On Tue, 8 Jun 2010, Nick Jensen wrote:

> So if the 'ulnow' property is not a reliable source of upload progress

It is a reliable source of upload progress. It is NOT a reliable source for
info on upload success.

> is there some better way I can calculate it?

Not to my knowledge. You just need to accept that uploads can start but still
fail.

> Waiting for the response headers seems like the only way to determine a
> success or failure, but at that point the upload is either completely done
> or it failed, and the progress function gets called either way...

Yes. HTTP is asynchronous that way. One way that was designed into HTTP to
avoid this is the "Expect: 100-continue" request header, but unfortunately
servers mess this one up more often than not.

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