title: Maximum request length exceeded
body: <p>I got maximum request length exceeded error, trying to download a file from the site (developed in asp.net). I did tried the solution advised in the link below
   <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3853767/maximum-request-length-exceeded">Maximum request length exceeded.</a></p>
  
  <p>But i still have the same error.</p>
  
  <p>the iss i am using is 8.5  [1]: <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/pCLEs.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://i.stack.imgur.com/pCLEs.png</a> 
  i have the below tags added to the web.conf</p>
  
  <pre><code>   &lt;security&gt;
      &lt;requestFiltering&gt;
        &lt;requestLimits maxAllowedContentLength="1073741824" /&gt;
      &lt;/requestFiltering&gt;
        &lt;/security&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When i add the below tag it throws "500 - Internal server error."</p>
  
  <pre><code> &lt;httpRuntime maxRequestLength="1048576" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but nothing seems to work.</p>