title: Are the request limits in BITS/BYTES?
body: <p>There are 2 sections in the asp.net web.config and im looking for a definitive word on what they actually represent (bits or bytes). The first:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;system.webServer&gt;
     &lt;security&gt;
     &lt;requestFiltering&gt;
      &lt;requestLimits maxAllowedContentLength="?" /&gt;
     &lt;/requestFiltering&gt;
    &lt;/security&gt;
  &lt;/system.webServer&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And the second:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;system.web&gt;
       &lt;httpRuntime maxRequestLength="?" requestValidationMode="2.0" /&gt;
  &lt;/system.web&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The '?''s show the values that I just dont understand if they are speaking about bits or bytes.</p>
  
  <p>Any advice and supporting artciles :-) would be really helpful.</p>
  
  <p>Pete</p>