[ZendTo] FW: useRealProgressBar'

[John Webber (NBI)]

Hi Jules,

I've just built a test server on the latest version of Zendto and tested an upload with the real progress bar.

I successfully transferred a file that was 6GB in size.  The upload worked correctly, apart from the fact that the progress bar was completely inaccurate!  It seemed to expect the file to be 2GB in size, so progressed too quickly and reached 100% when only 2GB of the file had been uploade.  It then sat with 0% remaining until the rest of the upload had finished, but then continued to the "Drop-Off Summary" screen as expected.  I tested this with Chrome.

Is this the behaviour you would expect, or have I missed a configuration setting somewhere along the line?

Thanks
John



From: Jules [mailto:Jules at Zend.To]
Sent: 27 June 2014 15:03
To: John Webber (NBI)
Subject: Re: useRealProgressBar'

There are bugs in many current browsers in the area of uploading files >2GB and particularly >4GB.
The latest Chrome can do it, but IE is pretty ropey and I would avoid trying it on Firefox.
The browsers are slowly improving in this area, but it's taking time.

So you should be okay, just be careful what browsers people try to use with huge files.

Jules.
On 18/06/2014 15:59, John Webber (NBI) wrote:
Hi,

We would like to use the "real progress bar" by setting the "useRealProgressBar" to "TRUE".  However, we also need to allow files of greater than 4GB to be uploaded.

In the latest version of the Zendto preferences file (preferences.php), it still has the following statement:

  // If your MaxBytesForFile or MaxBytesForDropoff are 4 GBytes or more,
  // then set this to FALSE as Windows cannot work the upload progress bar
  // for files of 4 GBytes or more (except IE 64-bit on Windows 7 64-bit)..
  // Setting this to FALSE always works, but does not give actual upload
  // progress indication, just an animated picture to show it hasn't crashed.
  'useRealProgressBar'   => TRUE,

Please can you confirm whether this is still an issue?

Is there a work around for this issue?

Thanks
John


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