I'm confused... Maybe I misread the OP, but he's talking about uploading, right? That's the part I don't see how you could do. I would agree that this is possible when downloading a file (although still a bit tricky I would think, but possible none the less). I'm probably just all messed up here though, rough day atwork :(
-- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com On Mon, March 7, 2005 2:58 pm, Dakota Jack said: > Don't know about the input stream part too much, Frank, but as you are > writing to an output stream, which is the upload application part, you > can certainly monitor percentages. I do it as indicated in posts on > this thread. > > Jack > > > On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 14:03:23 -0500 (EST), Frank W. Zammetti > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Yep, just not possible to know the size before-hand, as Tim already said >> (and you knew :)). >> >> Even the status monitor you were talking about wouldn't really be >> possible. Well, not if the intention is to give a REAL status (i.e., >> percentage complete), for obvious reasons: if you don't know the total, >> you can't calculate a percentage. What IS possible of course is a nice >> little "Please wait while uploading file" type thing. But, it would be >> strictly client-side. I actually do this, not just for uploads but for >> ALL my form submissions, in a couple of apps I've written. All I do is >> have a hidden layer with the "please wait" content, then just show it on >> the form's submission (hiding the layer that contains the displayed >> content), and off you go. >> >> As for the applet approach, that would certainly work (as would an >> ActiveX >> control for the IE folks), but I personally wouldn't use such a beast, >> only because I loath applets. :) >> >> You raise a good point about it being a security hole. Since the data >> is >> being streamed from the browser to the server, than at some point you >> must >> be able to say "hey, we've recieved 10MB, and that's our limit, so let's >> cut this connection off", just to avoid the issue. I'm not sure where >> you >> would do such a thing, maybe a filter? Not sure Commons Upload would >> support such a thing, but it not, that might not make a bad patch >> suggestion. >> >> -- >> Frank W. Zammetti >> Founder and Chief Software Architect >> Omnytex Technologies >> http://www.omnytex.com >> >> On Mon, March 7, 2005 1:50 pm, Leon Rosenberg said: >> >> >> >> HTML/HTTP doesn't support that, IMHO. The <input >> >> type="file"...> tag just grabs the file and starts sending >> >> it. The server has no clue how large the file is until the >> >> entire thing arrives. >> > >> > That is what I know too. And this is ugly. >> > IMHO it's a fat security hole, since it's really easy for a script >> kidie >> > to >> > create >> > an upload script and kill yourself with meaningless data instead of >> pix or >> > whatever you permit to upload. >> > >> > Maybe a small signed java applet could close this hole? >> > I would participate in writing one, if it's for interest to more >> people. >> > >> > Regards >> > Leon >> > >> > >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > >> > >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > > > -- > "You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it float on its back." > ~Dakota Jack~ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
