[Javascript] Forward image via http with ajax

Mike Dougherty mdougherty at pbp.com
Sat Feb 3 19:20:39 CST 2007


Have you ever tried to deploy even a minimally complicated (3 step) process to an unknown level of 
end-user sophistication?  "LAN Administrators" would be competant to make this work (maybe).  An 
at-home user who had their now-at-college child setup their router and can't identify their 
browser until you tell them to "click on the internet" makes this problem more challenging for 
Terry to solve.

1. Use the ip camera's built-in web server to take a picture and download the image to the 
harddrive
2. Go to the uploader page, select the picture file you just got from the camera & hit submit

sounds easy enough - until a potential user forgets where the file is between step 1 and 2, or 
they cancel the download because "I don't have a disk" at the "Open or Save to disk" question in 
step 1.

Good Luck Terry - I would not want this task myself  :)

On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 17:25:17 -0600
  Scott Reynen <scott at randomchaos.com> wrote:
>users, browsers assume it is NOT okay to do  what you want to do.  Why exactly can't you get the 
>cooperation of  either the LAN administrators (who could make the IP camera  accessible from 
>outside the LAN if they were okay with what you're  doing) or the users (who could save and 
>upload the images to your  remote server if they were okay with what you're doing)?



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