Ask HN: Sending large files over HTTP

Posted by ranza on Wednesday June 27, 2012 @06:40AM
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I was wondering how sites like http://wetransfer.com and http://yousendit.com makes it possible to send huge files over http? I was always told that sending more than a few 100 mb over http was a bad idea but there seems to be a lot of sites that do exactly that. So, do they chop up the file in smaller files and send them on the client side or what?

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Re:Ask HN: Sending large files over HTTP by ilanco on Wednesday June 27, 2012 @07:38AM (#4166434)

You can try http://valums.com/ajax-upload/ and https://github.com/23/resumable.js for javascript only uploaders. As a bonus, you get resumable uploads as well.

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Re:Ask HN: Sending large files over HTTP by pstadler on Wednesday June 27, 2012 @07:07AM (#4166382)

There's also a draft for a File API which should solve the problems with uploading large files.

http://www.w3.org/TR/FileAPI/

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Re:Ask HN: Sending large files over HTTP by s2r2 on Wednesday June 27, 2012 @06:46AM (#4166352)

Neither seem to work without a Flash plugin -- so this is not about POSTing a large file.

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