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
>> write basic progress information to the DB - The page then uses (say) an
>> iframe to post the file(s) to the handler which updates the DB. You may
>> need to do an initial hit to the handler to get the ID to track or
>> similar - Depends on design.
> 
> This is one way (although we'd likely want to use memcached, not the
> DB).  The other way would be to use Java.  Either would work, someone
> just has to do one or the other.  The implementation will be decided
> by whoever actually does the work.


Instead of an Apache Handler, I'd do it as a PHP module (PHP is still an 
Apache module, but i feel PHP is the right place to do it).


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