Posted by Janwillem Borleffs on 10/10/55 11:17

Lukasz Szewczak wrote:
> I want to write a script in php which will be able to upload a file to
> server. I wanted to ask if it is possible to write an uploaded script
> which will be able to resume interrupted upload. Eg. I want to upload
> a file size of 4 MB, I sent 2MB on server, after the interruption of
> the upload I want to upload the same file but only these 2MB that
> remained.
>

While it is possible to receive part of a file through a normal file upload
and merge it with the remaining part afterwards, the file will still have to
be uploaded full size twice.

This is because PHP cannot control the client side and is unable to resume
the upload at a certain point.


JW

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