Re^4: CGI::Application file uploads buffering

Content-Transfer-Encoding could be Base64, the number of bytes could be double.

<beancounting>Base64 adds only 33% overhead</beancounting>

But yes, uploading gigabytes via HTTP is probably not the best idea.

Alexander

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Re^5: CGI::Application file uploads buffering by Anonymous Monk on Mar 25, 2011 at 16:03 UTC
If it helps, it'll be rare, the exception that the files are this big. Normal files will be ~60-120MB, and it's a real fast network.	[reply]