On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 08:38:14 -0600, "Andy Matthews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Honestly it sounds like this isn't a good use of AJAX. Wasn't reallty > intended for use with 1mb+ files.
While the majority of my files are smaller than that, yeah, I'm hitting a problem here. I'm starting to wonder if I can do this with an iframe... > -----Original Message----- > From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 5:54 PM > To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com > Subject: [jQuery] Large text files via AJAX > > > Greets all. > > I have an application which passes large amounts of plain text to update > a > <pre id="textdata"></pre> block on the client. This is all plain text and > can range in size from a few bytes to 64MB. Typically though the text > files > are less than 1MB. > > Updating the pre block can be slow. I'm sending the request via POST and > getting the data back in a json object along with some metadata about the > text file. I'm starting to look at this and I'm thinking that I would see > better performance by breaking out the request into two parts: > > 0) Make sure the data is gziped > 1) Request the text file via POST and get json response of metadata only > 2) Update the web page from the json response > 3) Second request to update the <pre> block directly from text data GET > request > > Thoughts? What is the fastest way to update a text block with large > amount > of plain text? Paging isn't an option here :) > > Thanks. > > -- > Scott > >
