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Oversized served PDF reads are refused with a clear reason

An oversized PDF read over a remote connection is refused with a clear explanation.

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What

A Read of a PDF that arrives over a remote connection is now checked against that connection's size budgets, and one that exceeds them comes back as an explicit refusal with an explanation instead of an oversized payload.

Details
  • Budgets consulted are the per-read page cap, the whole-PDF raw byte limit and the image raw byte limit.
  • A refusal is returned as an invalid-request result rather than as file content.
  • Only applies when the read is served over a remote call; local reads are unchanged.
Evidence

Served whole-PDF read over the transport budget

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

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