You could make some sort of client side doohickey that splits the
files into bits before sending them to appengine..

Maybe a little Flash thingy.. Or javascript?

So, the client would read the file into memory, split it up, and send
the parts to the server.

Eh?

On 12/4/09, Matt P <mpe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Not so fast Josh.
>
> Looks like there is at least a java project to allow uploads > 1MB.
> If it is possible in java land, it should be possible in python.
>
> Does a similar package exist for python?
>
> Matt
>
> On Dec 4, 12:21 pm, Joshua Smith <joshuaesm...@charter.net> wrote:
>> You are hosed.
>>
>> Instead, upload to Amazon S3, and manage the files in GAE.
>>
>> S3 lets you set up a signature so people can upload into a bucket you set
>> up.  Then after the upload, it redirects to whatever URL you want, which
>> you can use to log the upload in you GAE app.
>>
>> After that, you can talk to S3 to get info like the file size:
>>
>>       head = urlfetch.fetch(url = 'http://%s.s3.amazonaws.com/%s' % (
>> bucketName, urllib.quote(s3key) ), method=urlfetch.HEAD)
>>       size = int(head.headers['content-length'])
>>
>> S3 is not free, but it's darn close.
>>
>> -Joshua
>>
>> On Dec 4, 2009, at 2:38 PM, Matt P wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> > hello -
>>
>> >  I am creating a service where people can upload data to a app engine
>> > URL.
>>
>> >  How can I upload files that are > 1MB?
>>
>> >  I already sent out the binary for my to Apple which includes a URL
>> > to POST to.   If I can't upload files > 1MB with GAE, then can I
>> > somehow redirect a POST being made to an HTTPS address?
>>
>> >  Or am I completely hosed?
>>
>> > Thank you-
>> > Matt
>>
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