I think it has to do with MIME. It blows binary files up to fit into the ASCII stream. I'm not sure about the ration, but I think it's about one fifth more.
On 11 Jun 2003 at 9:30, Cindy Ballreich wrote: > > This is slightly off-topic since it doesn't specifically refer to > FileUpload, but I'm not finding info anywhere else so I might as > well ask... > > I've noticed that uploads using multipart/form-data encoding are > a lot slower than other types of uploads (especially on large > files). I've tested using org.apache.commons.fileupload, > com.oreilly.servlet.multipart, and a perl cgi script. All three > give the same results. The upload speeds seem to be about half > that of an ftp upload of the same file on the same type of > connection. Are there any tricks or techniques for speeding up > multipart/form-data uploads of large files? > > Tomcat 4.1.24 with Apache 1.3.26 (mod_jk) and fileupload 1.0-rc1 > on RedHat 7.3 > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional > commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
