On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 11:52 +0530, Saisatish vedam wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I need to construct a multipart/mixed request with
> (a) Set Content-type hdr (along with charset) for individual mime part
> (b) Encode filename in the Content-Disposition hdr's using that charset (ex:
> for multibyte file names).
> 
> Using http-components 4.0, I extended MultiPartEntity
> (generateContentType())  to create a request with  multipart/mixed
> content-type.
> I achieved (a) by extending InputStreamBody to provide getCharset(), mode as
> STRICT.
> 
> However there seems to be no easy way to achieve (b) as the
> content-disposion filename is encoded using the charset only in
> BROWSER_COMPATIBLE mode.
> Unfortunately, the relevant methods in MultiPartEntity cannot be
> overriden/extended as it uses private final instances of HttpMultiPart (and
> why ?).
> 
> Seems like writing a new class (ex: MultipartMixedEntity) implementing
> HttpEntity - which then uses an extended HttpMultipart seem to be the only
> solution and this adds a *lot* of redundant code.  And this seems to be no
> different wit 4.1 alpha as well
> 

Sometimes, when bastardizing a standard, one might need to write some
redundant code.

> 
> Any other ideas ?
> 

How about using a MIME standard compliant encoding scheme such as BASE64
or quoted-printable encoding as recommended by RFC 2047 and RFC 2231?

Oleg


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