RE: revised proposal for file upload from browser to server

Vladimir Sukonnik, Process Software Corp (sukonnik@elnath.process.com)
Wed, 2 Nov 94 10:10:39 PST

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>Is it worthwhile to now consider some kind of efficiency measure for file
>upload such that uploads only occur when space exists for the uploaded
>files? If so, would this measure be best accomplished by means of a
>separate HTTP method like METRICS (<2EA55482@MSMAIL.INDY.TCE.COM>), or by
>some other means?
>======================================================================
>Mark Fisher Thomson Consumer Electronics
>fisherm@indy.tce.com Indianapolis, IN

Another idea is to use the LPD style exchange where the name and
the size of the file are presented to the client first. Followed
by the client actually requesting the file.

For example, 250 foo.bar (file foo.bar, size 250 bytes).

Regards,
Vladimir.

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