Transferring Files with the Web Transfer Client

With the Web Transfer Client, you can transfer files between your local computer and a remote filesystem to which you have the proper permissions.

You can drag and drop multiple folders and files at once into the transfer queue. Each file is added to the queue, and then the Server transfers up to 5 files at a time (the default configuration for maximum concurrent transfers). Browsers use JavaScript interaction with the applet to constantly poll the status of all items in the queue, and then to update the browser window to display the different values. As the number of items in the queue gets very large, the browser has a hard time keeping up with all the activity (modifying and re-rendering the DOM (Document Object Model (DOM), is a programming interface specification being developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). It lets a programmer create and modify HTML pages and XML documents as full-fledged program objects.), interacting with the GUI and the applet, and so on). Adding 100 files to the queue would be reasonable, but 1000 files would likely slow down the browser and the operating system. The actual limit to the number of files in the queue without bogging down the system depends on the browser, computer running the browser, and so on.

To transfer files between filesystems

  1. Navigate to and open the folder to which you want to transfer the file.

  2. Navigate to the file that you want to transfer, then do one of the following:

The transfer progress appears in the Queue pane.