Re: Large files uploading

2006-12-15 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Lad wrote: > HTTP protocol provides FORMs for uploading which is elegant and good > solution for small files but using HTTP protocol for large files is > not good ( server's timeouts, big memory consumption on server's > side, etc.). only if the server's buffering data in memory, of course. t

Re: Large files uploading

2006-12-15 Thread Lad
Fredrik, Thank you for your reply I need to upload large files ( about 100MB ). HTTP protocol provides FORMs for uploading which is elegant and good solution for small files but using HTTP protocol for large files is not good ( server's timeouts, big memory consumption on server's side, etc.)

Re: Large files uploading

2006-12-13 Thread Istvan Albert
Lad wrote: > Or is there another way( besides FTP) how to upload large files to > server? You can upload via http. The primary problem is that the browser don't work well with large uploads (give little feedback on the process, IE may hang etc). You can workaround some limitations by using apple

Re: Large files uploading

2006-12-13 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Lad wrote: >> to use any communications protocol (including HTTP), both ends must have >> programs that can talk that protocol... >> > Sure, but browsers have FTP support. ftp upload support ? > But how to call the FTP API from Python? if you want the users to upload things using FTP, why do *y

Re: Large files uploading

2006-12-13 Thread Jussi Salmela
Lad kirjoitti: >> to use any communications protocol (including HTTP), both ends must have >> programs that can talk that protocol... >> > Sure, but browsers have FTP support. But how to call the FTP API from > Python? > Lad. > See Python Library Reference for documentation on 'ftplib -- FTP prot

Re: Large files uploading

2006-12-13 Thread Lad
> to use any communications protocol (including HTTP), both ends must have > programs that can talk that protocol... > Sure, but browsers have FTP support. But how to call the FTP API from Python? Lad. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Large files uploading

2006-12-12 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Lad wrote: > If a user will upload large files via FTP protocol, must the user > have an FTP client on his computer or is it possible to use a similar > way to "http form" comunication? to use any communications protocol (including HTTP), both ends must have programs that can talk that protoc

Large files uploading

2006-12-12 Thread Lad
If a user will upload large files via FTP protocol, must the user have an FTP client on his computer or is it possible to use a similar way to "http form" comunication? Or is there another way( besides FTP) how to upload large files to server? Thank you he help Lad. -- http://mail.python.org/