ASP Script Timeout Maximum

Hi all,

I'm using an ASP Upload component to upload pdf files to my application. Usually the files are relatively small. However, I have one file which is 27MB. When this is uploaded, it is causing a script timeout. The timeout value was originally set to 9000 which is unecessarily large. My question is - is there a maximum value that IIS will accept? If this maximum is exceeded, will it cause the value to become the default value - ie 90 sec?

If not, how could a script timeout occur if the value is set to 9000?

Thanks in advance,
~H

My first question would be why would you allow an upload of 27MB????
Zip it!

Good question. This is an online financial system. The file is a prospectus. Once uploaded, there is a link for users to view the prospectus from within their browser. This is a requirement of our client. I agree, it seems silly, but it has to be this way unfortunately.

Anyway, we may figure out a way around this another way if we can't solve it. But I'm curious about this question in any case. If a timeout value is set too large, will IIS assume the default setting?

Maximum ScriptTimeout value can be upto 24 hours (1440 minutes).
No, it won't resume back to the default. It will just error.

It is entirely possible that it could timeout at 9000 when trying to upload a 27MB file, considering upload speeds are usually 1/2 of what download speeds are.

So a person with a 56K modem trying to upload a 27MB file to your server could get a timeout error.

Memnoch - thanks for the reply!

You say it will just error if you exceed the maximum timeout. What does that mean exactly? What kind of error will it throw? The error we're getting now is a script timeout - and it's definately happening way before 9000 seconds. So are you saying that if you exceed the maximum - 24 hours - that it will just take 24 hours as the value?

Also, none of the users of this application are using modems. They are all traders within the corporate network of our client.

Do you know anywhere online where I can find this kind of information? I tried searching around on MSDN but couldn't find much.

Thanks,

H