Faster Upload via POST

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  Nikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins

  September 10, 2006 edited September 10, 2006

  David,
  

  devbobo wrote:

  Hey Guys,
  
  Don mentioned this in a thread a couple of days ago, but did give any real details. So here's the lowdown, instead of using a multi-part form defined in the body of the message. Move the pertainent information into the one of the corresponding HTTP headers below ...
  
  X-Smug-SessionID
  X-Smug-Version
  X-Smug-ResponseType (use XML-RPC or REST)
  X-Smug-AlbumID
  X-Smug-Caption
  X-Smug-FileName
  
  You will still need to added any existing HTTP headers like Content-Length, etc and the raw image data should remain in the body of the message.
  
  And you post to this url instead...
  http://upload.smugmug.com/photos/xmlrawadd.mg
  
  Let me know if you need any more details info.
  
  Cheers,
  
  David

  
  
  Thanks for the info...:-)
  Say, does it mean this new way of uploading is FASTER than multi-part?

  "May the f/stop be with you!"

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  devbobo Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 4,339 SmugMug Employee

  September 10, 2006 edited September 10, 2006

  Nikolai wrote:

  Thanks for the info...:-)
  Say, does it mean this new way of uploading is FASTER than multi-part?

  
  yes apparently as much as 25% quicker.

  David Parry
  SmugMug API Developer
  My Photos

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  Nikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins

  September 10, 2006 edited September 10, 2006

  David,
  

  devbobo wrote:

  yes apparently as much as 25% quicker.

  I think I have found the post you were talking about..
  
  Unless I'm very wrong, Don's saying that new (undocumented) method is ~25% faster than the original post method, not the multi-part one, and exactly for the same reason - no BASE64 encoding is required.
  
  So I guess I'll stick with multipart for now, no reason to change the code to get the same speed..

  "May the f/stop be with you!"

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