Re: [Fileshack-general] unicode charters in file names

[Peter K. <pet...@us...>]

Dear Kyrylo,

Thank you for the suggestion, slice looks perfect for the task. I'll try
to incorporate it into fileshack soon.

Regards,

Peter

On 06/11/2012 10:41 PM, Kyrylo Shpytsya wrote:
> Hello Peter,
> 
> thank you for FileShack itself and a prompt reply. I can confirm that
> it is fixed by your last change.
> 
> As to partial reads, maybe you have seen this?
> http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/file/dndfiles/ /slice
> 
> I am not an active web/javascript developer myself, so I am not sure
> whether would work or not.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Peter Kuma
> <pet...@us...> wrote:
>> Hi Kyrylo,
>>
>> What you describe is indeed a bug.
>>
>> The file name is sent unencoded in an HTTP header, and the UTF-8 byte
>> sequence is expected to be ASCII by python.
>>
>> The master branch already contains a fix to this bug. It should be
>> enough if you just run:
>>
>> git pull
>> ./manage.py collectstatic --noinput
>>
>> and reload the fcgi server (or perhaps try `./manage.py runserver` to
>> test first).
>>
>> The fix seems to be OK on linux Firefox 13, Opera 11.64, Chromium 6.0
>> and win IE9 and Safari 5.1.4.
>>
>> The memory usage in browsers is a bit of a problem, because (as far as I
>> know) HTML5 provides no way of reading a fraction of a file, it has to
>> be loaded fully into memory if it is to be sent in chunks to the server.
>> When uploading by a simple upload form, browsers deal with the IO and it
>> should be much more efficient, but one loses the ability to resume the
>> upload, which is particularly interesting for very large files. The best
>> I can think of is to have a cut-off of some 256MB, and upload larger
>> files by FormData or by a simple upload form.
>>
>> Thank you for reporting the bug!
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> On 06/11/2012 12:35 PM, Kyrylo Shpytsya wrote:
>>> This is probably a question to the developer of Fileshack, but maybe
>>> someone else could provide insight.
>>>
>>> I have managed to setup Fileshack on lighttpd server via fcgi, and it
>>> seems to work more or less ok (although it seems like with Opera
>>> uploading big files causes excessive memory usage).
>>>
>>> My issue is that I cannot upload files containing unicode characters
>>> in names. On different browsers the process fails in different ways,
>>> but none succeed. I have checked that the test server at
>>> fileshackweb.appspot.com does not exhibit this problem, so I assume
>>> this is a problem with my setup. Since the unicode aspect does not
>>> seem to be covered in setup manual for fileshack, I don't really know
>>> where to start at other then diving into the code and trying to debug
>>> it but I hope there is an easier way to that, and also, if I
>>> encountered this problem, someone else might too.
>>>
>>> django process is running with LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8.
>>>
>>> OS: gentoo x64
>>> django: v 1.4
>>> python: 2.72
>>> sqlite: 3.7.11
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>
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