Uploads above 64Kb not working when serving lighttpd on Mac OS X

[tonka]

I've been unable to upload files above 64Kb when serving lighttpd from two different Macs, both running 10.4.3.

Files get uploaded to /var/tmp but that's all. Safari hangs forever pretending to be uploading the file. Similar behaving can be seen in Firefox and IE.

Here are my lighttpd (1.4.7) installation steps:

./configure --with-openssl
make
make install

I'm just going to attach a file with a ktrace/kdump I did.

These are the steps I did during the ktrace:

1. Start lighty
2. Call the upload form page from Safari
3. Attach a 144KB file to the form and submit!
4. Stop lighty

Note: Related to #360?

[tonka]

ktrace/kdump

[jan@…]

the ktrace only shows the startup phase of lighttpd before the fork() for the daemonize() call.

We don't see the actual file transfer.

[omniscientcolossus nospamat herenaforge.org]

I started getting the same error with web uploads recently with an ubuntu install of lighty using php5 in fastcgi mode...

[jwmcglynn]

This is a problem in Safari 2. Disable keepalive to Safari user agents and large uploads will work. Traffic sniffing reveals that Safari stops sending anything when it should send the file.

[uspoerlein@…]

If you see the behaviour with FF and IE, too. Then try the following in your lighttpd.conf (it helped me to POST files >50MB to lighttpd running on FreeBSD 6.3)

server.network-backend = "write"