On 09 Jul 2007, at 11:32, Jarkko Laine wrote:

> Cheer up, mate. If your time is so valuable, I don't think it's  
> worth spending too much of it flaming people who are trying to help  
> you and others. You might be too busy to apply a new technology  
> right now, but never spending a day or two to learn new things is  
> bound to shorten your career quite a bit, considering the speed at  
> which things are evolving in our field.
>
> Also, I'm sure hackers will appreciate your attitude of putting as  
> much responsibility as possible on the user. Like Peter said, you  
> might take a big hit on the server if people try to upload too big  
> files, keeping a server process or thread busy during the whole  
> upload time before you can do anything about it.

Hackers are the least of my worries (they can still stream a huge  
file to my upload method if they want), I'm using SWFUpload in both  
intranet and public applications because you always have users that  
are not as smart as they pretend to be.

> I've never done it but I wouldn't think starting to use an uploader  
> such as http://swfupload.mammon.se/ would take too much time.

I've implemented it in my solution in less than 30 minutes, the  
documentation couldn't be simpler. I've tried some other options too  
(respond_to_parent amongst others) and they took a lot longer to  
implement and didn't yield the result I was looking for. I'm using  
Flash in two areas, both scripts gracefully degrade if Flash or JS is  
not enabled: SWFUpload and sIFR.


Best regards

Peter De Berdt


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