On 30/04/10 20:01, Berend de Boer wrote:
"Neven" == Neven MacEwan<[email protected]>  writes:

     Neven>  Bo It is relevant because the chances of getting 1Gb
     Neven>  reliably through an HTTP protocol (which was never intended
     Neven>  for this purpose) is slim to none Which is why others have
     Neven>  developed solutions to this problem

Neven, how long does it take to push 1GB over your broadband these
days? (a few minutes) And how long over a 10Gb network? (1s) And ever
had a look at the Range HTTP header?

I would say the chances are a bit more than slim given so many people
do it successfully every day...


I'd say it will take much more then a few minutes if it is an adsl(2) broadband (most popular broadband option). In theory maximum upload speed is 1mb which is around 125kb/s, so at least 2 hours+ is needed to upload 1gb of data unless you have cable/ethernet/fibre.

Also POST and PUT methods do not support range header. I agree with Neven HTTP was not designed for this purpose.

Personally never heard from anyone successfully being able to upload relatively large files by posting them outside local network :)

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