[jQuery] Re: Large text files via AJAX

2008-11-04 Thread list-jquery


On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 08:38:14 -0600, "Andy Matthews"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> 
> Honestly it sounds like this isn't a good use of AJAX. Wasn't reallty
> intended for use with 1mb+ files.

While the majority of my files are smaller than that, yeah, I'm hitting
a problem here. I'm starting to wonder if I can do this with an
iframe...

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> 
> Greets all.
> 
> I have an application which passes large amounts of plain text to update
> a
>  block on the client. This is all plain text and
> can range in size from a few bytes to 64MB. Typically though the text
> files
> are less than 1MB. 
> 
> Updating the pre block can be slow. I'm sending the request via POST and
> getting the data back in a json object along with some metadata about the
> text file. I'm starting to look at this and I'm thinking that I would see
> better performance by breaking out the request into two parts:
> 
> 0) Make sure the data is gziped
> 1) Request the text file via POST and get json response of metadata only
> 2) Update the web page from the json response
> 3) Second request to update the  block directly from text data GET
> request
> 
> Thoughts?  What is the fastest way to update a text block with large
> amount
> of plain text? Paging isn't an option here :)
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> --
> Scott
> 
> 


[jQuery] Large text files via AJAX

2008-11-03 Thread list-jquery

Greets all.

I have an application which passes large amounts of plain text to update
a  block on the client. This is all plain text
and can range in size from a few bytes to 64MB. Typically though the
text files are less than 1MB. 

Updating the pre block can be slow. I'm sending the request via POST and
getting the data back in a json object along with some metadata about
the text file. I'm starting to look at this and I'm thinking that I
would see better performance by breaking out the request into two parts:

0) Make sure the data is gziped
1) Request the text file via POST and get json response of metadata only
2) Update the web page from the json response
3) Second request to update the  block directly from text data GET
request

Thoughts?  What is the fastest way to update a text block with large
amount of plain text? Paging isn't an option here :)

Thanks.

--
Scott