Title: Error message with SWF Upload
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Error message with SWF Upload

 *  [Lari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lari/)
 * (@lari)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-with-swf-upload/)
 * Upon uploading files with the Flash uploader I get the “http error” and “An error
   occurred in the upload. Please try again later. (Dismiss)” errors. **Files do
   upload**, though. The error message does not seem needed and it makes users uneasy.
   Browser uploader works fine. The site is on a hosted server.
 * Disabling mod_security does not help. I tried updating SWFUpload, did not help.
   Caches cleared, files reuploaded, Flash player updated, gone through the sticky
   post.
 * **This error did not appear a week ago**. I’ve tried disabling plugins I’ve installed
   recently. Occurs on Safari, Firefox and Camino on Mac, and apparently on Firefox
   Windows, too.
 * Does anybody know what to do next?

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 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-with-swf-upload/#post-1070242)
 * A timeout of some sort could cause those error messages incorrectly. Like a PHP
   execution time being set too low in the PHP.INI, sort of thing.
 * Because those errors come from the webserver itself and not from WordPress, it’s
   rather hard to say what to try specifically. Basically just increase timeouts
   until you figure out which one is the issue.
 *  Thread Starter [Lari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lari/)
 * (@lari)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-with-swf-upload/#post-1070409)
 * Thank you for your reply, Otto.
 * I’m a bit unsure about timeouts, it only takes a couple of seconds for the error
   to appear. Also, the images I’m using are small. I did set max_input_time and
   max_execution_time to 0, -1 and 999. I checked phpinfo, the values did change
   but nothing made it work. Is there some other timeout settings or other things
   I could try?

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 * Last reply from: [Lari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lari/)
 * Last activity: [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-with-swf-upload/#post-1070409)
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