Re: auto-zip on upload

2006-05-31 Thread Sam Barnum
I don't think you'll have much luck doing dynamic zipping on the upload side, browsers don't give you much control over file inputs, for security reasons.  You could write an applet that does this, where you drag a file or directory onto the applet, which zips it and sends it to a DirectAction or s

Re: auto-zip on upload

2006-05-27 Thread Gennady Kushnir
To deal with low UP bandwidth uploaded file should be compressed on the client side. So that is NOT server-side WO app's affair.Server-side affair will be to decompress incoming zip file. java.util.zip package will help with that task.I've implemented unzipOnTheFly upload behavior on my app. If you

Re: auto-zip on upload

2006-05-26 Thread Chuck Hill
On May 26, 2006, at 2:49 PM, Randy Wigginton wrote: I’ve created a few pages that use the file upload feature. It works great, I have no problems, but I’d like to make it better if I can. Is it possible to zip the file as it is being sent up to the server? Sometimes the files are quite

auto-zip on upload

2006-05-26 Thread Randy Wigginton
I’ve created a few pages that use the file upload feature.  It works great, I have no problems, but I’d like to make it better if I can.   Is it possible to zip the file as it is being sent up to the server?  Sometimes the files are quite large, and most users do not have the same bandwid