It’s rather sad,

Working on an Ajax upload for my first time.

It’s taking forever.

And of course, simply I have no idea what I’m doing.

And yet alas,

I got so very very excited.

Because,
The error message was finally different this time.

Reminds me of my first time at a computer, when we finally got 0 instead of syntax error ;)

This was using basic on the Sinclair ZX-80.

Use a framework (e. g. laravel) in the backend instead of raw'ing it, it takes care of most error and upload handling even via auto detected ajax calls.

There's also a fuck ton of ready to drop-in ajax up loaders, just choose one that fits your theme and simplicity of embed.

Of the file is big, you can also just split the file base64 into multiple chunks and send them to server thus making it like progressively