on existing drive/data?

rbkprod — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 06:11:51 GMT

Yea, maybe I should've put my question down better. The problem is not uploading through the FTP, it's retrieving them from client computers through WebDav. I can't even retrieve a 340mb file through WebDav, getting the error "The file size exceeds the limit allowed and cannot be saved."

Resolved: It's a Windows WebDav issue, a simple registry key edit on the client computer did the trick, for those interested: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/900900