[Answered ]-Google AppEngine, Django and request.FILES

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I believe that in order to upload files that are larger than 1 MB, you need to use the Blobstore API to create a special URL that is used for the upload; it can’t be your regular <1 MB URL.

The controller code that generates the HTML page that contains the upload form would use upload_url = blobstore.create_upload_url('media/imageUploadBig') and would then add upload_url to your template values and render the template.

The template, in turn, would contain a FORM definition something like this:

<form id="hiddenUpForm" style="display:none;" action="{{ upload_url|safe }}" enctype="multipart/form-data" target="upTarget" method="POST">

This means that you either need to have two different forms — one for files that are less than 1 MB and one for files that are larger — or you can store all of your images in the Blobstore.

See the Blobstore docs for more information.

👤Adam Crossland

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