I'd like to ask for tips on how to improve uploading of files in a web-browser and at the same time present what I have found myself.
I am developing a really small filemanager really BIG files. I am talking about anything from a few MB to a few GB files. Obviousy this presents a few problems for the good old upload form. Problem 1 - servers limit the maximum filesize. As I will primarily use this on my own server I can set it any way I like. Problem 2 - POSTing big multipart forms (files) requires the server to decode the upload which uses lots of RAM and CPU. I have not tested at which point my server crashes but I imagine a 4GB DVD image would do the trick. I also have yet to try to force raw binary encoding in the upload but I imagine sandbox sequrity will prevent me from doing to much to the headers using something like javascript. Problem 3 - There is a PUT request that can be made to configured servers. This simply uploads raw binary filedata. Problem is you can't do PUT request from browsers AFAIK. The only working example I have seen is a Java Applet. Looking at Flash docs suggests it is not up to the job either. Problem 4 - the browser stalls for a loooong time when uploading big files. There are a few AJAX ways to get feedback to the user which is good. So what I can do to pretty up my uploads is to first make an AJAX progressbar. This takes care of 10-100MB at least since the server can handle those sizes. I can let the user upload many files at once in the same form. This can also be "Ajaxed" if I want but all files are bundled and POSTed as one large chunk of data, which is bad. I could probably que them using some javascript/ajax callbacks. I can also buy the only Java Applet I have found and use it even though it is pretty ugly to look at. Links to the apples and other pages on this topic below: Upload applet as a price http://upload.thinfile.com/ Ajaxed pretty uploader with source http://labs.beffa.org/w2box/ Multi-file upload article http://the-stickman.com/web-development/javascript/upload-multiple-files-with-a-single-file-element/ PHP PUT support http://www.php-editors.com/php_manual/features.file-upload.put-method.html W3C's own PUT application... really ugly java application http://jigsaw.w3.org/Winie/help.html Any tips, links to souce of articles and other ínfo greatly appreciated. Thanks --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
