That is a horrible kludge - what is the user expected to do with the garbage file?
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 09:53:04AM +0100, junk at giantblob.com wrote: > Sorry - not sure if I've misunderstood your answer or if you didn't get > my suggestion. If the former then apologies in advance for banging on > and I'll go back to quietly lurking :-) > > I'm suggesting a method for making the user's browser display a progress > bar for us while a split-file download progresses to private download > area within Fred: > - User requests splitfile download, e.g. by clicking on link within > FProxy > - Fred/FProxy reports dummy filesize to browser of, say, 100k > - Meanwhile Fred downloads splitfile in background, in whatever > block order, to private file owned by Fred > - as background download progresses, FProxy returns garbage to > browser at a bitrate of, e.g., 1k per 1-percent split-file successfully > downloaded > - Browser displays percentage bar for us based on its view of how > complete the 100k dummy download is > - When split-file complete, FProxy redirects browser to a special > link, that when navigated to, streams the downloaded splitfile from > Fred's private file > > -- jeek > > Matthew Toseland wrote: > > >Eek. > > > >Square peg, round hole. > > > >We have to download to disk, this is the only reasonable option. > >However, we can do it inside Fred. -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20050901/2b9790b6/attachment.pgp>
