Article - CS360601

"Rest service failure [object ProgressEvent]" is seen when uploading large files to a File Repository Thing on ThingWorx Platform

Modified: 11-Jan-2022   


Applies To

  • ThingWorx Platform 8.5 to 9.3

Description

  • Cannot upload files larger than 100 MB to the ThingWorx Platform via a FileRepository Thing
  • Both Composer and Mashup runtime fail to allow files larger than 100 MB to be uploaded to a Repository
  • Using the FileUpload Widget fails when files are larger than a certain size
  • Implemented custom NGINX instance and large file uploads now fail on ThingWorx Platform
  • ThingWorx Platform is configured with NGINX and Kubernetes in a Cloud Services environment (e.g. Azure, Amazon Web Services):
    • File Uploads to a repository fail when they are over a specific size
  • Seeing the following error within the ThingWorx Composer when attempting to upload large files to a repository:
    • Rest service failure [object ProgressEvent]
  • File uploads to a ThingWorx Repository above a certain size are failing and returning a HTTP 413 error to the client
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