TokenMismatchException when uploading large file size

This has something to do with how PHP works.

If the size of post data is greater than post_max_size, the $_POST and $_FILES superglobals are empty, thus it appears as if there's no CSRF token included in the request.

@toniperic

Right, is there a way i can set the value, bearing in mind im using the inbuilt laravel server at the moment as my php server.

Even though im running php artisan serve. I can go into my etc/php/{version}/cli and update the values post_max_size and upload_max_filesize in the php.ini file.

This will fix it

Changing those variables still results in the same csrf issue when someone loads anything larger than those new values, so how do we detect that the user loaded a file that was too large, and tell them so gracefully, to avoid the csrf error?

@chris_boudreaux see this thread also https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/laravel/file-upload-methodnotallowedhttpexception