You could use psftp for sftp on windows. Download - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html Help Page - http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.62/htmldoc/Chapter6.html#psftp MIT License - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/licence.html
You can distribute it with your air app and invoke it using standard io. http://help.adobe.com/en_US/air/html/dev/WSb2ba3b1aad8a27b060d22f991220f00ad8a-8000.html On Mac you can use the built in sftp command line util. On Mar 28, 2012, at 2:05 PM, Avinash Narayanan wrote: > Hi All, > > Looks like my little problem started quite the discussion!!. > > Ok, need to give a few updates. I managed to upload 1.07 Gb file (windows > image file actually) via fileReference using HTTP. Still no luck with HTTP. > And the data upload is NOT causing any increase in the usage of RAM! (very > strange). > > The reason why I need the air app to upload large files is that we're > creating some sort of sales portal using Adobe Air and the client wants to > be able to upload these really large files which are supposed to make sense > to the client regarding the engagement. I have no clue what this file is > for except that its upwards of 1Gb till 2Gb. > > Hope this helps! > > Thanks > Avinash Y > > > 2012/3/29 Jarosław Szczepankiewicz <jszczepankiew...@gmail.com> > >> Supporting rest without tunneling through post is not possible due to >> limitations in flash player and due to plugin api limitations. Also full >> rest answers using full http response codes are not possible due to the >> same limitations of browser plugin api :( >> 28-03-2012 22:46 użytkownik "Hugo Matinho" <hugo....@gmail.com> napisał: >> >>> I know this might be the wrong place to ask and there is of course the >>> limitation on how the FP handles the HTTP transport but couldn't we do >>> something about flex supporting REST natively it's been several years >>> already and yes there's blazeDS and GraniteDS and others but most >>> JavaScript libraries support it natively most modern browsers implement >>> it and it wasn't made available on the player because browsers didn't >>> had it back then but come on it's 2012 some rest support would be nice >>> >>> Sent from my Windows Phone >>> From: Ariel Jakobovits >>> Sent: 28-03-2012 21:07 >>> To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org >>> Subject: Re: SFTP file transfer for large files using flex >>>> I might be off, but I don't think an ANE is, or would be, part of Flex. >>> It is an extension for AIR. >>> >>> Flex has components intended only for AIR (such as FileSystemList), >>> and offering a component that exists as an ANE/AS combo that can be >>> added to a project to upload large files does not seem out of the >>> scope of Flex. >>> >>> Ariel Jakobovits >>> Email: arielj...@yahoo.com >>> Phone: 650-690-2213 >>> Fax: 650-641-0031 >>> Cell: 650-823-8699 >>> >>> >>> ________________________________ >>> From: JP Bader <j...@zavteq.com> >>> To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org; Ariel Jakobovits <arielj...@yahoo.com >>> >>> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 12:04 PM >>> Subject: Re: SFTP file transfer for large files using flex >>> >>> I might be off, but I don't think an ANE is, or would be, part of >>> Flex. It is an extension for AIR, which is still controlled by Adobe. >>> If we want to see about spawning new threads that could consume a >>> massive dump of data files, process, and pass those into a service >>> (FTP/SFTP/REST/Telnet/etc), that seems like a bit outside of scope of >>> the Flex project, and more in line w/ Tamarin. >>> >>> We are working on the framework, which currently has limitations to >>> the FP and AIR (which are Adobe). Potentially once we have access to >>> Falcon(JS), there might be alternatives, but my question is, what 2GB >>> file are you trying to have FP/AIR upload? There might be some tricks >>> to chunking out the flow of data using byte arrays, and clearing them >>> out as you go along with loading them to whatever repository/location >>> you need, but I can't think of too many desktop applications that will >>> not just freeze up when you load a 2GB (or any major file) into it. >>> For video, that's one thing, but beyond a certain size, and normally >>> the machine itself will slow down/become unresponsive. >>> >>> Most enterprises where I have done work, accessing and uploading >>> massive amounts of data would be FTP via terminals or clients, not >>> through a separate app (especially not AIR). Maybe I'm missing the >>> reason behind wanting FP/AIR to handle that much data, but given the >>> limitations of FP/AIR for processing data, I am not sure how you would >>> approach building that into the framework. I guess examples of >>> BigAssCanvas show that you could stitch together large files (larger >>> than FP would allow), but once you get to a certain size, it becomes >>> unresponsive. >>> >>> If there is a way to do it, I apologize for going off tangent, but we >>> need to focus on getting bugs fixed and improving the framework first, >>> and I'm not sure this is an improvement of the current framework so >>> much as a nice feature request. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Ariel Jakobovits <arielj...@yahoo.com> >>> wrote: >>>> would we consider developing ANEs to incorporate into Flex? >>>> >>>> Ariel Jakobovits >>>> Email: arielj...@yahoo.com >>>> Phone: 650-690-2213 >>>> Fax: 650-641-0031 >>>> Cell: 650-823-8699 >>>> >>>> >>>> ________________________________ >>>> From: Marcus Fritze <marcus.fri...@googlemail.com> >>>> To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org; Marcus Fritze < >>> marcus.fri...@googlemail.com> >>>> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 10:34 AM >>>> Subject: Re: SFTP file transfer for large files using flex >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> as maybe all know Flash supports only a file size of 100MB. >>>> >>>> from the docs: >>>> >>>> FileReference -> upload() >>>> >>>>> Although Flash Player has no restriction on the size of files you can >>> upload or download, the player officially supports uploads or downloads >> of >>> up to 100 MB. >>>> >>>> I experienced that an upload / download of a larger file via Flash >>> (FileReference) is possible. >>>> >>>> I agree with Avinash! I think this is a good place to discuss this >> topic >>> (and not the stack overflow forum). Because this mailing list is the >> place >>> where we can improve the Flex SDK / Flash. >>>> >>>> Correct me if I am wrong, but an upload of large files (2 GB or more) >> is >>> currently not possible in Flash. And maybe we can check if it is possible >>> to enable a larger file upload / download via Flex / Flash. This feature >> is >>> very useful for Enterprise RIA's. I have already developed such an app >> and >>> have the same problem. >>>> >>>> Thanks! >>>> >>>> Marcus >>>> >>>> Am 28.03.2012 um 16:55 schrieb Avinash Narayanan: >>>> >>>>> Hi JP, >>>>> >>>>> Thanks for taking time to reply! Stackoverflow had questions like this >>> but >>>>> not satisfactory answers. This was my last ditch effort since the >> other >>>>> option is to write my own SFTP plug (which clients wont pay me to do >>> :|). >>>>> >>>>> As for the apps, this upload needs to be 'part' of a desktop >> application >>>>> written in adobe air so can't use any of these other tools :( >>>>> >>>>> Thanks >>>>> Avinash Y >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 6:54 PM, JP Bader <j...@zavteq.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi Avinash, >>>>>> >>>>>> My quick take on this is why you would want to recreate a tool for >>>>>> this? Aren't there plenty of free SFTP apps already? Why not take >>>>>> advantage of one of them? Tortoise, Cute, WinSCP, FileZilla, etc. >>>>>> >>>>>> Also, questions like these might be better asked on other forums like >>>>>> stack overflow. This mailing list is for questions and development >>>>>> regarding the next release of Flex. >>>>>> >>>>>> Regards, >>>>>> >>>>>> JP >>>>>> >>>>>> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 3:16 AM, Avinash Narayanan >>>>>> <avinasha...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>> Hi All, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I know this community is meant for future development of Apache Flex >>> but >>>>>>> I'm a little lost here. I need to upload ~2Gb file from my local >>> machine >>>>>> to >>>>>>> a url via an air app using sftp. problem is we don't have sftp lib >>>>>>> available. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Also, I'm confused as to why in forums it says the flash player >> needs >>> to >>>>>>> take the entire file into memory before loading it but I don't see >> any >>>>>>> memory increase in my task manager (using the fileReference class). >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Another thing I wanted to know is how best to split up the file into >>>>>> chunks >>>>>>> for multi-part loading? Any help in any of these areas will be >>> supremely >>>>>>> helpful! >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I've already seen the following links >>>>>>> >>>>>>> http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=181895 >>>>>>> http://forums.adobe.com/thread/631103 >>>>>>> http://blog.ansuz.nl/index.php/2011/02/11/flex-ftp-abort/ >>>>>>> http://maliboo.pl/projects/FlexFTP/ >>>>>>> http://forums.adobe.com/thread/245294 >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>> >> http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/09/21/uploading-files-in-flex-using-the-filereference-class/ >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Thanks in Advance. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> With Warm Regards, >>>>>>> Avinash >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> JP Bader >>>>>> Principal >>>>>> Zavteq, Inc. >>>>>> @lordB8r | j...@zavteq.com >>>>>> 608.692.2468 >>>>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> JP Bader >>> Principal >>> Zavteq, Inc. >>> @lordB8r | j...@zavteq.com >>> 608.692.2468 >>> >>
