File upload

scripts, scripts, scripts

[troi21]

I have tried running a CGI script for file upload on my website but my webhost has a 10 second timeout in place on all CGI scripts. This means that no one can upload files of any reasonable size. Someone suggested that these timeouts might be bypassed by an ASP script. Does anyone have any other suggestions?

[sun818]

FTP is another option for your users to send files. Some web hosts offer anonymous FTP.

[mole]

If you go the ftp route you'll have to educate all your site visitors on how to do it, it's not as elegant as just browsing for a file & clicking the button to launch your upload script.

If your ISP is timing out CGI scripts, then they'll probably do it to ASPs as well so that may be a dead end for you.

You may need to consider changing to an ISP you can build a stronger relationship with - uploading files is a bit of a thorny issue because of the associated security risks.