Re: Feed uploaded file into process

2013-05-13 Thread Serdar Dalgic
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Torsten Bronger < bron...@physik.rwth-aachen.de> wrote: > > The data is supposed to be sent as one big compressed file und > uncompressed on the web server. The tar'ing is done by the > uploading person, before using the browser. Then, it is sent > through the In

Re: Feed uploaded file into process

2013-05-13 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! Serdar Dalgic writes: > I'm just brainstorming about the situation, I think the best > solution would be some kind of Javascript functions in the > frontend part, before implementing a file upload. You can tar the > file in a temporary directory, an upload that temp file with the > rea

Re: Feed uploaded file into process

2013-05-13 Thread Serdar Dalgic
Hallo Torsten, I'm just brainstorming about the situation, I think the best solution would be some kind of Javascript functions in the frontend part, before implementing a file upload. You can tar the file in a temporary directory, an upload that temp file with the real file's name.tar.gz I'm not

Feed uploaded file into process

2013-05-12 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! I want users to upload very large tar balls to my site. I think it is sensful to feed them to "tar -xzf" during the upload. Is this possible with Django? I think the standard way with iterating over chunks doesn't start before the whole file has been already stored on disk, does it?