Partial File Upload with SWFUpload
July 7, 2008 - 10:19am — senor.wickie
I want to write a metadata extraction tool for JPEG images.
The user uploads multiple files using SWFUpload and my tool extracts the thumbnail + EXIF metadata. As
this information is stored in the file header of the JPEG file, it
makes no sense to upload the whole file, but just the first 50 kbytes
(more or less).
Is there a possibility to interrupt the upload at this time and use
the partially uploaded data?
regards,
Franz
Not currently
The current Flash Player doesn't support anything like that.
In Flash Player 10 we will gain access to the image data and will have more power over extracting and uploading portions of files, modifying them before the upload, etc.