Somehow, I knew this was coming.

Now, you add a whole class of new problems: instead of one successful 
upload, you now need a number of smaller successful uploads, and you 
have to reassemble the chunks.

What happens if you split things into 20 chunks, and 19 make it to the 
server -- then the client disappears (failed drive, struck by lightning, 
etc.)?

As with so many cases, you've not solved the problem you've moved it around.

-- Lynn

Martin wrote:
> Lynn W. Taylor wrote:
> [...]
>> As for the fact that the full upload has to complete before the error 
>> comes back, that's as much an artifact of HTTP as anything else, and 
>> can't be fixed without using something other than HTTP.
> 
> Include some mechanism to automatically break up large transfers into 
> smaller more manageable chunks?...
> 
> A number of smaller chunks have a much better chance of success than one 
> very large lump if there any networking problems (congestion or otherwise).
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Martin
> 
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