large file upload

rubyonrails-talk
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Great question. I too would like to know a good way to handle this.

Is there an existing flash component (or java applet) that could be used on a web page to do the uploading (ftp re http) ...and show a nice percent complete status?

You wouldn't want the upload to quit at half of the 200 MB because the user accidentally did a browser "back", so any tool would have to have some javascript to help stop from moving from that page.

-Jim

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Talk about timing, I just stumbled onto an article in "Web Designer" Magazine (from the UK) issue 139, page 44 where Simon Bailey has a tutorial on creating a Flex based Flash File Upload tool. It has features like percent complete and file size limits for uploading.

-Jim

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if that large file thing is still a question, have a look here: