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.

Due to a problem on our servers, our websites were offline for short period starting from approaximately 13:00 GMT on Jan 29, 2007 to 02:00 GMT on January 30, 2007. The following sites were effected.

http://thinfile.com
http://blog.thinfile.com
http://sftp.thinfile.com
http://upload.thinfile.com
We apologize for any inconvenience it may have caused. Emails continued to be answered during this period.

By it’s appearance the Thin FTP client looks similar to the File Transfer Program that sits on your desktop. But appearances are deceptive, it is an applet that is designed to be integrated into web applications. The goal is to provide users of such web application a convenient and familiar interface for file management.

The Thin FTP applet is a feature rich software and includes many of the functionality you find in your desktop FTP client. You can upload and download entire directories trees in a single click and other features that expect to find in a File Transfer Program such as directory management, changing file permissions etc are all included.

In this new version we make two improvements, the first being improved compatibility with FTP servers on OS X and Netware as well as pureftpd on Linux. We have made a slight change to the behavior of the professional edition. With the professional edition you can automate the login process. However if the user clicked the disconnect button and then attempted to reconnect, the applet prompted him to enter the password instead of automatically logging in. With this version onwards, the applet will automatically reconnect.

As with all our products, a free download is available. With the FTP applet, the free version is completely unrestricted and you can use it for non commercial purposes. When you download this free version you will find a coupon code that would entitle you to a 25% discount if you place your order before the 31st of December.

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