Yes, Brandon, this is completely mistaken. Just look at any request handler for multipart requests and you will see how wrong it is. All interesting multipart request wrappers have a method to return FILES! ///;-)
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 22:23:29 -0500, Brandon Mercer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank W. Zammetti wrote: > > > How is it a limitation Brandon? It IS in fact possible to upload > > multiple files at one time... The only thing that isn't possible is > > selecting more than one file at a time using nothing but a <file> form > > element. Can you elaborate on what the limitation is? > > > Yes, I can. The limitation is that for every post or get, you can only > have ONE multipart/mime file. When you have multiple <file> elements > you actually perform multiple posts to submit each one. That's why an > applet is necessary. The applet opens different type of connection to > the server, which in turn outputs many posts to the server. Now, if you > use multipart/mixed as the type of submission you can actually handle > multiple files in one stream, but you have to be careful of the > encoding. Either way, you can't have the client decided what type of > encoding to send to the server on the submit. The form itself needs to > define that and have an appropriate CGI or in our case, Action to handle > the content type. Hopefully this is helpful. > Brandon > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- "You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it float on its back." ~Dakota Jack~ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
