Re: Upload Progress Meter Patch

* Thus wrote Joe Orton: > On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 11:07:53AM +0100, Derick Rethans wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Klaus Reimer wrote: > > > > > Marcus Boerger wrote: > > > > > > This is possible? Up to now I thought that the retrieving and processing > > > of POST data is done BEFORE the PHP script is loaded. If I'm wrong here > > > it definetly would be a cool thing to have script callbacks for this. > > > > You are not wrong, POST/GET data is parsed before the PHP scripts are > > run. I also think that functionality like this should not be part of PHP > > itself. It is a user interface problem, so it should be done there. > > It's really the only place it can be done safely: sending an HTTP > response before the request body has been entirely read is fundamentally > risky, too: HTTP clients are not required to read response data > concurrently to sending request bodies, so sending the upload meter > stuff can fill the TCP send buffer server-side and deadlock the > connection for a compliant HTTP client. I've been struggling with this issue, I havn't found any solid standard on HTTP communication. I've tested sending data without reading all of the input with apache and IE/firefox/opera, with success, but it still worries me that nothing is set as a standard. Curt -- First, let me assure you that this is not one of those shady pyramid schemes you've been hearing about. No, sir. Our model is the trapezoid!