File compression before upload on the client-side

Question

Basically I\'ll be working with large XML files (approx. 20 - 50 MB). These files needs to be uploaded on a server.

I know it isn\'t possible to touch the files with

Answer 1

If for whatever reason you can't get a solution to work in JavaScript for all major browsers, I know of an AS3 compression library here: http://code.google.com/p/ascompress/.

Also, a less cooler option, if your target users are somewhat tech savy why not have them upload a .zip file of the xml? Then on the server side you can unzip and process as needed.

Either way on the server side you'll want to unzip/decompress, which should be easy to google for solutions if you don't already have one in mind.