From: Patrick May <patrick@...>
Date: 2004-09-04T09:06:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Idea: Webshare


On Monday, August 23, 2004, at 04:26  PM, Kirk Haines wrote:

> Let me throw you a wrinkle to think about.
>
> File uploads.  If you adopt a model where you are passing a request 
> object
> to the webapp, and the webapp may not even be on the same machine as 
> the
> webserver, what is the best way to handle uploaded files?
>
> You can't just create a tempfile like the current CGI does.  Do you 
> transfer
> the data with the request, but then write it to tempfiles on the other
> side?  Does Drb provide a way that one could write the uploaded files 
> to
> tempfiles on the server, but that one could access the tempfiles via 
> the
> request object in the webapp?  Could be cool.  Might be a bad idea.

Do you do this?  Why would not pass the whole request through, like a 
proxy server?

Cheers,

Patrick