PERL WEB PROGRESS BAR

[Sebastien]

Hello,
I am doing little CGI scripts. Right now I am working on how to upload
files from a computer to a web site.
I think I will finish soon that feature. Here are my questions (I'd
already looked on the web some stuff related to these questions):
- I would like to create a progression bar while uploading my file. Do
you know where I can find some basic scripts that can do that?
- I have already found some text scripts that can do it in my term. Is
there any scripts that can do that for the web (not using Perl GTK for
instance)?

Thanx very much for the answers.

Sebastien

 

[botfood]

a "low tech" way to do it is to have your script overwrite a
dynamically generated status page periodically, and include a "refresh"
in the header so it refreshes to itself every couple seconds. Then when
your script completes, make the last overwrite your "final" page.

 

[Lord0]

Another almost frequently-asked question. See:

http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/LinuxMag/col39.html

I have successfully used the above solution a few times but I'm wondering
how you would create a "progress bar" that accurately reflects the % of the
file uploaded? Does the CGI object have attributes for the total size of the
post and total data thus far posted *before* the post is complete?

Lord0

 

[xhoster]

Hello,
I am doing little CGI scripts. Right now I am working on how to upload
files from a computer to a web site.
I think I will finish soon that feature. Here are my questions (I'd
already looked on the web some stuff related to these questions):
- I would like to create a progression bar while uploading my file. Do
you know where I can find some basic scripts that can do that?

The upload of files is driven by the web browser the end user is using.
It should be up to that web browser to show the progress.

- I have already found some text scripts that can do it in my term.

What does that mean? I wouldn't think the whole concept of uploading files
would be applicable to a terminal.

Xho