>Interesting. So what was the actual exception type? - the docs state that WebRequest() only throws WebException exception and I would have thought that would contain : (0x80004005): Maximum request length exceeded.

The message is exactly as the first message of this thread.

>BTW If you are putting such an high limit I'd suggest limiting its scope to the relevant page - and even then make it no bigger than it needs to be in practice.

This was only temporary to validate a few things.