"OverflowError: string longer than 2147483647 bytes" when trying requests.put #2717

@EB123

Description

Hi,

I'm trying to upload a file that weight about 3GB and I'm getting the following error:
"OverflowError: string longer than 2147483647 bytes"

If I understand correctly it seems like there's a 2GB limit? didnt manage to find any reference to such limiation or how to bypass it (if possible).

The code i'm using is:

datafile




    
 = 'someHugeFile'
with open(datafile, 'rb') as myfile:
    args = myfile.read()
resp = requests.put(url, data=args, verify=False)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests-2.3.0-py2.7.egg/requests/api.py", line 99, in put
    return request('put', url, data=data, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests-2.3.0-py2.7.egg/requests/api.py", line 44, in request
    return session.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests-2.3.0-py2.7.egg/requests/sessions.py", line 456, in request
    resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests-2.3.0-py2.7.egg/requests/sessions.py", line 559, in send
    r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests-2.3.0-py2.7.egg/requests/adapters.py", line 327, in send
    timeout=timeout
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests-2.3.0-py2.7.egg/requests/packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 493, in urlopen
    body=body, headers=headers)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests-2.3.0-py2.7.egg/requests/packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 291, in _make_request
    conn.request(method, url, **httplib_request_kw)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 995, in request
    self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1029, in _send_request
    self.endheaders(body)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 991, in endheaders
    self._send_output(message_body)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 844, in _send_output
    self.send(msg)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 820, in send
    self.sock.sendall(data)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/ssl.py", line 234, in sendall
    v = self.send(data[count:])
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/ssl.py", line 203, in send
    v = self._sslobj.write(data)
OverflowError: string longer than 2147483647 bytes

For smaller files this code works fine for me.