That sounds great. Are you planning on exposing the BlobBuilder class
to javascript? An alternate way I was considering was allowing an
Array to be passed to the HttpRequest::send method (indstead of just
Blob or String) that could contain both Strings and Blobs, and then
the new Blob could be built with the BlobBuilder.
On Nov 18, 3:31 pm, Michael Nordman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We have a Gears object that is not yet in the 'official' build that does
> allow script to compose a multi-part/formdata payload. Not sure when this
> will make its way into a real build.
> interfaqce BlobBuilder {
> void append(string|blob); // string data will be utf8 encoded in the
> resulting blob
> Blob getAsBlob();
>
> };
>
> With this interface you still have to manually compose the multipart
> boundaries, but in the end, you can create a valid multipart payload
> including binary file parts.
>
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 8:17 PM, fabrizim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi all-
>
> > I am writing a class for the Ext library to implement managed upload
> > queue using the beta.desktop openFiles function along with the ability
> > to send file chunks as postData with the beta.httprequest. Everything
> > was going swimmingly while testing on my local machine, and I thought
> > that maybe this time, just this one time, I would be able to write
> > something and it would just work the way I thought it would /
> > should... So - I uploaded my test page to my production server, tried
> > to upload a few 2M images, and, lo and behold, my apache process
> > seized up and I died a bit inside.
>
> > So, after a futile day of messing around with code (including an
> > interesting foray into creating a multipart/form-data request with the
> > file blob - which isn't possible at this point, but should be
> > considered), I walked away from my computer, made a cocktail, and
> > realized what was going on. Ironically, I had already had this problem
> > while working with swfupload - which I am replacing with this gears
> > implementation due to those fun security enhancements in Flash 10...
>
> > Anywho... the Apache security module, mod_security, scans all
> > postData. So, when you are uploading a chunk of file, it will be
> > vigorously processed. This apparently consumes about 99-100% of my CPU
> > (!) and slows the entire upload process considerably.
>
> > If anyone else is having these issues, all you have to is disable the
> > mod_security post scanning filter or just disable the module
> > completely. This can be done with an .htaccess file...
>
> > # Turn off the module completely...
> > SecFilterEngine Off
>
> > # Or just the Post Scanning
> > SecFilterScanPost Off
>
> > Hope this helps someone else...
>
> > Best Regards-
> > Mark
>
> > Oh, and great work on gears - its awesome.
