Re: [chiPHPug-discuss] Very Large Uploads Problem

[matt d. <mm_...@ya...>]

(drifting off topic)
Or run your own (squid) proxy server.



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To: Discussions of PHP-related topics among members of the Chicago PHP User's Group. <chi...@li...>
Sent: Friday, November 28, 2008 10:59:23 AM
Subject: Re: [chiPHPug-discuss] Very Large Uploads Problem

I feel your pain...  Try opera mini which proxies the internet
connection off of their servers to check your gmail from your phone...
Also a lot of companies block web access to gmail but not pop/imap
access.

Alec

On 11/28/08, Richard Lynch <ce...@l-...> wrote:
> HTTP Upload was a tacked-on after-thought to the Spec, in many ways.
>
> And it was simply not engineered for large files, really...
>
> There's no "retry" nor "continue"
>
> The browser itself has a time limit on how long it will "wait" for the
> server to respond or send out data, and even if it's uploading a file
> rather than downloading, that MAY be kicking in.  If so, there's no
> way to fix that, short of convincing MS and Mozilla to re-write their
> code.
>
> As a client, I'd be very unhappy if you expected me to upload 1G files
> over HTTP, rather than using something sane like ftp or scp. :-)
>
> I doubt that anybody dealing with a 1G file is too incompetent to
> handle ftp or scp, especially with the nice front-end GUIs out there
> for these.  (Though I would just use command-line personally...)
>
> PS
> Sorry I missed the meeting.  Not allowed to check email at work is
> killing me...
>
> On Wed, November 19, 2008 2:10 am, Peter Snyder wrote:
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>> I'm having a problem creating an app for a client who will need to
>> upload very large files, around 1GB.  I'm running into problems though
>> with the upload.  In an effort to rule out problems, I've boosted all
>> the normal suspects to absurd levels (see below), but am still getting
>> problems.  If I just watch the uploads in the temp dir I can see that
>> the server is receiving the uploads correctly, but for some reason the
>> upload stops at around 40 - 50 MB each time.  The browser will putter
>> on for a while and then say that the server has timed out.
>>
>> Does anyone have any other ideas for possible problems?  I've tried
>> this on two different servers (clients and my staging one), with no
>> luck.  Any hints anyone could provide would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Pete Snyder
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----
>> .htaccess file
>> php_value memory_limit 2G
>> php_value post_max_size 2G
>> php_value upload_max_filesize 2G
>> php_value max_input_time 144000
>> php_value max_execution_time 144000
>>
>>
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