Hi all Im looking to maybe incorporate a way of being able to resume broken uploads to my site. Users can upload DJ mixes to my site and the file size can be from 50mb to 200mb, as you can imagine it takes quite a while to do so and if the connection is broken it can be very very annoying. I was just wondering if there is a way of doing this and what kind of work is involved? Thanks in advance Beatplexity.com
you could use WEBDAV or FTP to provide resume in a usable fashion. id simply offer FTP along with normal webupload. let them upload via web, and if they really need, hand them an ftp account. there are ways to achieve resuming via HTTP upload, but this requires special client programs. normal browsers dont support resume on file uploads.
You may create a custom subdomain/directory and provide people the ability to upload their files to it via FTP (but only upload, not delete, so they can not delete other people's uploaded files). Then figure out some way to incorporate that directory in your normal site (like scan this directory for new files) or give the users the ability to point where exactly they uploaded their file on the FTP server. Sorry if I was too confusing, I hope you understand. Regards!
http://jumploader.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2954#2954 if you dont mind using java i'm VERY happy with this component.. can upload multiple gigabytes of stuff without problems.. nice interface too; http://jumploader.com/demo_embedded.html