but I have reproduced the issues on your oxwall demo site. Say for example someone just took 10 photos... average size 4-5mb and tried to upload them, you would get a timeout error.

Alia, if this is a problem with my connection speed, then what would occur is that my uploads will just take very long but they will eventually be uploaded. They will not time out.

(my connection speed is 10mbps down 1mbps up)  

please understand that I have tried this and a lot of my users have tried this as well. I have also tried it on a 5mbps up connection. What happened here is 6 out of 20 5mb photos got uploaded, while the rest timed out. 

As I said if I am on a slow connection then they should eventually upload... just take longer. 

Maybe because you are on a very fast connection you cannot reproduce the error... but it exists.

I can also upload 60 13mb photos to Facebook easily without issue.

I also tried with Sergey Kamblin's Attachments plugin. 

It took a while, but all photos - 10 5mb photos were successfully uploaded, (they did not time out) 

Perhaps there is some termination error for scripts taking too long within the code that causes the timeout... i'm not sure... But I am also able to reproduce the error on Oxwall's demo site..... from different locations and at different connection speeds.

As shown in this screenshot (taken from Oxwall's demo site):

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On a separate but related note:

With regard to the on the fly compression I spoke about, from what I understand reading up, is that this compression is done client side and can be done through javascript... (maybe that's how we are able to upload 60 13mb photos to Facebook easily) Allowing for any average user to upload any size photo regardless of size.

I'm sure you guys will find the best way but development may want to check out these techniques: 

http://www.plupload.com/

https://github.com/brunobar79/J-I-C

To compress the image, first it converts an image object to canvas and then compress it with the canvas method toDataURL(mimetype, quality)

Then to upload the image object it uses the XMLHTTPRequest method sendAsBinary and sends the data url of the compressed image to the server 

Maybe is the same here.

(sorry for my english)

Omari, 

php besides "post_max_size" settings (which we used) for defining max upload size, has "upload_max_filesize"setting. Now we use them both and this fixed the timeout error, we tested that on a shared account, with a lot of users online and in total. We could not reproduce the error either

I tried to upload the images you sent me to the demo, no error as well. 

Now, the photo uploading process work on the server side, which is why it became a little bit heavier, in terms of resources, however this should not create any difficulties for uploading 

You were saying about slow connection, we have 1mb speed at our office, and as I noted earlier I could not reproduce the timeout error with your images. 

Also there's a possibility that your provider limits the connection time and you always run into the exact period when it is closed. 

We cannot guarantee speedy work of the software features if you use for example dial-up connection. I believe this is obvious. 

Spongetort, 

can you please try to upload these images on demo.oxwall.org and see if there's a timeout issue as well?

is 10mbps download and 1mbps upload a dial up connection speed?

have you tried to reproduce the error on a slower connection speed outside of your office?

As I stated earlier I have tried this on 3 diff internet service providers. 

it has nothing to do with shared hosting or server load it has to do with the photo plugin script.

And also with Sergey Kamblins Attachments Plugin I can upload any amount of any size photos fine. It may take a while depending on the size of the photo but there is no timeout. In fact with any upload of any kind anywhere else in the whole of Oxwall there is no timeout, except inside this Photo Plugin. 

We keep going back and forth for weeks. As you can clearly see from screenshots there is a red message that says timeout when things timeout. Oxwall put that error message in there to indicate that something timed out. If you can find the condition that causes the error message to appear and remove it we can fix this problem.

Also you have made no mention of the other bug that u assured me would be fixed which is album covers working under amazon s3.

I was able to replicate the problem on demo.oxwall.org, attached is the screenshot from the Chrome developer tool.

The OxWall server is hosted on a shared server with S3 data storage, which works quite well.  I have customised the php settings as follows (in .user.ini):

-----upload_max_filesize = 40Mpost_max_size = 40Mmax_execution_time = 240max_input_time = 240

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I tried changing the "timeout" value in ow_plugins/photo/static/js/upload.js to something bigger with no avail.  (just blindly trying something to see if it did anything)

-----                    $.ajax(                    {                        url: _vars.actionUrl,                        data: formData,                        cache: false,                        contentType: false,                        processData: false,                        type: 'POST',                        timeout: 60000,

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I have uploaded the photo here, purely to confirm it is not an Internet connection issue

Photo size is 3.54MB