[Clipart] upload.cgi

[Jon Phillips]

Still though, maybe we can offer some form of progressbar on the 
package, or something by flushing output to a user's browser, along with 
verbose output of what is happening. Otherwise, I like the magic URI 
suggestion.

Jon


Bryce Harrington wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote:
> 
>>Nicu Buculei <nicu at apsro.com> writes:
>>
>>
>>>Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote:
>>>
>>>>Also, someone needs to test it with a larger archive
>>>
>>>- http://www.openclipart.org/downloads/flags-1.6.tgz
>>
>>Yeah, that ought to be big enough to give it a real workout...
>>
>>[So I do some testing here locally on my home workstation...]
>>
>>Well, memory usage seems within reasonable bounds; it does not begin
>>to approach the kind of memory footprint desktop apps can consume.
>>
>>However, the amount of time required to process an archive that large
>>is long enough that a remote user very likely would think the site was
>>not responding and give up or, worse, try again while the first one is
>>still running.
>>
>>Probably what it should do, for files past a certain size, is fork off
>>the actual processing and send the user a magic URI that can be used
>>later to check the status.  I'll have to do some testing here to see
>>how big an upload needs to be to trigger that behavior...
> 
> 
> Also note that I believe Apache has a default max upload size.  Perhaps
> check the apache config file of freedesktop.org to see if it's
> specified, or if not perhaps check what the default is.  I think these
> days the default is pretty large, but maybe this one's configured with
> something smaller...?
> 
> Bryce
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