Handle large Asset uploads

[angrybrad]

Created by: Fred Carlsen (fred@sjelfull.no) on 2015/03/11 07:34:22 +0000
Votes at time of UserVoice import: 3

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It would be great if Asset supported chunked and resumable uploads.

Some clients need to upload large files, and it's generally not a good idea to up those max_upload_size limits.

[maknapp]

I would suggest looking at https://tus.io/ for implementing file uploading. This would remove all file size upload limits while also reducing memory usage for all file uploads in general. Streaming uploads would allow for faster uploading to 3rd party volumes like AWS - craft could pass the file along as it receives it instead of waiting for the entire file before sending to the volume. File uploading via form POST should be removed entirely as there is no upside.

[piotrpog]

Implementing chunked uploads would be really useful. Please consider it for Craft 4 or even 3.5 :)

[andris-sevcenko]

This is definitely worth considering, however, tus-php currently requires PHP 7.1.3, so the first step is getting to a point where Craft requires something more recent than PHP 7.0.

[lassemt]

Would tus-php be an better feature for the S3-plugin and not in the core? As one probably don't want to upload big files to a server? Might be an releavnt update now since Craft’s minimum PHP version requirement was increased to 7.2.5 in 3.6.

[andris-sevcenko]

Worth re-visiting for 4.0 and considering it. Unlikely there will be Craft 3.7 and we're mixing things up with Volumes under the hood in 4.0.

[maknapp]

@brandonkelly Is large file uploading completed for v4 or closed as a "wontfix" issue?

[maknapp]

Looking at Uploader.js, it is still uploading via form POST, so I am going to guess this not completed.

[brandonkelly]

We unfortunately didn’t get around to this yet, but it’s on the list.

[myriago]

When using Cloudflare's free plan, file upload size is limited to 100MB. Paid plans offer slightly larger limits. Chunk file upload would help here. While there's an abandoned plugin for v4, it's limited to the Assets page and doesn't work on the Entries page.