On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:55:21 +0200, Darin Fisher <[email protected]>
wrote:
I'd like to revive the "Proposal for sending multiple files via
XMLHttpRequest.send()" thread
started by Jian Li back in September.
As pointed out on that thread, sending a JS array of strings and File
references isn't going
to fly due to an array of strings already having meaning.
That thread concluded with Jonas Sicking saying:
I definitely think that we need to add some way of sending a stream
that is a concatenation of strings, binary data, and files, without
requiring the files to be read.
What should this look like? Should there be a new global constructor
for an
object that supports methods like appendText and appendFile? Like this:
var data = new UploadData;
data.appendText("foo");
data.appendFile(fileRef);
xhr.send(data);
I like the idea of creating a primitive that does not enforce any
encoding.
Thoughts?
I think for a lot of authors the easiest would be easiest if it was in the
form of multipart/form-data as then they do not have to do anything
special to get the data on the server.
--
Anne van Kesteren
http://annevankesteren.nl/
