What is the main benefice using realtime over standard ajax to upload files ? about socketio-file-upload HOT 6 CLOSED

The purpose of this project is for applications that want to use Socket.IO as their transport mechanism. There's nothing wrong with a pure XHR solution.

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OK, I understood that, so excuse me but I wanna understand what could be the pros & cons

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Okay, well Socket.IO is more resource intensive than pure AJAX: namely, it requires the client to download the Socket.IO+Engine.IO JavaScript library. At the same time, Socket.IO is a bit more robust, because it handles reconnections out of the box and guarantees message delivery. One thing you can get with Socket.IO File Upload is a progress bar, which you cannot normally do with AJAX uploads. However, with Socket.IO File Upload, you need to write your server in Node.JS: if you haven't used Node.JS before, that would be a major drawback from the Socket.IO approach. Hope that helps.

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Thank you @vote539 for your patience and explanations.
Ok so its pretty that I thought.
Thus in your opinion, the project will be fully usable when progress behaviors will be fully implemented yes?

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The progress behaviors are implemented as of version 0.4. If you have any issues with the progress events not functioning properly you should open a new ticket.

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Thank you very much for your time @vote539

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