Help test a new feature: Photo Uploader

Here is something new for anyone who would like to help test it. It

is a quick and easy way to let you upload multiple photos to your

portfolio in one fell swoop. It is alpha quality -- so expect

problems and let me know about any problems that you run into.

 

http://www.photo.net/photodb/uploads

 

(Sorry, Linux/Unix users, this is a Windows and Macintosh-only thing

at this point.)

Just tried it with three images, straight from a digital camera. However, I got three "403

errors". That is Apple Mac OS X 10.4, Safari 2.0.3 and a freshly installed Macromedia Flash Player 8.<div></div>

Just tried it with a couple of images and it works fine. Well done Brian. Much more satisfying to use than the single upload method. Cheers.

win2k+sp4 ie5.5+sp2<br>

6 jpegs 2.2Mb<br>

very fast upload<br>

everything ok

Patrick, the 403 error means the server didn't consider you logged in. One of the things I have to improve is the error handling, so that the alert boxes that pop up have something more informative than "403 Error".

 

I think you probably were logged in, as I don't think you would have gotten as far as you did if you weren't. On Windows, the Flash Player (probably in cooperation with the host browser) sends the login cookies back to the photo.net server. It appears that might not be so on the Mac. I have not tested at all on the Mac. If the login cookies aren't being sent, things might be a bit trickier on the Mac.

I am getting the same "Error 403" message as Patrick, and I am logged in.

 

Win XP Home (SP2), Firefox 1.5.0.1

The little color-coded spots are nice to show that they're all uploaded, i.e. when they turn all green, but I think there ought to be a message that appears that confirms that everything went OK and that the user can proceed... maybe a link to proceed to the folder in which the images were uploaded. Nice feature, Brian. Thanks!

I got a message "The photo.net server returned an error 500 for ****.jpg" *** being the file name.)

Would you like a screen shot?

Attached screen shot.

IE6 windows XP SP2.I am sorry i wasnt thinking about that.<div></div>

I think the last couple of errors (the status code 500 errors) were due to the fact that I was trying to fix something and broke something else.

You might want to try again.

Brian, Works great. :)

 

BTW, I know how easy it is to fix one thing and mess 5 five up I do it all the time on websites.

Tested it in firefox 1.5 and IE6. Same result fast easy use.

Seems like the only problem, apart from those 500 server errors that are now fixed, is this problem of when the Player sends the logged-in cookies. Usually, it does, but sometimes it doesn't. We have one Macintosh example so far, where it didn't. We have Firefox examples, where we see both cases, and some IE examples, ditto.

Hey Brian, I remember you having a conversation with someone a few weeks ago about the too busy message and I seem to recall you saying it was not a server bandwith or proc speed thing. Well I got it a few min. ago for a 4-5 min period for the unified view So if you want to check the stats logs to try to narrow down the culprit.

 

Good luck and thanks for all the hard work.

 

BTW 234 reg. members where on-line at the time.

 

,Grinder<div></div>

Brian,

 

Worked fine using Netscape 7.2 on a Win XP Pro SP2 system.

 

U/L with no problem from a mapped network drive but when trying to U/L from an unmapped network drive got a "There was an I/O error for file xxxxx.xxx" message. I mapped the subject drive and it worked fine.

I also noticed that the images were dropped into the "Single Photos" folder which is publically viewable.

 

From my perspective I'd like to see them placed into the "Photodrop" folder. That way they can be captioned, etc. before being moved to a public folder.

 

Dick

At 22:12 EST, I had the same 403 problem in Firefox on Windows XP2 Home. Attempts were made using JPEG in both web and exif.

Worked fine on Windows98SE

Richard, you will be able to use this feature to upload photos to any of your folders. "Single Photos" is just the default, and in fact if you don't have a folder of that name, the uploading process will create one for you, just as the photodrop feature creates a "Photodrop" folder. For folders besides "Single Photos" a more specific URL is needed, which I didn't provide for the testers in this thread.

 

Once we iron out these wrinkles, we'll have a beta test and I will put URL's for the Uploader in the Folder "options", and on the "My Portfolio" page.

Firefox 1.5.0.1 with Windows XPSP2.

 

Newly installed flash player, and I'm getting error 403. I'm logged-in and the photo is in web format.

 

Sounds like an interesting feature...

I tried it. It opened up a new IE browser and asked me to login even though I was already logged in. But then let me uploaded 4 photos painlessly. I agree the feedback from the program when it's done could be more noticeable.

And if you answer NO to install the flash player the program just goes dead. I figured I didn't need the flash player the 2nd time since I'de answered yes the first time and it should have been installed then.

Two hour later, I tested it with IE and it worked. Now, it worked also with Firefox. Can't wait to see it fully functional. Thanks Brian for all those improvements.

Based on some of the reports, my theory is that on Windows the Flash Player uses IE or some related Windows services/COM objects to do the upload -- even if the browser currently hosting the photo.net Uploader is Firefox.

 

That means that if you are using Firefox and have logged in previously with IE, the cookies will be sent. If you have never logged in to the site with IE, then when you use Firefox, the login cookies won't be sent.

 

Update: I tested this by starting IE and logging out of photo.net. Then I went over to Firefox, which was still logged in, and trying the Uploader. Now I'm getting the "Not logged in" problem, which I was not before.

 

So, the bottom line is that the Uploader is only working on Windows, and only properly in MSIE. You can also get it to work in Firefox, but only if you log into photo.net under MSIE first. I hope I will be able to fix this today so that it works on Mac and Windows for non-MSIE users.