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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> Subject: [jQuery] Large text files via AJAX
>
>
> 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
>
>