"C.J. Collier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The program in question is Persists Software's Asp Upload. When
> I mailed the president of Persists software, he told me that the reason
> his product does not comply with the RFC's suggestion of 2 - characters
> is because all major browsers send a minimum of 10 - characters.
>
> The way we got around the issue was to hack Common.pm and hardcode 12 -
> characters to preceed all MIME-encoded data.
>
> This makes for difficult upgrades, of course. :) I was hoping that an
> argument could be added to the module to specify the number of -
> characters to preceed MIME-encoded data, but still default to 2 if the
> argument was not specified. Does anyone see any issues that may arise
> from this?
What I think you want is to be able to specify your own suggested
boundary string. After this patch HTTP::Request::Common allow you to
do that. This example show how to use it:
use HTTP::Request::Common qw(POST);
my $r = POST("http://www.perl.com",
Content_Type => 'multipart/form-data;
boundary="--------------------"',
Content => {
a => xYzZY,
c => 34,
}
);
print $r->as_string;
___END__
Regards,
Gisle
Index: lib/HTTP/Request/Common.pm
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RCS file: /home/cvs/aas/perl/mods/libwww-perl/lib/HTTP/Request/Common.pm,v
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*************** sub POST
*** 45,55 ****
}
if (ref $content) {
! if (lc($ct) eq 'multipart/form-data') { #XXX: boundary="..."
my $boundary;
($content, $boundary) = form_data($content, $boundary);
! $boundary = qq("$boundary") if $boundary =~ /\W/;
! $ct = qq(multipart/form-data; boundary=$boundary);
} else {
# We use a temporary URI object to format
# the application/x-www-form-urlencoded content.
--- 45,76 ----
}
if (ref $content) {
! if ($ct =~ m,^multipart/form-data\s*(;|$),i) {
! require HTTP::Headers::Util;
! my @v = HTTP::Headers::Util::split_header_words($ct);
! Carp::carp("Multiple Content-Type headers") if @v > 1;
! @v = @{$v[0]};
!
my $boundary;
+ my $boundary_index;
+ for (my @tmp = @v; @tmp;) {
+ my($k, $v) = splice(@tmp, 0, 2);
+ if (lc($k) eq "boundary") {
+ $boundary = $v;
+ $boundary_index = @v - @tmp - 1;
+ last;
+ }
+ }
+
($content, $boundary) = form_data($content, $boundary);
!
! if ($boundary_index) {
! $v[$boundary_index] = $boundary;
! } else {
! push(@v, boundary => $boundary);
! }
!
! $ct = HTTP::Headers::Util::join_header_words(@v);
} else {
# We use a temporary URI object to format
# the application/x-www-form-urlencoded content.
*************** L<HTTP::Request>, L<LWP::UserAgent>
*** 379,385 ****
=head1 COPYRIGHT
! Copyright 1997-1998, Gisle Aas
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
--- 400,406 ----
=head1 COPYRIGHT
! Copyright 1997-2000, Gisle Aas
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
