will it stop loading after 2 months or will it continue until the full 3megs are loaded before deciding that it is too big?
The full 3 megabytes will be downloaded. The request is only then passed to PHP, which decides that it is too large.
The error
flag will be populated as indicated by @Steve.
IIRC, it is different if you click LimitRequestBody
Apache: the request will be immediately terminated after reaching the limit and an error page will be displayed.
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