Re: [naviserver-devel] Upload Progress

[Bernd E. <eid...@we...>]

>    o. add upload statistics and control?

Reading the current very interesting thread, I would vote for adding it, if 
the stats are some kind of by-product of more stability against DOS attacks, 
multiple slow clients, reducing memory needs etc. as you all pointed out.

Because what is still not solved on the client side, the browser, is a good 
GUI and support for uploading multiple files and showing their progress. AJAX 
helps a bit, there are nice tricks to display only one HTML file element
(http://the-stickman.com/web-development/javascript/upload-multiple-files-with-a-single-file-element/)
or progress bars 
(http://blog.joshuaeichorn.com/archives/2005/05/01/ajax-file-upload-progress/).

But I don't have a file selection dialog box where I can select multiple files 
at once (say 50 or more for uploading images to a galery) or even complete 
directories, where files on the client side that exceed a certain limit are 
automatically sorted out; where the files are uploaded one by one and not as 
one giant form post; re-sent in case of a broken connection or even uploaded 
in parallel. This is where all the java and flash upload applets come in and 
play out their advantages.

Of course, AJAX is still evolving and so are browser features, it's good to 
have stats and it is often requested, but for now there are use cases where 
the client approach is still better.

cu
BE