A common problem when uploading files is to show the user feedback about the progress of the upload. The browsers don’t have this capability, so people usually resort to running ajax requests in parallel to ask the server on a second connection how much data was received so far on the first connection. In order to ask about he first connection, there needs to be some kind of ID to reference it.

Since you say javascript generated a UUID, they probably implemented this by just accepting whatever ID the client provides on the upload, then the other progress checks can refer to that. Their system might depend on the string being unique. It’s pretty easy to generate a random string in Perl, so just make your own UUID that looks like the one JavaScript builds.

In reply to Re: Seeking help with HTTPS form upload. by NERDVANA
in thread Seeking help with HTTPS form upload. by FeistyLemur

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