Large uploads fail in web client about gitea

[wxiaoguang]

There are some guesses for this problem:

1. The uploading on nginx side timeouts (eg: improper timeout setting, laggy network, browser proxy, etc)
2. The uploading on Gitea side timeouts

For the first case, you could try to double-check your config/environment.

For the second case, could you provide a reproducible setup with detailed steps? eg: a docker compose file, and the steps to reproduce. If it could be reproduced on a developer's machine, then it could be fixed soon.

[eeyrjmr]

What is your nginx setting with respect to payload?

[KN4CK3R]

Check your client_max_body_size setting in nginx.

[exodrifter]

client_max_body_size is 0, which I believe disables checking of the client request body size.

As an aside, I tried testing this on try.gitea.io again, but trying to register an account returns a 500. I'll try again a different day.

[exodrifter]

I am planning on putting aside some time in two weeks to see if I can create a reproducible setup.

[exodrifter]

I was able to test this locally with a docker installation on 1.21.11 as well as on the demo site (which is on 1.23.0+dev-197-gab1948d4a3), and was unable to reproduce it.

I mistakenly assumed that if it worked with cURL that it would be a problem with Gitea, but it is clear to me now that is an issue with how the forward proxy is configured.