Question

I have an app in which i want to implement a feature where user enters the url of some image file (on remote server e.g. http://www.xyz.com/myimage.jpg) and the file is uploaded to my app server. I can do this through PHP. but i also want to show the progress of the file being uploaded. Is there a JQuery plugin that can do this?

Answer 1

As @SLaks says, you cannot have the client upload a remote file. However, if you restate your goal as “I want my server to acquire a remote file,” you can do that by following these steps:

1. Client sends server the URL to the file.
2. Server downloads the remote file from that URL.
3. While the download is taking place, the client polls the server, asking the percent completion of the download.