I added support for Blob and FormData to XMLHttpRequest Level 2 also based
on the discussion at the F2F:
http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/XMLHttpRequest-2/
More comments below.
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:28:57 -0700, Darin Fisher <[email protected]>
wrote:
Sorry... I just meant that I need to read up on discussions about
octet-array support before I can comment ;-)
See the email from Maciej to public-script-coord and es-discuss.
WebKit presently supports sending File. It does not support FileData
yet.
Is Content-Type set to anything specific if the author has not set it?
// FIXME: Should we set a Content-Type if one is not set.
^^^ looks like it presently depends on the web page setting the C-T
header
manually :-/ I think that should be fixed to be based on the system's
knowledge of the file's mime type.
So far I have only added support for Blob (the new FileData) of these two
and set the Content-Type to application/octet-stream if not provided by
the Web author. Should I also add File and set the Content-Type to
File.mediaType?
Does it make a straight copy of the file or can modifying the file cause
potential problems?
Modifying the file can cause potential problems. The same is true of
ordinary HTML form submissions. I don't think we should spec this
behavior.
HTML5 should probably be more explicit about this. I used the
multipart/form-data algorithm that HTML5 defines. (It mostly defers to
RFC2388.)
After TPAC means the week of November 9. Does that work?
Sure. We might start on things sooner, but it doesn't mean it can't be
revised.
Do you have a demo implementation already? :-)
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Anne van Kesteren
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