What is the maximum file size I can transfer using HTTP? And using FTP?

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Added: I am conducting a study for a new system we\'re going to develop in my work. It consists in authenticating users, displaying what files they want to

Answer 1

As already answered, the protocol has no limitations, but most HTTP servers have default upload limits out-of-the-box:

IIS6 uses MaxRequestEntityAllowed (default is 4GB) and AspMaxRequestEntityAllowed (default is 200000 bytes) in metabase.xml.

IIS7 uses maxRequestEntityAllowed: **appcmd set config /section:asp /maxRequestEntityAllowed:***int* (default is 200000 bytes)

Apache uses LimitRequestBody (default is 2GB)