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Re:Awesome jQuery File Upload by huhtenberg on Saturday April 14, 2012 @12:05PM (#3841201)
> Sending messages to a PHP server script so you can have the server tell you how many bytes were sent?

Psst.. XMLHttpRequestUpload

† It's the downloading with Ajax that is the problem. There's no way to tell how big the file is.

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Re:Awesome jQuery File Upload by meanguy on Saturday April 14, 2012 @12:20PM (#3841240)
Psst..

  var xhr = $.ajax({ type: "HEAD", ...
  xhr.getResponseHeader('Content-Length')
I wound up using Silverlight. Sigh.
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