Download files like mega.co.nz

Question

Today I checked mega.co.nz and I\'m excited about some features. For example in download page it will download files on browser and after that decrypt them with javascript.<

Answer 1

A basic implementation of multipart in-browser downloader using Blob and URL APIs is brought here. It downloads a file on 4 concurrent requests and shows the progress also. Please note that it seems setting range header might generally not a good idea on XHR requests, have a look at this topic.

While downloading:

After the download:

Another interesting topic would be implementing Pause/Resume functionality from Mega. XHR API of current browsers doesn't offer that capability so the only chance you have is to do multiple small sized chunks downloading and giving up on the downloaded part of your small chunks, the way it seems is done on Mega also. But fetch streaming feature can be used for that purpose, I didn't explore that yet well enough but it is documented here.

Btw, have a look at these awesome projects:

• https://github.com/eligrey/FileSaver.js
• https://github.com/jimmywarting/StreamSaver.js