Display custom error page when file upload exceeds allowed size in ASP.NET MVC

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When running under IIS7 and upwards there is another parameter:

<system.webServer>
  <security>
    <requestFiltering>
      <requestLimits maxAllowedContentLength="10485760" />
    </requestFiltering>
  </security>
</system.webServer>

The default setting is slightly less than 30 MB.

For uploaded files with size between maxRequestLength and maxAllowedContentLength IIS7 will throw an HttpException with HTTP code 500 and message text Maximum request length exceeded. When this exception is thrown, IIS7 kills the connection immediately. So an HttpModule that redirects on this error will only work if the HttpException is handled and cleared (using Server.ClearError()) in Application_Error() in global.asax.cs.

For uploaded files with size bigger than maxAllowedContentLength IIS7 will display a detailed error page with error code 404 and subStatusCode 13. The error page can be found in C:\inetpub\custerr\en-US\404-13.htm

For redirects on this error on IIS7 I recommend redirecting on httpErrors instead.
To redirect to a different action set a smaller value for maxAllowedContentLength than maxRequestLength in web.config and also add the following to web.config:

<system.webServer>
  <httpErrors errorMode="Custom" existingResponse="Replace"> 
    <remove statusCode="404" subStatusCode="13" /> 
    <error statusCode="404" subStatusCode="13" prefixLanguageFilePath=""
       path="http://yoursite.com/Error/UploadTooLarge" responseMode="Redirect" /> 
  </httpErrors>
</system.webServer>

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