Uploading Files with WebServices hosted on IIS--> Best Practises

Question

hi There,

We have an application for which UI is built on Flex, and its consuming webservieces built on Dotnet hosted on IIS. we are trying to upload files which are around 100/200 megs , this works like a charm on LAN , if we try to do the same with web service hosted on public ip machines , then this would fail very often(obviously bcoz of lesser bandwidth ) . we have tried increasing executionTimeout(up to 10 minutes) maxRequestLength (up to 200 megs) , this didn't help . so we were thinking what would be the best way to approach this problem , and also what are the best practices which are used in this space.

Thanks for your inputs.

Regards Deepak

Answer 1

Web services aren't the ideal way to do file upload and download. You'd be better off sticking with a protocol that was designed for that.