At 05:17 AM 4/14/01, Thomas K. Burkholder wrote:
>I'd like to write upload code that shows progress (via a fork and
>refresh header trick - don't worry about that). What I'm wondering
>is,
>by the time I get $fh above (or even by the time I'm in the handler
>for
>all I know) do I already have the entire file uploaded, or is it done
>lazily as reads are performed on $fh? I'm not very good at reading
>this
>XS stuff, but I looked at libapreq and from that I suspect it's all
>done
>up front. Is there any way to read it incrementally?
>
>Has anyone solved this problem before? I want to provide an upload
>function for my web app that shows the user periodic progress or maybe
>even allows them to cancel it part way through. Is this too much of a
>reach for http/mod_perl?
I thought that using your mod_perl process to handle file uploads was a
Bad Thing. You might want to think about using a domain cookie, and
pass the client off to a lighter process to handle the upload, rather
than having a giant mod_perl apache process spinning for five minutes
while someone uploads a file.
Just my $0.02.
cheers,
Todd
