Ask HN: Sending large files over HTTP

I was wondering how sites like http://wetransfer.com and http://yousendit.com makes it possible to send huge files over http? I was always told that sending more than a few 100 mb over http was a bad idea but there seems to be a lot of sites that do exactly that. So, do they chop up the file in smaller files and send them on the client side or what?

ilanco 14y

You can try http://valums.com/ajax-upload/ and https://github.com/23/resumable.js for javascript only uploaders. As a bonus, you get resumable uploads as well.

pstadler 14y

There's also a draft for a File API which should solve the problems with uploading large files.

http://www.w3.org/TR/FileAPI/

s2r2 14y

Neither seem to work without a Flash plugin -- so this is not about POSTing a large file.

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