[Commons-l] Different upload systems

[Platonides]

Michael Dale wrote:
> I would add systems like Firefogg help a bit with chunked uploading
> letting us accept larger files by breaking it up into 1 MB POST chunks
> on the client side.
> Also new-upload-api has improved http copy upload support so if the
> 500MB Tiff or 5GB .ogg was ftp uploaded to a remote server with http
> serving, it could then be ingested over http download rather than POST
> upload. (which would be more resource friendly / reliable with large files)
> 
> --michael

Not really an addition since I already mentioned them ;)
> Upload from URL and Firefogg should alleviate the issue, though.


Are the "1 MB POST chunks" just rfc2616 chunked transfer-coding applied
to a POST body, or is it a custom protocol using several POSTs?
There's a upload.txt file on docs/ but it's not any helpful.