Because it is a much better user experience to show an error message right away rather than letting the user wait for a long time and then telling him the upload has failed.
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 13:52, Sripathi Krishnan < [email protected]> wrote: > You can't, and you don't want to. > > You can't, because javascript doesn't provide any way to read the contents > of a file that is stored locally. You can't read the http header info when > the browser submits a multi-part post request. There just isn't a way to do > it (unless you are willing to write some Flex code to compile a SWF file for > Flash Player 10).. > > You don't want to, because client side validation is no validation. It can > easily be bypassed. You'd have to perform the check on the server anyways, > so why bother with client side validation at all? > > --Sri > > > > On 11 May 2010 16:48, GWT Groups <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Hello Friends >> >> I required your views...... >> >> " Can we check uploaded file Size at client side in GWT by Reading the >> "header info" of the file? " >> >> Please if this is possible than please tell me how to do this. I have >> done lot of search on this but not get any thing till now. >> >> Please Help me..... >> I am waiting for you response >> >> >> your Friend >> Ankit >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Google Web Toolkit" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<google-web-toolkit%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Web Toolkit" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<google-web-toolkit%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
