Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote: > Alan Gutierrez wrote: >> Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote: >>>> install a filesystem extension. >>>> >>> >>> But you don't have to. I exchange large files (hundreds of MB, not 4 >>> GB) on Dropbox all the time, but I've never installed their desktop >>> software. It's only for convenience AFAIK. >> >> I think it is the other way around. Their getting started link says >> "Download". They want you to get the download software. The HTTP upload >> is for convenience. I'm offering this as an opinion. >> > > However you want to look at it, the point is that the HTTP upload option > (or whatever the Flash side of the tool does) exists. > >> The OP wants to upload more than 4GB and I wouldn't trust HTTP to >> transfer 4GB from a client to a server on a regular basis. There is no >> way to resume a failed upload. > > I agree with you on that. > >> If the OP is building a web application, >> they are going to have to find an alternative. If they are building an >> application with a web front end, maybe they can use SFTP as a file >> transfer client for large files, and the web UI to manage the files once >> they have been uploaded. >> >> Basically, Qin Qin, you are right in noting that HTTP upload is only >> good for reasonable sized uploads, whatever size reasonable is at the >> time that you read this. (Images, documents, etc.) > > Yup. > > Best, > -- > Marnen Laibow-Koser > http://www.marnen.org > mar...@marnen.org
Sincerely thank all answer the question firstly. Upload large file will block the app AFAIK,and user can't browse others at the same time . I met with that when I upload a large file the computer system halted under ubuntu 10.04 LTS, it brings me a lot of trouble. besides ,when I use mongrel ,the web server will create temp files ,which several times of original file size,in other word ,it needs more disk or memory to complete it. maybe I should have a try with nginx firstly ... -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
