We are pleased to announce the availability of new version of Thin File Putter (2.0 beta) with enhanced features and improved ease of installation. Thin File Putter is a file upload that makes use of the HTTP Put method to upload files to a webserver.

One of the new additions is a ‘compact’ progress monitor, which means three different progress monitors are now available. That’s not all, the new version also gives you the opportunity to control the monitor’s position as well. In previous versions the progress monitor would appear at the top left hand corner of the screen. That remains the default location for it. However you can use the ‘monitor.position’ setting to move it to the bottom right, bottom left top left.

The PUT method is a counterpart of the more commonly used GET and POST methods of the Hyper Text Transfer Protocol that is tailor made for file uploads. One of the major advantage with PUT is that files can be written to disk while the data is being streamed. This is in stark contrast to a more conventional POST where the files data cannot be read until all the data has been received.

All popular server side scripting/programming languages can be used to process files that have been ‘Put’ on the server. We provide defaults scripts for perl and PHP and provide samples for other languages on request. These scripts can be edited to change the appearance and behavior of the file uploader. For the new version we have improved the perl code.

Last but not least, we have made significant improvements to the way in which the applet can be configured. The new version allows you to directly embed the configuration data into the HTML of the web page that contains the applet instead of in the configuration file.

If you hold a license for any of our file uploaders, please contact us and we will mail you a download link for the Thin FTP Upload 2.0 Beta. To download the free evaluation version, please click here

Even though FTP is one of the most widely used protocols used for file transfer and management it’s totally lacking in security. SFTP on the other hand is a very secure protocol which is a sub system of SSH. Though the abbreviations are similar the two protocols are very different in nature.

The Thin SFTP client is an applet that is designed to be easily integrated into web applications. The goal is to provide users of your web site a secure, convenient and familiar form of file management. The Thin FTP applet is a feature rich software and includes all the functionality you find in your desktop FTP client, or our own Thin FTP Applet. Some of these features include the ability to upload and download entire directories trees in a single click, rename files and change permissions.

The new version of the applet (1.03) aims to fix a minor bug in previous versions related to connection pooling. When the user hits the disconnect button, the connection was being added to the pool instead of being closed immediately. It would be removed from the pool on timeout or when the user closes the applet itself (which is what most users do after disconnecting). However if the user would immediately connect to another server instead of closing the applet, the previous connection would remain idle until it timed out. This issue has been addressed in the new release.

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Thin File (Pvt) Ltd. releases a new version of Thin Image Upload, a drag and drop image uploader that features the ability to resize images on the client side.

Colombo, Sri Lanka (PRWEB) October 20, 2006 — Thin File (Pvt) Ltd., a developer of file transfer software, is pleased to announce a new version of Thin Image Upload (http://upload.thinfile.com), an image upload applet used by thousands of companies and webmasters.

With film cameras giving way to digital cameras more and more people are uploading their photographs to online photo sharing sites. Many of these sites ask their visitors to use basic HTML form to upload their files.

While a traditional HTML form does not provide any feedback to the user on transfer speeds, Thin Image Upload has two different progress monitors. The old way allows users to upload only a hand full of files at once. However, with Thin Image Upload users can drag, drop and upload thousands of files in a single transfer.

Webmasters use the product to provide an enhanced user experience for visitors, while saving time and money. The new version of Thin Image Upload includes several improvements over the previous version resulting in more time and money saved and an elevated user encounter.

One of the major advantages that a web site owner has with Thin Image Upload is that photos can be resized before transfer, resulting in a significant reduction in bandwidth usage. Bandwidth consumption can be reduced further by using Thin Image Upload’s client side filtering feature to ensure that unwanted file types are not included. The new release adds the ability to add a watermark to the photo as well.

The Thin Image Upload applet is compatible with all popular browsers such as: Explorer, Firefox, Mozilla, Safari and Opera on Windows (including Vista), Linux and OS X. It is also compatible with popular server side technologies such as PHP, Java, Perl and .NET.

Thin File (Private) Limited is an innovative software company located in Sri Lanka. Their range of file upload tools is used by organizations such as Shell and NASA. Free downloads are available for all of their products at http://upload.thinfile.com.

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Thin Image Upload is a drag and drop photo uploader with client side image re size capabilities. The new version of Thin Image Upload gives you even more. It’s now possible to watermark images while an interrupted file upload can be resumed from where it was left off.

Quite often Image and Photo sharing websites resize the images to a predefined size after upload completes. But whenever a small image is produced from a large image a lot of data is discarded. Thus an image re size at the server side effectively means you are wasting the user’s time and your bandwidth. Thin Image Upload eliminates that waste by resizing images before they are uploaded. It also eliminates processor and memory consumption on the server associated with a server side resize. Almost of translate into reduced cost of operating the service.

Another requirement of image sharing websites and applications is to add a watermark to uploaded images. Thin Image Upload (version 2.0) can add the watermark before the file is uploaded. You can either choose to watermark the photo with graphic (eg your company logo) or a small item of text (such as your company name). It is also possible to resize and watermark at the same time.

The website owner can choose the image or text used for the watermark along with the dimensions for the resized images. In previous version this data had to be placed in a configuration file. Version two now allows the settings to be directly embedded into the web page that holds the Thin Image Upload applet. This in turn makes it easier to dynamically change settings.

Once the images are watermarked and resized, they can be uploaded using HTTP or FTP. The new version includes an all new progress monitor and you now have fine grained control over the positioning of the progress monitor. Last but now least; if an FTP transfer is interrupted for whatever reason it can be resumed from where it was left off.

If you hold a license for any of our file uploaders, please contact us and we will mail you a download link for the Thin FTP Upload 2.0 Beta. To download the free evaluation version, please click here