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    <p>I've got an ASP.NET web application (utilizing WebForms) and am using <a href="http://www.uploadify.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Uploadify</a> to handle uploading large files. This is done by posting the file to an HttpHandler.</p> <p>Example of code (simplified for demonstration purposes):</p> <pre><code>$(".uploadify").uploadify({ 'uploader': '/uploadify/uploadify.swf', 'script': 'SaveUploadedFile.ashx', 'cancelImg': '/uploadify/cancel.png', 'queueID': 'fileQueue', 'auto': true, 'multi': false, 'method': 'post', onSelect: function(e, queueId, file) { alert(file.name + " selected"); }, onComplete: function(e, queueId, file, response, data) { alert("complete: " + response); }, onCancel: function(e, queueId, file, data) { alert("cancel"); } }); </code></pre> <p>The HttpHandler that receives the file is fairly simple:</p> <pre><code>public void ProcessRequest(HttpContext context) { Debug.WriteLine("Save file"); if (context.Request.Files.Count == 0) throw new SystemException("No files uploaded"); // Get the file HttpPostedFile file = context.Request.Files.Get(0); Debug.WriteLine("Got file: " + file.FileName + ", Length: " + file.ContentLength); // Save it string guid = Guid.NewGuid().ToString(); string path = Path.Combine(Path.GetTempPath(), guid + ".tmp"); file.SaveAs(path); Debug.WriteLine("Saved to path: " + path); // Update response and return guid context.Response.StatusCode = 200; context.Response.Write(guid); Debug.WriteLine("All Done"); } </code></pre> <p>The problem is that the progress bar being displayed doesn't actually reflect the progress of the upload, and shows the upload as being complete long before the file is actually uploaded. Therefore, the user interface effectively appears like it is doing nothing while the progress bar stays at 100%, until the file is complete.</p> <p>In some cases, the upload simply fails after reaching 100%, with the OnComplete event never getting fired, almost like the response from the HttpHandler is getting lost in transit, even though the file is saved.</p> <p>I've tried both <a href="http://www.flajaxian.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Flajaxian</a> and <a href="http://www.swfupload.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">SWFUpload</a>, and experienced similar issues with the progress bar being completely out of sync with actual upload progress, indicating completion well before the upload was actually complete.</p> <p>This problem is not apparent when testing locally, or with small files (typically under a few megabytes) as these tend to upload fairly quickly and there's little or no lag between the file being uploaded and the progress bar completing.</p> <p>Is there any way of using a Flash upload solution (such as Uploadify) with an ASP.NET web application and have the progress bar better represent the actual progress of the upload?</p> <p><strong>Update:</strong> Eventually, I gave up trying to use a flash based uploader as they seemed a bit too awkward, especially the progress bar, which didn't represent the actual progress of the upload at all. Replaced this with <a href="http://www.brettle.com/neatupload" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Brettle NeatUpload</a> instead which works much better.</p>
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    1. COIs the perceived delay due to the processing (in this case saving a copy of the file) once the file has completed uploading to your server? For large file uploads have you increased your session timeouts in your web.config? One option is to switch to a different progress bar after 100% such as the facebook bar seen here http://www.ajaxload.info/
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    2. CO@Todd - The debug messages indicate that the page is not even being hit until the upload completes, so it doesn't look like the problem is with any post-upload processing. The session timeout and maximum request size settings have already been increased but do not appear to be related to this problem.
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    3. COIs something causing the application pool to recycle?
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