On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 12:01:48AM -0800, Shane Wegner wrote: > On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 09:16:56PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 06:07:04PM -0800, Shane Wegner wrote: > > > the file upload support in php doesn't support Lynx's > > > method of transmitting and my script has no way to know > > > whether a file is base64 encoded or not. > > > > > > I am using php 4.2.3 with the basic $_FILE structures and > > > the information they provide. I have read other messages > > > on the lynx-dev list about this and am wondering if anyone > > > ever came up with a way to fix it. Perhaps disabling > > > base64 encoding for uploads altogether. > > > > base64 encoding is used for binary files because lynx doesn't handle > > embedded nulls in the file - would require rewriting a few hundred > > lines of code, as well as changing several dozen places where the > > result is passed around. > > The PHP modification doesn't look easy either. Do you know > if the Content-transfer-encoding: HTTP header is standard > and if so, any CGI libraries in PERL or PHP which will play > nice with Lynx's binary uploads?
I don't know - if I had done the rewrite (was contemplating that just before LP started sending patches), I'd have made it optional, so we could experiment. -- Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
