This snippet is an example of an ajax progress bar (using jquery) that you might use in conjunction with <http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/678/>. 1. Generates a uuid and adds X-Progress-ID to the forms action url. 2. Adds the progress bar to the page. (you'll have to add some css styling for this) 3. Makes period ajax requests to update the progress bar.
Ticket [#2070](http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/2070) allows you to create your own file upload handlers. Here's an example handler that tracks a file's upload so you might display a progress meter after form submission. The snippet has two parts, the upload handler which tracks progress, and an upload_progress view used to report back to the browser. The upload handler uses [django's cache framework](http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/cache/#the-low-level-cache-api) to store the data, which can then be retrieved by the view to send back to the browser. Note: Your form's http post request must have a query parameter (X-Progress-ID) sent along with it, which should contain a unique key to identify the upload. That key will also be sent with your ajax requests to the upload_progress view to retrieve the progress data. Setup: place the UploadProgressCachedHandler anywhere you like on the python path, and add to your settings.py: from django.conf import global_settings FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS = ('path.to.UploadProgressCachedHandler', ) + \ global_settings.FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Set up the upload_progress view in any of your apps along with a corresponding entry in your urlconf. Here's some javascript example code to make the ajax requests and display the progress meter: <http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/679/> .