huge file upload - no access to php.ini - any workaround?

[Magwheel]

Hi everyone.

I'm trying to get around some file upload problems for a client. Been looking around a lot over the last week, but I can't find anything. 😕

The task: I want to upload 20-30mb from withing a friend's custom CMS (he tried for a week before he asked me to help!).

The environment: IIS5, PHP5, Perl. We don't have access to any config/ini files, nor can we use shell scripting, due to permissions we can't change.

The final problem seems to be that I can't change all the limits/timouts from WITHIN my script....

Does this rule out PHP? Is there anywhere else I should be looking? Any input would be appreciated... again, I have no control over the server, except for what can be done from within the script itself. Which in itself is pretty aggrevating!

(I also tried Perl/cgi but cgi times out, due to server config I guess ??)

Thanks for your time...

-M

[konrad]

Propably it's not enough upload_max_filesize - unfortunelly it's not possible to change this value without acces to php.ini.
If the problem is caused by timeout limitation, try set_time_limit function.