Information about the Service

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This service uses Node JS for the server. There are two servers integrated with this service. File Upload server and Static File server. Static File requested from the browser is served by this server and this server can handle File Upload also.

This server will handle the following types of Upload:

1. WebSocket
2. Flash based WebSocket & FileAPI support for those browsers that do not provide support for WebSocket but provide Support for Flash 10.0 or higher.
3. Xhr long Polling
4. iFrame Support.

Currently we can support the followings:

1. WebSocket
2. Flash based WebSocket (Require Flash Player 10.0+)
3. Xhr long Polling with progress bar

Currently Supported Browsers:

1. Chrome 3 - 16

2. FireFox 3.5, FireFox 4.0 - support for WebSockets disabled. To enable it see here, FireFox 6.0 - prefixed MozWebSocket, FireFox 7.0 + 8.0 + 9.0 + 10.0 - prefixed: MozWebSocket, FireFox 11

3. Safari 1.2+, 4, 5.0.0, 5.0.2, 5.1

4. Opera 7.6+, Opera 11 - with support disabled. To enable it see here (For WebSocket).

5. IE 5, IE 5.5, IE 6, IE 7.x - IE 9.x, IE 10 - via Silverlight extension, IE 10 (from Windows 8 developer preview)

6. Netscape 7+

Current Work Flow:

Checks if browser support **FileAPI**  
    Checks if browser support **WebSocket**  
        fallback to **Socket Based Upload**  
    else  
        Checks if browser support **Flash 10+**  
            fallback to **Flash Based Upload**  
        else  
            Checks if browser support **Xhr Polling**  
                fallback to **XHR Based Upload**  
            else  
                fallback to **iFrame Based Upload**  
else  
    fallback to **iFrame Based Upload**