I am trying to distribute some .zip files from my server to clients by responding to their POST requests with Flask's send_from_directory(). I have no problem distributing smaller files (53kb), but when trying to transmit a 1.7gb file, the client only receives 1.1gb of data which prevents the file from being properly unzipped. Are there any maximum file size limitations for POST requests on pythonanywhere?
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Unable to distribute large files via HTTPS POST request
We don't have any file size limitations for downloads (though we do for uploads), but there is a time limit -- if a response hasn't been completed within a few minutes (I think it's currently 5) then the request will be aborted. Might that be what's happening in this case?
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I just ran a quick test. The program fails after 1 minute 45 seconds and transfers only 1.3gb of the file.
Fixed it! Problem totally on my end. These 2 questions led me to the solution if anyone else has a similar issue. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16694907/how-to-download-large-file-in-python-with-requests-py https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24318084/flask-make-response-with-large-files
Ah, interesting! Thanks for posting the links :-)
