On Oct 24, 12:46 am, Michael Pavling <[email protected]> wrote: > On 23 October 2010 16:34, Cocy N <[email protected]> wrote:
> Multipart data has to be turned into something... if you post a mix of > text fields and files, if one of those files is a text file, both > content-types would be "text/plain", so how would a server know which > started on the form as a file-field and which was a text-field? I think this might be the answer (solution?) for your question. I quote : "In the case where a field element is text, the charset parameter for the text indicates the character encoding used." I don't know how the server distinguishing if the data is text or text- file, though. > It strikes me that the developers have to make assumptions, and it > seems that a sensible assumption is that if a user-agent sends a > multipart form; those elements without content-type (seeing as part of > the RFC *does* say they're optional) are form fields, and those with > it are files. > It also strikes me that since every browser (or at least the dozen or > so I've tested it with) seems to post multipart forms *without* > content-type for fields, this may be a common conclusion, and if one > testing application goes the other way, and sends up ambiguous data > (is it a text field, or a text file?) while expecting to get the right > thing back; using Occams Razor, can it be that favourable that all the > other browsers and frameworks are wrong? Yes, as you mentioned, posting multipart forms *without* content-type (and character encoding if it's text) for fields may be a common conclusion. But since it's *optional*, I think, it could be (and could not be) there..... Anyways, I got through my problem, so I don't care at this time. BTW, thanks for your reply. You are the only one who replied to my post :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
