How to detect if a user uploaded a file larger than post_max_size?

Question

How should I go about handling http uploads that exceeds the post_max_size in a sane manner?

In my configuration post_max_size is a few MB

Answer 1

You may need to revert to something that uses flash/silverlight etc. such as: http://www.plupload.com/

Or look at a Java-based solution...

Basically something that will break the upload into more managable (and resumable) chunks, and then re-assemble them on the server side.