Posted by Chris Rose on 03/07/05 15:54

> >I am running a simple Upload script in PHP using a HTML Form with a
File
> field. The user can browse their computer and upload a file. It
works
> great, except for large files, where the browser will timeout. The
> timeout appears to happen after about 5 minutes. Any ideas on how to
get
> around this?
> >
> I dont think this is just a PHP problem.
> I 've had it with 2 other scripting languages.
>
> AFAIK the client browser timesout rather than the upload application.
ie
> the client's browser thinks
> nothings going on and timesout.
>
> I did read of a nasty fix, where you have a simple frameset where the
app
> is in the main Frame and
> there's a tiny "invisible" frame where a piece of javaScript
periodically
> refreshes or write's a
> character to the frame to fool your browser.
>
> Has ANYONE got any experience/views on this
>
> zzapper (vim, cygwin, wiki & zsh)

http://sourceforge.net/projects/megaupload/

Maybe this will help? I've been looking for a PHP replacement of
something as graceful as ASPUpload and this is the closest I can find.

Thanks.

Kind Regards,
Chris Rose

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