HTML Compress File Upload?

Question

is there any way you can get a browser to compress a file before uploading it?

ie from an

Thanks, Jamie

Answer 1

While you can't compress the file before transfer. If the most important thing is that it resides on your server compressed, and is later downloaded compressed. You can easily set up some server side code to do the work after the file is received. As a redundant note, this will do nothing to improve upload speed, as the file is uploaded uncompressed, and then compressed server side.