Thanks everyone for looking into this. I just got in a few minutes ago to tinker with this again. I'll post back once I get it working (or not... :( )
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 3:36 AM, Nick North <[email protected]> wrote: > Following up on my last message: the final newline is no longer required. > > You could take a look at https://gist.github.com/NorthNick/9769261 - this > is a dump of a request that works on CouchDb 1.5 for me. As Jens says, the > crucial difference may well be in the use of CRLF around the boundary. The > first boundary string is preceded by CRLFCRLF and followed by CRLF; the > later ones are preceded by CRLF and followed by CRLFCRLF. > > Nick > > > On 25 March 2014 19:03, Nick North <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The "chunked" problem is fixed in branch 1956-attachment-handling, but > I'm > > not sure if that is ready to merge yet, so you're right that it is still > a > > problem at the moment. > > > > I also vaguely recall the final CRLF problem, and have a feeling it was > > patched a while back, but I'm not completely sure. I'll check.... > > > > The MIME headers are still ignored. I'd like to sort this out, but it > > raises a host of questions about backward-compatibility, and what to do > if > > there is a mixture of _attachments entries and MIME headers, especially > if > > they are incompatible with each other. I haven't got around to thinking > out > > a proposal for answering those questions yet. > > > > Nick > > > > > > On 25 March 2014 18:40, Jens Alfke <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> > >> On Mar 25, 2014, at 7:37 AM, JC de Villa <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> > This is absolutely driving me nuts. > >> > I'm sure it's easy. Uploading multiple attachments just don't seem to > >> want to work for me. > >> > >> This sounds like my experience getting my replicator to interoperate > with > >> CouchDB a few years ago :) > >> > >> Here's a brain dump of things I remember: > >> > >> * Make sure the line breaks in the MIME separators/headers are CRLF, not > >> just LF! > >> * CouchDB crashes if a multipart body is sent in HTTP 'chunked' mode > >> (COUCHDB-1403, filed by me two years ago and still unresolved. My > colleague > >> working on the Java port of my replicator just ran into this a few weeks > >> ago.) > >> * I remember there being a bug in CouchDB where it required a CRLF after > >> the closing MIME separator, i.e. the body had to end "--separator--\r\n" > >> not just "--separator--") but I can't find a reference to the bug in my > >> source code anymore. It may have been fixed. > >> * CouchDB used to ignore the headers in attachment MIME parts and > assumed > >> that the attachments appeared in the same order as in the "_attachments" > >> object in the main JSON body. I believe this has been fixed and that it > now > >> looks at the Content-Disposition header to find the attachment's > filename, > >> but I can't remember for sure. > >> > >> Hope this helps! > >> > >> --Jens > > > > > > > -- JC de Villa
