Re: Web Browser File Upload Progress Bar in Perl w/AJAX

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I doubt that the progress bar will stop the problem that sometimes on slow/large uploads, something will timeout and you'll be left with an unfinished upload. I don't know what initiates the timeout - if it's the server, or the browser, or the what. I also don't know what the workaround is - it may be a pref in the server itself or something you can't workaround in a CGI script

You might find this link helpful which discusses a common solution to this problem.

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Re^2: Web Browser File Upload Progress Bar in Perl w/AJAX by skazat (Chaplain) on Dec 11, 2006 at 12:10 UTC
I don't know if that technique applies to file uploads - since your giving a request with a POST - there's no mechanism that I know of that says, "hey, upload 100k of a file, then refresh, and automatically ask for the next 100k chunk". That's not something that server push/client pull can do. The screen won't refresh on you, until you're done with the POST, which basically will take as long as it takes to upload that file. I'm guessing the way that sites like google video allow you to upload large video files that could literally take hours on a slow connection is a server setting and isn't something you can work around in Perl. I think. (again, I don't know) I think the technique mentioned in the article is similar to what a lot AJAXy stuff does, the example I just posted included. This article is somewhat of an oldschool way of doing it. The only difference really is that in the AJAX way, it's only part of the screen that gets refreshed, and instead of using a Meta tag, it uses a little Javascript that does a similar thing. Forking a process is still not the end-all, be-all solution. Processes can still be stopped, killed, haulted, whatever for odd reasons. The only way to get around that is to chunk whatever task you have to do in pieces that you know will run in the time allotted, have a whole lot of meta information/state information around so if you need to restart it at a specific spot, you can. It's a lot of work ;) -justin simoni skazat me	[reply]

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Re^2: Web Browser File Upload Progress Bar in Perl w/AJAX
by skazat (Chaplain) on Dec 11, 2006 at 12:10 UTC

I don't know if that technique applies to file uploads - since your giving a request with a POST - there's no mechanism that I know of that says, "hey, upload 100k of a file, then refresh, and automatically ask for the next 100k chunk". That's not something that server push/client pull can do.

The screen won't refresh on you, until you're done with the POST, which basically will take as long as it takes to upload that file. I'm guessing the way that sites like google video allow you to upload large video files that could literally take hours on a slow connection is a server setting and isn't something you can work around in Perl. I think. (again, I don't know)

I think the technique mentioned in the article is similar to what a lot AJAXy stuff does, the example I just posted included. This article is somewhat of an oldschool way of doing it. The only difference really is that in the AJAX way, it's only part of the screen that gets refreshed, and instead of using a Meta tag, it uses a little Javascript that does a similar thing.

Forking a process is still not the end-all, be-all solution. Processes can still be stopped, killed, haulted, whatever for odd reasons. The only way to get around that is to chunk whatever task you have to do in pieces that you know will run in the time allotted, have a whole lot of meta information/state information around so if you need to restart it at a specific spot, you can. It's a lot of work ;)

-justin simoni
skazat me

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