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). _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
