I have been off in Java land (J2EE & J2EE 1.4 Application Server ( formerly Sun ONE Application Server ) and Tomcat) trying to figure out how to upload large files (maybe up to a Gigabyte) via https and implementing form-based authentication. I found that implementing form-base authentication was really easy on J2EE 1.4 Application Server at least. But I can't get large files to upload without "Read timed out" exceptions. I am thinking about chucking the idea of using Java for this ... I suspect that there is a mod_perl way of doing these things that a really easy to use. I am right? Can a helpful monk point me to some example?