HTTP Uploads larger than 2 GB

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Do not work – I ran into a problem trying to make the upload size for one of my application bigger. Firefox, Internet Exporer and Safari all failed. The reason: they mess up the headers – Content-Length does an overflow

POST /uploadtest.php HTTP/1.1
User-Agent Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; )
Content-Type multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------7da301630063a
Accept-Encoding gzip, deflate
Content-Length -156552375
Pragma no-cache


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