I'm wondering if anyone has come up with a way to give a web user info about a filesystem or FTP transaction while it's in progress. My site deals with hi-res MPEG files (i.e. 20 - 200M😎 and so wait times are significant. Here are the two cases that I'm specifically interested in:
My site allows the user to copy an MPEG file from a 'hosting' PC to a 'playout' PC. I'd like to be able to give the user a rough idea of how the copy is progressing (even if it's not 100% accurate).
The site also allows the user to download an MPEG file from a remote FTP site for local playout. Here again, I'd like to be able to follow the FTP download while it's happening.
Any advice welcome -- even if the advice is "don't use PHP for this" ! :p
