Processing of multipart/form-data request failed. Read timed out

hello,

I am using the fileupload component within the struts framework.

I have some users having extremely frequently the following problem:

INFO   | jvm 1    | 2004/06/28 09:51:34 |
org.apache.commons.fileupload.FileUploadException: Processing of
multipart/form-data request failed. Read timed out

I saw that it has already been debated on the list:

http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg03393.html

however, the solution suggested was not to parse the File, if no
filename was given.

As I am working with struts, the FileUpload is being done earlier in the
~ struts processing:

INFO   | jvm 1    | 2004/06/28 07:45:50 |
org.apache.commons.fileupload.FileUplo
adException: Processing of multipart/form-data request failed. Read
timed out
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2004/06/28 07:45:50 |       at
org.apache.commons.fileupload
.FileUpload.parseRequest(FileUpload.java:519)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2004/06/28 07:45:50 |       at
org.apache.commons.fileupload
.FileUpload.parseRequest(FileUpload.java:355)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2004/06/28 07:45:50 |       at
org.apache.struts.upload.Comm
onsMultipartRequestHandler.handleRequest(CommonsMultipartRequestHandler.java:233
)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2004/06/28 07:45:50 |       at
org.apache.struts.util.Reques
tUtils.populate(RequestUtils.java:1055)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2004/06/28 07:45:50 |       at
org.apache.struts.action.Requ
estProcessor.processPopulate(RequestProcessor.java:816)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2004/06/28 07:45:50 |       at
org.apache.struts.action.Requ
estProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:254)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2004/06/28 07:45:50 |       at
org.apache.struts.action.Acti
onServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1420)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2004/06/28 07:45:50 |       at
org.apache.struts.action.Acti
onServlet.doPost(ActionServlet.java:520)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2004/06/28 07:45:50 |       at
javax.servlet.http.HttpServle
t.service(HttpServlet.java:760)

Any idea why it does occur, and how I could cure it?

For me, it sound like a bug in RFC 1867 handling...and it must be at one
of two ends:

client-side, or server-side. Server-side, the culprit could be the
servlet implementation used (Jetty in that case, but the other case uses
Tomcat), or FileUpload.

An interesting detail: both me and the above cited thread use SSL.

would SSL break file uploads?

thanks a lot,

Stan.