Comments on: Flash Upload Progress for Rails with FancyUpload for mootools

By: Noah Horton

Noah Horton — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:11:18 +0000

I see the Flash 8 version comments on this everywhere, but it seems like this is still happening on Flash 9. Can anyone confirm if this is still in Flash 9?

By: kyle aka slajax

kyle aka slajax — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:53:39 +0000

Yeah, sorry. I didn’t really mean another way to implement this. I’ve kinda given up on the issue. For me in Linux nothing crashes but the first file is never submitted. It sounds to be relative to this content length concept, but I wouldn’t know. As long as it works in the windows environments I should be fine.

Thanks for your great post and those 6 hours of dedication to uncover it. I spent about the same and then gave up :)

By: jasonb

jasonb — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:12:09 +0000

Another way of implementing this? I spent about six hours figuring that way out. If you want to try something else, you’re on your own.

What error? Did you enable all the necessary modules?

As to the userland flash, under Linux it seems to have issues. Firefox simply crashes upon a successful upload. I couldn’t get Opera to even care. I didn’t try messing with Konqueror. One of the few drawbacks to flash uploading, for me anyway, is that I can’t test it under GNU/Linux where I do most of my development.

You’d have to email me with specific messages for me to be able to attempt to help.

By: kyle aka slajax

kyle aka slajax — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:42:25 +0000

Can you think of any other way to implement this idea without .htaccess?
The unset rule throws a 500 error for my apache config.
I only get the issue of the first file not being posted on my linux system where I’m running a “non-free” version of flash (gutsy gibbon).
Any advice? I’ve been battling this one all week.

By: Harald aka digitarald

Harald aka digitarald — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:35:54 +0000

Nice work, I also use merb in some of my new projects and I’m sure this will help and I will also add that to the doku of the upcoming Swiff.Uploader class in MooTools 1.2.
Jim: For small small things I tried also jq, but for professional Javascript apps/backends MooTools is the best choice since it has so many helpers, bringing back the fun to javascript ;)
I never had problems with the empty header in my other projects since they depended on a proper validation and since this empty request has no real data they never reached the controller.

By: Jim Wharton

Jim Wharton — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:09:10 +0000

Sweet! I remember your name from some linux list. (jaxlug or one of the other local lists near Alachua County).

I’m not much of a mootools fan. jQuery!!!! Regardless, this is cool!