DEV UPDATE: Ajax uploads enabled by default

  • Plugin Author Tim W

    (@timwhitlock)


    5 years, 4 months ago

    As of version 2.3.1 the plugin option “Enable Ajax file uploads” is enabled by default.

    Any users that saved their settings with 2.3.0 installed will have to enable this option, but new users (or those updating from older versions) will not.

    This setting fixes the problem of hosting providers blocking save and sync operations. In short, sending PO data to the server is now done as a Multipart file upload and not as a regular form field. The latter causes some security software to block the operation, especially when the data is large. Often this produced incoherent error messages and variety of irrelevant HTTP status codes. For more history, see this previously pinned topic.

    It’s entirely possible that file uploads will now cause a different set of problems, in which case the feature can be disabled. The upload is done via Ajax (which means a modern browser is required) and on the back end the data handled as a PHP upload as are any file uploads in WordPress.

    The new option was added in 2.3.0 as an experimental feature, but was not enabled by default. I’ve waited three months for feedback on this and nobody has reported any new problems with the uploads. In all cases, users reported that it fixed their security issue.

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