I was wondering how sites like http://wetransfer.com and http://yousendit.com makes it possible to send huge files over http? I was always told that sending more than a few 100 mb over http was a bad idea but there seems to be a lot of sites that do exactly that. So, do they chop up the file in smaller files and send them on the client side or what?
You can try <a href="http://valums.com/ajax-upload/" rel="nofollow">http://valums.com/ajax-upload/</a> and <a href="https://github.com/23/resumable.js" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/23/resumable.js</a> for javascript only uploaders. As a bonus, you get resumable uploads as well.
There's also a draft for a File API which should solve the problems with uploading large files.<p><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/FileAPI/" rel="nofollow">http://www.w3.org/TR/FileAPI/</a>