Hello,
I'm trying to make a progress bar that shows a progress of an upload from my Java client application to Tomcat 4 server.

The problem is in getting the state of the request during the time its being sent over to the server.

I'd like to use standard HTTP Post method, but I'm not fixed to it. The thing that matters is that I need to post some extra metadata along with the file and yet be able to watch the progress. I think nice way would be using a Timer for regularly checking the amount of sent bytes or whatever. Composing that two file message (data + metadata) should be not a problem.

Thanks a lot for any suggestions.
ivris