Up and download directly - no waiting

Question

I would want to program something where you upload a file on the one side and the other person can download it the moment I start uploading. I knew such a service but can't remember the name. If you know the service I'd like to know the name if its not there anymore I'd like to program it as an opensource project.

And it is supposed to be a website

Answer 1

What you're describing sounds a lot like Bit Torrent.

Answer 2

You might be able to achieve this by uploading via a custom ISAPI filter (if you use IIS) -- all CGI implementations won't start to run your script until the request has completed, which makes sense, as you won't have been told all the values just yet, I'd suspect ISAPI may fall foul of this as well.

So, your next best bet is to write a custom HTTP server, that can handle the serving of files yet to finish uploading.

Answer 3

pipebytes.com I found it :)