From: dtillman <dti...@te...> - 2006-09-12 20:29:18
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Dan Milstein wrote: >> Can you tell us what's different between your production and dev >> environment? That would include how the process is launched as well. >> And is there a difference in what modules get imported? >> > > Let me do some detective work -- I've got a bit of time now, so let > me see what I can find. If I come up blank, I'll pass on everything > I've got. > > >> Also, even if you tapped into the cgi module, would you really be able >> to give the user a progress bar? It seems that their window would be >> tied up by the upload task being performed by the browser. >> > > It works by way of a Javascript function which polls the server every > few seconds and updates the progress bar. The tricky part is getting > some sort of identifier to the Javascript function so that it can > tell the server which upload it's asking about. When I generate the > page, I put in a new unique id which goes both into the URL of the > form action and into the Javascript code. The tapped cgi module then > gets that id from the URL and, as it fills the temp file, updates a > globally-accessible dict with info about the progress. The JS > function hits a servlet which just grabs the progress info from that > dict. > > It's a surprisingly small amount of code, actually -- it just touches > on a lot of stages in subtle ways. > > -D > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Webware-discuss mailing list > Web...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss > I'm sorry if I missed the definition of a *large* file - could you provide a figure in bytes please that seems to be the threshhold for causing problems? Thanks. - Doug |