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Currently CloudStack accepts only URL's to register a template/volume. If the user has a downloaded template/volume available, user has to host it either on dropbox etc. or run apache web server so as to get downloadable url. It is desirable to be able upload a volume or template directly through standard we browser.

This feature enables the users to directly upload the template/volume to CloudStack and eliminates the dependency on an external http server. This will be a complementary functionality and users can continue to register template/volume with URL as well.

The browser-based uploading process will have three steps:

• api to get post url
• retrieve post url from the api response
• post the volume to through http POST request to port url obtained from the 2nd step

use cases

1. A user, who wants to upload a template and launch a vm with it on cludstack
2. A user, who want to upload a volume and attach it to a vm on cloudstack

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