[Ante-developer] Regarding Binary Files

[Balaji G <bal...@gm...>]

Hi Mathew

How are u doing . ?? Well ... This is regarding the Binary file
uploader which we were talking about. I have some doubts regarding
that. I ve started looking into the code as u said.
Now these are the questions that i ve

1. On the other day we thought about a scenario where this would be
used. you came up with an album where people want to upload their
image files from the Browser. I hope this was what we were talking
about on the other day. If yes then these are the questions :-)

   a) Currently projects like Flickr etc allow people to upload files
i believe. through the web browser. Say ANT allows that. Then ANT has
to in turn use FTP right? . Imagine We write an application (GUI one)
which would be displayed when the user selects 'Attach Files'
something like that. .. Once the user selects the option, he would get
a file Explorer with which he could select the files that he wants to
upload . So he selects the files and uploads the files.

b) . Now assume the above step gets completed successfully , then ANT
can render it easily as its already taken care coz the Jpeg image on
the index. html file gets rendered as it needs to be.

I guess this is what even email services do. It does not think about
what file is getting uploaded from the browser. We attach files and it
in turn should use FTP to upload the files. So if we are going to take
up the above method then all we need is a GUI thats it which would in
turn call a FTP .
Now a days all web based services implement the same method. As you
said we dont need a separate application like GFTP or CuteFTP to be
launched separately to upload the file. The file could be an image
file, could be a MP3, could be an Exe though. Once the image or any
file thats uploaded could be rendered by ANT by either displaying them
through a web browser or giving a link to an audio file which would
call a Music player to play the corresponding music file.


Do correct me if i am wrong

PS: I had some problem with my Internet Connection yesterday so
couldnt checkin the Logger component. I hope to check in those files
by today evening :-)

Regards
Balaji