[TYPO3-v4] Flash Uploader + TCEForms

[Jeff Segars]

On 7/21/10 9:58 AM, Oliver Hader wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am 14.07.10 18:55, schrieb Jeff Segars:
>> Hey guys,
>> Has there been any discussion about adopting the Flash Uploader from
>> Filelist for use in TCEForms?  I know Andreas Wolf has his huge project
>> refactoring t3lib_tceforms and maybe it falls under this but I hadn't
>> heard any specific mention of it.
>>
>> Seems like a nice candidate for 4.5 though.  Anyone else have thoughts?
>
> That's a great idea! However, the flash uploader has some drawbacks if
> user authentication by .htaccess files are used. The flash uploader
> cannot use the stored auth-info of the browser and thus won't get access
> to webserver at all. There once have been problems with HTTPS as well, I
> don't know if that still exists.
>
> Thus, having a possibility to enable the flash uploader as an
> alternative is great, but replacing the current old-school upload is
> not. Maybe that was obvious before, I just wanted to clearify that again
> to everybody... ;-)
>
> olly

Ahh, good point... I was not aware of that.  I was planning on keeping 
the same setup as Filelist-based uploads though with the Flash stuff 
being an option to turn on.