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.
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