Improve compatibility of downloads and CloudFlare

[PatrickRQ]

Hi,

CloudFlare is commonly and often used service. However, it has low upload limits of single file szie, especially on free plans.

Please consider to change uploader within Downloads to chunk uploads. Details explained in Can Plupload bypass Cloudflare's 100 mb upload limit? - Stack Overflow

Edited March 18, 2022 by PatrickRQ

[PatrickRQ]

After further reading I found solution here: 

 

Lowering max_post_size solves the issue, however there is still place for improvements because we may not want to generally decrease max_post_size for entire size but for uploads only, therefore I suggest to make in-app specific configs to force by Downloads only.

This is explained here: .htaccess - php specific function / url / file max post size? - Stack Overflow in the answer marked as solution.

[PatrickRQ]

.htaccess workaround for those looking for a temp solution:

<If "^%{REQUEST_URI} == '/files/file/*' AND %{QUERY_STRING} == 'do=newVersion'$ OR ^%{REQUEST_URI} == '/files/submit/*' AND %{QUERY_STRING} == 'do=submit&category=(.+)'$">
    php_value post_max_size 50M
</If>

Would be good it IPS could implement it as in-app options.

I believe Download app should run on rules defined by Admin, to make him able decide when upload as chunks, without affecting entire site PHP settings.

Edited March 18, 2022 by PatrickRQ

[PatrickRQ]

@Marc StridgenThere is actually an issue I reported somewhere but can't find. When file is uploaded on junk basis, the IPS will display file record name as example 46456346346_filename.rar

It adds some numbered prefix to file name we must correct each time we upload files on junk basis. Can you please fix it?

Edited August 26, 2022 by PatrickRQ

[Sirmadsen]

IPS don't care about the downloads app. It's never updated with new features or improvements. They only only update the version number so they can sell it as part of the package.

[PatrickRQ]

@SirmadsenI noticed some apps getting ignored for long.