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Marco N.2's avatar
Marco N.2
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10 years ago

chunked uploading iOS

Uploading large files is causing the -1101 error in my app frequently from my customers and also when I test. I am using a 50 Mbps internet connection on a 170 MB file size upload. Any ideas or wor...
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Greg-DB's avatar
Greg-DB
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10 years ago

No problem I'm happy to help.

Also, I should mention, one of the advantages of chunked uploading is that even if one of the chunked uploading requests fails, you only have to re-send that one request's worth of data, as opposed to potentially almost the whole file in the single request upload scenario. That being the case, when tuning your chunk size, you may want to consider an occasional timeout acceptable if it makes the overall upload faster.

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