Regarding the idea of using a socket connection with Flash: It's not possible. You neither have file access with Flash (at least not from the browser plugin), nor access to a low level of the data to send it packet-wise.
It would be nice if the POST method did handle more details (total file size). But then we would still have to wait for PHP and the whole bunch of browsers to support it. (Maybe there already is a related RFC?) Timo Am Montag den, 9. September 2002, um 20:20, schrieb David Buerer: > Ya' know guys i'm sitting here thinking about this problem > because I have > the same problem on one of my sites. A bunch of inpatient > stupid users whom > are click happy when they get impatient. Event a 100K upload > can take to > long! > > I don't like the ASP idea. It's really not a good solution. > I'm almost > wondering if a JAVA solution which can do FTP directly or maybe > a direct > socket connection/transfer with Macromedia Flash would work. > Both of these > ways you could better monitor what's going on at the packet level and > therefore giving a lot of control over something like a > progress bar. Who > knows. It's got to be something other than PHP though because > PHP is after > all only a server side language. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jed Verity [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 11:08 AM > To: Jay Blanchard; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PHP] Upload Progress > > > You're right about it costing more money. But we had one server > handling a > bunch of uploads, most of them over 25 MB, and 99% being > instigated by very > impatient, not very technical, people. People who kept canceling and > canceling, despite our directions, because they thought it was stuck or > frozen or taking too long. It was worth $150 for us to buy the > ASP component > (I think we used ABCUpload, maybe?). The development time > required for a > creative PHP solution -- and one that might not have worked as > well -- would > have been dramatically more expensive than the almost out-of-the-box > solution with ASP's components. (And much of the site was > already written in > ASP.) > > Other than that, you'll get know argument from me about ASP vs. > PHP. I'm > head over heels for PHP and, in any context other than the one > stated above > (and maybe one or two others), I would choose to use God > Blessed PHP over > anything else. > > Cheers! > Jed > > P.S. I knew I'd get some fighters with that comment. Haven't learned my > lesson yet... ;-) > > On the threshold of genius, Jay Blanchard wrote: > >> [snip] >> There really isn't a great solution for this, that I know of. >> It's one of >> the few things that makes an argument for ASP over PHP, as far as I'm >> concerned (if you have the luxury of choosing). Below is what >> I did once > to >> try to get around the problem. It worked *okay*. >> [/snip] >> >> How does this argue for ASP over PHP? I don't see how. File >> upload on PHP > is >> built in and therefore free. ASP file upload mechs cost more >> money. And, >> having used ASP for a while, and having looked for this >> feature, no upload >> progress bar exists there either. And PHP is a language, where >> ASP is a >> service ... please do not confuse the two. If you want to >> argue VBScript > vs. >> PHP , well ,come on ... let's go. :^] PHP can beat VBScript with one >> curly-brace tied behind its back. >> >> I mentioned a while back, when this came up before (see the >> archives) that >> this could probably be done with an IFRAME in the upload >> dialog box. Now I >> haven't given this much thought, but maybe it could be done. >> The largest >> problem that I see is the communication back and forth between >> client and >> server. The server would have to know the original size of the >> file at the >> point the upload is started, then it would be checked for >> original_size >> minus bits_uploaded, flush the reults to the IFRAME drawing a >> GD graph, > and >> continue to do this as it went on. >> >> Another method is to start the upload with a non-progressive animation > that >> quits when is_upload_file() returns true. >> >> Jay >> >> > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
