Tip of the week for February 24, 2006 shows a technique for displaying an upload progress indicator when uploading files using an HTML form and Lasso's file upload tags.
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On Feb 23, 2006, at 10:29 PM, Fletcher Sandbeck wrote:
> Tip of the week for February 24, 2006 shows a technique for > displaying an upload progress indicator when uploading files using > an HTML form and Lasso's file upload tags. > <http://www.omnipilot.com/TotW.1768.9061.lasso> Perfect timing, I was just finishing up an uploads page and wanted to add this very type of thing. Schweet. -- gw ------------------------------ Lasso Support: http://support.omnipilot.com/ Search the list archives: http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso Manage your list subscription: http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso?manage |
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OK, before you guys get too excited, this is a different thing to the
solution Pier sorted out. What his does is show progress of the upload, true progress of the upload. So Pier's advances in proportion to the percentage complete of the actual upload. On 24/02/2006, at 8:49 PM, Greg Willits wrote: > On Feb 23, 2006, at 10:29 PM, Fletcher Sandbeck wrote: > >> Tip of the week for February 24, 2006 shows a technique for >> displaying an upload progress indicator when uploading files using >> an HTML form and Lasso's file upload tags. >> <http://www.omnipilot.com/TotW.1768.9061.lasso> > > Perfect timing, I was just finishing up an uploads page and wanted > to add this very type of thing. > > Schweet. > > -- gw > > > ------------------------------ > Lasso Support: http://support.omnipilot.com/ > Search the list archives: http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso > Manage your list subscription: http://www.listsearch.com/ > lassotalk.lasso?manage Jono // --------------------------------------------------------- /* Jonathan Guthrie xServe Ltd, Wellington NZ [hidden email] | http://xserve.co.nz | +64 21 678890 */ // --------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Lasso Support: http://support.omnipilot.com/ Search the list archives: http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso Manage your list subscription: http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso?manage |
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Understood, but this was all I needed for my purposes. I was excited
to not have to search for the JS :-) -- gw On Feb 24, 2006, at 12:23 AM, Jono wrote: > OK, before you guys get too excited, this is a different thing to > the solution Pier sorted out. What his does is show progress of the > upload, true progress of the upload. > > So Pier's advances in proportion to the percentage complete of the > actual upload. > > > On 24/02/2006, at 8:49 PM, Greg Willits wrote: > >> On Feb 23, 2006, at 10:29 PM, Fletcher Sandbeck wrote: >> >>> Tip of the week for February 24, 2006 shows a technique for >>> displaying an upload progress indicator when uploading files >>> using an HTML form and Lasso's file upload tags. >>> <http://www.omnipilot.com/TotW.1768.9061.lasso> >> >> Perfect timing, I was just finishing up an uploads page and wanted >> to add this very type of thing. >> >> Schweet. >> >> -- gw ------------------------------ Lasso Support: http://support.omnipilot.com/ Search the list archives: http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso Manage your list subscription: http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso?manage |
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On 2/24/06 at 9:23 PM by [hidden email] (Jono):
>OK, before you guys get too excited, this is a different thing to the >solution Pier sorted out. What his does is show progress of the >upload, true progress of the upload. > >So Pier's advances in proportion to the percentage complete of the >actual upload. I think what you'll have to do to get true percentage completion with a Lasso only solution is open a listener port and direct the Web client to submit the form and upload the file to that port. Then, you can check the content-size and report on the progress in a global variable while you read in the post args. [fletcher] -- Fletcher Sandbeck [hidden email] Lasso Studio Guy http://www.lassostudio.com OmniPilot Software, Inc. http://www.omnipilot.com ------------------------------ Lasso Support: http://support.omnipilot.com/ Search the list archives: http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso Manage your list subscription: http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso?manage |
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At 8:30 AM -0800 2/24/06, Fletcher Sandbeck wrote:
>On 2/24/06 at 9:23 PM by [hidden email] (Jono): > >>OK, before you guys get too excited, this is a different thing to the >>solution Pier sorted out. What his does is show progress of the >>upload, true progress of the upload. >> >>So Pier's advances in proportion to the percentage complete of the >>actual upload. > >I think what you'll have to do to get true percentage completion >with a Lasso only solution is open a listener port and direct the >Web client to submit the form and upload the file to that port. >Then, you can check the content-size and report on the progress in a >global variable while you read in the post args. Can you explain in further detail how to achieve this port listening concept? I would love to implement that. Thanks. -- <?------------------------------------------------------------------------------/> Alex Pilson FlagShip Hosting, LLC 800.592.6781 <http://www.flagshiphosting.com> <?------------------------------------------------------------------------------/> ------------------------------ Lasso Support: http://support.omnipilot.com/ Search the list archives: http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso Manage your list subscription: http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso?manage |
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On 2/24/06 at 11:33 AM by [hidden email] (Alex Pilson):
>>I think what you'll have to do to get true percentage completion >>with a Lasso only solution is open a listener port and direct the >>Web client to submit the form and upload the file to that port. >>Then, you can check the content-size and report on the progress in a >>global variable while you read in the post args. > >Can you explain in further detail how to achieve this port listening >concept? I would love to implement that. It would be a bit of a project. You basically want to implement your own HTTP server to accept the file upload from the browser. You can use [Net->Listen] to listen for communication on an incoming port. You can open ports greather than 1024 and they go up to 32768 or so. The idea would be to select an unused port, send that port in the form response attribute <form response="http://www.example.com:32000/TOKEN" method="post" enctype="...">, then in an asynchronous thread open a listener on that port. Once the client opens a connection you can spin off another asynchronous thread which reads in the HTTP headers for client size and TOKEN, creates an entry in a global map using the TOKEN provided by the user (like a unique id), reads in the POST args which contain the file data, and finally writes out the files either to a temp location like the normal file upload functionality does or directly. Then you need to return an HTML page as the response, probably just redirecting the user back into your Web site on port 80. <?LassoScript Variable: 'Listener' = (Net); $Listener->(Bind: 32000); $Listener->(Listen); Variable: 'Connection' = $Listener->Accept; ... $Connection->Close; $Listener->Close; ?> [fletcher] -- Fletcher Sandbeck [hidden email] Lasso Studio Guy http://www.lassostudio.com OmniPilot Software, Inc. http://www.omnipilot.com ------------------------------ Lasso Support: http://support.omnipilot.com/ Search the list archives: http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso Manage your list subscription: http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso?manage |
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Sounds like you have it all worked out, Fletcher.
How soon will you have it finished? <:P - jason On 2/24/06, Fletcher Sandbeck <[hidden email]> wrote: > On 2/24/06 at 11:33 AM by [hidden email] (Alex Pilson): > > >>I think what you'll have to do to get true percentage completion > >>with a Lasso only solution is open a listener port and direct the > >>Web client to submit the form and upload the file to that port. > >>Then, you can check the content-size and report on the progress in a > >>global variable while you read in the post args. > > > >Can you explain in further detail how to achieve this port listening > >concept? I would love to implement that. > > It would be a bit of a project. You basically want to implement your own HTTP server to accept the file upload from the browser. > > You can use [Net->Listen] to listen for communication on an incoming port. You can open ports greather than 1024 and they go up to 32768 or so. The idea would be to select an unused port, send that port in the form response attribute <form response="http://www.example.com:32000/TOKEN" method="post" enctype="...">, then in an asynchronous thread open a listener on that port. Once the client opens a connection you can spin off another asynchronous thread which reads in the HTTP headers for client size and TOKEN, creates an entry in a global map using the TOKEN provided by the user (like a unique id), reads in the POST args which contain the file data, and finally writes out the files either to a temp location like the normal file upload functionality does or directly. Then you need to return an HTML page as the response, probably just redirecting the user back into your Web site on port 80. > > <?LassoScript > Variable: 'Listener' = (Net); > $Listener->(Bind: 32000); > $Listener->(Listen); > Variable: 'Connection' = $Listener->Accept; > ... > $Connection->Close; > $Listener->Close; > ?> > > [fletcher] > -- > Fletcher Sandbeck [hidden email] > Lasso Studio Guy http://www.lassostudio.com > OmniPilot Software, Inc. http://www.omnipilot.com > > > ------------------------------ > Lasso Support: http://support.omnipilot.com/ > Search the list archives: http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso > Manage your list subscription: > http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso?manage > -- Find and Share Free Lasso Custom Tags at tagSwap.net! Download over 100 open source Lasso custom tags, and post your own for others to use. RSS feeds track the newest and most popular tags. http://tagSwap.net/ ------------------------------ Lasso Support: http://support.omnipilot.com/ Search the list archives: http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso Manage your list subscription: http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso?manage |
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I've been using this trick for a few months and it's a great way to do it.
BUT I'd still love an "easy" way to show real progress percentages. Rumpus WFM has this capability....not sure how he does it tho' for those interested, you can find the looping progress .gif I use here: http://www.composingroom.com/_Ordering/images/progressbar_01.gif I'll send you the .psd (imageready) file if you contact me directly schnide <at> composingroom.com ------------------------------ Lasso Support: http://support.omnipilot.com/ Search the list archives: http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso Manage your list subscription: http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso?manage |
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At 8:49 AM -0800 2/24/06, Fletcher Sandbeck wrote:
>On 2/24/06 at 11:33 AM by [hidden email] (Alex Pilson): > >>>I think what you'll have to do to get true percentage completion >>>with a Lasso only solution is open a listener port and direct the >>>Web client to submit the form and upload the file to that port. >>>Then, you can check the content-size and report on the progress in a >>>global variable while you read in the post args. >> >>Can you explain in further detail how to achieve this port listening >>concept? I would love to implement that. > >It would be a bit of a project. You basically want to implement >your own HTTP server to accept the file upload from the browser. > >You can use [Net->Listen] to listen for communication on an incoming >port. You can open ports greather than 1024 and they go up to 32768 >or so. The idea would be to select an unused port, send that port >in the form response attribute <form >response="http://www.example.com:32000/TOKEN" method="post" >enctype="...">, then in an asynchronous thread open a listener on >that port. Once the client opens a connection you can spin off >another asynchronous thread which reads in the HTTP headers for >client size and TOKEN, creates an entry in a global map using the >TOKEN provided by the user (like a unique id), reads in the POST >args which contain the file data, and finally writes out the files >either to a temp location like the normal file upload functionality >does or directly. Then you need to return an HTML page as the >response, probably just redirecting the user back into your Web site >on port 80. > ><?LassoScript > Variable: 'Listener' = (Net); > $Listener->(Bind: 32000); > $Listener->(Listen); > Variable: 'Connection' = $Listener->Accept; > ... > $Connection->Close; > $Listener->Close; >?> Cool thanks! Sounds pretty easy to implement. Rrrrriiiiighttt. ;) -- <?------------------------------------------------------------------------------/> Alex Pilson FlagShip Hosting, LLC 800.592.6781 <http://www.flagshiphosting.com> <?------------------------------------------------------------------------------/> ------------------------------ Lasso Support: http://support.omnipilot.com/ Search the list archives: http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso Manage your list subscription: http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso?manage |
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On 2/24/06 at 1:15 PM by [hidden email] (Alex Pilson):
>Cool thanks! Sounds pretty easy to implement. Rrrrriiiiighttt. ;) It's more of a weekend project. [fletcher] -- Fletcher Sandbeck [hidden email] Lasso Studio Guy http://www.lassostudio.com OmniPilot Software, Inc. http://www.omnipilot.com ------------------------------ Lasso Support: http://support.omnipilot.com/ Search the list archives: http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso Manage your list subscription: http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso?manage |
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Why, indeed... which reminds me of one of the side-effects of going
the Perl route with this progress-bar thing: when doing that, you're handing over the entire upload process to Perl, and Lasso's built-in file upload tags are rendered useless. I suppose it's not that big a deal once you get your head around it, but it *is* a bit of a pain having to worry about a tmp directory littered with cancelled uploads etc. Fletcher, your listener port option sounds fascinating, though I'm sure it results in similar issues (i.e. making the lasso upload tags redundant). But if I could get away from having to play with Perl, I'd be much happier ... ;-) Cheers Pier On 2/24/06, Fletcher Sandbeck <[hidden email]> wrote: > On 2/24/06 at 11:33 AM by [hidden email] (Alex Pilson): > > >>I think what you'll have to do to get true percentage completion > >>with a Lasso only solution is open a listener port and direct the > >>Web client to submit the form and upload the file to that port. > >>Then, you can check the content-size and report on the progress in a > >>global variable while you read in the post args. > > > >Can you explain in further detail how to achieve this port listening > >concept? I would love to implement that. > > It would be a bit of a project. You basically want to implement your own HTTP server to accept the file upload from the browser. > > You can use [Net->Listen] to listen for communication on an incoming port. You can open ports greather than 1024 and they go up to 32768 or so. The idea would be to select an unused port, send that port in the form response attribute <form response="http://www.example.com:32000/TOKEN" method="post" enctype="...">, then in an asynchronous thread open a listener on that port. Once the client opens a connection you can spin off another asynchronous thread which reads in the HTTP headers for client size and TOKEN, creates an entry in a global map using the TOKEN provided by the user (like a unique id), reads in the POST args which contain the file data, and finally writes out the files either to a temp location like the normal file upload functionality does or directly. Then you need to return an HTML page as the response, probably just redirecting the user back into your Web site on port 80. > > <?LassoScript > Variable: 'Listener' = (Net); > $Listener->(Bind: 32000); > $Listener->(Listen); > Variable: 'Connection' = $Listener->Accept; > ... > $Connection->Close; > $Listener->Close; > ?> > > [fletcher] > -- > Fletcher Sandbeck [hidden email] > Lasso Studio Guy http://www.lassostudio.com > OmniPilot Software, Inc. http://www.omnipilot.com > > > ------------------------------ > Lasso Support: http://support.omnipilot.com/ > Search the list archives: http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso > Manage your list subscription: > http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso?manage > -- Pier Kuipers 66 St. Aidan's Drive Goatstown Dublin 14 iReland Tel. +353 1 216 4939 Mobile +353 87 294 3063 ------------------------------ Lasso Support: http://support.omnipilot.com/ Search the list archives: http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso Manage your list subscription: http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso?manage |
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The only problem that comes to mind and has not been answered. How does all
this get the actual file size before the upload to calculate the percentage? I checked and the browser does not send the file size to the server before beginning the upload. Anyone know? Thanks Steffan --------------------------------------------------------------- T E L 6 0 2 . 5 7 9 . 4 2 3 0 | F A X 6 0 2 . 9 7 1 . 1 6 9 4 Steffan A. Cline [hidden email] Phoenix, Az http://www.ExecuChoice.net USA AIM : SteffanC ICQ : 57234309 The Executive's Choice in Lasso driven Internet Applications Lasso Partner Alliance Member --------------------------------------------------------------- > From: Pier Kuipers <[hidden email]> > Reply-To: <[hidden email]> > Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 20:04:10 +0000 > To: <[hidden email]> > Subject: Re: [Tip of the Week] Upload Progress Indicator > > Why, indeed... which reminds me of one of the side-effects of going > the Perl route with this progress-bar thing: when doing that, you're > handing over the entire upload process to Perl, and Lasso's built-in > file upload tags are rendered useless. I suppose it's not that big a > deal once you get your head around it, but it *is* a bit of a pain > having to worry about a tmp directory littered with cancelled uploads > etc. > > Fletcher, your listener port option sounds fascinating, though I'm > sure it results in similar issues (i.e. making the lasso upload tags > redundant). But if I could get away from having to play with Perl, I'd > be much happier ... ;-) > > Cheers > > Pier > > On 2/24/06, Fletcher Sandbeck <[hidden email]> wrote: >> On 2/24/06 at 11:33 AM by [hidden email] (Alex Pilson): >> >>>> I think what you'll have to do to get true percentage completion >>>> with a Lasso only solution is open a listener port and direct the >>>> Web client to submit the form and upload the file to that port. >>>> Then, you can check the content-size and report on the progress in a >>>> global variable while you read in the post args. >>> >>> Can you explain in further detail how to achieve this port listening >>> concept? I would love to implement that. >> >> It would be a bit of a project. You basically want to implement your own >> HTTP server to accept the file upload from the browser. >> >> You can use [Net->Listen] to listen for communication on an incoming port. >> You can open ports greather than 1024 and they go up to 32768 or so. The >> idea would be to select an unused port, send that port in the form response >> attribute <form response="http://www.example.com:32000/TOKEN" method="post" >> enctype="...">, then in an asynchronous thread open a listener on that port. >> Once the client opens a connection you can spin off another asynchronous >> thread which reads in the HTTP headers for client size and TOKEN, creates an >> entry in a global map using the TOKEN provided by the user (like a unique >> id), reads in the POST args which contain the file data, and finally writes >> out the files either to a temp location like the normal file upload >> functionality does or directly. Then you need to return an HTML page as the >> response, probably just redirecting the user back into your Web site on port >> 80. >> >> <?LassoScript >> Variable: 'Listener' = (Net); >> $Listener->(Bind: 32000); >> $Listener->(Listen); >> Variable: 'Connection' = $Listener->Accept; >> ... >> $Connection->Close; >> $Listener->Close; >> ?> >> >> [fletcher] >> -- >> Fletcher Sandbeck [hidden email] >> Lasso Studio Guy http://www.lassostudio.com >> OmniPilot Software, Inc. http://www.omnipilot.com >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> Lasso Support: http://support.omnipilot.com/ >> Search the list archives: http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso >> Manage your list subscription: >> http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso?manage >> > > > -- > Pier Kuipers > 66 St. Aidan's Drive > Goatstown > Dublin 14 > iReland > Tel. +353 1 216 4939 > Mobile +353 87 294 3063 > > > ------------------------------ > Lasso Support: http://support.omnipilot.com/ > Search the list archives: http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso > Manage your list subscription: > http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso?manage ------------------------------ Lasso Support: http://support.omnipilot.com/ Search the list archives: http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso Manage your list subscription: http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso?manage |
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Slightly (or even completely) baffled by that myself. It seems that as
soon as the first few bytes are received on the server-end, perl is able to read the {CONTENT_LENGTH} info from the POST data and establish the total file size. Fletcher seems to point that out by mentioning "Reading in the POST args". So in theory, you could have perl abort the upload if the size exceeds a certain limit... On 2/25/06, Steffan A. Cline <[hidden email]> wrote: > The only problem that comes to mind and has not been answered. How does all > this get the actual file size before the upload to calculate the percentage? > I checked and the browser does not send the file size to the server before > beginning the upload. Anyone know? > > > > > Thanks > > Steffan > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > T E L 6 0 2 . 5 7 9 . 4 2 3 0 | F A X 6 0 2 . 9 7 1 . 1 6 9 4 > Steffan A. Cline > [hidden email] Phoenix, Az > http://www.ExecuChoice.net USA > AIM : SteffanC ICQ : 57234309 > The Executive's Choice in Lasso driven Internet Applications > Lasso Partner Alliance Member > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > From: Pier Kuipers <[hidden email]> > > Reply-To: <[hidden email]> > > Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 20:04:10 +0000 > > To: <[hidden email]> > > Subject: Re: [Tip of the Week] Upload Progress Indicator > > > > Why, indeed... which reminds me of one of the side-effects of going > > the Perl route with this progress-bar thing: when doing that, you're > > handing over the entire upload process to Perl, and Lasso's built-in > > file upload tags are rendered useless. I suppose it's not that big a > > deal once you get your head around it, but it *is* a bit of a pain > > having to worry about a tmp directory littered with cancelled uploads > > etc. > > > > Fletcher, your listener port option sounds fascinating, though I'm > > sure it results in similar issues (i.e. making the lasso upload tags > > redundant). But if I could get away from having to play with Perl, I'd > > be much happier ... ;-) > > > > Cheers > > > > Pier > > > > On 2/24/06, Fletcher Sandbeck <[hidden email]> wrote: > >> On 2/24/06 at 11:33 AM by [hidden email] (Alex Pilson): > >> > >>>> I think what you'll have to do to get true percentage completion > >>>> with a Lasso only solution is open a listener port and direct the > >>>> Web client to submit the form and upload the file to that port. > >>>> Then, you can check the content-size and report on the progress in a > >>>> global variable while you read in the post args. > >>> > >>> Can you explain in further detail how to achieve this port listening > >>> concept? I would love to implement that. > >> > >> It would be a bit of a project. You basically want to implement your own > >> HTTP server to accept the file upload from the browser. > >> > >> You can use [Net->Listen] to listen for communication on an incoming port. > >> You can open ports greather than 1024 and they go up to 32768 or so. The > >> idea would be to select an unused port, send that port in the form response > >> attribute <form response="http://www.example.com:32000/TOKEN" method="post" > >> enctype="...">, then in an asynchronous thread open a listener on that port. > >> Once the client opens a connection you can spin off another asynchronous > >> thread which reads in the HTTP headers for client size and TOKEN, creates an > >> entry in a global map using the TOKEN provided by the user (like a unique > >> id), reads in the POST args which contain the file data, and finally writes > >> out the files either to a temp location like the normal file upload > >> functionality does or directly. Then you need to return an HTML page as the > >> response, probably just redirecting the user back into your Web site on port > >> 80. > >> > >> <?LassoScript > >> Variable: 'Listener' = (Net); > >> $Listener->(Bind: 32000); > >> $Listener->(Listen); > >> Variable: 'Connection' = $Listener->Accept; > >> ... > >> $Connection->Close; > >> $Listener->Close; > >> ?> > >> > >> [fletcher] > >> -- > >> Fletcher Sandbeck [hidden email] > >> Lasso Studio Guy http://www.lassostudio.com > >> OmniPilot Software, Inc. http://www.omnipilot.com > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------ > >> Lasso Support: http://support.omnipilot.com/ > >> Search the list archives: http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso > >> Manage your list subscription: > >> http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso?manage > >> > > > > > > -- > > Pier Kuipers > > 66 St. Aidan's Drive > > Goatstown > > Dublin 14 > > iReland > > Tel. +353 1 216 4939 > > Mobile +353 87 294 3063 > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Lasso Support: http://support.omnipilot.com/ > > Search the list archives: http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso > > Manage your list subscription: > > http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso?manage > > > > > ------------------------------ > Lasso Support: http://support.omnipilot.com/ > Search the list archives: http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso > Manage your list subscription: > http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso?manage > -- Pier Kuipers 66 St. Aidan's Drive Goatstown Dublin 14 iReland Tel. +353 1 216 4939 Mobile +353 87 294 3063 ------------------------------ Lasso Support: http://support.omnipilot.com/ Search the list archives: http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso Manage your list subscription: http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso?manage |
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Ah, that _would_ be handy. Right now the ability to defend against an
upload oriented DOS attack is is pretty weak. Knowing the upload size before it is actually completed would be very handy. Not only from a security perspective, but also from a UI perspective that you can tell someone in the file is too big much earlier in the process. I shall continue to lurk on this one. -- gw On Feb 25, 2006, at 2:16 PM, Pier Kuipers wrote: > Slightly (or even completely) baffled by that myself. It seems that as > soon as the first few bytes are received on the server-end, perl is > able to read the {CONTENT_LENGTH} info from the POST data and > establish the total file size. Fletcher seems to point that out by > mentioning "Reading in the POST args". So in theory, you could have > perl abort the upload if the size exceeds a certain limit... > > On 2/25/06, Steffan A. Cline <[hidden email]> wrote: >> The only problem that comes to mind and has not been answered. How >> does all >> this get the actual file size before the upload to calculate the >> percentage? >> I checked and the browser does not send the file size to the >> server before >> beginning the upload. Anyone know? ------------------------------ Lasso Support: http://support.omnipilot.com/ Search the list archives: http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso Manage your list subscription: http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso?manage |
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Hi, All:
We are back from our show! We have used an alternative approach from javazoom.com. I know this is heresy! But it uses the client to do a lot of the dirty work like image scaling. This has reduced the size of the file into our servers dramatically, etc. It also allows upload of folders in one shot and shows progress very nicely. From a usability standpoint, our clients LOVE the ability to do drag and drop! Deco On Feb 25, 2006, at 3:43 PM, Greg Willits wrote: > Ah, that _would_ be handy. Right now the ability to defend against > an upload oriented DOS attack is is pretty weak. Knowing the upload > size before it is actually completed would be very handy. Not only > from a security perspective, but also from a UI perspective that > you can tell someone in the file is too big much earlier in the > process. > > I shall continue to lurk on this one. > > -- gw > > > On Feb 25, 2006, at 2:16 PM, Pier Kuipers wrote: > >> Slightly (or even completely) baffled by that myself. It seems >> that as >> soon as the first few bytes are received on the server-end, perl is >> able to read the {CONTENT_LENGTH} info from the POST data and >> establish the total file size. Fletcher seems to point that out by >> mentioning "Reading in the POST args". So in theory, you could have >> perl abort the upload if the size exceeds a certain limit... >> >> On 2/25/06, Steffan A. Cline <[hidden email]> wrote: >>> The only problem that comes to mind and has not been answered. >>> How does all >>> this get the actual file size before the upload to calculate the >>> percentage? >>> I checked and the browser does not send the file size to the >>> server before >>> beginning the upload. Anyone know? > > > ------------------------------ > Lasso Support: http://support.omnipilot.com/ > Search the list archives: http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso > Manage your list subscription: http://www.listsearch.com/ > lassotalk.lasso?manage ------------------------------ Lasso Support: http://support.omnipilot.com/ Search the list archives: http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso Manage your list subscription: http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso?manage |
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Deco Rior <[hidden email]> wrote on Saturday, February 25, 2006:
>We have used an alternative approach from javazoom.com. I know this >is heresy! > >But it uses the client to do a lot of the dirty work like image >scaling. This has reduced the size of the file into our servers >dramatically, etc. > >It also allows upload of folders in one shot and shows progress very >nicely. > > From a usability standpoint, our clients LOVE the ability to do drag >and drop! Well I guess that is cool, but it doesn't solve the problem for some of us who want high-res files (say 80Mb or so). It would be great to be able to set a filesize limit and check it before all the bandwidth is wasted on a 100Mb file. --Eric ------------------------------ Lasso Support: http://support.omnipilot.com/ Search the list archives: http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso Manage your list subscription: http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso?manage |
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Hi, Eric:
The applet I talk about allows filesize checking, etc. It actually has a ton of features (skinable, filetype limit, control of progress bar. etc.). I would check out the website for the complete list, but if you use ftp as the protocol this is hard to beat featurewise. Deco On Feb 28, 2006, at 3:11 PM, Eric Landmann wrote: > Deco Rior <[hidden email]> wrote on Saturday, February > 25, 2006: > >> We have used an alternative approach from javazoom.com. I know this >> is heresy! >> >> But it uses the client to do a lot of the dirty work like image >> scaling. This has reduced the size of the file into our servers >> dramatically, etc. >> >> It also allows upload of folders in one shot and shows progress very >> nicely. >> >> From a usability standpoint, our clients LOVE the ability to do drag >> and drop! > > Well I guess that is cool, but it doesn't solve the problem for > some of us who want high-res files (say 80Mb or so). It would be > great to be able to set a filesize limit and check it before all > the bandwidth is wasted on a 100Mb file. > > --Eric > > > ------------------------------ > Lasso Support: http://support.omnipilot.com/ > Search the list archives: http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso > Manage your list subscription: > http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso?manage ------------------------------ Lasso Support: http://support.omnipilot.com/ Search the list archives: http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso Manage your list subscription: http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso?manage |
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Deco Rior wrote:
> The applet I talk about allows filesize checking, etc. It actually has a > ton of features (skinable, filetype limit, control of progress bar. etc.). It's very similar to JUpload: http://jupload.biz/ - Bil ------------------------------ Lasso Support: http://support.omnipilot.com/ Search the list archives: http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso Manage your list subscription: http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso?manage |
In reply to this post by Fletcher Sandbeck
Yes,
javazoom supports both ftp and the http post while jUpload supports only http post. In our case we needed the former. The second feature we wanted was the scaling feature. Javazoom allows us to scale images prior to data transfer. This is obviously nice since most of our customers do not and don't want to scale their pictures from the camera, and we don't want to scale them on the server and pay for the bandwidth! There are in fact several java based products out there ranging in price, etc. Deco On Feb 28, 2006, at 9:54 PM, Bil Corry wrote: > Deco Rior wrote: >> The applet I talk about allows filesize checking, etc. It actually >> has a ton of features (skinable, filetype limit, control of >> progress bar. etc.). > > It's very similar to JUpload: > > http://jupload.biz/ > > > - Bil > > > > ------------------------------ > Lasso Support: http://support.omnipilot.com/ > Search the list archives: http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso > Manage your list subscription: http://www.listsearch.com/ > lassotalk.lasso?manage ------------------------------ Lasso Support: http://support.omnipilot.com/ Search the list archives: http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso Manage your list subscription: http://www.listsearch.com/lassotalk.lasso?manage |
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