[Catalyst] Re: On fantastic catalyst plugin, Catalyst::Plugin::UploadProgress

[Gavin Henry]

<quote who="Yoshinori Sano">
> Andy Grundman wrote:
>> Don Arbow wrote:
>> > Does this really work in Apache, or are you testing it with HTTP
>> Engine?
>> >
>> >  From my testing some time back (not in Catalyst), the "progress" that
>> > appears is not the actual upload, but the copy from Apache's tmp file
>> to
>> > the CGI's tmp variable. By the time that you get any progress, the
>> file
>> > has already moved over the wire. I was under the impression that the
>> > only way to get actual progress was to hook into Apache
>> (Apache::Request
>> > has an upload hook).
>>
>> Yes, it really works. :)  It's been tested in the standalone engine,
>> Apache, FastCGI, and plain old CGI.
>
> As Andy Grundman explains, it works properly.
> However, we have to pay for a minute to get expected results.
>
> Here is the instruction:
>
> 1. Enable the "$upload->copy_to()" line.
>
> Index:
> Catalyst-Plugin-UploadProgress/example/Upload/lib/Upload/C/Upload.pm
> ==================================================================---
> Catalyst-Plugin-UploadProgress/example/Upload/lib/Upload/C/Upload.pm
>        (revision 2134)
> +++ Catalyst-Plugin-UploadProgress/example/Upload/lib/Upload/C/Upload.pm
>        (working copy)
> @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
>      my $upload = $c->request->uploads->{upload_file};
>      if ( $upload ) {
>          # we could do this, but we'll just throw away the file for now
> -        # $upload->copy_to( '/var/tmp/uploads/' . $upload->filename );
> +        $upload->copy_to( '/var/tmp/uploads/' . $upload->filename );
>      }
>
>      my $progress = $c->upload_progress( $c->req->params->{upload_id} );
>
>
> 2. Type the following commands at your terminal.
> $ mkdir /var/tmp/uploads/
> $ chmod 777 /var/tmp/uploads/
>
>
> 3. Start the test server.
> $ ./Catalyst-Plugin-UploadProgress/example/Upload/script/upload_server.pl
> -f
>
>
> 4. Upload any file you want.
>
> --
> Yoshinori Sano
>
>

Is this in trunk?

Gavin.

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