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David Wolverton commented on FILEUPLOAD-197:
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I see your concern. I have to admit I do not have in-depth knowledge in this
area. However, I don't see that the document you mentioned makes a clear case
that POST can accept multipart/* MIME types while PUT cannot.
The document says the same for the POST method:
The POST method is used to request that the origin server accept _the entity_
enclosed
I guess from a practical standpoint, it at least is something that CURL allows
and that we have use for.
Our use-case is this. We ware posting content to a CMS. The content consists of
a set of meta-data properties as well as a binary content (such as an image or
xml or html document). We would like build a REST web service API that allows
us to include all of this is one call, just like posting a form with an upload
element. According to the spec, PUT is the appropriate method for updating an
entity. In our case the entity is made up of parts: several properties and a
content.
> ServletFileUpload isMultipartContent method does not support HTTP PUT
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> Key: FILEUPLOAD-197
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FILEUPLOAD-197
> Project: Commons FileUpload
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 1.2.1
> Reporter: David Wolverton
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> This method explicitly checks for method POST. I believe the PUT method can
> also have multipart requests, and there may be others. In our case we are
> receiving rest calls using Spring Framework's CommonsMultipartResolver which
> in turn uses this method of the Commons FileUpload library.
> Here is the offending code...
> if (!"post".equals(request.getMethod().toLowerCase())) {
> return false;
> }
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