On 5/30/07, Angelo Zanetti <angelo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dear all We need to develop a system where we can upload really big files. IE 15 - 25 Mb. So I know you can set the limit of the upload thats not a problem, I know a problem that we might experience is that the browser might time out. Is there any way around this? and also are there other problems I might encounter? Thanks in advance angelo
I wouldn't recommend uploading big files through the browser, as the HTTP protocol isn't designed for that. FTP is designed for that, and if you can, use it :) I have uploaded really big files with my browser, which sometimes take several days to complete, and didn't time out, so I don't think it will be a problem with relative new browsers. (I did with IE6, later with FireFox on linux) But, it's very annoying when you're at 90% of upload and your Internet connection hangs for a few seconds, as that would kill the upload process and you need to start over again. If you have a lot of uploads at the same time, it might get your system out of resources, as all uploads are stored in the RAM while the user is uploading. So, if you have 100 people uploading, and they all have already uploaded 10 MB of their file, you would have 1000MB allocated. In contrast with FTP, as FTP will store the uploads directly to the drive. Tijnema -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
