Re: [Web-ftp] does someone know anything about a statusbar in webftp

[Anthony R. J. B. <an...@su...>]

  Well... that's why you use either frames or popups... web-ftp uses plenty of frames.

On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 03:35:49PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Oct 22), Anthony R. J. Ball said:
> > Exactly, that's why it would be possible to make a status bar. Since
> > web-ftp takes the file in chunks, it would be possible to relay info
> > about how far along web-ftp is in the stream. It is not overly
> > complicated, but would take some time to implement.
> 
> But the problem is that the browser is still sending the file and isn't
> going to process the returned page until it's done.  What the end-user
> would see is their MSIE globe spinning for 10 minutes while they upload
> the file, then get a page back that says
> 
> "10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% Done"
> 
> or whatever, sent immediately after that.  I'm not even sure the HTTP
> spec allows the server to send data until it has fully received the
> browser's request.
> 
> -- 
> 	Dan Nelson
> 	dn...@al...

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