Wrote up a script to upload files to MediaFire (I have my reasons for it) today, but interestingly, MediaFire has a "file verification" process.  Anyone guess what that does (maybe duplicating the files to a backup server?)?  It seems to take ages whatever it is.  Was using 5 byte test files with the script.  Uploaded in 3 secs, but verification took like 20 secs O_o

(also the number of steps make it a pain to write up a script)

File Integrity? Virus Check? Whatever it is, it does take an unusually long while.

I've noticed that to.  It's kind of annoying...

I thought it was just a integrity check to make sure the file wasn't corrupt ??

Senseito Sakura Wrote:File Integrity? Virus Check? Whatever it is, it does take an unusually long while.

Yeah, maybe a virus check - never thought about that.  It's probably set up to go through a kinda queue system, which is what the delay might be.

Can't really think of how a "verification" process would work, since you're only sending the file once, and browsers don't upload a hash of the file either.

Chicken Strips Wrote:Can't really think of how a "verification" process would work, since you're only sending the file once, and browsers don't upload a hash of the file either.

Exactly, so a real "Verification" couldn't work - unless it compared the size of the file it recieved with the file size it got as the Upload started as it gets that data then.

Even if it did, I wouldn't imagine it took that long..

EDIT: Nothing on it in the FAQ..

(This post was last modified: 02/07/2008 01:55 AM by S7*.)