fileupload element size query

[p38]

If one uses amazon as the storage medium for this element, is there a limit on the file upload size of the content?

Most hosting providers limit php uploads to 16mbyte, so if we use amazon, is this or the element filesize limit applicable as it is stored on another location?

Paul

 

[rob]

the file first gets uploaded to the server, before being saved to amazon so I would expect it to be rejected if it was larger than the server's max upload size setting

 

[p38]

thanks,

is there perhaps a reason for the double upload? Surely it is 1 extra link in the chain that is not needed?

What happens if it upload OK to the server, but problems occur going from server to amazon?

How does one upload a video of 100mbyte for example to amazon, if the php server only allows 32mbyte uploads?

Paul

 

[rob]

The server has to know about the file before it can send it to amazon. As we perform various processing on the file such as thumbnails, cropping, name changing etc, we can't simply pipe directly from the server to amazon (Not even sure if that's possible although I guess it would be)

If the upload to amazon fails we return an error

If you want to upload 100mb files, you will need to set php's upload limit to 100mb.

 

[cheesegrits]

No, you can't upload direct from the browser to Amazon. Pushing files up to Amazon involves going through their proprietary API, it's not a simple HTML form upload. So it has to be uploaded to the server first, so we can then open a session to Amazon and push the file up. You can download direct from Amazon (assuming it's a Public link, or you use the temporary key feature), but you can't upload directly.

-- hugh