Re: Resumable Uploads

On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 07:43:34PM +0000, Yoav Nir wrote:
> 
> Or are we assuming that the initial PUT is trying to upload everything, and only failure leads to sending the PATCH?

This can't be assumed if client is JS running on the browser (even
assuming it can send PATCH). This is because JS code can't read huge
chunks of file at once[1].

[1] Think transferring e.g. 22,682,958,652 or 26,578,892,498 byte file [2]...
[2] Yes, these sizes are from real-world cases.

-Ilari

Received on Saturday, 20 April 2013 21:10:22 UTC