title: Downloading large files to PC from OAS Server
body: <p>We have an Oracle 10g forms application running on a Solaris OAS server, with the forms displaying in IE.  Part of the application involves uploading and downloading files (Word docs and PDFs, mainly) from the PC to the OAS server, using Oracle's webutil utility.</p>
  
  <p>The problem is with large files (anything over 25Megs or so), it takes a long time, sometimes many minutes.  Uploading seems to work, even with large files.  Downloading large files, though, will cause it to error out part way through the download.</p>
  
  <p>I've been testing with a 189Meg file in our development system. Using <code>WEBUTIL_FILE_TRANSFER.Client_To_DB</code> (or <code>Client_To_DB_with_Progress</code>), the download would error out after about 24Megs.  I switched to <code>WEBUTIL_FILE_TRANSFER.URL_To_Client_With_Progress</code>, and finally got the entire file to download, but it took 22 minutes. Doing without the progress bar got it down to 18 minutes, but that's still too long.</p>
  
  <p>I can display files in the browser, and my test file displayed in about 5 seconds, but many files need to be downloaded for editing and then re-uploaded.</p>
  
  <p>Any thoughts on how to accomplish this uploading and downloading faster?  At this point, I'm open to almost any idea, whether it uses webutil or not. Solutions that are at least somewhat native to Oracle are preferred, but I'm opn to suggestions.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks,
  AndyDan</p>