After a long delay we are happy to announce the release of Thin FTP Upload Version 2. It’s release makes it even easier to FTP enable your web site or application. Significant changes from the previous version include.

Resume an interrupted upload

If the file transfer is interrupted for whatever reason the applet can now resume the upload from where it was left off. This feature also makes it possible for a user to pause an ongoing upload and restart it later at a more convenient time

Improved compatibility with a wide range of FTP Servers.

Thin FTP Upload has always been compatible with a most popular FTP servers. With version two, we have made further improvements and the applet is now more tolerant of FTP servers that do not quite follow the standards.

A new progress monitor

Version one was equipped with two different progress monitors to help you keep track of the file upload. Now a third progress monitor (which is designed to be compact and takes up very little screen space) has been added.

Control over progress monitor positioning

In previous versions, the progress monitor made it’s appearance as a popup at the top left hand edge of the screen. You can now place the progress monitor at one of the four edges of the screen or in the center. If we need even greater control you can use x,y co-ordinates for absolute positioning. As with the previous version the user can still move it from the default location by simply dragging it across the screen

All Thin FTP Upload version 1 license holders can download the update free of charge.

We are pleased to announce version 2.0 (beta) of our flagship product Thin Upload Pro. This release is the sum of all the features added to other members of the Thin File Upload family in their respective version 2.0 Beta releases.

All the members of the family were provided with a new progress monitor bringing the number of available progress monitors to three in total. You can find them in this new release too. Also included is the ability to control the positioning of the progress monitors through the monitor.position configuration directive.

When we released Thin Slice Upload 2.0B we added the ability to automatically resume an interrupted transfer (the ability to resume an HTTP upload has always been available but the user had to do it manually). Naturally this feature has made it’s way to the Enterprise Edition as well along with ablity to resume an interrupted FTP upload ( which introduced in Thin FTP Upload and Thin Image Upload 2.0B). The other major feature addition to Thin Image Upload 2.0 was the ability to watermark and image at the client side prior upload.

This is the last of the beta releases and the gold release of the entire Thin File Upload Family will be available for download through the website shortly.

To download the beta release please Click Here

We are pleased to announce the release of Thin Slice Upload V2 (Beta). Thin Slice Upload is a resumable file unloader capable of transporting files containing gigabytes over data over HTTP. When large files are being transferred it is not unusual for it to be interrupted due to network or IO errors. Thin Slice Upload has always been able to resume such interrupted uploads from where it left off. The new version of the applet will automatically retry the transfer should that happen.

How many times an interrupted upload can be retried is something for you to decide. You can also make the applet wait a certain number of seconds before each retry. Another improvement in the new version is ease of configuration. While the thinupload.properties file from previous versions has been preserved, you can configure the applet by directly embedding parameters into the HTML of the web page that holds it as well.

Thin Slice Upload is popular among PHP users because default installations of PHP can only handle uploads of upto 2MB. Thin Slice Upload bypasses the limits imposed through the php.ini file to upload very large files. Though perl users are unlikely to be hampered by such arbitrarily limits, web server or proxy server settings may effect their ability to process a large upload with an HTML form. Thin Slice Upload can be used in such a situation for successful large file uploads with perl.

So how does Thin Slice Upload work? To answer that we first need to answer the question “how does an HTML form based file upload work?” It works by combining all the files together into a single entity known as a ‘multipart message’. A connection is made to the web server and this multipart message is posted to the webserver where it’s decoded and the files are separated. Thin Slice Upload does the exact opposite, instead of combining the files into a single post, it makes multiple posts with each post containing a fragment of a file.

At the server side a script gathers the fragments posted to it by the server and reassembles the files. The download able package includes both a perl script and a PHP script. Server side handlers in built with other technologies are also available.

Due to problem on our webservers, all our corporate websites were inaccessible for approximately 12 hours starting from 14:00 GMT on Jan 29, 2007 to 02:00 GMT on Jan 30 2007. The following sites were effected.

http://www.thinfile.com/

http://sftp.thinfile.com/

http://blog.thinfile.com/

http://upload.thinfile.com/

We apologise for the inconvinience caused. Email inquiries continued to be answered during this time.