Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload filesize limit bumped

2008-11-25 Thread Daniel Kinzler
> If the applet were appropriately signed and certified, there would be > no popup or warning to worry about. Er... this has been stated a couple of times now, and it makes me wonder. I haven't tried recently, but my impression was that an applet ALWAYS has to ask before it gets out of the sandbox

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload filesize limit bumped

2008-11-24 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Gregory Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You get no warning *at all* on non-origin network access for applets > signed by an approved key. For example: > http://www.jcraft.com/jorbis/player/JOrbisPlayer.php?play=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fco

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload filesize limit bumped

2008-11-24 Thread Brion Vibber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gregory Maxwell wrote: > You get no warning *at all* on non-origin network access for applets > signed by an approved key. For example: > http://www.jcraft.com/jorbis/player/JOrbisPlayer.php?play=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload filesize limit bumped

2008-11-24 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Aryeh Gregor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Brion Vibber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Aryeh Gregor wrote: >>> They wouldn't have to click through if it was signed, would they? >> >> Yes they would. >> >> If that wasn't the case, then

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload filesize limit bumped

2008-11-24 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Brion Vibber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aryeh Gregor wrote: >> They wouldn't have to click through if it was signed, would they? > > Yes they would. > > If that wasn't the case, then any web site you visited could read all > your files without notifying you simply

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload filesize limit bumped

2008-11-24 Thread Brion Vibber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ilmari Karonen wrote: > Brion Vibber wrote: >> Now that we've got uploads running on our new, beefier file servers, >> I've experimentally bumped the upload limit from 20 to 100 megabytes. > > If we've got new beefy servers, another limit to at least

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload filesize limit bumped

2008-11-24 Thread Brion Vibber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Daniel Kinzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> That would requrie a signed applet, with users having to click through scary >> warnings etc. not a good option. > > They wouldn't have to click throug

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload filesize limit bumped

2008-11-24 Thread Brion Vibber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aryeh Gregor wrote: > If the applet were appropriately signed and certified, there would be > no popup or warning to worry about. Loading a signed and certified applet pops up a dialog box that says roughly: "You are loading a Java applet which is si

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload filesize limit bumped

2008-11-24 Thread Tei
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Gregory Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Gerard Meijssen > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hoi, >> When you know what is being indicated by the signing part of a signed >> message, it may not be scary. However, do you really expec

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload filesize limit bumped

2008-11-24 Thread Simon Orr
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aryeh Gregor Sent: 24 November 2008 16:59 To: Wikimedia developers Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload filesize limit bumped ... >If the applet were appropriately signed and certified, there would be >no

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload filesize limit bumped

2008-11-24 Thread Platonides
Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Simon Orr wrote: >> Excuse my ignorance here but shouldn't it be possible to write an Apache >> handler to receive the file uploads (so we get instant notification >> instead on upload completion) and at the same time use the meta data to >> w

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload filesize limit bumped

2008-11-24 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Simon Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Excuse my ignorance here but shouldn't it be possible to write an Apache > handler to receive the file uploads (so we get instant notification > instead on upload completion) and at the same time use the meta data to > write b

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload filesize limit bumped

2008-11-24 Thread Simon Orr
rge portion of the world would assume Wikipedia is OK and just go with it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gregory Maxwell Sent: 24 November 2008 15:58 To: Wikimedia developers Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload filesize limit bumped On Mon,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload filesize limit bumped

2008-11-24 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Gerard Meijssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hoi, > When you know what is being indicated by the signing part of a signed > message, it may not be scary. However, do you really expect everyone to know > and appreciate it as such ? I'm sorry, but I think we've misc

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload filesize limit bumped

2008-11-24 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, When you know what is being indicated by the signing part of a signed message, it may not be scary. However, do you really expect everyone to know and appreciate it as such ? Thanks, GerardM 2008/11/23 Gregory Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Daniel Kinzle

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload filesize limit bumped

2008-11-23 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Daniel Kinzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That would requrie a signed applet, with users having to click through scary > warnings etc. not a good option. They wouldn't have to click through if it was signed, would they? They'd certainly have to click through a sc

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload filesize limit bumped

2008-11-23 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Daniel Kinzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That would requrie a signed applet, with users having to click through scary > warnings etc. not a good option. Signing and scary warnings are mutually exclusive. In any case people don't care for the most part, sadly.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload filesize limit bumped

2008-11-23 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Aryeh Gregor schrieb: > On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Daniel Kinzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> A mediawiki upload should be specific and provide >> more functionality besides picking multiple files and uploading them. Most >> importantly, it has to provide a way to provide the basic informat

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload filesize limit bumped

2008-11-23 Thread Magnus Manske
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Aryeh Gregor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Daniel Kinzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> A mediawiki upload should be specific and provide >> more functionality besides picking multiple files and uploading them. Most >> importantly, it

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload filesize limit bumped

2008-11-23 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Daniel Kinzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A mediawiki upload should be specific and provide > more functionality besides picking multiple files and uploading them. Most > importantly, it has to provide a way to provide the basic information about > license, source

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload filesize limit bumped

2008-11-23 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Brianna Laugher schrieb: > 2008/11/22 Daniel Kinzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Anyway, HTTP doesn't support feedback during upload (or any feedback, >> really), >> and HTML does not offer a way for multi-file uploads (which would also be >> quite >> handy). Any solutions I have so far seen for that

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload filesize limit bumped

2008-11-23 Thread Daniel Kinzler
> Forcing users to use an extension isn't great as a workaround for > this, if we plan to work around it at all, since it will only affect > the tiny minority of users who a) use Firefox and b) install the > extension. If a Firefox extension is written, it would be most > sensible to have it just

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload filesize limit bumped

2008-11-22 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 7:32 PM, Brianna Laugher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Isn't it OK if we have a Java/Flash option for those who can use it, > and current Special:Upload for those who can't? Yes, if you remove "/Flash" (we don't use Flash, it has no real open-source implementations). That w

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload filesize limit bumped

2008-11-22 Thread Brianna Laugher
2008/11/22 Daniel Kinzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Anyway, HTTP doesn't support feedback during upload (or any feedback, really), > and HTML does not offer a way for multi-file uploads (which would also be > quite > handy). Any solutions I have so far seen for that are based either on a Java > Apple

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload filesize limit bumped

2008-11-22 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 7:56 PM, Marco Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > An improvement suggestion to the UI when uploading large files: display a > progress bar like rapidshare.com does, so that user can see "ah, it's still > uploading and didnt fail" This is really something browsers should

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload filesize limit bumped

2008-11-22 Thread Daniel Kinzler
thinking about it, at the moment the best solution for multi file upload is a dedicated client. There are a couple of scripts that are hard to use, some windows-only stuff, and java-based Commonist. To get something that is easy to install and works cross-platform, how about a firefox plugin? Has

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload filesize limit bumped

2008-11-22 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Marco Schuster schrieb: > On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Daniel Kinzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Does a PHP script using upload stuff get run if the file upload is complete, >>> or will it start while still uploading? >>> If not, can't you figure out the temporary name of the upload on the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload filesize limit bumped

2008-11-22 Thread Marco Schuster
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Daniel Kinzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does a PHP script using upload stuff get run if the file upload is complete, > > or will it start while still uploading? > > If not, can't you figure out the temporary name of the upload on the server > > and then run

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload filesize limit bumped

2008-11-22 Thread Platonides
Daniel Kinzler wrote: > I mean uploading an arbitrary number of files, without having to pick each one > individually. For example by picking a directory, or multiple files fron the > same directory. > > Sure, HTML can give you 100 "choos file" fields. but who wants to use that? > > -- daniel I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload filesize limit bumped

2008-11-22 Thread Daniel Kinzler
> Does a PHP script using upload stuff get run if the file upload is complete, > or will it start while still uploading? > If not, can't you figure out the temporary name of the upload on the server > and then run ls -lh on it? It gets run only after the upload is complete. And even if not, and yo

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload filesize limit bumped

2008-11-22 Thread Daniel Kinzler
> Sorry? You can upload multiple files in the same HTTP POST. Just add > several max_post_size). That can be done with javascript. > > Or do you mean uploading half file now and the other half on a second > connection later? I mean uploading an arbitrary number of files, without having to pick

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload filesize limit bumped

2008-11-22 Thread Marco Schuster
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Daniel Kinzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > The usage of an unique upload ID ensures at their end that the > progressbar > > iframe always gets the right data. It refreshes using AJAX technology: > > http://pastebin.com/f56b8c8f4 > > I'll take a look if this might

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload filesize limit bumped

2008-11-22 Thread Platonides
Daniel Kinzler wrote: > Uh... that sounds like an elaborate, ugly and unreliable hack. And that is all > it really can be. Keep in mind: PHP does not perform uploading at all. It does > not run in the browser, so it can't upload anything. It's the browser itself > that does this, based on what the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload filesize limit bumped

2008-11-22 Thread Daniel Kinzler
> The usage of an unique upload ID ensures at their end that the progressbar > iframe always gets the right data. It refreshes using AJAX technology: > http://pastebin.com/f56b8c8f4 > I'll take a look if this might be applicable to put into MW. Yes, that seems similar to the original proposal: tra

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload filesize limit bumped

2008-11-22 Thread Marco Schuster
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Daniel Kinzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Anyway, HTTP doesn't support feedback during upload (or any feedback, > really), > and HTML does not offer a way for multi-file uploads (which would also be > quite > handy). Any solutions I have so far seen for that are b

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload filesize limit bumped

2008-11-22 Thread Daniel Kinzler
techman224 schrieb: > It could work. I'm no PHP expert through. > > On 21-Nov-08, at 8:10 PM, Michael Dale wrote: > > I believe php 5.2 with some minor configuration supports upload > status: > > http://www.haughin.com/2007/10/23/php-upload-progress-with-php-52-apc/ > > --michael Uh... that

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload filesize limit bumped

2008-11-22 Thread Platonides
Chad wrote: > Reading a bit more into that, I'm not convinced it's practical. Almost all > of the > information I'm reading has been negative, just to quote a few: I'd say it's a feature not easy to get running. > [1]http://pecl.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=13607 Obviously, it doesn't work on fastCGI.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload filesize limit bumped

2008-11-22 Thread Bryan Tong Minh
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 7:13 AM, Ilmari Karonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brion Vibber wrote: >> >> Now that we've got uploads running on our new, beefier file servers, >> I've experimentally bumped the upload limit from 20 to 100 megabytes. > > If we've got new beefy servers, another limit to a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload filesize limit bumped

2008-11-21 Thread Ilmari Karonen
Brion Vibber wrote: > > Now that we've got uploads running on our new, beefier file servers, > I've experimentally bumped the upload limit from 20 to 100 megabytes. If we've got new beefy servers, another limit to at least consider bumping might be the PNG scaling limit. 12.5 megapixels isn't r

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload filesize limit bumped

2008-11-21 Thread Chad
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 9:30 PM, techman224 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It could work. I'm no PHP expert through. > > On 21-Nov-08, at 8:10 PM, Michael Dale wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > I believe php 5.2 with some minor configuration supports upload > > s

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload filesize limit bumped

2008-11-21 Thread techman224
It could work. I'm no PHP expert through. On 21-Nov-08, at 8:10 PM, Michael Dale wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I believe php 5.2 with some minor configuration supports upload > status: > > http://www.haughin.com/2007/10/23/php-upload-progress-with-php-52-apc/ > >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload filesize limit bumped

2008-11-21 Thread Michael Dale
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I believe php 5.2 with some minor configuration supports upload status: http://www.haughin.com/2007/10/23/php-upload-progress-with-php-52-apc/ - --michael K. Peachey wrote: > On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Marco Schuster > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload filesize limit bumped

2008-11-21 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Marco Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 1:49 AM, Brion Vibber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Now that we've got uploads running on our new, beefier file servers, > > I've expe

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload filesize limit bumped

2008-11-21 Thread Daniel Friesen
^_^ If only PHP didn't suck in that area... If anyone has looked into that area, they'll understand that PHP cannot do upload progress bars. PHP does the uploading on it's own without giving the script any access to the raw file streams to permit that kind of progress meter. The only way to cre

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload filesize limit bumped

2008-11-21 Thread Marco Schuster
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 1:49 AM, Brion Vibber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Now that we've got uploads running on our new, beefier file servers, > I've experimentally bumped the upload limit from 20 to 100 megabytes. > > Nice! An improvement sugge

[Wikitech-l] Upload filesize limit bumped

2008-11-21 Thread Brion Vibber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Now that we've got uploads running on our new, beefier file servers, I've experimentally bumped the upload limit from 20 to 100 megabytes. Files nearing the high end of that range might not actually succeed, though, as it'll be hitting post-size limit