I'm in no way claiming to be an expert in django or in web development, but the following example on how to implement file upload progress in Nginx web server may help. It should be very similar to lighttpd web server. Assuming you're using a separate static file server so you don't involve python when moving big chunk of data.
http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxHttpUploadProgressModule good luck, -Bedros On Apr 23, 11:34 pm, Steven Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 04/23/08 13:40: > > > Hello All, > > > I've been working on a quality control portal that uses some features > > of django. The application is now completely running but the upload of > > large data files is quit slow. I've been looking around how to speed > > things up and the only thing i saw was using ftp upload instead of the > > http file upload. > > > I want to incorporate this feature in the existing frontend, is there > > something in the newforms library that already covers some of this ? > > If not is it possible to put the ftp upload under the file selection > > box created by the newforms library. > > > are there any snippets around that show how to use the ftp upload from > > a webapplication ? > > There's no way to do that. > > > > > Any help or pointers in the right direction would be greatly > > appreciated. > > I've been thinking about the following for an upcoming project where we > have to upload huge video files: > > - Use a ftp server which can authenticate against SQL and configure it > to use the django user db. > - Have the user upload files through a normal ftp client into his > personal 'inbox' folder. > - The user then loggs in to the web application and can further process > the files from his ftp inbox. e.g. move them around, assign them to > projects. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
