On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 06:18:42AM +0200, Frank Heckenbach wrote: > Thomas Dickey wrote: > > no - my fixes were addressing a complaint that some sites did not accept > > the mime-encoded data, and comparing against netscape decided that was > > the issue. Possibly as you suggest, the MIME headers are missing, but > > at least plain text can be uploaded (limited testing). > > I think that's still the case in 2.8.5dev.7. I'm not sure which > kinds of files lynx encodes -- I had thought no files at all needed > to be encoded, provided a non-conflicting MIME boundary was chosen, > but I may be wrong. Anyway, there still don't seem to be any MIME > headers referring to the encoding, so uploading only works with > non-encoded files now.
agree - then I need to find a good reference for how the headers should be setup for uploading with MIME encoding. (The MIME boundary that I think you're referring to is hardcoded - not good, but not necessarily the source of the problem). > It's not unlikely that some sites won't be able to deal with encoded > files at all -- in fact, my own CGIs don't since I didn't even think > of the possibility of encoding before and I hadn't encountered it so > far. I'll add it in my programs (as soon as lynx supports the MIME > headers so I can test it), but some other sites might not. So it > might in fact be better if lynx won't encode any files (unless there > are problems with non-text files that I'm not aware of). things like carriage-return/line-feed sequences would tend to be garbled > > I was thinking of > > revisiting it to make a file-selection dialog, but have been very swamped > > with my day-job since February (so my to-do list only grows ;-). > > That would be a nice feature, but (at least to me) not so imporant > as a working way to determine the encoding and correctly handle the > uploaded files ... but it certainly would make it simpler to test -- Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
