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Indeed, uploading large files with the Horizon webserver as an intermediate relay is a nasty business which we want to discourage. We are looking at ways to send files directly from the Horizon client-side UI to swift/glance for large file upload in the future.

All the best,

    - Gabriel

> -----Original Message-----
> From: openstack-bounces+gabriel.hurley=nebula.com at lists.launchpad.net
> [mailto:openstack-
> bounces+gabriel.hurley=nebula.com at lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of Jay
> Pipes
> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 10:43 AM
> To: openstack at lists.launchpad.net
> Subject: Re: [Openstack] Why Image upload functionality is not there in
> Horizon ?
> 
> On 08/09/2012 02:35 AM, Sajith Kariyawasam wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > After playing around with Openstack Mangement Console, Horizon, I
> > realize that the image upload functionality is not provided there.
> >
> > Is there any special reason for that? Is it because there are no Rest
> > services available at the moment? or else is it felt that providing
> > image upload via the UI is not practically important?
> 
> Probably because sending 20G Windows image files through a web form
> interface isn't very efficient ;)
> 
> It's also not something a "regular user" of Glance/Nova would do -- and
> system administrators won't do it very often, and when they do, they'll use
> the glance CLI tool to do it.
> 
> Best,
> -jay
> 
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