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Funk Forty Niner
Funk Forty Niner
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Gears and HTML5 have a progress event in the HttpRequest object for submitting a file upload via AJAX.

http://code.google.com/apis/gears/api_httprequest.html#HttpRequestUpload http://developer.mozilla.org/en/Using_files_from_web_applications

Your other options as already answered by others are:

  1. Flash based uploader.
  2. Java based uploader.
  3. A second comet-style request to the web server or a script to report the size of data received. Some webservers like Lighttpd provide modules to do this in-process to save the overhead of calling an external script or process.

Technically there is a forth option, similar to YouTube upload, with Gears or HTML5 you can use blobs to split a file into small chunks and individually upload each chunk. On completion of each chunk you can update the progress status.

Gears and HTML5 have a progress event in the HttpRequest object for submitting a file upload via AJAX.

http://code.google.com/apis/gears/api_httprequest.html#HttpRequestUpload http://developer.mozilla.org/en/Using_files_from_web_applications

Your other options as already answered by others are:

  1. Flash based uploader.
  2. Java based uploader.
  3. A second comet-style request to the web server or a script to report the size of data received. Some webservers like Lighttpd provide modules to do this in-process to save the overhead of calling an external script or process.

Technically there is a forth option, similar to YouTube upload, with Gears or HTML5 you can use blobs to split a file into small chunks and individually upload each chunk. On completion of each chunk you can update the progress status.

Gears and HTML5 have a progress event in the HttpRequest object for submitting a file upload via AJAX.

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/Using_files_from_web_applications

Your other options as already answered by others are:

  1. Flash based uploader.
  2. Java based uploader.
  3. A second comet-style request to the web server or a script to report the size of data received. Some webservers like Lighttpd provide modules to do this in-process to save the overhead of calling an external script or process.

Technically there is a forth option, similar to YouTube upload, with Gears or HTML5 you can use blobs to split a file into small chunks and individually upload each chunk. On completion of each chunk you can update the progress status.

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Steve-o
Steve-o
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Gears and HTML5 have a progress event in the HttpRequest object for submitting a file upload via AJAX.

http://code.google.com/apis/gears/api_httprequest.html#HttpRequestUpload http://developer.mozilla.org/en/Using_files_from_web_applications

Your other options as already answered by others are:

  1. Flash based uploader.
  2. Java based uploader.
  3. A second comet-style request to the web server or a script to report the size of data received. Some webservers like Lighttpd provide modules to do this in-process to save the overhead of calling an external script or process.

Technically there is a forth option, similar to YouTube upload, with Gears or HTML5 you can use blobs to split a file into small chunks and individually upload each chunk. On completion of each chunk you can update the progress status.