On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Dave Bordoley <[email protected]> wrote: >> The real kicker is how do we support clients lacking HTTP-fu. For >> instance, a quick google [1] suggests that XHR probably isn't capable >> of dealing with multipart messages. There's an obvious middle ground >> that could allow different versions to be returned via URL parameters >> though, and then maybe provide the "all content as multipart mime" as >> an option. > > You can generate multipart requests using XHR by manually coding > together a multipart body and setting the content type header to > multipart/form-data (why you would ever do this is beyond me, but for > sake of argument). What you can't do is read a file from disk and > submit it using XHR due to browser security restrictions, which is why > ajax apps use hidden iframes to asynchronously upload files. > > Dave >
Dave, Yeah, but this is concerned with parsing a returned multipart request. HTH, Paul Davis
